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You mention choosing between "growth" and "kicking back" - that seems to me to be the key question you need to answer. Do you want to be stretched, or take some less stressful "pas…

A fair sized pause, sure. But if the argument is “Don’t throw it up unedited”, and what it provides me is bare bones generic/junior stuff, I’m not sure of the huge win at this poin…

I'm not an AI skeptic (this stuff will change the world), but I'm not as impressed as the author. The primary problem, which seems common to LLMs asked to do this stuff, is "very h…

The Monty Hall problem continued to short circuit the “intuitive reasoning” part of my maths brain until I saw it explained as “Imagine there are a million goats and one car. You p…

I think you’re misunderstanding. This was built. The BBC iPlayer was streaming video to the whole of the U.K. in 2007.

This is a nice micro-tutorial, but it does not build you a production ready system. You don't seem to get backups, redundancy, automated updates, replicability, or anything else th…

Ah, a bit out of my experience alas. Sorry! However, I'm still not sure how container orchestration would help with this. I can still endorse PAAS for any "cloud" applications you …

You almost certainly don't need containers. Just use a PAAS (platform as a service). Heroku is the "go to" default, and will be worth much more than they charge. If you're worried …

Thanks. I really appreciate these sessions - it's good of you to do them.

Is there any advantage in seeking visas for less trafficked parts of the US tech scene (e.g. not just SF, Seattle, etc)? Or is the location of the employer entirely divorced from t…

Flyby comment: As someone who straddled academia and industry (but mostly research; never lectured), you have a unique advantage you should utilise: You've done both. First, most o…

Well sure. If you basically redefine Malware to be "Anything other than GPL software", then you're going to consider most software malware. That doesn't mean it's the definition of…

Clarification: 18 containerised services can absolutely be the right choice. It’s just my experience says the trade off between the costs of maintaining that versus a smaller PAASe…

I'll stand by my assertion that for 99% of users (maybe even 99.99%), Kubernetes offers entirely the wrong abstraction. They don't want to run a container, they want to run an appl…

No, I don't regret it. We picked it for our startup as we wanted a cross platform solution, that genuinely felt native (without the huge effort it takes to make a webapp feel that …

Everything old is new again, except tunnelled over HTTP.

Amen: "Aw snap! The new Google Earth isn't supported by your browser yet". No. _You_ didn't support my browser. The web is not "Just Chrome" any more than the web was "Just Interne…

It wasn't intended to be sarcastic. I suspect there will be a lot of businesses (especially finance) interested in verifying that the "ancient" Linux system they setup to replace t…

This is (serious) a part of my retirement planning. I'll be mid-50s when this hits, and have enough low level system knowledge to be dangerous. In about 15 years, I'll start spinni…

It seems to really hate profanity. `I love it` is 1% toxic. `I bloody love it.` 38%; `I f king love it` 95%. In many circles, the more profane are more congratulatory.

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Woah now, everyone knows making a site with less than 10,000 dependencies isn't possible these days. Wait, we're talking about bytes?

Any love for Elastic Beanstalk with these? They seem well matched. Though EB always feels a bit of a red-headed stepchild in the AWS portfolio.