gtCameron

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Tin: full-text search for Postgres(planetscale.com)
10 points by gtCameron 14h ago|5 comments
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by gtCameron 7mo ago
We've all been raised in a world where we got to practice the 'art' of programming, and get paid extraordinarily well to do so, because the output of that art was useful for businesses to make more money. If a programmer with
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by gtCameron 2y ago
My 9 year old can sit down with the Replit Agent and make a simple game that entertains her for hours. She couldn't make a business application and go out and start selling subscriptions, but there are whole categories of tools that ca
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by gtCameron 2y ago
There isn't a return for shareholders if the valuations are lower. The problem is not management holding the business hostage today, the problem was investing at unsustainable multiples a few years ago. Now the only options are to eit
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by gtCameron 3y ago
So Twitter/Blue Sky/Whatever implements a “report abuse” link. Who does it report abuse to? What happens to the post? What happens to the person who powered it?
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by gtCameron 4y ago
I was not, we are a Laravel PHP backend, using the standard PHP stuff for connection management
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by gtCameron 4y ago
We have been running PlanetScale as our production database for about 6 months, migrated from Aurora Serverless. I love it, their query insights tool has been a game changer for us and has allowed us to optimize a ton of queries in our app
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Work from Home Is Good(houseofstrauss.substack.com)
3 points by gtCameron 4y ago|1 comments
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by gtCameron 4y ago
We moved from Aurora Serverless v1 to PlanetScale a couple months ago and love it so far. Tools like this are super helpful for someone like me who is a full stack developer with limited DB expertise to keep our platform running smoothly.
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by gtCameron 5y ago
PropFuel | Full Stack Software Engineer | Full Time | Remote USA PropFuel, a Member Engagement platform for professional and trade associations, is looking to hire a software engineer with experience in PHP (Laravel) and Vue.js. You will be
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by gtCameron 5y ago
How would they “address” that? It’s outside of their control
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by gtCameron 5y ago
I don't think "real" engineering is necessarily any better at estimating. Take a look at any large construction project and the norm is to be over time and over budget. There are lots of reasons for that, which can fall outsi
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by gtCameron 6y ago
“Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a backup app you can already build such yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem”
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by gtCameron 6y ago
Not a lot of synergy from the end user’s perspective, but the value of those platforms is the advertising network, which is a massive synergy for Facebook operating all three platforms and owning all three audiences. I don’t know how exact
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by gtCameron 6y ago
I had that same issue with multiple monitors a year or two ago. Tried everything, reformatting, different OS versions, etc. Turns out it was one of my mini displayport -> hdmi adapters, replaced that and everything was fine.
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by gtCameron 6y ago
So in this view, who gets to determine who is a "rational, fact-checking, good-faith actor" who should enjoy the privilege of free speech, and conversely, who should not have those same rights?
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by gtCameron 6y ago
https://stratechery.com/2019/tech-and-liberty/
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Twitter Refutes Inaccuracies in Trump’s Tweets for First Time(nytimes.com)
5 points by gtCameron 6y ago|1 comments
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by gtCameron 7y ago
If you control the email address on the account you could get in by resetting the password, so I'm not sure what the difference is there
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by gtCameron 7y ago
The "fine" is now $0 after the tax cuts last year
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The Legal Loophole That May Leave Some of Rock's Greatest Riffs Up for Grabs(bloomberg.com)
2 points by gtCameron 7y ago|0 comments
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by gtCameron 7y ago
In what world does Chrome have a monopoly on web browsing? They have ~66% market share, and there are at least two high quality, free, alternatives on Mac and Windows that are only a click away
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by gtCameron 7y ago
Now put that loaf of bread you made in a plastic bag, set it in your pantry, and try and eat it two weeks from now.
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Apple Cancels AirPower Product(techcrunch.com)
637 points by gtCameron 7y ago|480 comments
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by gtCameron 8y ago
This went off the rails for me at the end. If earning money is good for other, but spending money is bad, then the "best" thing I could do would be to earn money and hoard it under my mattress. However, that would be the worst th
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by gtCameron 8y ago
Because private charities rely on someone making an affirmative choice to give them money. In theory, if they are corrupt or incompetent enough the flow of money dries up. If the government is corrupt or incompetent, people get angry at the
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by gtCameron 8y ago
The cost of the current homeless situation can also be measured in human lives
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by gtCameron 8y ago
That may be true logically, but I don't think it is workable politically. People are conditioned to accept that we will kill each other with cars every once and a while. I'm skeptical we will get to the point any time soon where
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by gtCameron 8y ago
That assumes that GDP would not be impacted negatively by the massive tax increase. I'm sure there are many theories, in both directions, of what would happen to the total tax revenues if you were to raise rates significantly, but it&#
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by gtCameron 8y ago
> That doesn't mean Redhat is going to be performing security updates on PHP. That is actually exactly what it means. RedHat backports security fixes to 5.3 in order to support it, even though 5.3 is not fixed upstream in PHP http

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