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If they’re optimizing full table scans of 20M+ rows, they probably want an optimized column oriented DB or a data warehousing option like Snowflake.

100% this. Only use containers for remote execution: CI, staging, production. Run native code locally. Manage dependencies and isolate project environments with NIX.

Ugh, what a loss for this community and the Ruby community. This should be worthy of a Hacker News black banner today.

This resonates with my experience. You can tell the author is mostly worn out not from long hours or challenging technical work, but from fighting against the overwhelming inertia …

This article is dangerous in romanticizing the “not invented here” culture at many big tech companies and seems rooted more in the 90s than present day. The world of open source to…

I spent two terrible years in Mountain View for a work opportunity I couldn't turn down and it was horrible. Our rent went up 20% during that time. It felt completely unsustainable…

Hey buddy! Reading all the design and discussion I was. Rey curious how you structured things at a brass tacks storage level.

This may be a confusing thing, I suspect Instacart may get volume discount from stores for bringing the extra business. So this markup may be based on discounted cost instacart pay…

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Much better quality of [everything but weather]

I've been living in Mountain View for several years, but we're moving back to Boston in a month. We can get a house 3x as large for 2/3 the cost and have a much better quality of l…

RubyGems.org has their own web server and web services for publishing library versions and to allow the clients to fetch libraries and query the universal registry.

It's totally reasonable to host your code on github and to build a package manager that loads the content of a package from it's github repo. What seems insane is to use a single g…

The problem with performance optimization is that if you obsess with optimizing code well outside the critical path, it's often wasted effort drowned out by larger latencies. If th…

I don't understand why people think serving a blank or janky page to your users is OK. There's no reason not to serve a completely rendered page from the server side and only enhan…

Outsourcing functionality or work makes a lot of sense for things that aren't core to your business. If you're building a web or mobile app, backend services should be core to your…

This is a nice PR piece but building operational systems in a marine environment usually requires hardy engineering, equipment, and constant maintenance. It's not a friendly enviro…

I grew up in Natick, surprised to see this as a codename. Is there any connection or just a weird coincidence?

Viktor Frankl wrote about understanding human suffering as the one constant in all our lives and the one thing that binds us all together: “To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is…