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by wfaler 4y ago
A couple of things: * It's mostly hobbyists running their instances, some literally in their basement. * Most scaling glitches have usually been addressed within a few days. The comparison to early-day Twitter is fair, maybe people hav
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by wfaler 4y ago
The UK royal family has pretty wide control over what can and cannot be said about them in the media. There is for instance, many stories about royal improprieties that have been covered up in recent years, in exchange for “juicy” Harry &am
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by wfaler 4y ago
It’d be great if some sort of self-professed free-speech absolutist could just take over Twitter moderation.. Oh, wait.
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by wfaler 4y ago
Ok, the browser I buy and agree. But outside web-browsers, I'm not sure it is anything anyone wants - like you imply, in China it's probably handy, because it is a reliable route into all the services that are blessed by the CCP,
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by wfaler 4y ago
"Everyone else has it (China)" doesn't make me want one.
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by wfaler 4y ago
Not sure he lied. I think he fooled himself into thinking that moderating a social media platform can be done on a rose-tinted ideological basis. Then reality hit, and the fact is, there are so many edge-cases that being ideologically consi
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by wfaler 4y ago
Forgive me for being stupid, but why would any consumer want an "everything app"? It's not exactly a compelling need I've ever heard anyone express. Yes, multiple things can be combined, but if it works, probably just co
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by wfaler 4y ago
Not sure it’s long term the most valuable thing I built, but definitely short-term most profitable: Built an airline pricing system as the sole developer in 3 months in the early 2000’s. When demoed during late stages of development, it rec
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by wfaler 4y ago
I'm wondering if this erratic behaviour is Musk having some sort of breakdown over how things are unravelling? * Currently that revenue is cratering and things are not going well. Bankrupcy is a real risk with the high debt servicing c
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by wfaler 4y ago
Honestly, I think any "smart money" managers who invested in this should be ashamed. It's absolutely an indictment of their intelligence. The basics of due diligence is: * How is their record keeping of board decisions &
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by wfaler 4y ago
I know someone personally who won the lottery twice. The exceptionally and undeservingly lucky exist.
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by wfaler 4y ago
I moved to Mastodon. 1 day later I have a pretty nice feed and good amount of followers. Many of them old familiar now Twitter-refugees.
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Habits of highly effective software engineering teams(chaordic.io)
7 points by wfaler 4y ago|0 comments
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After Twitter: rethinking my social-media use(buzzwordbingo.substack.com)
3 points by wfaler 4y ago|0 comments
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Feature-flagging, A/B-testing and Canary-releases explained(chaordic.io)
1 points by wfaler 4y ago|0 comments
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by wfaler 4y ago
Why yes. The point is AWS is charging people through the nose for bandwidth. Switch the bandwidth past Cloudfront, and you still pay bandwidth costs that no one else charges. It's no wonder Cloudflare and a bunch of other providers hav
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by wfaler 4y ago
AWS, GCP et al have already commoditized DB management. These are pretty well-defined steps, there are no good reason why they should require you to pay someone $200k specifically for those. I think the natural evolution is that both smalle
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“Nobody ever got fired for buying AWS”(chaordic.io)
48 points by wfaler 4y ago|10 comments
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by wfaler 4y ago
Depends: If you work remotely, using VS Code Liveshare or IntelliJ CodeTogether (depending on tooling) works a charm. In office environments, I once worked in a place where each workstation had two sets of mice and keyboards connected. Main
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by wfaler 4y ago
Firstly, you got your _first_ swe job in August. Companies that hire juniors for first jobs shouldn't expect to have fully formed contributors from the gate. It's probably a year or two before you should be expected to be a reliab
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by wfaler 4y ago
Autoscaling groups solve the problem of ensuring you have the desired number of server nodes running. They do not in anyway solve optimal placement of jobs. It only works “optimally” if you are running just a single service, or services tha
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by wfaler 4y ago
How did you arrive at that conclusion? The post claims nothing of the sort.
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Is HashiCorp Nomad a Better Kubernetes?(chaordic.io)
22 points by wfaler 4y ago|6 comments
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Reliable Continuous Deployment in 7 steps(chaordic.io)
6 points by wfaler 4y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Xlrte – OSS Infrastructure from Code Tool(xlrte.dev)
2 points by wfaler 5y ago|0 comments
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Serverless vs. Kubernetes – which should you choose?(chaordic.io)
4 points by wfaler 6y ago|1 comments
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Five practices for serverless and distributed systems productivity(chaordic.io)
11 points by wfaler 6y ago|0 comments
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by wfaler 9y ago
Yes, by cutting out the pieces that make people do cargo cult Agile of buying a JIRA license, standing around a board explaining what you did yesterday, and shipping once in a blue moon (AKA "Scrum", "Enterprise Agile",
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Do better than Agile – Just ship it(chaordic.io)
3 points by wfaler 9y ago|2 comments
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Rumours of the death of the Mac have been greatly exagerated(chaordic.io)
1 points by wfaler 10y ago|0 comments

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