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Going Global

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Unrelated but because the blog is hosted from a repl, it's fun to read the logs when a post is on frontpage HN. You can see the request stream live here: https://blog.repl.it/__logs

EDIT: Amazing! People are chatting in the http logs: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1356344510465286144

Btw the source is here https://blog.repl.it/__repl

I just looked at it and ended up having a discussion with someone from Germany about having a Hacker News meeting in Albania when COVID is over. Someone else chimed in, "_________________________the_most_niche_chat_app_ever". I see a future in this :)

EDIT: I almost asked how you knew the blog was posted on a REPL, then saw you're the CEO. Tiny cool internet world.

haha! Super cool. Btw, this is an XTERM terminal so you can probably do more interesting thing other than just chat ;)

I appreciate that you didn't just tell us to cut it out! :)

this is the funkiest thing I've seen in my browser today

how do you chat?

just send get requests

I've tried that, getting 404, any URL?

Yeah the path in the url is your message!!!

it was trying the full site, not the blog...thanks

Not so nice now, someone there is just spamming the logs with some pretty nasty US political trolling. You may want to consider a spam filter...

Rate limiting and blocking now! It's back to normal.

Unfortunately it's been overtaken by political propaganda.

Banned!

> we require employees to overlap with PST working hours for four hours a day

Whenever I read something like this I feel like any claim towards ‘being global’ loses some of it’s power.

That basically excludes everyone outside the Americas, which is most of the world (assuming they want to work normal hours).

NZ/Australia though. Seriously for most of their life it has suffered because hours are completely different to Europe and East Coast USA. Now they sit half way between California and China, how is that for lucky.

I live in NZ and have recently been looking at some jobs.

Very few companies allow remote from anywhere other than US/Canada, so I don't feel very lucky in that regard.

Same. I work for a US company and have regular 2ams. At least they gave me the opportunity.

Yikes, time for a new gig. 9 years of 9-5 M-F for me. Off hours and weekends cost ALOT extra.

Orgs must learn just like people. Give them time to grow while continuing to cultivate the culture that will drive their success.

> While that's not a significant issue if you live nearby, for our friends all over the world it means every time you type a letter, you had to cross an ocean at least twice! That means you could see latencies as high as 300ms for each keystroke!

I feel like we should be doing a lot more to minimize the effects of latency between the client and server, like mosh does.

For something like a browser-based IDE, where you have a whole-ass rich client programming environment, the best in the world, literally nothing about the client-server latency should be "each keystroke".

Even in full "multiplayer", 500ms latency should not affect anything meaningfully. The whole point of using js and the web is to free us from shared screen sessions and ssh.

That was meant to be about the terminal. Will update. In the editor it's instant and multiplayer updates are batched. Try it.

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