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This is a well written article. For decades, the Indian society has tried to use engineering (along with law, medicine and IAS) as a template to success. Given the population numbers, it was bound to break sooner or later.

As an Indian CompSci graduate, I am excited for this bust to happen as soon as possible. Most people I know did not like studying computer science, are absolutely unhappy with their worklife and want to get out of it as fast as possible. Out of the 700+ in my graduating class of Computer Science, less than 70-80 are still associated with computers in some for or manner. Most fucked off to other fields, predominantly MBA. I hear similar stories from other Tier 2/3 institutions.

I can't wait for Indians to realize just how much easier it is to get employed today if you are willing to let go of the traditional path. Internet has unlocked so much opportunity and after 2016, pretty much all barriers to internet access have been lowered as much as possible. All you need is a computing device like a phone or laptop to get started. Doesn't work for the extremely poor still, but the opportunity for mass swathes of people have been widened much more than before.

I believe that GP is talking about the unroll.me service which was caught selling purchase receipts to companies like Uber a few months ago.

Your argument hinges on the assumption that the products have a final conclusion. I can start building a product in hugo, say - I’m just displaying information in charts and generating predefined reports. Time passes more users are added and now I need to identify each users reports. Now I need a server and at this stage I can get away with SSR. More time, more organizations, more complexity. All of this can still be handled by SSR. The real kicker happens when people start demanding the ability to generate their own reports by supplying their parameters. They want the ability to write their own queries. They want WYSIWYG building blocks. They want to define their own templates.

Very quickly we are in a territory well done with react than with Hugo.

Most products, especially if it’s a company, are like this. Products are constantly evolving. Whether products should be constantly evolving is a different discussion and tools are only a small part of that discussion.

You should probably check out stripes atlas program

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It’s a YC funded company too.

Linked paper -> https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00395

Are you doing it to actually build a business or sharpen your skills? If former, start with Firebase and pivot when you have a proven market. If latter, starting with both backend and frontend is a no brainer.

But I'll never underplay the importance of having both backend and frontend skills -

- It's a core set of skills which will pay off multiple times in the future. - Easier to pay off the tech debt in the long run. People seriously underestimate the capabilites of postgresql + ruby on rails/express + a frontend like react. - It's much better to be dealing with the problems of an open source software than a proprietary one. - Learning how everything works together - how to frontend is wired to the backend and how the backend models the data in the database and how to deploy all of it together - is invaluable. - Almost always cheaper than proprietary solutions.

Learning between the two is a matter of tradeoffs. If time is of essence, then you probably should choose things which are easier to learn and manage. However, in the long run, proprietary solutions rarely beat the combination of postgresql + rails/node + react.

I’ll disagree. Twitter’s default experience leans towards politics but with some effort you can curate your twitter experience to focus only on topics you care about. My feed is pretty much only about tech, programming, creators and people building products. I have learned way more from people who are sharing their knowledge on twitter than any other platform. People working with companies creating all sorts of products or value are overwhelmingly active on twitter.

You’ll have to do at least two things -

1. Train the algorithm to drop politics from your feed by actively liking content on other topics.

2. Use Lists to curate timelines on a particular topic.

After this learn to use search and mute filters well. There’s a lot to gain from twitter if you follow and interact with the right people.

I get this a lot if i’n using a VPN or an ad blocker like pi-hole.

Rather than PDF, you’d actually want an EPUB. All the benefits of the web in a single asset without the format where data goes to die. ePub can be rendered anywhere. PDFs are a pain on the small screen.

There are some situations I have been able to pindown for when Instagram doesn’t like you. Two of which are not linking to a facebook account and using a personal domain (instead of gmail, outlook etc). Also instagram really hates it if the email contains insta@domain in any form or manner. Also you will have to hand over your phone number. No exceptions!

Ghost? They recent rolled out inbuilt memberships. Wont work if you are selling one time access though.

Not true. Not everyone is cut out for remote work. It needs a certain set of skills and a frame of mind which are not available to everyone or take time to develop.

That statement requires quantitative and qualitative qualification. I know of people who are running sites with multimillion visits and revenue using a basic monolith. One even runs a Wordpress install configured with decent caching to serve millions of visits an hour.

If you are read heavy, offloading static assets to a CDN and having good caching will get you very far. If need be, you can load-balance between databases and you’ll still go very far.

Micro-services is not necessarily synonymous with scale.

Does Argo help much with performance? How much of a difference are we talking about here?

Sites have started being smart about it. I also now know of services which won’t allow you to create an account if the string contains the service name in it.

Zoho is per user/inbox but a single user/inbox can receive emails for multiple domains and email ids. You can also set up individual sending identities. I am currently receiving email for 7 domains while paying for one.

There is an undocumented limit though. You can generally only have upto 30 aliases.

Set the address to CA and the option to cancel pops up.

This is what everyone’s approach should be. The product itself should be standing on the shoulders of FOSS giants. Everything else is just quality-of-life improvements and tools which should be paid for if they speed up your productivity or decrease your mental load.

Proprietary software lock-in in your product can generally be very damaging when things go wrong. I know of one company which was so throughly fucked over that they had to halt all feature development for 6 months while they were busy building a replacement. Cost them enough time and customers to a competitor. For non-product stuff, replacing proprietary software is a bitch but far less disrupting.

Stack Overflow is a read heavy website. They can get away with caching most of their requests in POPs around the world which will deal with the vast majority of traffic.

Having thousands of users is a meaningless metric for web operations. Are those concurrent users? Are those read/write heavy users? Are those mixed usage users? There are a lot of qualifiers that need to be attached to that question to allow any meaningful discourse.

Adobe has access to plenty of APIs on Windows, yet it didn’t run any better and was an incessant security nightmare. Why would anyone have a reason to believe that Adobe would’ve done a better job on the mac than much flexible windows?

Adobe’s current performance on Windows and Mac in 2020 does not add any backing to that argument either.

The culture maybe different but people generally get along fine. There might be bullying here and there but I have yet to meet an Indian who believes that breaking up the country will fix their problems. Culture wars fade away because people have realized that cultural mixing has generally been a net benefit. And I’m speaking about this from experience. I have friends and regularly interact with people from majority of the states and none have expressed a desire to break away from the union. The closest people come to is to have more and smaller states. Some states like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Rajasthan are still too large for efficient administration.

I’m particularly going off my hazy memory here but there were two things - invading nepal was not worth the cost since nepal doesn’t have much of natural resources and the terrain is tough. The Indo-Gangetic plains south of it were much richer and easier to control. Second, the British for some reason were very terrified of Gurkhas.

That’s exactly what happened. Violence and riots nevertheless still broke out.

What potential is left? I’m curious about what could goodreads add to make it better?

> At a past gig I had to change 5 different repositories (5 separate PRs, all needing approval) to send an email. In a rails app that would have been a trivial task.

That sounds like no thought was put in the system before development. Well thought out scopes & contracts between services should not create a situation like that. Reminds me of a commenter on HN who were rolling back changes to all microservices if one service needed a rollback. These kinds of issues are dead giveaways that devs are paying lip-service to "microservices." Also, devs need to understand that they don't need to be on microservices or on the latest fad. Use what works for the team. A 10-team of devs cannot necessarily adopt workflows of a FAANG.

This has got nothing to do with JS. Plenty of devs (me included) work on frontend and backend JS without containers and everything is instant for us. OP has a special use case or build pipeline necessitating such complexity.

TikTok would be naive to believe that that tactic would alleviate bullying. Anyone long around knows that the internet will find a reason to take you down if they get salty for some reason. Maybe if you’re unattractive, that itself becomes a bullying point but I’ve seen plenty of youtubers/instagramers being torn to shreds for not wearing the right dress, not choosing the correct words etc etc!

Most of the content was already available online no? People from around the world could see the sessions after the fact. The only valuable component was the face to face interactions which can only be partially replicated online.

As someone who has followed apple for some time, their messaging has always been overly positive. I agree that it could be plain and blunt but this company is frequently torn to shreds by the internet for even a slight misstep. So I am not surprised that apple adopts an overly cautious tone.