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I agree with the sentiment of this post, but also agree that self-hosting in a scalable, and secure way is challenging.

Another thing that is challenging is the corporate security, often augmented by Google, applied to domain names that often results in your site getting blacklisted through no fault of your own. Just try getting those flags removed if your ISP becomes persona non grata.

There are so many options now to have a "mostly owned by you" platform while taking advantage of cloud services. Just need to do the pros and cons and choose wisely.

Regulatory risk is part of any investment decision. Investors have to consider that before investing in "Big Oil". Doesn't stop them from filing lawsuits though.

Oil companies aren't going to go "quietly into that good night" in any case. Too many lawyers, too much money, too much corruption.

In Newton's case, even if there were hints in existing literature available to him at the time of concepts like limit and derivative, which is arguable, he would still have had to connect all the dots and create a workable new mathematics largely on his own, which he did. What's also clear through the examples in his Principia, he was using his Calculus to solve problems no one had solved before.

So, no downvote here, but what's the point? Even if someone had previously invented the Calculus at some point in ancient history, they didn't do anything noteworthy with it, and/or, some catastrophe erased the evidence of their work. Does this in any way diminish Newton's invention?

There is also new "recession resiliency" score that is trumping even high credit scores now. Another money grab on the part of CBs that credit card companies are using to justify raising rates even on good standing accounts.

A lot of Go code using the Go AWS SDK that's useful as a non-trivial example in and of itself.

Is this IaC "light" for purposes of setting up and tearing down small applications for experiments or demos?

Obviously a lot of effort spent. Of course, once you know AWS well enough to "make it easy", by that time, you've found the need for tooling which supports the harder stuff. And, frankly, someone new to AWS needs a lot of context just to understand the canonical ways to wire stuff together in AWS to even comprehend which pattern will be useful.

For example, S3 events are really backed by SQS under the covers, with implied retries on failure, but no DLQ support, and a lambda that triggers on an arriving S3 event may need to account for "duplicate" events, etc. That's just one wrinkle that even a simplified configuration might require more complex understanding of the underlying AWS ecosystem.

Truly a tour de force of culinary engineering on par with the best that the CIA* has to offer.

*Culinary Institute of America

Very sharp. Enough for quantum effects on the edge to produce Hawking radiation.

Yes. Why would I trust all my files to this? Needs to be a lot further along. why is "Rust" a feature? I could care less the implementation language as long as the thing works as advertised.

Insuring a Blockchain could handle the transaction volume would be an issue I think.

And Nunes in charge of building another Twitter. Another in a long line of sad jokes in the same vein as the "Freedom Phone".

I'm reminded of this old Apple video "Apple Knowledge Navigator" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGzXd0

I didn't know The Onion published studies.

Enjoy it while you can. Realize though that being "employee #1" and wearing all the hats while working with others that "share your values" means they probably think they themselves are "employee #1" and wearing all the hats, which obviously can't be the case in a well functioning team.

I'd hate to see how that works in a large project - like SpaceX where teams have to build things.

IOW, consider you may be better off running your own show while you have this drive. And realize you'll want to hire the best and brightest regardless of their WLB preferences.

Currently it sounds like all the effort you are spending is in service to someone else's vision, and it better have equity involvement on your part because you WILL get interested in other things and unless you've built a war chest for your own ambitions, your work will be for nothing when you inevitably walk away - hopefully to do you own thing.

Don't make the mistake that your employer has your long-term interest in mind. It's not personal, it's just business. It's always what have you done for me lately

Many companies have actually experienced more optimal business in WFH during the pandemic. And many metro areas less pollution, lighter traffic, etc. The fact is most work is done hybrid anyway in companies with large geographic footprints and outsourcing. Of course different business models and sizes may still benefit from 100% in office so not a onesize model.

After 2 years my company, a recent acquisition of a "large bank", has begun the RTO transition.

The CEO of our parent has been leading the charge to "get back in the office, where face to face gatherings foster great ideas, spread our great culture, train our young associates!" etc.

Looking around today in the office, still largely empty, I know the truth is: very little is done 100% onsite in the same building. Hell, we've been working with mixed teams comprised of offshore and nearshore members, and departments in other offices for years prior to the pandemic, and, of course, for the last 2 years under the pandemic in a 100% WFH regime, and have in this distributed team model actually grown assets under management by over 100%. Business has been good if not outstanding.

So it rings very hollow to hear all this cheerleading about how good we had it. How, all of a sudden after, finally, some respite from pandemic numbers, our senior company leaders are "excited" to dive back into long commutes and rub elbows with their employees around the water cooler - not that a lot of elbow rubbing ever really occured.

I swear an HR manager said in an all hands Zoom call, "The one thing I miss most was that Ferry commute!

Yeah. The one parked for hours in a car line, both ways, then getting on a boat trip, if you were lucky a breakdown hadn't occured. All this 3 hours a day on top of at least an 8 hour work day. This claim sounded so forced and desperate it was completely, obviously, an attempt to shill the whole idea.

Can't fathom why we'd continue to cling to this false notion that everything has to happen 9-5 and in one office. It hasn't been like that for a very long time.

If the coin is thinner on one side, then it will fall on its edge more often? If the coin has an offset hole in the middle? A triangular coin? With an offset hole in the middle? Include thinner condition on the last three.

OK, but if you toss the coin higher, relativistic time effects come into play.

I missed the /s ?

Good cognitive exercise and fun.

Also if Putin sends the missiles, it may come in handy in 2022.

My BS detector is glowing red. Yeeeaaahhh. Hackers are going to announce they got hacked in ALL CAPS!!! along with the screen caps to prove it. WE ARE SO STUPID!!! I wouldn't click on that stuff.

The most inscrutable UX possible. It's almost like an on purpose design that puts the most useful or frequently needed things under meaningless icons wrapped in burger menus and the least useful things in large space sucking parts of the screen. But hey it's "free"...

I'd you divided all your measurements by 7, I'm pretty sure both datasets would still align with Benefords curve.

I'd you divided all your measurements by 7, I'm pretty sure both datasets would still align with Benford's curve.

On the spectrum I think. He really has minimal EQ.

Having come of age professionally in the Mozilla era, everything the Internet has become since then is the worst case scenario we all saw coming.

Once commercialization of personal information and site tracking became a norm, it has been downhill since then. I don't begrudge making money from the internet. It's the commoditization of user data that has corrupted everything.

However, it is encouraging to see the responses here. Perhaps the tide changes to something more equitable in terms of network value. Hopefully, something that rewards people and companies for their contributions to the network (content, inventions, knowledge, etc.) rather than mining their clicks.

I had no idea Visual Prolog existed! Thanks for that mention.

I loved Turbo Prolog.

Creating many cool things: graphical chess problem solver, watching the search process on a VGA screen on a 386 CPU, expert systems, logic analyzers.

But it's been a long time. C became my next new love (Turbo C first), and many years later a plethora of OO languages.

But Prolog still holds a special place. Too bad it really didn't catch on in my professional career.

Blockchain: a replicating dataset that spreads like a virus and grows in size exponentially using energy to sustain itself.

Sounds a little concerning.

The more we automate jobs that people hate doing, the more time people will have to do jobs they are really good at and enjoy doing.

Hopefully creating TikTok videos won't be the majority of the creative jobs humans will focus on. There is always that danger.

As with all architectural patterns there are tradeoffs. Microservices for one thing are not functions. Granularity is an important concern.

A DDD approach up front will help with granularity.

The other leg is serverless support. Without that you are stuck with maintaining infrastructure in tandem with all the other considerations, which takes a lot a specialists - lots of engineers.

Definitely a game of scale and not for small organizations.

However, if scale is the key ingredient for success and the value proposition is based on scale, then this kind of architecture is worth looking at.

That said, all shops are not Netflix or AWS...