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by vrosas 3y ago
Even if deployments took 2 seconds you’ll still find a frontend engineer who wants to “iterate faster” and an ear attached to the purse strings who will listen.
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by vrosas 3y ago
I like to describe my colleagues as the delta between how smart they are, and how smart they _think_ they are. “Junior” devs almost always fall in the “wide gap” spectrum but it is by no means restricted to any age group.
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by vrosas 3y ago
If I’ve learned anything, the only people who care about doing things are at the very, very bottom. No one up the chain actually cares about doing things. They talk about doing things, present grand slidedecks internally and at conferences
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by vrosas 3y ago
IANAL but it doesn’t seem like much, unless you’re planning on building a terraform-as-a-service company to compete directly with hashicorp. Honestly I’m not surprised given hashicorp’s enterprise offering are basically just… hosting the .t
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by vrosas 3y ago
Eh, I've always defined "edge" as the closest piece of compute infra to your client. Could be a VM, a load balancer, an API gateway, a service worker, whatever. Arguing it's part of your CDN is just letting Cloudflare&#x
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by vrosas 3y ago
They've been pitching and winning a fair few moonshot (heh) projects as of late, mostly due to their war chest and lobbying power. As a space company they've yet to have a spacecraft (or even one of their BE-4 engines) make it to
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by vrosas 3y ago
Same with EZPass
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by vrosas 3y ago
I was randomly ID checked with Clear this morning in fact. You just hand them your license, they scan it and hand it back. Nbd
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by vrosas 3y ago
That's as true now as it was ever. Not sure I've seen a dramatic change.
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by vrosas 3y ago
Still waiting for the killer feature, besides just being not twitter.
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by vrosas 3y ago
Now I’m imagining a larger, fixed-wing loitering drone carrying the package(s) and a small last-mile drone that detaches, drops its payload at the destination and then returns to the mothership.
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by vrosas 3y ago
There seems to be very little incentive to buy a compact car in the US, especially when the calculus involves _every other driver_ is in 6000 lb death machine, with 400 more horsepower than they need and vision-blocking A-pillars the size o
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by vrosas 3y ago
You’re not alone.
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by vrosas 3y ago
Professor: Good Lord! That's over 150 atmospheres of pressure! Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand? Professor: Well, it’s a spaceship, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one…
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by vrosas 3y ago
I stopped drinking Yuengling when they got cozy with Trump in 2016. So many other superior breweries in Philly - Yards, Victory, Attic just to name a few.
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by vrosas 3y ago
Mine’s main purpose is dealing with dinner when I forgot to defrost something the night before. Besides that it collects dust. I know it can do more but I view it as a machine that does everything ok and nothing perfect.
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by vrosas 3y ago
What if we took down _every_ website for our product announcements?? - some Apple PM, probably
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by vrosas 3y ago
Until is great. I use it to remind me if Docker Desktop isn’t running when I try and deploy an app until docker info > /dev/null 2>&1; do echo ”docker isn’t running…” && sleep 2; done
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by vrosas 3y ago
Not everything is a webserver. There's a lot of software out there that wouldn't expect files to exist anywhere else besides on disk, and it's not worth fetching them all from cloud storage before you begin working on the dat
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by vrosas 3y ago
Calling any software system "niche" is kind of hilarious, as if, if it isn't postgres it's a massive failure. It's not supposed to be a high-performance cache of data. My company uses GCSFuse for ad-hoc analysis&#x2
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by vrosas 4y ago
One time HN was itself down and that was a confusing experience
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by vrosas 4y ago
I don't really have a secret. I just have 8+ years experience with one cloud provider across 4 different companies as an SDE, so I've seen all the highs and lows that come with using it. Current company keeps bugging me to take so
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by vrosas 4y ago
This, and cloud security, have become my niche at my small company. Keeping these things tidy now will save us so much headache later. It's a bit of a battle fighting product for time but these are hills worth dying on imo.
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by vrosas 4y ago
I can’t wait to meet one of these mythical force multiplying engineering managers one day. Over the last decade as a senior engineer my experience has been that a mediocre engineer will begin to compensate for their shortcomings by becoming
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by vrosas 4y ago
Yep. I got all excited to set up a PiHole at one point during the pandemic and then realized how impossible it was to actually buy a raspberryPi and gave up. Hopefully one day
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by vrosas 4y ago
> Google Cloud is a worse clone of AWS This certainly hasn’t been my experience. I’ve found GCP products to be much better/easier to deal with than their AWS counterparts.