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by zemo 3y ago
did an suv write this
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by zemo 3y ago
the vast majority of organizations buying this product will use it to build SaaS. Now comes the part where you pretend otherwise ("but hospitals/universities need this too!"), press me for more evidence ("how do you know
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by zemo 3y ago
their whole "AWS is bad because THEY are engaging in rentier capitalism, we are good because we sell you the tools to let YOU engage in rentier capitalism" shtick rings empty to me
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by zemo 3y ago
> Ironically this looks like the realization of Richard Stallman's dream where users can help each other if something doesn't work. that's only true if you think that "users" means "people who operate cloud
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by zemo 3y ago
yeah he quotes the Futurist Manifesto further down the page, also with no historical context, which ... I dunno, that's gotta be a dog whistle, right?
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by zemo 3y ago
> The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein "if you democratize power, the powerful will hate you for it" and "if you play with powers beyond your ability to control, they may backfire" seem
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by zemo 3y ago
dunno if you haven't noticed but people haven't been writing self-daemonizing processes that disappear into the background silently for ::checks watch:: at least a decade now. The practice of writing self-daemonizing processes was
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by zemo 3y ago
it's really hard for me to express just how much content hits the front page of HN that, if you follow it, will make you worse at programming.
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by zemo 3y ago
yeah I never suggested that heroku invented environment variables, and the idea that environment variables weren't common knowledge before heroku came along is ... let's say at best revisionist.
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by zemo 3y ago
I... don't think the "flag" functionality is intended to communicate "this is bad advice".
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by zemo 3y ago
the twelve-factor app is a set of recommendations from 2011 that are based less on engineering principles and more on the capabilities of Heroku and containerized infrastructure in 2011. For example: > Another approach to config is the u
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by zemo 3y ago
nice try, Elon
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by zemo 3y ago
> Another consistent part is earmarked to help Arduino grow even more in the US, where we recently opened an office in Austin, TX and bolstered our presence in Chicago, IL. Oh! I want to hear more about what they’re doing in Chicago sinc
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by zemo 3y ago
yeah I don't like environment variables because it's all stringly typed and the lack of a thing you deserialize the config file into means that practically speaking, you can read the values from anywhere in a program; figuring out
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by zemo 3y ago
structured logging has been a thing for a long time, so I don’t really buy this argument. the problem with monitoring and alerting derived from logs is that log ingestion pipelines usually have the property that when they get saturated, the
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by zemo 3y ago
Not having a backlog is actually the thing I like about it. Discord (and Slack) have this thing where because there’s a backlog, people expect other people to have read everything. I prefer the experience where the assumption is that the pe
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by zemo 3y ago
it’s a story about how all of society takes place inside of a video game and at no point in the story does it ever contemplate whether or not that is a good thing. The story is just “save the princess from the dragon” but the princess is th
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by zemo 3y ago
it’s a different situation though: very few people have shipped guis in Rust, so the Rust projects are largely greenfield, while a lot of JavaScript front ends are legacy apps.
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by zemo 3y ago
... the entire product is based on voting
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by zemo 3y ago
> I am so sick of these shoesalesman trying to get you to adopt their platform which runs on another platform which runs itself on wishful thinking and startdust. I think you misunderstood basically everything about this post. The author
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by zemo 3y ago
> it was developed using GB Studio yeah a lot of people in this thread seem to be completely unaware of GB Studio's existence, which is funny because a lot of people learn to make games in GB Studio nowadays. The GB Studio scene is
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by zemo 3y ago
right but if you have two crates you have to list the common dependencies twice, and you have to either keep them in sync manually or put the crates into a workspace and then use workspace dependencies, so now you have to declare the depend
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by zemo 3y ago
“person with vested business interest says their sector/product/company is going to revolutionize the world” wow no way you don’t say
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by zemo 3y ago
I read the article, you're refusing to see the forest through the trees.
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by zemo 3y ago
connotation exists, you know
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by zemo 3y ago
When you hire new people and they encounter this over and over again, onboarding drags on so, so much longer than it should, because people taking your position never think "we should reduce how complex this is", they think "
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by zemo 3y ago
the idea that learning to code is virtuous and having fun is bad needs to go away. Lots of people learned to code AND did beer bongs.
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by zemo 4y ago
Are they crawling the internet looking for all the publicly available code that exists or are they just training their model on the code that people upload directly to their servers?
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by zemo 4y ago
> Why is their UI (which is Forgejo, fork of Gitea) such a blatant clone of GitHub’s? because their project goal is to iterate on the ownership model, not to iterate on the web design. I use a self-hosted forgejo instance now (as of like
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by zemo 4y ago
I turn off all push notifications everywhere that aren’t direct messages from a person I know, but even still, I think you’re missing the point entirely here. You can’t watch a livestream on your own time, it being live is the whole point.

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