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by vrosas 2y ago
Man if only there was a company out there specializing in the ranking page quality on the web…
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by vrosas 2y ago
I’ve done that from the US as well. Book the ticket from the destination country’s website (google translate is perfectly fine, typically) and pay in the local currency using my no-fx-fee credit card.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Someone in Hollywood is going to remake Holes with this exact plot.
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by vrosas 2y ago
PMs would never let an automated system make the company look bad, nor would they let engineers have time to build such a system.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Once in a blue moon? It’s like, monthly at best.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Maybe in academia, but I've never seen any kind of reflection or study in the workplace. Twice in my career I've witnessed an entire team rage quit on a manager at once. Twice! And I did not see management bother to investigate or
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by vrosas 2y ago
I’ve found that people are either die hard rebase fans or die hard merge fans. Neither side can understand the other and I’ve never had it properly explained to me what the difference is or why I should care.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Fair, my circles were a lot more the tech/finance/rich parents type. But yeah there's obviously a market for it.
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by vrosas 2y ago
> What 20-something can afford to do that with any regularity? Practically every 20-something (and just as many 30+ somethings) I know in NYC DO do this very regularly, especially if they already live in wburg/bushwick. If they&#x27
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by vrosas 2y ago
I once interviewed for a job where they admitted I was the only person in the pipeline. I was then rejected with a canned "This was a highly competitive process and we've decided to proceed with other candidates" email. Did n
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by vrosas 2y ago
Trying to shoehorn code errors into HTTP errors is a prime example of conflating two very different things because sometimes they look similar. Let different things be different, I like to say. You either let your HTTP handlers do their own
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by vrosas 2y ago
I worked at a very well known news company. Their auth proxy layer was set to “fail open” for a period of time if there was any issue detected in the auth backend (i.e. just return ok and a new cookie for 30 seconds). When I checked the log
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by vrosas 2y ago
PaaS get such a bad rap from devs in my experience, even though they would solve so many problems. They'd rather keep their k8s clusters scaled to max traffic and spend their nights dealing with odd networking and configuration issues
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by vrosas 2y ago
Having worked with some ex-academia people I can feel this. They often seem to bring that bitterness (and in all honesty a certain level of masochism) with them to the workplace even after escaping.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Congrats on not working for the product team I work for
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by vrosas 2y ago
I’ve seen a team try and be truly “multi-cloud” but then ended up with this Frankenstein architecture where instead of being able to weather one cloud going down, their app would die if _any_ cloud had an issue. It was also surprisingly har
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by vrosas 2y ago
No unnecessary code deployments.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Then you just get devs rushing out changes before the freeze…
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by vrosas 2y ago
The API wrapper companies will likely limp along until the model market consolidates and they get their faces ripped off by skyrocketing prices, or the features they're selling get integrated into models/platforms themselves. I do
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by vrosas 2y ago
The fact that this is on top of HN is absurd.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Meh. The original places that created all this tech had great reasons to do so. Somes places today still do, but most that implement these practices or pieces of infra aren't do it to solve a specific problem, they're just doing i
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by vrosas 2y ago
I’ve been trashed for suggesting as much. People here seem to think any team or startup not choosing Postgres is committing some type of negligence.
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by vrosas 2y ago
I’ve found places that only hire “senior” dev talent to be pretty trash culture-wise. Management only wants coders who can pump out features and does nothing to invest in any type of learning or support. Even things like documentation are d
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by vrosas 2y ago
> On TikTok, one woman in Southwest Florida has been explaining why it’s so difficult to leave home with six children and four dogs. Many shelters don’t accept pets. “I would have to book an Airbnb or something,” she says in one video. “
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by vrosas 2y ago
That’s the point, I’m solving my problems not using the kitchen sink solution
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by vrosas 2y ago
Authn is gateway’s responsibility. Authz is subservice’s.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Why would I want to write another service to handle auth? That’s somehow less complex than just writing it into my gateway?
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by vrosas 2y ago
In my experience those specific sets of constraints come sooner or later. Someone is going to ask for some complex auth or routing rules and it’s easier to just write it in go than it is to learn a whole new DSL or lua to implement it.
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by vrosas 2y ago
Until you want your gateway to handle some complex auth or routing rules and don’t want to learn a whole new programming language to implement that.
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by vrosas 2y ago
I can absolutely assure you that building a fast and secure gateway is not as hard as you seem to be implying. This is, again, based on my real world experience.

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