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I was recently in India a few weeks ago for a friend's wedding. I am not an Indian national/citizen/whatever and my experience related to anything tech and money was absolute awful…

> But in such cases surely there's some kind of rate limiter in place? Not really, our team maintained a reverse-proxy that fronted all requests that came into amazon. And whenever…

I am not disagreeing with you but self-ddos is not entirely uncommon. When I worked at Amazon this would happen a few times a year. Not on the main amazon.com website but on suppor…

First thing I would try is seeing if the front end has a different retry strategy for a different status code (say 503). If so I'd change the status returned for throttling to be t…

> If it’s a conceptually complex system then the devs weren’t really that good in the first place. Spoken like someone who has never worked on a sufficiently complex system.

Exactly, severance was absolutely a no brainer based on that email. I have gone "hardcore" many times in my life working crazy hours but all of that has either been in exceptional …

I didn't want to use that word but that's the only thing that comes to mind describing what you are saying. Why in the world would you find it acceptable to work at a place where t…

If you are willing to work significantly over normal work hours, for market value pay for a company with no greater mission beyond selling ads so that Elon can service the interest…

`&varName` is not equivalent to C version of the superficially similar looking operation.

I reject PRs every day at work with varying level of "badness" and it works just fine. Normal people can put 20 seconds of thought and come up with a response that explains why a p…

There is nothing wrong with rejecting the patch... there is something definitely wrong with calling it "unintelligent" and "idiotic". Esp since a year or two ago Linus publicly com…

The article links to this PR comment by Linus https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/CAHk-=wie+VC-R5=Hm=Vrg5PLrJx... : > End result: no way will I accept this kind of completely arbitrary…

My reading of the situation is that India is not necessarily pro-Russia, instead its position on Russia vs the West and Russia vs Ukraine is to quote Trump "very fine people on bot…

My point is that Linux is a great desktop environment and people shouldn't write it off based on isolated complaints from people for whom it didn't work for as there are a lot of p…

Designing Data Intensive applications- specifically chapter 3 and 4 which deal with strategies and algorithms for storing and encoding data to be stored on disk and their pros and …

> - only one speaker works so volume is low Never had this issue. > - finger print scanner doesn’t work Can't speak for this as I don't have a device with an FP reader > - battery …

Shellcheck https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck : Shell scripts are unavoidable, you have to write one every now and then but shell is a terrible language with massive footguns a…

SQLite, KVM, Firecracker, GraphQL, Serverless... if this was written in Rust it would hit the holy trinity of all the HN buzzwords that pull a post to the frontpage ;)

With that setup you have essentially lost any benefits that SQLite provides, specifically any performance benefits by making a DB read/write a network call instead of a local call …

I wonder how an alternate timeline might have played out if Richard Hipp had not named it "SQLite" and instead called it "SQLightning" or "SQLExpress" or something like that. For m…

Software isn't written once and left to run in production for it's lifetime, it is constantly being iterated on and changed. And a lack of tests will inevitably result in a slowdow…

Only the most religious TDD evangelists will force you to "drive the design" using tests. That advice is not relevant for most developers except for perhaps absolute beginners who …

> How do you implement healthcheck? > Does the loadbalancer know how the healthceck is implemented? Write a ping/sping endpoint like people did pre-Kubernetes? LBs provided by Clou…

What is frustrating is TDD evangelists insisting everyone do purist TDD in their regular development (like the guy being quoted in this article). You set your standards as a team o…