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by aq9 5mo ago
AWS support (even Enterprise support) was always hit and miss. At least with Enterprise support you can yell at your TAM, which sometimes is less effective than you would think, considering the price.
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by aq9 8mo ago
Interesting yes, but surely not "Disastrous", all the men from the Endurance survived. Now, Scott's expedition was a disaster.
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by aq9 9mo ago
This is silly though. For an IT company, what should the #2 cost be? Legal? It is an IT company....
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by aq9 1y ago
The "old" british standard is even cooler: https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/OldBritish1.html
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by aq9 2y ago
As a South African (living abroad for many years, but still with the bulk of my extended family there), this seems overly alarmist. If you review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis , very few co
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by aq9 2y ago
As long as the amounts are small, and from a variety of cards, no normal (real) card processor is going to notice/care. Cannot speak for Stripe.
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by aq9 2y ago
More recent analog: https://simpleflying.com/tupolev-tu-22-booze-carrier-why/
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by aq9 2y ago
84 hours/week is for amateurs. Call back when you hit 100 per week consistently.
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by aq9 2y ago
I have used one of the original 4k TVs-as-a-monitor ( https://www.avsforum.com/threads/review-of-the-seiki-39-4k-d... ) as my central monitor (plus one on each side) for 10+ years now. Not feeling any need to upgrade
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by aq9 3y ago
All of them?
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by aq9 3y ago
What do you mean? Prices are going up. Costs have been falling since AWS was introduced faster than they have reduced prices. I am willing to bet that their gross margin is higher today than it was last year, 5 years ago or 10 years ag
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by aq9 3y ago
Interesting question. Here is my take (I have both a consulting and infra/data background): * Yes, many companies need the help. * However, they typically (not necessarily unfairly) have a dim view of consulting/consultants. * Th
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by aq9 3y ago
A Mac plus docker would have been fine a few years ago, but now with Mac arm64, things are getting complicated again. Stick with a decent Intel laptop + linux for now, unless you really just mostly use "user-side" stuff (i.e. no
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by aq9 4y ago
Let's be honest: if no-one (higher up) went to jail after 2008, it is not likely to happen this time.
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by aq9 4y ago
"Tim Cook... hasn't had layoffs". Yet...
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by aq9 4y ago
See the original at: https://archive.org/details/Esquire-Magazine-1983-12/page/n1...
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by aq9 4y ago
There are recruiting companies that have been using AI bots for (at least) 3 years. I am not going to name names, but I have used one as a hiring manager in the past to fill openings.
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by aq9 4y ago
Close, I think. Context: I looked into uptime monitors quite deeply about 10 years ago when I thought about doing a SaaS. Implementing a good uptime monitoring system is actually more complex than you would think from a technical perspec
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by aq9 4y ago
As someone who has been in both tech IC (individual contributor) and higher management levels, this is often a relatively simple result of impedance mismatch (excluding bad faith individuals for now): ICs and lower level managers are all ab
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by aq9 4y ago
I think this is the wrong way to think about it. For the type of organizations that run workloads on IBM mainframes, there are three drivers: * Legacy: The application was written for the mainframe, cannot run on anything else, too expen
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by aq9 4y ago
Shaka, when the walls fell.
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by aq9 4y ago
You need to qualify massive scale, it can be on multiple dimensions: * "Large" data (these days, 10s of TB of data, maybe with multi-TB individual tables, billions of rows in the large tables) * "High" QPS - reads
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by aq9 4y ago
Not always, and not if they are competently planned and executed. I will grant you that, in the current climate, that they are probably not competently planned nor executed.
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by aq9 4y ago
https://layoffs.fyi/ is the more up-to-date spot for this info. It's a shame fuckedcompany.com is not around anymore. We miss you, Pud.
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by aq9 4y ago
To be fair in the comparison; you can also query (via curl) icanhazip.com via HTTP instead of HTTPS, and it is only 5 packets and 385 bytes.
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by aq9 5y ago
Dover is a YC company; this is a YC company jobs ad. Don't think there is anything new here.
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by aq9 6y ago
So, a lot would depend on what you plan on passing the protobufs over. Plain TCP? gRPC? gRPC kinda sucks for this, the serialization/deserialization can be moderately expensive (CPU); and gRPC's multiplexing of multiple flows onto