dr01d | 6 years ago | on: IT Runs on Java 8
Oracle
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dr01d | 6 years ago | on: Stop Wasting Money on Unnecessary Monthly Subscriptions
Requires a subscription to read. Nice.
dr01d | 6 years ago | on: Serving Vue.js Apps on GitHub Pages
You could just use gitlab: https://gitlab.com/pages?page=1
Much better imo
dr01d | 7 years ago | on: California's San Bernardino County restricts construction of solar, wind farms
Birds literally burst into flames in the air.
dr01d | 7 years ago | on: When last checked, nytimes.com was loading 29 third-party trackers
Gotta catch em all
dr01d | 7 years ago | on: “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)
Vendors have 2 core requirements to continue operating: get new customers and keep the existing ones. Getting new customers requires constant innovation, marketing spend, providing value, etc. Keeping existing customers only requires making the pain of leaving greater than the pain of staying.
dr01d | 7 years ago | on: “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)
Zero maintenance? What about standing up multiple environments for staging, prod? Sharing secrets ,keys, and env vars? Deployments? Logging? No migration time down the line? I'm pretty sure GCP, Azure don't have Lambda, SQS, or EC2 load balancers so you absolutely will have migration time if you have to retool your implementation to switch cloud providers or products.
dr01d | 7 years ago | on: “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)
In most cases, very few companies have products that need to scale to extreme load day 1 or even year 1. IMO, instead of reaching for the latest shiny cloud product, try building initially with traditional databases, load balancing, and caching first. You can actually go very far on unsexy old stuff. Overall, this approach will make migration easier in the cloud and you can always evolve parts of your stack based on your actual needs later. Justify switching out to proprietary products like lambdas, etc once your system actually requires it and then weigh your options carefully. Everyone jumping on the bandwagon these days needs to realize: a LOT of huge systems are still rocking PHP and MySQL and chasing new cloud products is a never ending process.
dr01d | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you deal with or improve software development estimates?
Get 3 engineers to do estimation on the same work. Not only helps to get better estimations, but also helps to understand people's strengths and weaknesses on tasks as well as inform more people of a project specifics. Also PERT: https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-consultant/use-pert-tec...
dr01d | 7 years ago | on: An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python
gah, what the heck is wrong with that woman's head on the homepage. Nightmare fuel.
dr01d | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Noderize – Create Node apps in 30 seconds
Someone needs to figure out how to do this in 20 seconds and then they would really have something.
dr01d | 8 years ago | on: Scenes from the First Rare Digital Art Auction
There are thousands of Van Gogh paintings as digital images on the web. The original is the one with value.
dr01d | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you manage your projects in vim?
Using various plugins: nerdtree for filebrowsing, gitgutter for git status notifiers, vim-go for code formatting and linting etc, supertab for tab completion, various syntax definitions, and a custom .vimrc built over years that I use with each of my workstations.
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