alpeb

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by alpeb 5y ago
Hello, author here, happy to answer any questions!
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Serverless Service Mesh with Knative and Linkerd(reddit.com)
3 points by alpeb 6y ago|0 comments
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by alpeb 7y ago
> Thought experiment. If we assume that "alien intelligence is here" in some form like UFO sightings, why not also assume they are on the internet? Bingo. AMA.
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by alpeb 8y ago
Yep, but the other way around. Open source was Microsoft's fiercest enemy, and now it's managed to root deep inside the company, eating it from the inside out, turning Microsoft into something very very different than what it was
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by alpeb 8y ago
> Ask at the onset whether or not people would pay for the product you intend to develop. This is the Willingness-to-Pay talk,” Ramanujam argues. “Frontloading this question is powerful because customers won’t be in the mindset of negoti
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by alpeb 8y ago
Tech leadership is extremely hard. You either get at one extreme the MBA trained to think producing sugared beverages is equivalent to producing software, and at the other the formerly great coder that couldn't metamorphose himself to
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by alpeb 8y ago
Please don't refer to those as "movies". They're really documentaries, just like Terminator et al.
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Funny Javazone-style ad for System76 laptop(system76.com)
1 points by alpeb 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Top Machina, a standalone Wear OS app runners and cyclists(play.google.com)
1 points by alpeb 8y ago|0 comments
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by alpeb 9y ago
I fully agree, unlike many others that are voting down this and other criticisms. The amount of boiler plate that go-kit adds is crazy.
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by alpeb 9y ago
It's still, also by many indexes, one of the safest countries in the world, despite the objectively isolated issues you see in the media... Unless you come from another top OECD, coming back doesn't sound like a great deal.
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by alpeb 9y ago
Following that reasoning we could say everything is a continuum, and that wouldn't be a useful observation.
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by alpeb 9y ago
Considering there's a shortage of labour supply in this industry, if you're good enough, at some point it is you who is screening candidate companies you'd like to work with and not the other around. And just as it's har
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by alpeb 9y ago
I just want an web-based email client that allows me to filter out emails that are not from my contacts. AFAIK gmail can't do that. I hope this does.
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by alpeb 9y ago
Very French for them to require a masters degree for employees. Contrast that to the more welcoming working permit in Germany[1]. Also currently the startup scene in Berlin looks pretty interesting! [1] http://www.bluecard-eu.de&#
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by alpeb 9y ago
That's nice, thanks!
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by alpeb 9y ago
The separation of concerns inherent to microservices is such a great advantage, that in my opinion it's critical even for small teams. You can bring an extra hand into the team without them having to have to understand other parts of t
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by alpeb 9y ago
Because whenever they go low you should always stay high.
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by alpeb 9y ago
Given the popularity of frivolous media, ain't most people just frivolous consumers?
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by alpeb 9y ago
The Blub Paradox argument basically states that you must use the most powerful language because it's the only one that'll let you have a broader perspective to judge all the other programming languages. Ironically, this kind of pe
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by alpeb 10y ago
So true. Unfortunately bullshitting ability usually correlates to success.
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by alpeb 10y ago
The finance industry is indeed one of the top scourges of humanity. Hopefully decentralised money à la bitcoin would some day replace it.
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Announcing mewbase(groups.google.com)
2 points by alpeb 10y ago|0 comments
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Pragmatic Software Project Management Trifecta(peopleovertools.com)
7 points by alpeb 10y ago|0 comments
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by alpeb 10y ago
You're opening a whole new world for me. I'm one of those that thought one could only meditate given the perfect quiet setting, and so used to do it only sparingly, now even less after I got married and have a kid. So I'm gon
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by alpeb 10y ago
Also have Jony Ive read it in your mind.
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by alpeb 10y ago
I work with Scala remotely, and we're hiring! (send me a PM).
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How to raise successful kids without over-parenting(ted.com)
2 points by alpeb 10y ago|0 comments
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by alpeb 10y ago
DO is VPS, so there's not the slightest chance for tenants in the same machine to see or modify stuff from other tenants (besides attacks through the network); also you have a guarantee on the amount of CPU and memory allotted to you.
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by alpeb 10y ago
Love the concept and the site. Minor gripe though, that I also find in most job boards: searching for Scala also gets me all the entries with the word "scalable" in them :-(

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