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by villasv 5y ago
> A $4B valuation with 'speculation / risk built in' means they really think it's worth $20-50B. I may be out of the loop, but that's not* how I learned to valuate startups. On the contrary, the VC valuation I le
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by villasv 6y ago
> It isn't expensive... it doesn't exist. It's the same thing, but I get what you mean. By expensive, I mean too expensive to get to invest in building it, not as in expensive to buy off-the-shelf.
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by villasv 6y ago
In other words, good quality book metadata is expensive. Book recommendation/reviews aren't haven't been so profitable as to justify such investment. If I was a publisher, I'd put my money on the book influencers, not on
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by villasv 6y ago
It's pretty rare for an ORM to cover all possible scenarios. I just introduced another raw query to our database because our ORM isn't able to generate `insert into ... select ... where not exists (select ...)` which is crucial fo
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by villasv 6y ago
So all of the arguments provided are really in favor of saying goodbye to the AGPL because it's not strong enough. Or opening the floodgates and just use permissive licenses. The GPL license remains great for what it was intended for.
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by villasv 6y ago
Yes, and considering Ben's past writing on Stratechery, this is also a constant argument of his. The Internet is abundant of alternative-but-same-quality content, not just copies of a single original source.
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by villasv 6y ago
You're starting from the wrong place if you're comparing Elasticsearch with a database. And you're also arriving at the wrong place if you think that any database can be distributed.
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by villasv 6y ago
Your mindset is modeled after a simple selection process. Big companies often have pipelines for selection processes. HR does screening, leader does interview, manager approves. Each step of the pipeline, the responsible has to optimize for
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by villasv 6y ago
If you want to force yourself to work, the only way is to ramp up meaningful punishment for not working. Being fired doesn't serve as such because it's not felt daily, it comes all at once. You need a daily dose of reward/pai
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by villasv 6y ago
Useful _to you_
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by villasv 6y ago
I agreee with everything you said, but none of it is relevant in the context of comparing Photoshop to an obsolete database. My point was not that it’s UX is improving, only that the technology isn’t stale.
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by villasv 6y ago
Adobe products are not stale. Photoshop has already successfully incorporated some of the recent research on image processing using GANs and it's getting ever more powerful.
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by villasv 6y ago
The modern C++ techniques being referred are 10 years old at this point already and have stayed in consensus. No need to get salty.
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by villasv 6y ago
It's pretty clear that using AWS is lawful. What you're questioning is if AWS is being used in a compliant manner, which is an entirely different thing. It is possible to do so, so there's nothing odd with choosing AWS.
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by villasv 6y ago
> From a GDPR perspective it's not even clear if this is even lawful It is pretty clear it is
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by villasv 6y ago
This is so important, but unfortunately almost everyone will need a crisis to understand. We are raised to be “something”, “make a living”. When we introduce ourselves, the profession is right there with the name. Of course, we dedicate the
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by villasv 6y ago
> Oh right - WhatsApp is already wildly popular in most of the developing world for mostly this reason. Not only that, but carriers will often advertise plans with "unlimited Internet for Facebook and WhatsApp" (a punch in the
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by villasv 6y ago
I'd go further and say that the ROI is not only "insufficient", it is negligible. Unless your legacy code is written in a language/framework where available experts are disappearing (which is not the case here), there is
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by villasv 6y ago
I wouldn't know what resource to point without having a lot more context. And even if I had, I don't feel qualified to properly give you a diagnostic. All I can give is my anecdotal evidence. Most of our development teams apply TD
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by villasv 6y ago
It “does actually seem to work” at my workplace.
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by villasv 6y ago
The repository doesn't contain just a library, but also a web app ( https://ethiopian-calendar.netlify.app/ )
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by villasv 6y ago
Instead of baking your own glue, my personal recommendation is to use Semiotic by Elijah Meeks.
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by villasv 6y ago
Jared Diamond's Upheaval is a bit off-topic I think but I still recommend it. It starts talking about personal crisis to extrapolate into nation crisis, which are both extremes compared to company or team crisis. Even if tangentially r
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by villasv 6y ago
You can, it's just very convoluted. You can set up billing alarms and use alarms as triggers for actions.
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by villasv 6y ago
Heroku has offered branch previews for a while now Edit: they call it Review Apps ( https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/github-integration-rev... )
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by villasv 6y ago
> In other words, when they do release their secret sauce, the good will they get far outweighs the risk of a competitor improving on top of their secret sauce and getting a significant chunk of their market. Which is completely underst
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by villasv 6y ago
> The point I'm making is that large companies benefit on a scale much much larger than others. They do benefit immensely, but no by having "others fix and build" their own repos. You're overestimating the source code
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by villasv 6y ago
I guess what you consider unit testing I consider useless testing, what you call integration testing I call unit testing, and maybe what I call integration testing you would consider end-to-end testing?
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by villasv 6y ago
> "Unit Tests are like pouring concrete on your code base." My experience is the exact opposite. Tests make me feel safe to perform code changes a bit more aggressively than simple refactors. If behavior coverage is slow, I spe
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by villasv 6y ago
You should learn when to use the word "literally".

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