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Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He is a very controversial figure in both Greece and Europe as a whole.

Controversial in the very least. I also got the impression that he was quite anti-EU with his whole Greece rhetoric during the discussions about another Greek buyout. Maybe I got him wrong..?

The guy is a jerk. He fucked up in an unprecedented way, his whole negotiation strategy was just a blackmail toward EU-Germany that eventually backfired. In the meantime all his proposals for reforming the public sector were laughable, like the idea of giving cameras to tourists to record tax evading shops.

He may be good at writing books or giving lectures but he was a complete disaster as minister of finance.

Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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post #32

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Any talk by Varoufakis is worth listening to.

The man is articulated but nothing of what he says brings anything to my mind. Maybe he's just too smart.. but I can't discern from overenginered pub talk.

Seems like English is not your first language ..?

He’s very articulate, and not only does he make a lot of sense, I’ve never seen him caught in a lie.

And I have no idea what makes you think it’s pub talk, I’m from the land of pubs (Ireland) and I’ve never heard anyone talk like he does in one.

Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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I rather enjoyed RustConf 2018's Closing Keynote, "Using Rust For Game Development" by Catherine West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M

I learned about the ECS pattern and got to see some Rust refactoring in action.

Previous HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17977906

Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He is a very controversial figure in both Greece and Europe as a whole.

Controversial in the very least. I also got the impression that he was quite anti-EU with his whole Greece rhetoric during the discussions about another Greek buyout. Maybe I got him wrong..?

Would not surprise me. It is my understanding that not a lot of people that actually understand how the EU works are pro EU at this point...

Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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post #35
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any talk by Varoufakis is worth listening to.

He is a very controversial figure in both Greece and Europe as a whole.

For those who had the misfortune to suffer the consquences of his folly, he is not controversial at all. He is a conceited man-child with very bad manners. There's readily accessible, amble evidence for that by looking at photos of him in various settings, both formal and relaxed. The way he dresses and, more importantly, his body language make it quite plain. His writings and interviews attest to the same. BTW, and to do him full justice, his mathy book on game theory is not bad (though hardly a classic) so he may be somewhat competent as an academic economist.

Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The man is articulated but nothing of what he says brings anything to my mind. Maybe he's just too smart.. but I can't discern from overenginered pub talk.

Seems like English is not your first language ..? He’s very articulate, and not only does he make a lot of sense, I’ve never seen him caught in a lie. And I have no idea what makes you think it’s pub talk, I’m from the land of pubs (Ireland) and I’ve never heard anyone talk like he does in one.

what good does it do pointing that out, if it's even true? it's clear they meant articulate and public.

Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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post #42

"Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way" by Michael Bryzek [1] Really good discussion on event-collaborative microservice systems that scale well for performance and maintenance as well as a good argument and use case for server and client code generation. Definitely my favorite so far. [1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-arch-infra...

it's said microservice is phasing out to serverless?

I think more and more it's a case of people realizing there is no definitive "microservice" architecture. Because of that architects around the industry are now focusing on the flow of data and using whichever tools are best to get the right behavior in their business.

What was called microservices imo was just a higher level modularization of code to allow easier parallel development and maintenance/scaling, but since it needs a server that meant some boilerplate to initialize and keep the app running. A lot of people went about this in different ways which made things a bit chaotic to those new to the idea I think. The next logical step would be to remove that server code by running on a serverless architecture to focus on the functions that operate on data rather than having to maintain the initialization code and other boilerplate as well.

Among all of this advancement, an architect thinking the way Michael Bryzek does would have no problem using either approach since the focus is on the data and how data is used.

Still, server-based microservices are still very prominent, and I'd argue they are also much more platform agnostic if done right whereas (if I'm not mistaken) much of serverless is done in specific platforms causing you to be vendor-locked due to different deployment processes for each platform. I think research is being done to make platform-agnostic serverless deployments easier, but I haven't read much on it yet and am unaware of current advancements in that area.

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