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Re:Robinhood Style Fast Charts in React on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:36PM (#24057044)
Well said, i thought i was the only one who doesn't like RH chart.
Unfair Tweet.

Google calendar is automatically adding Google Meet links to ALL meetings not just when there is zoom link present.

Google Meet is google's VC solution and they are leveraging google calendar for promoting their solution - NOTING EVIL about it here.

In other words, Google Meet in integrated in to Google Calendar. I think it is your responsibility to clearly inform the client that you are hosting Zoom meeting.

Re:Ask HN: No-FAANG-like-Perks, is it worth it? on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @06:08PM (#23981202)
I think yes - because you are only dissatisfied with perks not in the work/company/team itself.

Having worked in FANNG & Non-FANNG in long run, you will be happier/successful in where you are than in some fancy FANNG.

Re:Ask HN: No-FAANG-like-Perks, is it worth it? on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:34AM (#23975577)
Looks like you have a good job without fancy perks. i would say that is very well worth it. i know some people working in FANNG and feeling miserable because of manager/project etc.
Re:I made a simple geolocation service on Saturday July 25, 2020 @10:37AM (#23949503)
Well, not exactly

1. You are saving $49 month by spending 250+ hours engineering hours to structure the application which is near impossible to extend/maintain.

2. The $49/month subsidy (free tier) you are getting is temporary and will eventually go away (think about google maps api price change).

3. 50x cost for serverfull solution is not a right number. lets say you have to handle 500M requests per month (around 200 QPS) the 50x becomes .000X.

4. If there is any sudden spike to popularity, you are screwed. you will end up paying several thousand $ per month.

Re:I made a simple geolocation service on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:50PM (#23945295)
if you are spending 279 using complicated cloudflare worker/azure function setup, you could have gotten away with $100 month if you have choosen linode/droplets.

32 million requests can be easily served with $50/month heroku node.

Re:I made a simple geolocation service on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:43PM (#23945238)
choosing EC2 was probably mistake, may be linode would have been better choice here.
Re:I made a simple geolocation service on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:42PM (#23945229)
Exactly. developer time lot more expensive. most people want to look cool & do cool things so they drink these cool aids.

it sounds lot cooler to say that " i made geolocation service using serverless/lamba" than "i made geolocation service using boring monolithic technology". where the former takes 150 hours to get it right and painful to add/manage features. where the later is very easy to maintain and very predictable priced.

Re:A 12-month review of ConvertKit's AWS bill on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:34PM (#23945182)
Had you choosen bare metal servers, you would have saved 90% money spent on AWS.
I switched from 1Password to Bitwarden and could not be happier.
Re:I made a simple geolocation service on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:36AM (#23939284)
Thanks for sharing. This is a perfect example which proves lambda/serverless/cf worker are snake oils.
Re:Ask HN: Are Jetbrains products a good choice? on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @02:28PM (#23909431)
YES, YES, YES - jetbrain IDE's is all you need.
Wow. Thanks for this tool.