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by hw 2y ago
“Rails can’t scale” is so 10 years ago. It’s often other things like DB queries or network I/O that tend to be bottlenecks, or you have a huge Rails monolith that has a large memory footprint, or an application that isn’t well architec
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by hw 2y ago
Why would you think the person would have social media (or would even be on Chinese social media specifically), given the sophistication and planning?
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by hw 3y ago
Production database access must always be locked down from external traffic, and only allow traffic from the production application or within the production environment. Aside from mitigating local dev accidentally pointing to the prod db,
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by hw 3y ago
Ruby now has Fibers and other constructs for async like Ractor. > Rails is a great framework and the productivity is unmatched, but with time a 2-3 years old Rails project is always tricky to maintain. It isn’t any less tricky than a Dja
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by hw 3y ago
> Companies attempting to pay an engineer according to location, in my opinion, is another kind of discrimination. You are supposed to pay an employee based on his/her abilities, not her location. So you’re saying, we should be payi
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by hw 3y ago
It’s extremely rare to have projects be considered stable for years without any updates. Unless there are no external dependencies, uses very primitive or core language constructs, there’s always updates to be had - security updates, EOLs a
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by hw 3y ago
Great that it works for you and your particular project. Without knowing the details if your project and team, I’d take a monolith any day over 400 microrepos and the 70+ backend microservices. Our customers don’t care if it’s microservices
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by hw 3y ago
Loose typing is a blessing. Reading and writing code with type declarations everywhere is a nightmare. YMMV.
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by hw 3y ago
Cars break down all the time but at least they can be moved to the side of the road. Are Teslas not able to be moved once they run out of juice? They’re heavy and even with a few folks pushing from the back, is it able to disengage the park
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by hw 3y ago
I’ve managed teams that have been excellent without scrum. Then there’s one or two teams that just cannot get things done and are all over the place. Had to introduce scrum to get more structure and accountability to getting things done. On
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Are Chatbots Killing or Enhancing Customer Satisfaction? (2019)(reamaze.com)
1 points by hw 3y ago|0 comments
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How to Effectively Prompt for AI Art(godaddy.com)
1 points by hw 3y ago|0 comments
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Shopify Magic(shopify.com)
1 points by hw 3y ago|0 comments
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How Your SaaS Pricing Affects Your Target Audience(reamaze.com)
2 points by hw 3y ago|0 comments
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How We Doubled Our SaaS Paid Subscriptions (2017)(reamaze.com)
3 points by hw 3y ago|0 comments
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The Daytona: Rolex’s Ultimate Veblen Product (2017)(reamaze.com)
1 points by hw 3y ago|0 comments
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The Tesla Way of Making a Great Product (2017)(reamaze.com)
2 points by hw 3y ago|0 comments
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by hw 3y ago
Take a bootcamp - General Assembly, Hack Reactor. CS degrees are’t worth the 4 years if all you want is a job in tech or building products. If you’re looking to go into hardware, r&d, AI/ML then the cs degree is more of a pre req.
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by hw 3y ago
As long as you have a good reason for your decision. Some things you just have to make tradeoffs and can’t please everyone. Enter key to submit or enter key for newline in a chat context? You’ll go crazy trying to solve for all - sometimes
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by hw 3y ago
They are lucrative because they are drab. No one wants to build the unsexy stuff such as enterprise tax systems. It’s also normally one that requires deep technical knowledge outside of tech
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by hw 3y ago
Why does conservative == hate speech? Hate speech isn’t allowed on Twitter - I have not seen that happen without swiftly being modded out. If anything, I am seeing both sides of arguments in topics. There has been more nsfw images and porn.
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by hw 3y ago
Is it really suppressing liberal discourse, or is the new Twitter balancing the sides by letting the conservative discourse run freely? It’s a common fallacy for folks to think that just because they are seeing tweets from the opposite side
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by hw 3y ago
Medical doctors spend a lot of time and money in med school and residency. They have malpractice risk, and perform more essential work like saving lives and improving people’s health, your health. Working a hospital especially in the ED is
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by hw 3y ago
> It’s not like they won’t leave if they manage to get remote job elsewhere. Even without RTO, people will still leave for other jobs if the grass is greener on the other side. If anything, WFH makes it easier for someone to go job hunti
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by hw 3y ago
I know lots of top performers who enjoy being back in the office, and low performers who would prefer WFH so they can coast under the radar
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by hw 3y ago
RSUs, stock options - those provide incentive that scales with the company’s success. Just because you’re at Company X that makes billions of dollars and makes one more billion next year does not automatically entitle you to part of that 1b
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by hw 3y ago
Something my toddler would probably say as well. Does not mean my toddler has no intelligence - just not wired up to do that yet. Just as humans grow and mature through time, further iterations of AI models will as well
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by hw 3y ago
I wonder how much of these movements are them iterating and hunting for ROI in their infrastructure costs. Did GCP and AWS salespeople sell them on the benefits of the cloud, offer discounts, white glove migration help, showed some calculat
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by hw 3y ago
So, you’re explaining a stack with: - application instances - load balancer - database - cache - search cluster if application search is necessary Sounds like any cookie cutter application to me, even modern ones. How is that complicated?
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by hw 4y ago
Are there any public companies that bank with SVB? Startups that went public in recent times?

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