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by valzam 5y ago
For some reason most reviews on trustpilot are negative for pretty much all companies I interact with. I think it's just where people go to complain...
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by valzam 5y ago
The big difference is that with CRDTs you can make edits offline and they will get merged with other changes when you come back online. Websocket/db really only works when you always online. That being said you can totally implement co
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by valzam 5y ago
I built my first big software project in Meteor! It was great, really a shame that it didn't take off. As you said I think it tries to do too much. Hell, at some point they even introduced their own package manager. It might be good fo
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by valzam 5y ago
House prices are a real issue, although I don't think that's only because of increased money supply. Otherwise, does it matter? What's the impact on ordinary people if bitcoin is worth 100 or 1 mio dollars? Notwithstanding th
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by valzam 5y ago
Well, apparently they become economic superpowers because that is what all powerful nations with monetary sovereignty and fiat money have been doing under the guise of government debt. Hyperinflation largely happens in countries where the m
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by valzam 5y ago
`nobody is going to be lending the US money if we don’t pay our debt,` 1) The Fed can loan money by simply creating new dollars and purchasing treasury bills. This has been happening for a long time, T-Bills do first get offered to private
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by valzam 5y ago
I actually think that FP programming and FP type systems are almost completely seperable and most of the FP jargon comes from FP type systems. Elixir is another example that makes FP programming very straightforward. That being said I think
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by valzam 5y ago
And I think you arefalling for the "true scotsman" fallacy. Tether backs 70%+ of daily BTC trading volumne, saying criticism against Tether is invalid because Tether isn't real crypto is a cop-out given how important it is
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by valzam 5y ago
> now you have to play the video, watch 1-2 ads I think it's pretty obvious why they got rid of it...
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by valzam 5y ago
Yet they don't even offer a top level menu item for podcasts, you have to dig though "My library", which is infuriating.
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by valzam 5y ago
What you can do though is offer very generic, lightweight, long battery life laptops (chromebook maybe?) that are completely interchangeable. You could literally have a stack in every office building (like big companies have vending machine
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by valzam 5y ago
I recently got recommended this video, haven't watched it yet but given that the speaker is Kleppmann I suspect it will be very helpful Thinking in Events: From Databases to Distributed Collaboration Software https://www.you
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by valzam 5y ago
Ironically, Australians have access to a special kind of visa that allows them to migrate very easily to the US, with work rights for your spouse and everything! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-3_visa
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by valzam 5y ago
Except that Australia doesn't have a broken migration system so actually getting a visa is much easier. Also no broken healthcare system, gun laws or student loan crisis. I'd rather raise a family in Australia than America.
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by valzam 5y ago
What sector are you in? According to linkedin and glassdoor senior engineers in Melbourne earn between 110k-160k. 250k is very high.
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by valzam 5y ago
There are multiple in the city AFAIK. I cycle past one on the way to work...
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by valzam 5y ago
100% with you on the last sentence. I have listened to a few podcasts about Data Mesh by Thoughtworks people and the similarities to pushing Microservices are striking. There might be some benefit to this but the operational and mental over
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by valzam 5y ago
Ireland seems like a poor example considering that they basically turned themselves into a tax haven withing Europe for international corporations. That is the core of their growth and runs exactly counter to the 'act for the greater g
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by valzam 5y ago
Unless you live in bad parts of Africa I suspect living to 65 is not an unreasonable goal....
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by valzam 5y ago
To me this still sounds if the original person had known Kimball designs the bad parts might have been avoided since apparently the good stuff was a re-discovery of Kimball methods anyway?
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by valzam 5y ago
What is more you could just have your client send all mutations to one API and all queries to another. I suppose you could do that with REST as well by in Graphql the deliniation is very clear and there are only 2 cases you need to handle.
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by valzam 5y ago
Maybe not directly related but this reminds of a paper[1] by Microsoft Research where they replicate state with DMA (Direct Memory Access) across the network and battery backups that have just enough power to flush memory to disk if the pow
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by valzam 5y ago
However, if you set up meetings in a way that decisions can be made (i.e. prepare a design document with several options and make the meeting about choosing which one) you will find that meetings can be very productive.
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by valzam 5y ago
Some things are better, some worse. Highlights for unused code or imports is imho worse in vscode/metals and refactoring isn't as easy. But running tests for me has always been much faster. Not sure if you can use bloop with intel
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by valzam 5y ago
I always think it's amazing how much simpler your architecture can get if you don't move any and all state to some other service in the name of keeping your app stateless. Of course there are good reasons why the industry has move
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by valzam 5y ago
My bank in Germany actually has a hybrid system: Any charges are on the card, not your account but you have to specifically apply for deferred payment. The default option is that they settle the credit balance with your checking account eve
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by valzam 6y ago
If you look at the docs you can see that encore does much more than go-kit, like provisioning infrastructure, autoscaling etc. It seems like go-kit + kubernetes environment.
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by valzam 6y ago
I don't think this is competition to Elixir/OTP. To me the USP of OTP is in-memory state shared across a cluster and scheduled dynamically, persisted through code updates. This is more like automation of the traditional stateless
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by valzam 6y ago
I think one typical "distributed systems problem" that comes in even with a SOA of stateless services is transactions and eventual consistency. That being said I sorta agree that a distributed system without state is at least a mu
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by valzam 6y ago
Someone retired engineer is about to get a very lucrative consulting gig

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