jakespracher

Use it and like it. If using aws is a requirement but you don’t want to get bogged down with their user experience it’s worth it IMO.

Have run into some aws quirks leaking out of their abstraction. But personally that has only made me say “man if they couldn’t figure out how to make this clean, I would have been toast dealing with it on my own”

In the literal sense of your question the majority employed by Apple still do due to the mountain that would need to be rewritten

Reminds me of this clojure talk https://youtu.be/Mfsnlbd-4xQ

Vast.ai does this

Ha! Thanks!!!

Thanks!!!

No problem! Thanks for the read!

FWIW I interned at a US nuclear plant. They intentionally don't upgrade to digital systems for fear of being hacked, everything in the plant was analog when I was there 6 years ago.

Google maps has masterfully implemented #3

“Older readers may long for the good old days when companies that were actual monopolies would pretend to love their customers. Now we all work for companies that don't admit to being monopolies and actually hate their customers. Boy, how times have changed!”

Yep definitely Google

Not always before, but always eventually and usually once I’m done with “exploration”. Testing done right should be a time saver in the long run! I think many people are turned off by testing and especially unit testing because it ends up being difficult and maintenance is more of a pain than it’s worth. There are many good strategies to make it easier that in my experience have yet to be well adopted:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=URSWYvyc42M https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries

I would go so far to say web dev is still a superpower IMO. Check out how many of these various products are web based

https://www.indiehackers.com/products?minRevenue=2000 https://www.capterra.com/categories

It’s a shame new ones can’t be built! New reactor designs are far more efficient and safe. There are designs you could leave unattended with no power indefinitely and they would never melt down

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612940/the-new-safer-nucl...

The problem is we can’t build them cost effectively. Toshiba had to sell it’s 18 billion memory chip business to cover the losses of its nuclear division.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toshiba-accounting-westin... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toshiba-accounting-westin...

Yeah I used to work at a nuclear plant. They intentionally use all analog systems currently for fear of this. Almost nothing digital in the whole plant

38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by better unit tests

Presumably you’re making the case that they grew quickly enough that by the time any competitors were aware of the potential of product they did have the money to fight infringement.

Even still, in the early days of their marketing campaign it would have been so easy for a foreign competitor to swoop in and make the same thing. I didn’t get the vibe that they grew that quickly, and I do get the vibe that there are foreign manufacturers on the hunt for ideas to copy.

“More egregiously, a Chinese firm nicked Seymour’s design, mass-produced the product, and sold it under the “Bionic Boot” name on Amazon.”

This is the most important line to me. I’ve heard so many horror stories along these lines.

Yet, does anyone here know why companies like Sarah Blakely’s Spanx didn’t suffer the same fate? Spanx is now a billion dollar company that launched with an easily clonable product.

She talks about how she filed a patent on her idea on her own with no lawyer and that was the only explanation. I don’t think she had a lot of money to fight cases.

https://mastersofscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/mos-ep...

Seriously, has anyone organized a donation drive for this school yet? Would gladly participate.