fsociety

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by fsociety 2mo ago
If you look at the reaction to this and the Tailscale post it becomes clear its not about this being a marketing scheme. Cynicism has made its way through HN unless you are one of the cool guys.
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by fsociety 8mo ago
Yes but one subtle point. Exactly once processing is not possible in these frameworks, they assume execution is idempotent which means at least once. Now, any system I’ve seen designed around exactly once is complete garbage.
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by fsociety 9mo ago
This might help https://youtu.be/6KGYCU_INVI?si=1Ds8Rez8vNbZAyV5 , it has more to do with your perception, expectations, and the story you tell yourself rather than an actual state of “loneliness”. You are going through a no
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by fsociety 9mo ago
The real answer is the unsatisfying but true “my shit doesn’t stink but yours sure does”
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by fsociety 11mo ago
Sounds like you have some beef to pick, not sure why you feel the need to discredit this person you don’t even know.
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by fsociety 1y ago
It’s pretty easy to change jobs on an H-1B if you are high skill. I love hearing folks, who aren’t on an H-1B, tell me things like this. Or that I’m paid less when I’m paid more. I know these abuses happen, no system is perfect. But I feel
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by fsociety 1y ago
This is my problem with design documents. If your stakeholders already have enough trust that they ask you to go build it without writing a doc, then what value does writing a design doc have. Many will answer that it helps them think. But
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by fsociety 1y ago
Mortality is not meant to be cured. Quality of life on the other hand..
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by fsociety 1y ago
Upvotes for you. I have also worked a ton of odd jobs out of necessity. Many doing things that would frankly disgust most people, or people would say is a worker’s right violation, or is a safety violation. I enjoyed these jobs more despite
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by fsociety 2y ago
I worked at Facebook and the amount of ex-FBers, especially OGs, speaking out against them on LinkedIn is staggering. I’ve debated doing a livestream of reading this book from start to finish, perhaps even in one sitting, because of what is
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by fsociety 2y ago
The effect on society and the human psyche when political discussions are stripped away from forums is chilling. Internet forums and IRC channels, in their peak, welcomed discussions like these. If you didn’t like it then you don’t click on
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by fsociety 2y ago
I was hoping for stronger rationale than this. This is not a React-specific problem.
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by fsociety 2y ago
I did not do any OKRs on an infrastructure team. Qualitative results were just as valued, and we had the quantitative knobs to dial when needed thanks to excellent internal tooling and service maturity. I found it to be the ironic part of w
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by fsociety 2y ago
Some people don't want to hear this, but it is 100% true.
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by fsociety 2y ago
Or you know, go chat with the tool maintainers because they want people using them for impact.
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by fsociety 2y ago
It is a judgemental piece because the writer is putting a value judgement on people who use LLMs to code and those who don't. Its right after the piece you quoted. > please don’t take this as a judgemental piece to anyone that i am
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by fsociety 2y ago
Let’s not pretend it’s just PMs. I’ve worked with PMs who fought against shipping fast but ultimately an engineering manager or engineer comes in and forces a fast ship.
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by fsociety 2y ago
With the right analysis I can show how your outage increased your business value.
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by fsociety 2y ago
I would bet more in a company who figured out the last 20% in a specific city than a company stuck on the first 80% generally.
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by fsociety 2y ago
This, short-term decisions win money in the short-term but businesses are always talking about retention and retention is most durable with a good product.
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by fsociety 2y ago
Mac and Linux run EDRs in userspace without an issue. No one here has an excuse or no choice.
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by fsociety 2y ago
This unfortunately seems like the status quo in the modern age. It is worse in online discourse when you can type a message and put the phone down to forget about it. There are little consequences to what you write.
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by fsociety 2y ago
Bash runs almost anywhere but many of the tools you need for bash, external binaries, are not ubiquitous or have subtle differences between versions and OSes. But Python stdlib is always the Python stdlib.
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by fsociety 2y ago
Apple doesn’t pay consumer prices for their own chips.
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by fsociety 2y ago
Don’t need to add a key, if you have access to the network interface on a laptop or server you are effectively that entity. ACLs are just one level of defense, and iirc you can force re-auth on SSH connections but it certainly becomes a sin
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by fsociety 2y ago
Tech media has a lot to improve on, but Kara is one of the good ones. She has openly said her goal is to let people know what kind of people run these companies. That includes subtlety and accepting that people are complex.
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by fsociety 2y ago
You are talking about Zuck’s voting shares. It’s true he has power at that level and is the ultimate say in the company. But the actual company is by a large margin the most bottoms up company, even more than 99% of startups - speaking from
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by fsociety 2y ago
This is a cool pattern, thanks for the share.
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by fsociety 3y ago
I guarantee that you took Adderall IR, and a higher dose than those typically prescribed by a doctor. It’s like slamming back 10 cups of espresso instead of sipping one over a day. And then judging people who drink a coffee a day. Slow rele
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by fsociety 3y ago
I would not lose sleep over storing data on GCS, but have heard from several Google Cloud folks that their concept of zones is a mirage at best.

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