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What do you use instead?

> When you're dead 25 feels the same as a few million years from what I was told.

Not if you have children.

We used this book in my university class on networking. I can also recommend it.

Can anyone explain why? I see almost no downside in keeping it running? Infra costs must be minor, there is no licensing costs, it’s a simple app so I would assume very little developer cost.

The upside is that Android can come with a ‘native’ podcast player. Just like iOS comes with a native player.

A big downside with shutting it down is that it reinforces the idea that Google products are eventually killed so don’t rely on them.

In case anyone else is wondering what InfiniBand is: https://network.nvidia.com/pdf/whitepapers/IB_Intro_WP_190.p...

Do you have a source for this?

It compiles down to a single binary and is relatively easy to write. I think that is the reason it is such a popular language for CLI tools.

You will never have an issue with missing dependencies or outdated runtime.

I really like Go but the type system is just a bit too weak in my opinion. It is the biggest issue I have with the language ( and the fact that errors are basically untyped, you can type them but no one does…)

but does that matter legally for health, finance and legal sectors? I am not familiar with the laws themselves but I worked in finance for a long time and the internal rules where that sensitive data cannot move off premises no matter what the external party promised/had certified.

Have you used Garage in production/professional? What has your experience been like?

I prefer not to go into too many details but most contracting I did was for medium sized companies to digitize some of their internal processes (that were previously running on Excel and email, i.e. people emailing excel files around).

In my experience cost is still a big factor. The budget for these projects is usually rather small because it is viewed solely as a cost and not an enabler. The number of users for these internal APIs is rather low and so it seems quite expensive per head.

Spring Boot has given me a lot of frustration over the years (it is the framework I started with) too much magic but after a few years of using different tools and frameworks I find it hard to deny its productivity.

I wonder what things will look like in 10 years. My feeling is there is a lot of room for improvement still.

I think .net is just not as popular on HN. Lots of companies I talk to use .net in their stacks. Have never used it myself however.

I hadn't heard of crystal before, looks interesting might give it a try this weekend.

I made a few apps in Go with mostly just standard library (I used the Chi router). The first API was fun but I never felt as productive as I did with Django.

If I do a Go project now I usually try to push the team to consider more libraries and frameworks to take care of the repetitive tasks.

Could you elaborate a bit on my you are leaving microk8s?

That it is possible to do something with your life.

That sounds a bit obnoxious but when I was younger I (and my peers) was told constantly that I would not get through college, or fail on that project, or not get a good job, fail at starting a company, on and on.

The guy (or girl) that good grades was told they could do anything of course. But what I learned growing up is that is relatively easy to ace a high school test if you put some effort in. In doesn’t tell you anything about what you will be able to do in later life. That A you got on Bio isn’t going to help you with your job now (even if you are a Bio engineer).

Life is so much more complicated than a few tests. People achieve great things all the time from a diverse set of backgrounds.

Sure you probably won’t become the next Steve Jobs but there are so many great things to do that are very achievable for an average person with a little work ethic and passion, and who knows maybe you will do something that connects with other people and you do end up changing the world!

Why is there something in Coke Zero that makes you crave sweets more?

I think it is also very good for CLI’s and background agents

I think it is surprising they went with the Instagram branding. Instagram has a better brand reputation than Facebook but I would also say that the brand image is still more for young and fun content, less serious things. Which I would think appeals more to younger people 20-35yo.

While what makes twitter great is that it is a more serious platform where you can get the ‘insight’ of professionals (journalists, politicians, etc).

That being said, Twitter’s brand is in the toilet right now. Maybe that is enough for this to attract people.

I do wonder what the alternative would be? Whatsapp branding? Feels off too… Would it have been better to use a new brand?

I think it is cool they are developing new tooling. I don’t understand all the negativity. Isn’t it good that people keep innovating in this space?

Also how is this different from deploying before k8s and TF etc was a thing? We would write our own scripts to manage and deploy our servers. This is the same no? Just bit more structured and it has a name.

Why? Are they replacing those they let go with AI? I highly doubt it.

I coded along with the code in the book and can really recommend it. It is well written and well explained.

Are you saying that you think Octopus might have had nukes before?

I’m pretty sure most of the agile hate comes from developers who have never worked in a real agile company/project.

As many comments here already mention the majority of companies are just cargo culting.

I’ve worked on a few agile projects and it was great. It just doesn’t work in a factory like manner, that’s the problem, it can’t really be ‘defined’. You have to get people who know what they are doing and don’t require handholding (helping each other is fine of course) and you have to give them an environment where they can work with flexibility and trust.

(I'm not an economist) Good, point but think of the following example. You have 10 startups and supply and demands has dictated that $1M is a good price for 10% equity. Now let us say a group of VC suddenly have $20M dollars to deploy. The system only has capacity for $10M, what will play out over time is that VC will bid ever higher amounts for that 10% of equity because they _have_ to deploy capital. It seems silly when outlined like this but imagine this taking place over a few years time and with many complicated variables. It becomes really easy to rationalize that the 10% is really worth $1.2M, $1.4M, etc (there are also some feedback loops here of VCs buying from each other at greater valuation thus justifying their other purchases at higher prices etc). Repeat for X year and you get to $2M.

Of course as you point out that money will go to the seller and does not simply evaporate. Now in the heads of a founders. They could decide to sell less equity (say only 5% to still raise just $1M) but let's be honest, they won't VC will tell you it is a bad idea and the startup down the street is expecting the $2M (again still plays out slowly over time so you don't really notice the slight raises in valuation). The founder can then use that money to do more work (initially) of course the founder has to bid for workers (programmers) which to assume a simplified model is also a finite pool.

The example repeats, this time not for equity but for labor. The programmer is really worth $100K but you _really_ need one and if you don't pay them $110K he will take an over at the other startup. You can afford them after all you just raised $1.2M. This pattern repeats until you have programmers demanding $200K. All of the sudden you NEED that $2M valuation otherwise you cannot afford to hire anyone.

Those programmers have needs to, a house for example, let us assume there are only 10 houses and...

You get where this is going.

This can continue as long as the underlying value of the business can support it (the margins of VC, founders, programmers, etc just decrease gradually). So who loses? The people that are not part of this subsystem that got money injected, the people holding the 'bag' as they say when the bubble pops.

This is essentially a trap that is hard to get out of because there are many different stages in the process each with costs. The programmer can only go work for $100K if the house goes back down in price etc.

Depends on the organisation, at my last job you could become a senior IC (which does not have any management or mentoring requirements) or you could become a ‘lead’ which is expected to coach the others in the team.

You can access a web version from desktop right? In my experience a web version is more accessible than a desktop version. A significant percentage of desktops are locked down: schools, libraries, internet cafes, corporates, …

Is there much of a market left for non-compute intensive desktop apps? Or desktop apps that are a flagship product (slack client, zoom client, etc) but would you use a low code tool for that?

I think it is, the github issue that discusses this proposal frequently argues from the protobuf perspective.

I add site:reddit.com, or simply ‘reddit’ to many of my subjective searches (when I am looking for opinions). It’s not a good solution, but it is better then using Google most of the time.

I hope Google sees this and improves there search engine. If they don’t I hope someone else will.