danielblazevski

Subscription or some premium version. Like many news outlets. And Medium, the blogging platform, doesn't even do ads for its free version.

True - not wiped out. Just a bit lost as to what is the advantage of using one of the smaller companies' premium products vs AWS/GCP managed versions, and how sustainable that advantage is. I'll update the question.

I would say both the company and the project. They seem to go hand-in-hand.

Their business model is to allow free access to a limited version of their product -- which admittedly is good enough for many to use in production.

And if these companies stop getting revenue for the premium product, then I worry it's goodbye to substantial progress on open source version.

logged out, deleted my phone app and removed HN bookmarks from browsers.

In the times we are in, one cannot separate politics from tech, have to really reconsider whether to continue using HN since I strongly believe we in the tech community should have more not less discussion about such issues.

Why can't HN be a place were we nerd out over new frameworks but engage in partisan political discussion over the impact of what we build?

> "What this has got to do with Facebook's trustworthiness score machinery I do not know."

This article posted is immensely relevant for the intersection of tech and political discourse, and in such cases, I would personally prefer to see more discussion on HN.

If the article is about new advances in Golang, sure, I'd hate to see talk of politics in threads.

well said :-)

that basically proves my original point that he is not well-intentioned.

Getting my fingerprints hacked sounds worse than getting my password hacked, I can’t change my fingerprint!

Whatever is the current most popular form of social media will always be the worst for people's mental health.

Like fb ranks lower on how much stress it induces since "kids these days" simply don't use it much.

let me rephrase: give me one good use where the majority of potential users would be OK with storing timestamped documents on a system not maintained by a trusted organization.

I guess my point was more that any application on such technology would need a trusted organization to maintain the blockchain to gain the trust of the users.

I wouldn’t want, eg my health records stored on a system that isn’t trusted. This is one often cited application of blockchain.

No meetings, no politics? Lots a dev jobs have both don’t they, especially as you become more senior and/or want to drive change in how things are done.

MIT Tech Review, which keeps me up to date with a whole spectrum of advances and trends in tech, and The Atlantic for politics — most if not all The Atlantic is free online, but it’s dirt cheap to get the physical copy and I’m more likely to read the longer articles with the physical copy.

The multiple device part seems tricky to improve on. I don't see how this approach can be tweaked to make it easy for non-technical people to access on multiple devices.

It seems like you have to define a new device on a existing logged in device before using the new device. Is there a way around that? If I want to log into an app for the first time at work and forgot to define a new device name at home where I already can log in, I wouldn't be able to do so from what I understand.

Why is this article with this click-bait title on the top of HN? A lot of leaders start off as engineers then go to CTOs, VP level, CEOs etc.

And this idea that engineers are purely scientifically minded totally ignores the endless number of articles suggesting that the best senior engineers have strong product and business sense, and in many places (but not all) having those skills are a defining quality of a senior engineer.

Engineers definitely NEED scientific background to enter the field, but this totally ignores that engineers grow business and product skills throughout their career, and need to do so to be effective

Another chapter in the super interesting story of the GM vs Tesla battle. Part of me wants to compare Tesla to strategies of companies who needed more established companies to compete with to generate higher demand, yet still had the best product and came out ahead.

But wonder if GM could pull ahead since it has more of a history of mass producing things, and all the infrastructure around that all built. Time will tell.

I see it as a difference in investing $100K in 50 startups and one gives 100X increase vs $1million in 5 companies all giving like 50% increase. The risk/reward for more medium-large companies is far too appealing these days to avoid

My main takeaway is that there seems to be little incentive to invest in new companies, just invest FB, Google, Lyft, Spotify, etc.

That can't be good long term for the tech sector.

Not sure that I agree with that.

I just think that they are opaque to what they really mean by exactly-once and definitely hide the fact that they do not offer exactly-once delivery.

If you have a consumer on some other node that does nothing more that a println statement, you will see that there will be more than once delivery.

Exactly once seems to refer to exactly once write to kafka and processing in kafka streams that write back to kafka and don't do stuff like make external http requests, in which case you'll need your logic of at most or at least once to delivery results to wherever you're sending the http requests.

Confluence blogs do seem pretty misleading in terms of hiding these issues.