amcvitty

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by amcvitty 28d ago
That feels unfair to read it that way. The mission as stated is that they will not only take a cut of the pie but grow the pie. If the total value they add is greater than the value they capture, everyone wins. You might not believe them,
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by amcvitty 5mo ago
That’s true in America, but the word government is applied more narrowly elsewhere, including in the UK.
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Cracking the Python Monorepo(gafni.dev)
25 points by amcvitty 7mo ago|6 comments
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by amcvitty 9mo ago
About to embark on a similar project. Would love to hear any insights you can share!
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by amcvitty 1y ago
As someone also behind corporate barbed wire and responsible for some build tools, I’m interested! What in particular makes life easier for you?
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by amcvitty 3y ago
Phoenix (web framework for elixir) famously has the meme out there that “Phoenix is not your application”, with various articles etc explaining that the web interface should be a layer on top of the application code. They made a big deal of
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by amcvitty 4y ago
I’m sure I’m missing something, but equity of £1.4bln sounds like a decent business to me. I’d have given at least £3!
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by amcvitty 4y ago
A big part of the difference has to be that if you have a small number of developers (esp. n=1) and you can deploy everything at once, then those layers just get in the way of fast change. It seems Amazon were optimising for the ability to
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by amcvitty 4y ago
Weird in general maybe, but I got the point: if they didn’t store the data, then future people couldn’t sell the data
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by amcvitty 4y ago
Not an expert but the transaction log is in another file and you’d need both to be in line with each other and backed up, so perhaps that’s a factor
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by amcvitty 5y ago
If you’re among those others, I’d be really interested to hear a critique of the article. It seemed pretty convincing to me, as well as constructive by suggesting that green investment is the right path forward
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by amcvitty 5y ago
I used to work in an overseas office and quickly learned the ping times to the other branches worldwide so got a “feel” for how long things should take. 10/10 would recommend
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by amcvitty 6y ago
I’m doing this right now and it’s a lot of fun and very accessible. I saw there’s a highly rated Coursera version too (I prefer books to videos so I haven’t looked at it)
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by amcvitty 6y ago
Interesting to note that cloud storage and realtime collaboration isn’t 100% tied to a browser-based interface though. Even though many existing apps work like that, there are desktop clients for a bunch of cloud-native SaaS (and even thoug