tight-ship

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by tight-ship 3y ago
I think this is a good point. Maybe GCP is failing at communicating why things are changing. As a customer, I'd be fine with GCP doing things to keep their costs down so GCP pricing stays the same or decreases. But I understand this is
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by tight-ship 3y ago
> Perhaps I'd say that "you're crazy if you keep all your IT on it, as you scale". And by scale, I think companies should be at least in the double digit millions spent in cloud infrastructure before they start buil
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by tight-ship 3y ago
I think there are a Android launchers the mimick the WP aesthetics. No need for a new OS or device for that.
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by tight-ship 3y ago
Much easier to go with Electron. The choice is made for you. With native Windows, it's a dozen different solution and you waste timing playing future teller to imagine which one won't be abandoned in the future. At least with Elec
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by tight-ship 3y ago
Is Cleveland an outlier of sorts? I expected broadband to be much cheaper in the US. Here in South America, I pay $30 USD/month for 1Gbps up/down. Considering all the equipment is imported, that seems way cheaper.
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by tight-ship 3y ago
May I quote? > We, *people who really understand the technology* that the world runs on, are a slowly dying breed Thus one has to conclude that young people, not having perseverance, do not really understand technology (and lacking suc
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by tight-ship 3y ago
$9.5B worldwide is peanuts. Likely it's not worth to recycle (could even cost more than you get back), from a pure economic perspective.
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by tight-ship 3y ago
Does it matter how they organize their services? Your experience and environment will be different in so many ways that I doubt it's comparable.
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by tight-ship 3y ago
Road workers laying out asphalt don't start from chemistry first principles either.
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by tight-ship 3y ago
> perseverance to really understand all those things by diving into obscure, historical manuals. You say you were lucky to be there in the beginning and that young people don't have this advantage. Then you conflate your own luck
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by tight-ship 3y ago
It's just a reflection of humanity in general. Nothing special.
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by tight-ship 3y ago
C# has always been pretty good about evolving the language. Java has recently left the freezer and seems to be catching up as well. I don't use Java but I see people excited about new releases since v11 or so.
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by tight-ship 3y ago
They overcome limitations of most social profiles not being flexible enough. Kind of useful but easily made obsolete once said social networks improve things.