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by hypewatch 6y ago
Fair enough. I learned - in an American college - that “capitalism” was a term coined by Adam Smith in “Wealth if Nations”, which apparently was an incorrect conflation made by my Econ professor. The term “free-market capitalism” is used o
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by hypewatch 6y ago
Thanks! It’s a small world on HN haha. What was the issue? If you don’t mind me asking
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by hypewatch 6y ago
I’d argue that free markets are a requirement of the definition of capitalism, but like the term “communism” the definition has become squishy. I agree that your definition inevitably leads to income inequality. Either way, I think we agree
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by hypewatch 6y ago
This critique, which annoyingly has little to do with the headline, is a regurgitation of many of the surface level critiques that have been made of VCs for years. Nothing novel about it. It also wonders off to random topics, like Elon’s ne
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by hypewatch 6y ago
~Capitalizm~ Capitalism is purely a theoretical idea. Free markets as capitalism defines them are impossible. Perfect information, competition, price taking, ect, which are baked into the economic theories of capitalism are simply not feasi
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by hypewatch 6y ago
I had this issue last night. What was really odd was that algolia’s API was throttling - 429 error code - when I was connected to my wifi, but when I switched to my cell network it worked fine. Then this morning it worked fine on both.
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Don’t Publish on Medium(brianbalfour.com)
8 points by hypewatch 6y ago|0 comments
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by hypewatch 6y ago
Why fundraise against the Prisma open source project instead of creating a new brand for the premium / enterprise product? Like how Confluent is separate from Kafka. As a developer, I prefer the Confluent/Kafka model because it’s
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by hypewatch 6y ago
These types of tools are effectively another way to parameterize your SQL that _feels_ more like writing in your scripting language (nodejs in this case) This approach is notorious for generating inefficient sql queries, but it can improve
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by hypewatch 6y ago
Oh, it’s mentioned in the very last paragraph!
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by hypewatch 6y ago
Me too! They also don’t make much sense. The innovation in data storage was from “self-hosted” to “managed”. That’s quite a broad generalization over what’s happened in data storage over the last several decades.
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by hypewatch 6y ago
And perhaps detriment. Nodejs apps are notoriously more difficult to keep secure because of how many npm dependencies are needed for a project and how often vulnerabilities are discovered in those dependencies.
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by hypewatch 6y ago
Does Prisma have a business model or premium version I’m not aware of? I don’t see anything on their site around premium options. Not sure why Amplify Partners would invest in Prisma unless they were planning on dedicating substantial reso
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by hypewatch 6y ago
Are they? What’s the alternative that gets all the undeserved attention?
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by hypewatch 6y ago
While learning about another tech stack is lots of fun for an engineer, I believe that great products aren’t written by great tools. They’re built by great engineers. A great tool helps but is not sufficient to build a great product.
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by hypewatch 6y ago
> 24-monthers never deeply learn how things work. They’ll typically add value to a new company by carrying a collection of things they’ve seen before and shallowly applying them to similar problems. This reminds me of an old CTO I worked
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by hypewatch 6y ago
Have you looked at Lucidchart - https://www.lucidchart.com/ ? They also have cloud infra icons.
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by hypewatch 6y ago
It’s no coincidence! Apache Kafka is named after Franz Kafka. From Wikipedia: > Jay Kreps chose to name the software after the author Franz Kafka because it is "a system optimized for writing", and he liked Kafka's work.
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by hypewatch 6y ago
This sounds like an enforcement nightmare. It’s a nice idea, but how would it actually work? So we would get some sort of commission from Instagram for every ad we view. And the government will need to track this for every Californian, then
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by hypewatch 6y ago
But there are many enterprise saas products out there with solid security, decent UX and support for older browsers. I think that they won these contracts with more “who you know” advantages than technical.
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by hypewatch 6y ago
My thoughts exactly! And apparently they won many contracts over several years. From the article: > Netsential, a web services company used by multiple fusion centers, law enforcement, and other government agencies across the United Stat
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by hypewatch 6y ago
I’m disappointed that U.S. police departments would use such low a quality service with no focus on security. Looking at Netsential’s website, their services look very basic and inexpensive. There’s not even a mention of security on its sit
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by hypewatch 6y ago
Hey, I’m sorry. I disagree with you and looks like you disagree with a couple other folks on this thread, but I don’t think this conversation is going to help anyone. I’m going to avoid these political / non-technical threads on HN goi
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by hypewatch 6y ago
Yeah I’m a programmer, so I think you could be right. I’d like to work with our designer using figma and get her thoughts / opinions to get a better understanding. Also, because I’m a programmer, I’ve lived through many tech hype cycl
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by hypewatch 6y ago
This is not true and a toxic stereotype. Most homeless people are homeless for financial reasons. Income inequality is the biggest driver of homelessness. Therefore the most effective solutions are economic and perhaps anti-trust.
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by hypewatch 6y ago
This is one reason why the “making the world a better place” rhetoric from big tech companies comes off so tone-deaf. Fundamentally, tech companies have been a major driver in increasing income inequality. For all the productivity gains we
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by hypewatch 6y ago
Figma sounds like a great tool, but it feels overhyped to me - especially in this article. This reads like a long-winded pitch to a Figma investor more than an honest review. I’ve been wanting to try it out but this article was a little bit
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Just Mercy is $0 to rent on Amazon, iTunes, Google Play during the month of June
4 points by hypewatch 6y ago|1 comments
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by hypewatch 6y ago
I’ve never heard of the phrase “problem taste” until this post, so if Sam just coined that phrase, well done! This is such an important issue in the startup world. The most common mistake that founders I’ve worked with make is that they foc
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by hypewatch 6y ago
If anyone would like to learn more about this topic, Jepsen has some great articles on isolation levels and consistency models. https://jepsen.io/consistency

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