JustExAWS

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by JustExAWS 5mo ago
Absolutely no enterprise - I work in enterprise cloud consulting - absolutely no company would trust Grok with their IP compared to Anthropic or OpenAI with Musk’s reputation on how he runs his businesses. Anthropic just tolerates the money
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by JustExAWS 5mo ago
This is completely illogical. There are a lot more dark pattern tracking that websites can do across websites than native apps without a user’s permission
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by JustExAWS 5mo ago
People have been saying that Apple was going to require apps to be sold through the Mac App Store since 2010. You can install anything you want on your Mac. And if only mean old Apple is suppressing PWAs, then why are the same companies wh
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by JustExAWS 5mo ago
The Pixel only sales 5 million a year…
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by JustExAWS 5mo ago
From a usability standpoint. Do you expect everyone to wear glasses? Are people going to all be out in public talking and doing hand gestures as input to their glasses? You don’t need to cater to different people who need different prescr
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by JustExAWS 5mo ago
It’s not hard to look at sales volumes of any of those to know that they don’t have mass market appeal - except maybe the Amazon devices and even Amazon cut jobs in that department and the managers there had to fuzz the numbers to get downs
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
Most of my work these days are around the AWS SDKs and Terraform. I always just say “verify the APis on the internet”. Now, AWS has a documentation MCP server that can integrate with ChatGPT. https://github.com/awslabs&#x2F
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
Or fail miserably…
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
I agree with his sentiments and his examples. But my fear is that on a place like Hacker News, people might not understand the difference between his advice and trying to have a successful startup. > You don’t need every job to choose y
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
You didn’t real need a transition, just USB C to USB 2.0 cords and USB C to HDMI cords. Unless you had the MacBook with 1 port.
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
I have been buying cheap knockoff lightning devices since my iPhone 5 at least. I can guarantee that random Chinese manufacturer wasn’t selling lightning cables in bundles of 5 for $10 using officially licensed anything from Apple.
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
There were hundreds of devices on Amazon that never paid Apple a fee to use Lightning. And as far as USB C on Macs, are you complaining that Apple used an industry standard port?
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
I am working fewer hours. I at most work 4 hours a day unless it’s a meeting heavy day. I haven’t typed a line of code in the last 8 months yet I’ve produced just as much work as I did before LLMs.
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
If you are “consulting” on an hourly rate, you’re doing it wrong. The company and I get paid for delivering projects not the number of hours we work. A smaller project may just say they have me for 6 weeks with known deliverable. I’m rar
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
You really think that people at BigTech are doing it for the “enjoyment” and not for the $250K+ they are making 3 years out of college? From my n=1 experience, they are doing it for the pay + RSUs. If you see what it takes to get ahead in l
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
Well I have personally tested it on the green field projects I mostly work on and it does the grunt work of IAC (Terraform) and even did a decently complicated API with some detailed instructions like I would give another developer. I’ve
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
I’ve been a “software engineer” or closely adjacent for 30 years. During that time, I’ve worked for small and medium “lifestyle companies”, startups, boring Big Enterprise, $BigTech and over the past 5 years (including my time at $BigTech)
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
In all fairness, this is the AWS “house style” of writing and you will find older pre LLM posts that sound just like this.
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
I’m 51 and have had 10 jobs over 30 years. Those jobs have been everything from startups, to boring stable small and medium “lifestyle companies”, to boring big enterprise, to $BigTech and now I work in customer facing cloud consulting as
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
You only die once - you live everyday…
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
Yes and developers these days don’t know assembly like I learned at 12. Does it matter? I’m sure the list of things that you don’t know that some other developers do know is long. No one is an “expert” at everything. I know AWS well (trus
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
No the Supreme Court said a long time ago that a company has “no duty to deal”. Meaning it doesn’t have to do business with anyone it doesn’t want to.
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
Rclone with aws s3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class is about $1 a month per TB. I didn’t use rclone. I just used native AWS cli commands. But I’m an AWS guy and already had my own seldom used AWS account. Restore takes from 12 (more exp
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
There is a huge difference between a president using the “bully pulpit” and threatening to take away a network’s broadcast license because they said something he didn’t like. That was a road too far for even Ted Cruz who criticized both Tr
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
And then what happens when CloudFare de platforms you? It doesn’t take much to DDOS most websites that aren’t protected by something like CloudFare.
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
At least in the US, every single app maker can link out of an app and accept payments. But most still don’t. You know why? It came out in the Epic Store that 90%+ of App Store revenue comes from pay to win games, coins, and loot boxes. Ga
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
Parler was also kicked off of AWS… As far as X being banned, if you haven’t heard Tim and every other tech CEO bends a knee anytime Trump and conservatives asks him to.
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
No one has sold digital music with DRM since around 2009 - not even Apple. The story behind that is the music industry wanted Apple to license its DRM and it refused. Instead Steve Jobs said in his public “Thoughts on Music” letter that
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
I’ve worked in cloud consulting for a little over five years. I can say 95% of the time when I discuss the cost and complexity tradeoffs of their websites being down vs going multi region or god forbid “multi cloud”, they shrug and say, it
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by JustExAWS 10mo ago
Ben Thompson of Stratechery talks about this all the time. It didn’t take courage to canibalize a $200 ASP iPod for an $800 iPhone.

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