motorest

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by motorest 11mo ago
> Is there more information on this somewhere. Yes, everywhere. You just need to look for it. See the following link, which has references to Apollo and MAWS. https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/amazon-notable-systems&#x2F
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by motorest 11mo ago
> The original 2003 DDD book is very 2003 in that it is mired in object orientation to the point of frequently referencing object databases¹ as a state-of-the-art storage layer. Irrelevant, as a) that's just your own personal and ve
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by motorest 11mo ago
> The state of HTML parsing should convince you that if you follow postel's law in one browser then every other browser has to follow it in the same way. No. Your claim expresses a critical misunderstanding of the principle. It&#x27
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by motorest 11mo ago
> They accept malformed input & attempt to make sense of it, instead of rejecting it because the fields they care about are malformed. I don't think that's true at all. The whole point of the law is that your interfaces sho
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by motorest 11mo ago
> Being liberal in what you accept comes at _huge_ costs to the entire ecosyste Why do you believe that? Being liberal in what you accept doesn't mean you can't do input validation or you're forced to pass through unsuppor
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by motorest 11mo ago
> Which cloud company can casually find 100B cash in a year? AWS. Because AWS reports close to $11B/quarter, which is over half Amazon's entire revenue, and AWS owns the cloud computing market, on which the whole world runs.
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by motorest 11mo ago
> These aren't "job losses", these are "firings". They aren't unfortunate accidents of external origin that happened to them, they are conscious internal decisions to let people go. This. They also make it t
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by motorest 11mo ago
> How is AWS getting billions of cash and low interest rate loans for capex? AWS is the cash cow. It owns between a third and half of the world's cloud computing market. Do you think it's hard for AWS to get financing?
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by motorest 11mo ago
> Probably many reasons for this, but what I've seen often is that once the code base has been degraded, it's a slippery slope downhill after that. Another factor, and perhaps the key factor, is that contrary to OP's extra
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by motorest 11mo ago
> They might be bitter but evangelize Amazon products are their most marketable skills. I think you are talking out of ignorance and spite. Most of the services used by Amazon employees are internal services that may or may not be on par
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by motorest 11mo ago
> By your definition then every little part of “Amazon” is technically a separate “company” including every geo. No. My definition is Amazon's actual organization chart as a holding. AWS is an independent first-level branch of direc
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by motorest 11mo ago
> Kindle is a loss leader? What do you think "Kindle" is? Is it a specific device? Is it Kindle for Web? Is it the Android or iPhone apps? Is it Kindle for Windows or Kindle for Mac? Among these, can you count how many are paid
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by motorest 11mo ago
> Like a lot of big tech companies Amazon is a small number of teams with profitable products and a whole bunch of other things that don’t make money. I think that's a simplistic view of the issue. At Amazon, each team owns at best
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by motorest 11mo ago
> Amazon includes AWS. They’re not “separate companies.” Actually, they are. Perhaps what is causing your confusion is that other parts of Amazon, such as Ring or Rivian, are also separate companies, whereas parts such as Alexa and Amazo
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by motorest 11mo ago
> Not surprising given folks have been saying Amazon/AWS has been a bloated mess for a while now. Who exactly do you think is saying this? Because from what I'm understanding, so far Amazon has been decimating teams at the expe
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by motorest 11mo ago
Amazon and AWS are two separate companies. From the article: > The cuts beginning this week may impact a variety of divisions within Amazon, including human resources, known as People Experience and Technology, devices and services and o
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by motorest 11mo ago
> It doesn't solve the problem- its the end of the day when solar has ramped down that the crises happens. Its the duck curve. Where its still hot and air conditioning is still running hard. Isn't that scenario a problem only w
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by motorest 11mo ago
It surprised me that a project such as NetBSD only managed to raise ~$10k throughout the year. What's going on with the project?
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by motorest 11mo ago
> I tried this and it is never as smooth as described. I think your comment shows some confusion that it's either the result or cause of some negative experiences. Starting with GitHub. The primary reason it "just works" i
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by motorest 11mo ago
> How do you concern about strategy all day? Just sit down and think about it? I'm not OP, but whenever your product is implemented by more than one team you will also have the need to coordinate and set strategic goals as well as a
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by motorest 11mo ago
> It might be empirically sound, but it does not make a priori sense that exercising a body will improve it. If I use almost any object in the universe frequently, it typically degrades rather than improves. Rejecting all evidence, denyi
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by motorest 11mo ago
> A 18 Tb NAS harddrive is about 320 USD. A 2 bay unifi unas2 199. It pays off in one year. Restoring data from it is free. That single 18TB HD is hardly safe from a disaster or even plain old hardware death, and it's a single point
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by motorest 11mo ago
> This is a bit underwhelming because it gives a score and says, "Needs improvement", but has no real indication of what it considers problematic about a file. I think you didn't bothered to pay attention to the project&#x
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by motorest 11mo ago
> What about debugging. With source maps configured, debugging tends to work out of the box. The only place where I personally saw this becoming an issue was with a non-nodejs project that used an obscure barreler, and it only posed a pr
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by motorest 11mo ago
> TS is a linter anyway. Not really. TypeScript introduces optional static type analysis, but how you configure TypeScript also has an impact on how your codebase is transpiled to JavaScript. Nowadays there is absolutely no excuse to opt
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by motorest 11mo ago
> (...) I assume this tool is meant to focus on cognetive complexity and not things like code quality, transpiling or performance (...) I don't know about transpiling or performance, but cyclomatic complexity is associated with both
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by motorest 11mo ago
> At some point I suspect a perfect score would be branchless code, but that isn’t maintainable. That's a failure to understand and interpret computational complexity in general, and cyclomatic complexity in particular. I'll ex
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by motorest 11mo ago
> Do you really need a database for this? I have no idea how this project was designed, but a) it's expectable that disk operations can and should be cached, b) syncing file shares across multiple nodes can easily involve storing me
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by motorest 11mo ago
> He’s still disappointed because very few programmers are ever introduced to the history of computer science in the way that artists study the history of art or philosophers the history of philosophy. Software development/programmi
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by motorest 11mo ago
> Come on, a kid was just fooling around with the developer console and probably had a curiosity just like the comment above You're failing to address the point. It is also trivial to switch price tags in supermarkets. If a kid rips

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