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by vanschelven 8mo ago
Fair enough... though if I were to push my point: one could also say that dumbing down your mechanisms of email sending (i.e. ditching templates, or pulling the templates to your own codebase) would give the same advantage I talked about ea
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by vanschelven 8mo ago
It's funny that you say that because any time I sign in to one of the big cloud providers I wonder how anyone gets any work done there _at all_... But to answer your question it's the top one from the menu and then you get a page
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by vanschelven 8mo ago
But the argument is reversed! The more boring your tech stack, the _easier_ it is to host it anywhere (including Europe). So choosing boring tech is actually an enabler of this (and other) choices down the line. It's only "a polit
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by vanschelven 8mo ago
Happy to see Bugsink mentioned here as a solution for Error Tracking _and_ to not see it show up as one of the "harder parts" :-) Just as a FYI: if self-hosting ever turns out to be too much work, it's also available Hosted.
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by vanschelven 9mo ago
Europe managed the first ~60 years of computing without the cloud just fine, and (as per greybeard HN-style comment) one can in fact wonder how much of the past 15 years of innovation has actually brought us for "your average org"
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by vanschelven 9mo ago
Did you mistakenly post this? It's simply a link to the Sentry.io "About" page rather than any exploration of alternatives.
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by vanschelven 10mo ago
I wonder if the author is aware of Neil Postman's work, especially "Amusing ourselves to death". It seems very relevant to this article.
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by vanschelven 10mo ago
It's financially beneficial for them in exactly the same way as setting yourself on fire makes you warmer
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by vanschelven 10mo ago
Earlier discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43725815 I'm personally on the fence how much of it is intentional... from the_mitsuhiko's side it probably isn't, but "the purpose
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by vanschelven 10mo ago
"Will be sunset on Dec 10"... commit date: Dec 10. That seems like rather short notice.
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by vanschelven 10mo ago
I've never felt right about the framing of "destroying wealth" when stock prices go to some new number. If anything, the word "reflecting" seems more applicable?
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by vanschelven 10mo ago
The "one way" / "batteries included" aspect of Django may also make it easier for LLMs
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by vanschelven 10mo ago
Whatever you think Jimmc414's _concerns_ are (they merely state a possibility) Simon enumerates a number of concerns in the linked article, and then addresses those. So I'm not sure why you think this is so.
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
I think the riposte is against the word "always" and it worked precisely because one could blindly pick a counter example from the physical space of the discussion. I.e. it worked because it smashed the broad statement and forced
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
When a colleague told my father that "duplication is always bad" he grabbed a random memo from that colleague's desk and said "I bet there's at least 3 copies of this piece of paper in this building". That drov
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
Reminds me of this: """On the first day of class, Jerry Uelsmann, a professor at the University of Florida, divided his film photography students into two groups. Everyone on the left side of the classroom, he explained, woul
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
Is there a good overview of recent Open Source Rugpulls in the vein of killedbygoogle.com somewhere?
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
There's a certain cinematic quality to this story... perhaps so much so that if it were to be included in an actual movie it would be seen as "too over the top" (i.e. CSI-like)
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
Journey and destination go hand in hand. Radio amateurs used to be a thing. Because playing with radios is fun, but also because this provided a way to hear things that otherwise could not be heard.
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
The earlier “we’re joining LaunchDarkly” post said things like: > Nothing is changing right now. Your account will remain active and you'll continue to receive the same product experience. but I suppose the writing was on the wall
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Highlight.io Sunsets Itself After LaunchDarkly Acquisition(highlight.io)
2 points by vanschelven 11mo ago|1 comments
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
I think that's what Posthog might be trying but as per the above there may be a fine line between funny and annoying and/or between useful and useless. or maybe I just missed your sarcasm
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
I don't have a cookie banner on _my_ website for exactly this reason, but I have to admit some people have asked my if it isn't suspicious that I don't. Perhaps that's what they're trying to avoid here? (that would
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
more so in case you actually do the "secrets on github with the right to do meaningful things"
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
more like choosing an assault rifle as your logo if your movement is to ban nuclear weapons.
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
Crazy... 15 years after nginx solving the c10k problem...
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
Although I very much agree with the sentiment "here's the hard truth" is LinkedIn speak/ LLM-tell to me
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
User: wants to see no ads Ftfy
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
It's a pretty big part of their public image not to be but the fear is real
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by vanschelven 11mo ago
Surely not _all_ the courses... Utrecht was and is big on Haskell as you know... Given that you TA'd a course on it :)

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