Joe8Bit

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by Joe8Bit 1y ago
Reading the article I got the impression the big challenge is doing "personalzation" of the content at scale. If it were "just" static pages, served the same to everyone, then it's pretty straightforward to implemen
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by Joe8Bit 2y ago
In a previous role we used their (first party) physical transfer appliances to upload ~600PB of video into S3. It was a complex logistical exercise to take it from the physical SANs, but the AWS specialists we worked with were great and it
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by Joe8Bit 2y ago
I don't want to be too negative, I generally agree with and am aligned with the content of the article, but this struck me as a really bad take: > In my experience, “show me the data” is often a tactic employed by weak managers who
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by Joe8Bit 2y ago
As far as I remember the South Penine Ring[0] in Northern England has a max elevation of ~200m/~650ft. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pennine_Ring
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by Joe8Bit 2y ago
In my experience, a lot of the motivating factors for large enterprises mandating encryption at rest aren't about specific security controls. They will often hand wave in that direction, but as as the OP says in their post, without bei
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by Joe8Bit 3y ago
The "template" use case was a very common one from iframes/framesets in the early 2000s, and the markup often looked a lot like your desired example. My memory's hazy, but I remember it becoming more and more complex to
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by Joe8Bit 3y ago
"Hard to write but easy for customers to deploy" is my guess. There are a bunch of very high-performance computing use-cases in finance (quant, HFT) that Java gets used for pretty routinely. That's a very attractive market to
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by Joe8Bit 3y ago
> in my experience you provide the debt collections agency all supporting contracts and account documents for each loan This might be true for first party lender to first party debt buyer, but it often falls apart after that first step.
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by Joe8Bit 3y ago
I'm interested in this line "Many media outlets are increasingly reliant on money from betting companies" as I'd be interested to know how reliant the Guardian was on this revenue. Is stopping this type of advertising a
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by Joe8Bit 4y ago
I visited Chittagong a decade or so ago (as part of a non-profit working with child workers) and I can only emphasise what a visceral and horrifying thing this kind of ship breaking is to witness. 10,000's of people (as young as 6&#x2F
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by Joe8Bit 4y ago
I can second fly.io, I moved a bunch of personal (but "production") projects from Heroku to it recently (Node, Rust, Rails) and the experience has been great. I can also second their Heroku migrator, worked pretty flawlessly. Over
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by Joe8Bit 4y ago
I do a fair amount of pre-seed and angel investing and I've seen a _massive_ increase in the number of very early businesses that have a "product" that they've been able to build with no/low code tools. It gives non
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by Joe8Bit 4y ago
This is a really interesting point and it resonates with my experience. When I moved to the US from Europe I was suddenly in a world where people had enormous fridges and freezers and could buy a massive amount of food at a time. They would
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by Joe8Bit 4y ago
They put all kinds of locks on the account but they never worked, my assumption was that people who worked at the provider (who could unlock anything) were the ones stealing it!
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by Joe8Bit 4y ago
I had a UK mobile number that had seven consecutive digits (e.g. 079* 444 4444). I got it through a friend who worked in provisioning at a new mobile operator that had just been assigned its new number blocks. The problem was people would c
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
I like the blog post and broadly agree with the conclusions, but I want to double down on something in the article: > Shared pain I've worked in some orgs with very large monorepos (1000s of developers working in a single repo) and
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
This is much less of an issue for Sweden and Finland than other non-NATO members, as we're an EU state and article 42.7 of the Lisbon treaty obligates other EU members to assist in case of military attack. So any Russian military retal
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
I led a lot of data and analytics work for pharma companies on clinic trials and the point about complexity is hard to overestimate. A pretty good analogy for bringing a major new drug to market is comparing it to building a new space fligh
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
Sort of similar to the above, will rule you out of certain roles with certain businesses but if you're open and honest about it you'll be able to find something. The OP having computer hacking (and more importantly, fraud) on thei
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
I've hired quite a few security folks in my time (some with criminal convictions) but my answer is an unhelpful one: it depends. If you have a criminal conviction it's unlikely you'll get through the screening process with a
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
A good point, and may help in this case, but often when onboarding with a payment processor (especially at the 5-10m a month level of the OP) the majority of the time/complexity isn’t the technical integration. The complexity is usuall
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
I know we’ve all collectively accepted that DNSSEC is a terrible, complicated blight on the world but I still find it incredible that that an organisation with Slacks resources and access to expertise can’t make it work.
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
The big challenges were things that were inherent to how usage scales in their platform. As one example, they see a 'project' as one single set of cohesive documentation and they've built a UX/UI to facilitate that. This
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
If you're looking for a SaaS solution, I can really recommend Archbee[0]. We've moved to it from ReadMe[1] recently, due to constraints in ReadMe's product and the challenges scaling it commercially in our model. [0]: https:
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
Hah, thanks! My comment was fairly blatantly stealing from the book! It's so interesting from an incumbents internal POV (I saw it a few times during my time at McKinsey) as changing an organisations economics is often the unstoppable
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
Good article, thanks for submiting! The challenge for AWS is one lots of incumbents have experienced: they created a market and it's economics and now they're being attacked by the next generation of market entrants who've s
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
There's a little bit at the bottom of this[0] blog post, expanding it a little as we speak though! [0]: https://dev.to/joe8bit/shipping-web-components-in-2020-2h54
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
I've used them for serving development or debug builds of JS SDKS (e.g. you set a DEBUG=TRUE cookie in the request in production, serve bundle A if not serve bundle B). Made the lives of our Solutions Engineers a LOT easier. Being able
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
It's easy to be cynical about projects like this but it made me think about how the work I do on a day-to-day basis effects the environment in a way I didn't before, so I appreciate it!
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by Joe8Bit 5y ago
> Websites shouldn't all look the same. We prefer campy, kitschy, messy, imperfect. I really like the design aesthethic this product encourages. There's so much charm and fun and eccentricity that's lost in a web where ful

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