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by trilobyte 3y ago
I have delivered XML data products comprising terabytes of information in (when I last checked) more than 800 schemas to companies around the globe, and people who have a rosy view of XML are using missing how it usually works in practice.
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by trilobyte 3y ago
> "And secondly, even if it were massive, it's not massive per-property which is the only thing that matters in terms of transactions here. Database sharding in this case is incredibly straightforward, compared to many other ty
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by trilobyte 3y ago
You're a google search away from a significant amount of background context.
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by trilobyte 3y ago
No need to hide the information on the methodology of the survey: "YouGov Ratings YouGov Ratings measures Airbnb’s popularity and fame every quarter. The latest data is based on 1532 nationally representative interviews of the US popul
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by trilobyte 3y ago
In that case the volume of traffic such a communication medium would need to handle is likely small enough that you can bump the key size higher to ensure greater longevity, currently past the lifetimes of those involved, and accept that tr
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by trilobyte 3y ago
You are never going to get broad adoption if you require someone to sign up to use something locally. Full stop. People who will install any software that comes across Hacker news are going to pause the moment you make them sign up to use
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by trilobyte 3y ago
His point was that there is a big difference between building a product and operating a service. I can understanding not wanting to do the latter, because it's a COO job and unless you like doing that it is not fun.
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by trilobyte 3y ago
Framing it as "give me money and I'll stop making things difficult for you" is disingenuous. The proper framing was "buy the app out and the API usage, and thus the $20mm/year in costs, will stop, or whatever you w
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by trilobyte 3y ago
If their operating income is accurately reflected above, there is no indication they are going in the right direction. There is a period of several years where a company is in innovation mode and they will burn through investment, but ther
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by trilobyte 3y ago
Rails is fine, any Python framework is fine, Spring Boot is fine, whatever the PHP hotness is is also fine, some NodeJS frameworks are also probably fine.
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by trilobyte 3y ago
I use a refillable cartridge on my pens and have dialed in about how much ink I should load at any given point in time based on my writing habits. It might help to play around with that.
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by trilobyte 3y ago
That may have been better than what inevitably happens anyway.
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by trilobyte 3y ago
There are already services that do this. I use PastePal and it works fine.
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by trilobyte 3y ago
So glad people like you are pushing back on this nonsense. Whether a ban is the right approach, or just a band-aid, this is all a national security issue. No one can seriously look at the cyber security space over the past 5 - 10 years an
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by trilobyte 4y ago
This is a pretty good write up on the actual implementation problems of the solution vs. just a rant. The company I'm at now built their own custom graph database years ago and is plagued by problems that would be cousins of some of t
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by trilobyte 4y ago
Back in the day, about 15 years ago now, when I was pair-programming every day and trying to teach new people how to do it, everyone was awkward at first. People who were Vim experts suddenly started stumbling over basic tasks. All of the
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by trilobyte 4y ago
Warhammer 40k players <sweating intensifies>
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by trilobyte 4y ago
This isn't a hindsight thing, this is a well-understood risk in finance. The lead time on rising interest rates was also significant enough for SVB to have shifted their investment strategy. Regulatory bodies in the US are both under
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by trilobyte 4y ago
Any investment strategy will require addressing various forms of risk and making tradeoffs, but it is a choice. SVB did not properly hedge against this risk which, as soon as interest rates started rising, should have been a priority for th
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Ask HN: How do your teams develop with Kubernetes?
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by trilobyte 4y ago
Do you have examples of companies in this space that actually reached break-even? Heroku never hit profitability as far as I remember and with the Salesforce acquisition the question of profitability is moot. AWS is a counter-example to usi
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by trilobyte 4y ago
Nice write up! I wish I shared your enthusiasm for where Heroku could go but I have a few friends at Salesforce I've asked about how they see Heroku internally and it really doesn't seem like it is going to get much love. Hope to
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by trilobyte 4y ago
> generous free level of service, This is likely the biggest culprit for a lot of these companies. Too many of us have grown up in the culture of getting hosting and platform for "free", but at some point the companies provid
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by trilobyte 4y ago
That's a pretty poor understanding of basic prob & stats. What if you are not an average company? What if you're not an average company and on the low end of that bell curve? If the author is only 10% correct, maybe the aut
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by trilobyte 4y ago
> I've generally found that if you can't measure something well, large American companies act extremely poorly with regards to that thing. You've got it. The number of companies I've worked with who talk about being
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by trilobyte 4y ago
I think it was more of a tragedy of the commons where some companies started aggressively hiring, and other companies followed suit to avoid losing access to talent. The pandemic was a huge societal event, but nothing indicated it was goin
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by trilobyte 4y ago
When Google announced 12,000 layoffs, for anyone reading past the headline this came on the back of hiring 41,000 people over the last two years. 41,000 is about 1/2 the total employees of Salesforce as of October 2022.
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by trilobyte 4y ago
Just saw this today and it bears out this out a bit more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34740322 Those companies expected a major societal event to become the new normal without strong data to support it, and chased
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by trilobyte 4y ago
Because once a company becomes publicly traded, that's not what the expectations are.
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by trilobyte 4y ago
This was the sense I got as well, though I have only started playing w/ Meilisearch. Clustering was one of the top 3 features that let Elasticsearch take over the market so quickly. In the playing around w/ Meilisearch I've

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