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etxm

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About etxm

Co-founder and CEO of Massdriver.cloud. Always happy to chat about cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, elixir, golang, or postgres.

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    Comment #36048556

    You’ve gotta check out Charm’s tools for CLI/TUI dev. They are doing some great work. https://charm.sh/

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    Comment #29611328

    Test it?! I develop it on a crappy laptop!

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    Comment #29423795

    Wait until they see how awful IaC is.

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    Comment #29318959

    Those lakes are going to be a real bitch when belters hit these rings with an EMP.

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    Comment #29259216

    At my first startup we used XMPP (wildfire?) to do a lot of our ops work. All of our pet servers had a background process sitting in a chat room. We did deploys, restarted process,…

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    Comment #29042130

    A metaverse is the last thing on earth this planet needs.

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    Comment #28675080

    > We believe building “Instagram Kids” is the right thing to do No it’s fucking not, you morally corrupt sacks of garbage.

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    Comment #28675053

    Kids need social networks, but they need them IRL. Instagram and Facebook are a scourge.

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    Comment #28372636

    Honest question: Besides IT endpoint management, why does our industry continue to develop software that is leaning more and more towards containerization on Mac OS? I’ve been a Ma…

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    Comment #28169448

    Would you meet with them? They’ve invested millions in a competitor. Aside: is the username an Expanse reference?

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    Comment #28168937

    Thanks for the reply. This is some great feedback. Our deck definitely has some future features and strategies in it, so if I go forward with the call I’ll definitely need to do so…

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    Comment #28168914

    This is all new to me so I’m not exactly sure what makes a firm large. There are 50 companies give or take in their portfolio. Less than 1b in the fund.

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    Ask HN: Would you meet with a VC that had a competitor in their portfolio?

    I recently got an introduction to a VC firm with an amazing portfolio. As I’m looking through the list of companies, it’s product after product I’m familiar with. Some that I love.…

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    Comment #28082060

    Depending on how much memory the rules take up you could use SSE in the server SDK. I believe that’s how LaunchDarkly works. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server…

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    Comment #27766744

    I had an offer in December that was 33/33/22/11

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    Comment #27704683

    Fuck both of these companies.

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    Comment #27490011

    Wait until you hear someone noun “solve,” it’s the most infuriating sound to leave a PMs mouth. I’m hoping we can come to an agreement during this meeting to find the solve. Would …

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    Comment #27465232

    So much this. “Let it crash” is cargo culted too hard IMO. If a caller (being another library or end user) can be given information to correct an error, give it! Let it crash works…

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    Comment #27438531

    Oh for sure, that’s point #4, but at least it’s in the same apply. In #1 there is also a tight coupling between two different sources. If team A changes their output, the dependent…

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    Comment #27435688

    People tend to complain about HCL a lot, I think it’s a great language for infrastructure. I don’t want a “real programming language” for provisioning infrastructure. I feel like e…