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Nobusuke Kishi was a class A war criminal hmmm

I was told that this was so that they could craft cirriculums that stretch decades when it could be taught much quicker. Doing so would be deterimental to the labor market in academia.

that's an awful long winded way say you blame immigrants for problems that have long existed before their arrival

coldstarts - not an issue anymore

unpredictable billing - this is why you setup billing alerts and not an issue unless you hit HN front page

vendor lock in - you can take your functions and upload it to google, azure, cloudflare

the thing is they blame immigrants but won't do anything against the real driver of housing unaffordability, the collusion of regulators and corporations offering large liquidity to housing market.

its breaking apart. the city of vancouver is broke and basic services are being scaled back.

theres also a large brain drain here. only idiots work for vancouver startups/companies that tries to gaslight you that sunshine tax is real.

you realize there are many many affluent immigrants who do not participate in the labor market but pay taxes, invest, and otherwise provide liquidity for the locals holding real estate portfolios?

no but i think theres similar zombie giants that is essentially a hybrid state run enterprise but Canada has explicitly designated industries where you simply cannot execute because they are anti-competitive.

and its not clear how individuals are being handed out rights to say run a casino in canada.

if you took a look at canada's corruption, you will be shocked. we don't quite live in a first world even though we like to tell ourselves all of the government officials/servants are honest.

after all the canadian embassy staff in Hong Kong happily handed out PR residency to hardcore organized criminal groups in exchange for various luxuries and perks. when a staff tried to expose it, he was quickly removed and media began to attack him.

its not only that but you see NGO's championing for racist white supremacy linked groups who vandalize Chinatown in Vancouver and with a large chunk of locals who feel that they are "being overrun by a certain ethnic group" eat that up and the same populist individuals get elected again and again. then my tax goes towards those interest while none for me because i'm 'privileged'

in the long run, I see this system breaking down, if not already. Canada no longer feels like a country but some feudalistic interest group driven, poorly run corportation.

so glad i dont have to pay taxes here. the savings and currency difference allowed me to create jobs in another part of the world. there was a time where I hoped things would get better and I could be creating jobs locally.

i just regret wasting my youth in canada and west coast. canada is a bubble and lot of us are moving capital/jobs out of it.

why contribute to a country that just sees you as an ATM to transfer payments to others who blame everyone but themselves and constantly wanting hand outs?

im done with canada and im warning anybody who still attach romantic outlooks, especially in heavily marketed cities like vancouver.

> Canada is easier to immigrate to as a high-skilled person.

False.

> It's a great weigh-station for immigrants who want to eventually move to the US.

Many do not, they move back home.

I know many countries have problems but Canada is in a okay spot. Specific cities have looming crisis on their hands but this is largely the fault of provincial governance.

Little of that I attribute to Canada as a hole, I just find BC in particular to be quite mediocre in terms of value compared to what you pay.

your assessment would've been correct 3 or 4 years ago but there's just no need to scaffold ec2, mysql db inside a vpc. You can upload your environment via docker and start serving serverless. You can then use serverless db that is 90% cheaper and far less hassle than scaling up or down ec2 instances/rds, configuring vpc, setting up nat gateways etc

my view is that if you are not on serverless, you are wasting resources that could otherwise been dedicated to building out domain knowledge

our team focuses on optimizing each function and less on devops/scaling. the plumbing work is gone and all we do is now translate business requirements. security concerns are also largely removed.

its a great time to be on serverless, it had to overcome lot of doubt but it is here to stay. no need to pay $5 / month either for your weekend projects. even if your project hits front page, it will still work, the billing is not even that bad for what you are getting.

serverless environments do not carry the devops overhead involved with kubernetes or other container orchestration.

thanks I feel good now, I almost turned down a 4-bagger offer until I read your comment, but I am a bit wary, the new CFO is a bit of an unknown. am I going to show up on his radar now? I feel like the business can't run without what I built and my maintenance, in-depth knowledge of the critical business processes.

sorry but the convenience is way too much for the vast majority of people to have to download desktop and access it. everybody is content being able to do it through the phone.

oh wow thanks i didn't know about this. in that case it would be super simple for me to wrap up a FastAPI server with SQLite or even some in-memory database that runs elsewhere, deliver as a single file!

what I really dislike is some linux user trying to brush those things off as a non-issue, it sure is for non-seasoned users.

and this to me is the biggest hinderance to its wide adoption. it caters to a specific crowd.

Nothing, the vendors can block/choose where they want to advertise their products in.

a thousand euros for a linux ultrabook is a bit of a stretch. there are many alternatives AND I can run both operating systems via dual boot.

why is this written in Go , are there specific features that shine over Python3? I've been looking to learn Go, it seems lot of network intensive software use Go.

what does this mean if your company is acquired and run by a private equity? will the rising fed rate mean that they are looking to cut out the highest salaries? am I better off not takin a higher salary because that might paint a red target on myself?

Your observation is correct but its that companies can't hire like they used to when RoR was at its peak. Like I said, unless you have growing revenues to continue to retain senior talent, its going to be tough in the future as there is no continued queue of talent making it through the pipelines. Maybe one day RoR will become the Java EE and will rely on a very limited pool of workers, and that is the situation that many are trying to correct. You absolutely need to pay attention to what the new generation of developers are learning in order to suppress wages, failure to do so without consistent revenue growth you introduce issues that will seep into your business, especially if you rely on being online.

I don't think you understood what I wrote.

serverless is s a huge boon to large enterprises who want to be more agile and not dependant on monolith architecture. the cost to them is a rounding error at best. a startup is a poor yardstick to measure serverless's benefits, if you can run on a $5 DO vps by all means you are not its target market.

it just won't be as good as the refinement in searches i can do with appending stackoverflow at the end of a google query and github copilot already does what you are trying to do

attention is in decline. developers are paying more attention to other languages that yields greater number of employment options.

it should be that RoR devs get increasing rates as they become rarer but its not, demand is also dwindling as enterprises feel uneasy about banking the future on a smaller talent pool.

yet ruby on rails and ruby is in decline. its getting harder to hire younger developers in this field, many don't even know what Ruby is or cares for it.

Seems like its another PHP type of situation, one which companies will move away from in the coming years. Not the fault of the ecosystem or language but simply because it gets expensive and the talent pool shrinks, not a good driver for business decision makers to back.

edit: i really dont understand the downvotes here I am simply mentioning the changing requirements in many companies that used to be on RoR that cannot find enough senior developers with the budget they are used to, to the point that they are moving to a new platform. theres just not enough RoR jobs and not enough RoR senior devs in the marketplace today and it will be far more bleak in the near future. there's not a lot of new minds coming into RoR and thats the talent pool you are gonna be stuck with if you keep the trajectory. Ask any new graduate and what tech stack language they are using, I'm willing to bet it isn't Ruby or RoR. Their attention is in Javascript or Python or more niche languages like Rust/Elixir/Clojure

dont forget coinbase and how much Paul vouched for that awful grifter Brian Armstrong. some families out there are now fatherless because they lost money on the shitcoins promoted thru and offered on coinbase.

imagine enriching yourself by having poor ppl transfer over their life savings and causing suicides. this is what Paul & YC/crypto proponents are okay with since its not illegal.

still not as good as stackoverflow

5 years ago this was very much true but with serverless services, it drastically lowered the cost of overhead.

It is more work but the goal is always to move away from monolith and to reap the benefits.

We are past the Backbone.js phase of Microservices from jQuery phase into React phase. An established standard with dividends that pay later is being realized.

I just no longer follow these microservice bashing tropes in 2022, a lot has changed since that Netflix diagram went viral

One of the key indicator of creativity is how they modify their behavior after mass novelty is achieved. It's distinctively a schizoid behavior, where you shun something that becomes widely known or appreciated by "too many ppl".

It's knowing esoteric facts/connections that allow neural pathways to discover unbeaten path, however its often not without risks. Many artists/actors/engineers/any line of work really remain undiscovered and then there is a sudden wide recognition of their work, much to their disliking.

You know what they say about genius artists, they straight up jack somebody else's work and claim it as their own.

btw I hear this a lot from North American/English speaking parts of the world but less in others. There seems to be more tolerance/less judgement towards drinking alcohol, its seen as an integral part of socializing, almost to a fault in some cultures. I wonder if this is some pre-emptive virtue signaling,since if you break it down, hangovers is largely the result of dehydration and loss of minerals. It might be that as you get older you retain less fluid or something, i do not know, just guessin.

having said that, i can go without drinking. you tend to increase consumption in bursts, social events. it can cause a lot of societal problems (ex. south korea/russia) and combined with tobacco (ex. south korea/japan), its right up there in terms of toxicity with combining cocaine and alcohol (dramatically/needlessly increases toxicity).

One might make the same judgement about cocaine hangovers or any substance for that matter.