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by griffordson 6y ago
This thought is the one I keep coming back to over and over again in 2020.
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by griffordson 7y ago
It's almost like the people complaining the loudest don't have a profitable software product that justifies regular ongoing maintenance or something.
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by griffordson 7y ago
Gotta say those machinations were much less troubling than the multiple times they pulled the rug out from developers during the '90s. Anyone who survived the '90s who didn't internalize those lessons deserves what they got,
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by griffordson 7y ago
Yes, it is throwing 503s and we're also getting general network failures in other calls to the SQS APIs. As is typical, not a peep from AWS or any indication of what is going on. [Edit 1] And we're seeing the issue in us-east-1 to
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by griffordson 7y ago
Every day I see young people dreaming about owning a Tesla someday instead of the ICE dream cars of the past (Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini, etc.) I don't know what the value of that is, but it ain't nothing.
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by griffordson 7y ago
Google also kills entire niches in the short term by doing this stuff. Almost nobody is going to try to compete with them head on so if they are in a niche with a product that eventually gets killed, all progress stops in that niche for pot
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by griffordson 7y ago
The DVR is critical. And hardware DVRs I've used are horrible. Maybe I haven't tried the right one, but the ones I've tried are less than worthless and I've finally given up on them. I also despise the network specific a
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by griffordson 7y ago
Sorry, just saw your reply. I suspect you are overestimating the work. I just added some Rack middleware to handle request logging. Then plugged into the Rails model callbacks to record the CRUD events into a different Kinesis stream. And w
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by griffordson 7y ago
I would love to have something that competes with YouTube TV but respects privacy and doesn't funnel even more data to Google. The other live TV services all have absurdly arbitrary DVR limits. Not that Apple's streaming service w
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by griffordson 7y ago
I'm now pushing application logging into a Kinesis Stream that gets firehosed to both S3 and Elastic Search. This includes both request logs and logs of any CRUD operation on my models (including all changed attributes with their old&#
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by griffordson 7y ago
It's always entertaining to look through the older Zillow listings for moderately to very expensive houses. Without fail they are testaments to bad taste. They'd cost a sizable percentage of the purchase price to renovate. Yet, th
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by griffordson 8y ago
What was your salary, and the salary of additional people to increase the bus factor to an acceptable level? There is a lot more than raw perf numbers that go into these calculations for any responsible business owner.
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by griffordson 8y ago
Add replication across regions into the mix and things swing even further in favor of AWS. Dealing with cross datacenter replication of MySQL was eating our lunch and preventing us from getting anything else done before we moved to an early
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by griffordson 8y ago
Thanks for sharing abetterrouteplanner.com. Planning a couple long distance trips that I commonly take seems much less odious than I would have expected. Although the last time I seriously considered buying a Tesla their network was much le
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by griffordson 8y ago
Thanks for sharing the Ruby links.
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by griffordson 8y ago
Every once in a while I feel exactly what many Trump voters claim to feel when I see/hear this attitude. If a guy like Musk gets shredded for being authentic and at times a bit manic seeming, then it's no wonder polite society is
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by griffordson 8y ago
What percentage of PC users has ever installed an OS of any kind, ever?
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by griffordson 8y ago
I have a single dependency on Google for my business and I would never take on another one voluntarily. All the horror stories you've heard about Google support have been true for the 10+ years I've been dealing with the Google Ma
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by griffordson 10y ago
WSJ + WaPo is great IMO. My morning routine is WSJ, FT, WaPo, and sometimes NYT. The NYT is my least favored source partly because they skew too heavily toward my biases and I prefer reading high quality news from alternative perspectives m
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by griffordson 10y ago
In my experience, the amount of control you have over the time you spend working is a critical factor. If you can easily adjust your work hours down, at any time, then it isn't as bad. So try to avoid making hard commitments that requi
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by griffordson 11y ago
> Luckily, they are still able to pay for food! It's like I'm an immigrant in my own country, sending money back to the old country. Just weird. Well said. I don't have any answers, but wanted you to know that you are not
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by griffordson 11y ago
> What would happen if everybody would become Amish overnight? How much land would that take? How would these new Amish afford the $10K/acre that the best farm land in the US can cost?
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by griffordson 11y ago
All good points. I should have been more specific. You can generate > $1M in profit with 1 or 2 devs, and in that case, AWS is a no brainer. In my experience, it is much more difficult to manage dedicated hardware in multiple data cent
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by griffordson 11y ago
This seems to be an unpopular opinion on HN, but you are correct. It is possible to generate millions in revenue with 1 or 2 devs. If you manage to do that, paying a higher than average price for AWS is a no brainer.
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by griffordson 11y ago
And the idea that someone is going to poach a deer and throw it in the back of the truck on the way home from work is also laughable. The penalties for poaching are far too harsh for anyone who cares about ever hunting, fishing, or owning a
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by griffordson 11y ago
> I know you mentioned 'some might object to the mouse use', but I would argue that a large number of people who prefer modal editors like Vi(m) do so because they can be driven completely by the keyboard and don't require
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by griffordson 12y ago
I assume she's talking about the media used by her cameras. As in, the cameras store the raw data on SD cards in an unencrypted format.
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by griffordson 12y ago
Partner with proven ethical sales people rather than B.S. artists. As a technical person working a job, the best way for you to meet such people is to work with them in a technical capacity. If your current job doesn't give you opportu
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by griffordson 13y ago
It used to be hard to get insurance. That changes in a couple days. It is rude to claim the ACA does anything to help anyone, let alone business owners, but I'm certainly happy that I'll be getting oppressed by Obamacare in the ne
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by griffordson 13y ago
>> but the command line is no longer the most efficient way of doing everything > I agree with you, but the fact that most of the most gifted programmers I know usually gravitate towards some truly esoteric tools because of the com

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