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FWIW, these are classic panic attacks.

Usually the stressor is obvious, but sometimes it's not and it's something you've left unresolved that your subconscious gets caught up on from time to time.

It might not be the talks themselves. It could be anything.

If you've never had a panic attack before and start getting these, it literally feels like you're going to die the first time you get one. Then you get used to them and start adjusting.

I went through a period of panic attacks after acquisition talks with a giant corp fell through. I was messed up for years after that, with random panic attacks at all times of day.

I worked on returning myself to my previously chill demeanor and haven't had one for many years now.

I also stopped answering any VC/BizDev/CorpDev emails though. lol. But mostly out of a desire to optimize my time use for things that actually matter.

Good luck Martin. Covid has certainly put the value of living the life you truly want for yourself into perspective and I hope you achieve that.

Well, agree to disagree here as I’ve seen it with my own eyes, but it’s kind of besides the point.

Is it a coincidence that the same company that makes Excel is trying to… “democratize” and/or de-specialize programming?

I don’t really think so, but shrug.

That's not really how it's going to go though. Just look at what your average person is able to accomplish with Excel.

Your own example of the CEO becoming a CTO can be used in every level and part of the business.

Now the receptionist is building office automation tools because they can describe what they want in plain English and have this thing spit out code.

LOL. But you actually make a good point here. GPT-3 can replace most comms / PR type jobs since they all sound like Exec-speak.

Are those developers worried about having their jobs replaced by a code-writing AI? :)

I mean... why would 95% of developer jobs exist with this tech available?

You just need that 5% of devs who actually write novel code for this thing to learn from.

To add to this: there are people who earn minimum wage doing what some might call menial jobs (or 3 jobs back to back) and they work 10x harder than the average startup programmer or founder.

They might not have gone to school at all. Or they might have a PhD from country most Americans couldn't find on a map but still end up cleaning the offices of startups.

Wait... people run their databases on public IPs?

Luck >>>> hard work.

But hard work helps you get a bigger dividend out of luck.

Presumably the Fed/State government people who hand out the DC contracts like the security cosplay. :)

This, but for Postgres…

It's just a Ponzi scheme where everyone is invested in the scheme because they hold crypto of some kind.

Then one day someone will wake up, decide they don't want that kind of exposure, and the whole thing collapses.

Why would you completely exit a winning trade that you have more insight into than most people since you’re the sole supplier of the primary component in the thing if you thought it was going to have a higher ROI than other investments?

… you wouldn’t.

As someone who's spent the last 11 days or so helping debug a bug in a live QUIC implementation, I'm... sort of unconvinced that it's a good idea in general.

Every implementation (maybe not Google's?) is just a poorly designed TCP stack, where most of the code is just copy/pasted out of Linux or FreeBSD, and everything learned in those OSes about building resilient TCP stacks is just forgotten only to be rediscovered again.

Not to mention that it's just a huge, huge pain to debug because you can't telnet or openssl s_client to a port and type out some HTTP. And Wireshark is basically useless even when you have your SSL keys saved.

Here's a table of a bunch of QUIC implementations and their compatibility with other QUIC implementations:

https://interop.seemann.io

I mean... why? A lot of smart people are involved here so... there has to be a good reason? I'm not sure a couple of % is worth it.

Gamification feels paternalistic and almost exploitative after a while, because these things tend to skew towards paying great developers in low wage countries almost nothing to find and fix bugs.

See also: Hacker One.

Uh... we already do. By not listing on a store no one uses. :)

Weird Dailymail-as-MSN story...

Dell (and, really, all server providers apart from Supermicro) have crazy markups on storage.

It's where they make most of their margin.

And then, most of the time, the drives they sell come on custom sleds that they don't sell separately as a form of DRM/lock in.

Then you get a nice little trade on Chinese-made sleds that sort of work, but not for anything recent like hot swap NVMe drives.

I'm sure BB were able to negotiate down a lot (Dell usually come down 50% off the list price if you press them hard enough for one off projects), but... yeah. That's how it generally goes.

Yeah. We used to pay for GH Enterprise and run Jira/Confluence/Bamboo/etc/etc.

Then we switched to BitBucket Server because it integrates better and cost a lot less, plus GH Enterprise was a weird black box VM back then that we had to hack into to make work for whatever reason.

I couldn't point you to anyone who likes BitBucket Server, but as long as you're on the CLI and don't have to use the terrible web UI too much, it sort of works.

The problem is once you connect Jira to Confluence to Team Calendars to Crowd to BitBucket Server you're very deep into the lock-in.

Nobody has either the time or the will to switch because, while all the software kind of sucks, it doesn't suck enough to the point where someone is going to stop working on their product and/or service to jettison Atlassian from their org.

You would think this -- then you look at their balance sheet and re-evaluate everything you think about software.

Ah, this isn’t true.

Ampere is very competitive and Oracle have made huge investments into that platform, with Cloudflare etc looking at it very seriously as well.

Arm on servers is just getting started.

I like how something is “auto-healing” when it’s like… has `Restart=on-failure` in systemd.

Anyway, it’s always DNS. Always.

“Unfortunately, that allowed something as simple as a corrupted file to crash down multiple layers of redundancy with no real way of bringing things back up.”

You can spend many, many millions of $ on multi-AZ Kubernetes microservices blah blah blah and it’ll still be taken down by a SPOF, which, 99% of the time, is DNS.

Actual redundancy, as opposed to “redundancy”, is extremely difficult to achieve because the incremental costs of one more 9 are almost exponential.

And then a customer updates their configuration and your entire global service goes down for hours ala Fastly.

Or a single corrupt file crashes your entire service.

Your last paragraph shows a lack of depth in understanding American history and politics.

-- an Australian/American living in the US.

This'll be the restructuring that fixes it...

It’s not really only Google though… the entire industry has an air of malaise to it that is papered over by stock prices.

It’s all so boring.

Also yes to good accountants.

A lot of things you can pay a lawyer for business/tax/etc wise, your accountant can probably do better and cheaper.

Accountants are under-appreciated. lol.

As someone who went through a tonne of so-called medical experts for a chronic condition I can say that, based on my experience, most people involved in medicine are incompetent. lol.

You just have to bounce around until you hit someone who actually knows what they’re talking about.

Yeah, funnily enough my experience is based on international tax advice.

No one actually knows anything about this, save for like 3 people world wide for each country pair.

Lawyers will happily bill you for incorrect advice because their liability is limited to the amount invoiced. But you can end up with massive tax bills based on that bad advice.

You can do better by reading the law and tax treaties yourself, then getting someone to verify your interpretation.

Law is just code for humans.

Lawyers, like any other profession, are 95% incompetent.

Finding the 5% that are competent is harder than it looks.

And the hourly rate and/or physical location of said lawyer bares no correlation to competence level.

And once you find that person they usually get scooped up and become GC for some VC funded startup or whatever because word travels.

Also, just to add to that: a lot of the “good” lawyers will just ghost a one man operation or small business.

Dealing with this kind of thing is a nightmare. You have to find someone who does EFF type stuff.