vrosas

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by vrosas 4d ago
I've worked with a lot of "smart" engineers over my career with whom autoscaling is a completely foreign concept, or a half-baked concept at best. My favorite is devs pushing to migrate to k8s because it "scales" an
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by vrosas 7d ago
Americans would rather die than give up their air conditioned bubbles on wheels. I've wondered why someone hasn't tried manufacturing an enclosed go kart with AC and enough trunk space for a few groceries.
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by vrosas 7d ago
You're going to look very silly taking a call on that.
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by vrosas 7d ago
I was recently looking for a new running watch but couldn't for the life of me figure out what Garmin's higher end watches do to justify being over $1000. Like, ok, better battery life... but besides that?
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by vrosas 7d ago
This thread is just PR people from other watch brands astroturfing.
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by vrosas 12d ago
> Premature horizontal scaling I feel like this isn't a thing when it comes to applications. All the decisions you'd make to allow an app to scale sideways are just, like, good design decisions? Even if you never went 1->2 i
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by vrosas 12d ago
Major version upgrades, HA, multi-master, sharding and georeplication are all stories that are not as out-of-the box simple as they should be at this point, IMHO. Then you layer on all the ways devs tend to abuse postgres (stored procedures
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by vrosas 12d ago
I've pushed teams to choose Spanner over using Postgres (when already in the GCP ecosystem). It's not really more expensive when you sit down and do the math, you save untold hours of maintenance over the lifespan of the app, and
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by vrosas 16d ago
People and the news doing a great job scapegoating Google instead of the administration that renamed it in the first place.
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by vrosas 19d ago
Give Cloud Run a try if you haven't. It's basically serverless done right.
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by vrosas 19d ago
I feel like I'm the only person on HN that doesn't have any major (or cliche) problems with GCP, even after using it for a decade at this point. Like it's not perfect and I've hit weird roadblocks along the way but I&#x2
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by vrosas 21d ago
Their excuse is called Azure and if you’ve ever had to deal with it you’d know it’s an amazing(ly awful) excuse to have.
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by vrosas 21d ago
Agreed. At some point to have to stop hugging your ops team and start firing them.
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by vrosas 25d ago
3.6+ have been fine for me. They still introduce bugs but at least they don’t make you wait an hour for them like Claude does.
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by vrosas 26d ago
The problem is, when the context window grows, Claude tends to forget these kinds of rules. It will then do whatever it wants. I had to outright ban comments in the global claude.md, the local claude.md AND write a hook to catch any that st
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by vrosas 27d ago
I have been a full-time go developer since 2015 and I have quite literally never written a line of generic go code. I can't even recall seeing any written at any {job} since they've been introduced...
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by vrosas 28d ago
Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?
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by vrosas 1mo ago
I've blown away by flash 3.6's speed while Opus chugs along for _hours_ on similar tasks. I've gotten into a opus designed -> gemini implemented -> opus reviewed dev cycle recently.
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by vrosas 1mo ago
> For a major blockbuster, tax incentives equate to tens of millions of dollars, freeing up money for name-brand actors, elaborate set pieces, and unremarkable CGI effects. Love the dig at the end.
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by vrosas 2mo ago
SF is such a weird vibe in general. I've watched a lot of founders/tech bros go to burning man for the first time, completely miss the point of it but adopt an air of superiority for attending. I watched a founder weave in his exp
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by vrosas 2mo ago
I have no skin in this game and this comment will be gray in a few minutes BUT a friendly reminder that these types of threads are astroturfed heavily by competitor labs and any info should be taken with a massive grain of salt.
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by vrosas 3mo ago
It's not a popular opinion on HN but Google is actually super stable from a B2B perspective. Even app engine (2008) is still kicking.
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by vrosas 5mo ago
If the damage was large, it would be hard to cover up. And if it was very large the US would seek to minimize it. “A few people killed” might be interpreted as “probably a ton of people killed” by the enemy and they keep doing it. Zero info
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by vrosas 5mo ago
One of the most interest facts about this disaster is that if the submarine was standing on its tail straight up, its nose would be sticking 150ft OUT of the water it sunk in.
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by vrosas 6mo ago
It’s basically GCP AppEngine circa 2010
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by vrosas 6mo ago
It’s also pretty damn obvious when LLMs write code. Nobody out here commenting every method in perfect punctuation and grammar.
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by vrosas 6mo ago
Engineers who ship get promoted. Sometimes they also write simple code. Often they do not.
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by vrosas 6mo ago
Interesting. I set up a bunch of slack webhooks for server events that's been working decently well but maybe I'll look at telegram.
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by vrosas 6mo ago
I also get the impression this is way more complicated than it needs to be. Or maybe it's simple and they keep inventing new terminology for stuff that basically already exists. The crypto bros did the same shit. Like, bidirectional co
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by vrosas 6mo ago
Meta is just paying engineers not to work at any other faang company.

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