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Maybe microservices might seem buzzwordy on the surface, and this might be an anecdote, but I have seen it working first hand at Hailo (Uber competitor back in 2013). Relatively inexperienced people not knowing anything about Go or deeper architectural issues deploying Go services in no time, without even asking for permission.

I don't think that would have been doable with a monolith. It enabled innovation I have never seen before. My 2c

> Stop trying to tell the river where to turn. It's already done.

After almost a decade of HN I have to say that's one of the most un-HN comments I have ever read.

At the moment Micro is focusing on Go backends consumed by clients in different languages. I would wait until there is more explicit support for different nackend languages, unless you feel adventurous.

K8s is closer to an infra tool while Micro is a full flegded development model - it's a bit like Rails/frameworks going to the cloud.

Hi people, I'm one of the people working on this. Thanks for your support!

If you want to try the thing in minutes may I advise you to start here: https://m3o.com/start. Pretty much just a couple of commands to get started :)). Cheers

Thanks! Author here. I believe that's the key takeaway, knowing your audience and being able to do things that are perhaps controversial. In our case, it's also focusing on our strength while we are such a small team. Being mostly backend devs (although many of us launched products where we did the full stack) CLI is in our DNA. We believe if the product and experience is not compelling enough, having a shiny GUI won't help. Then why waste the effort instead of making our core proposition stellar?

I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. All we see is bubbles, inflation, inequality, record low interest rates and stagnant wages, but apparently printing trillions and and not having a gold standard has nothing to do with it. Sure.

I will help you out.

Let me tell you a story. During communism, my grandmother openly disparaged our great and beloved leader Janos Kadar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_K%C3%A1d%C3%A1r) in our town. She was called in to Budapest, to a police station where it was known that tortures as punishments to political enemies happen. She was asked if she really said X/Y/Z about Kadar. She went on a loud rant about how Kadar is [insert disparaging comments here]. The policeman went pale and ordered the crazy women to be taken away and sent back to her town before anyone even hears such heresy - to their judgement, the woman was obviously crazy to show such defiance in that political climate.

If you think that kind of society won't ever happen during the next X thousand years while the elite have unlimited power to surveil, and if it does we will ever have any chance of breaking out of it - well, I would like to advise you to never go near casinos.

Edit: corrected genders, no genders in my language.

Hahaha, nice link. Confused me for a second.

What you are referring to is called biflation. Unfortunately in the current economic climate things that actually have impact on quality of life (housing, food, etc) are becoming more expensive while electronics and other things more on the cheap entertainment side are getting cheaper.

> Inflation is already almost zero in much of the West. Not sure about the USA, but real inflation is closer to 7-8 percent in Europe, wage growth falling behind.

"Unbiased private-sector efforts to calculate the real rate of inflation have yielded a rate of around 7% to 13% per year, depending on the locale — many multiples of the official rate of around 1% per year" https://www.businessinsider.com/if-people-knew-the-actual-in...

In my country (Hungary) grocery prices rose an average 38% from last year for example.

> error handling tucked away in different system I'm not sure that can ever be done. I agree Go could use some syntactic around error handling but I think even modern software is incredibly flaky and Go is a step in the right direction.

It's tiring to think about all the failure cases but it might lead to a world where the ATM gives me money instead of Windows BOD.

Technologies: Go (doing it since 2012), Angular, Typescript, Distributed systems, GCP

Location: London (Sometimes Hungary)

Remote: Yes

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Willing to relocate: Yes

Currently contracting in London, up for any gig where I can learn.

It's a bit like englightment isn't it? Not in terms of rarity of course, but the ones who reach it don't preach it about it.

I was researching usage of pure vitamin C powder in cooked foods and tea. Don't think the skin matters much if the powder can survive.

That's what I thought too until I actually looked into the matter, don't have source at hand but apparently 1 hour of cooking causes about a 30% drop in Vitamin C. Not that bad.

I don't see how you arrived to that conclusion, all I tried to convey is that it seems people are motivatenod with cost savings but it's an availability problem, ie. the cheaper packageless product is simply not there. (If you read the whole thread you can see it's a recurring theme in the conversation).

Now, if there is a cheaper and more ecofriendly solution is available, then yes, I think the less ecofriendly version should be much more expensive as a penalty.

I understand, wow...

I only lived in the UK and Hungary and both places sell stuff I mentioned. I'm very suprised to learn about the USA practices regarding this.

> If it really, truly cost less to go without plastic, poor people would do it, they do any and everything to save a dollar on food.

Then it seems like the problem is with the system indeed, if people are easy to motivate with savings. People try to save on food here too, that's why almost nobody buys the prepackaged meat from supermarkets (happens more in London where people are not that price sensitive).

Based on the quantity of meat I see in supermarkets in Hungary (not that much at all), I estimate 98% of the meat sales happen at butchers where you ask for a certain weight (let's say 2kgs of chicken breasts) and they put it into a thin plastic bag.

Very weird differences.

> And in the aggregate if I substituted cheap plastic bagged cereal, prepackaged frozen meals, and juice jugs for a farmers market / bulk store meal plan, my food budget would skyrocket.

Very sorry to hear about your frozen meal habit, I did that for a year and it took me about 5 years to recover from the weight gain and a general bad health state.

You have not asked for advice but perhaps you can try to make one dish meals in bulk using mostly cheaper ingredients like bulk rice & beans, cheaper veggies, eggs etc. It's generally much cheaper and healthier (again, we are in different contries, so YMMV).

I think you miss the point entirely. Prepackaged foods are way more expensive (where I live at least).

You can go to a butcher they wrap up the meat in hair thin plastic bag instead of the bulky one in supermarkets.

If you go to a grocer/farmers market you buy almost all things lose. Packaging is an entirely different industry with people adding their own (usually substantial) margins.

In Lidl nowadays they sell loose nuts etc, also cheaper then prepackaged ones.

You dont have to buy cashew in organic bamboo leaf packaging hand crafted by Cambodian virgins, just bring your reusable bag.

> sic although actually...

Not sure if that was for comedic effect but I laughed out loud! A brilliant demonstration of the behaviour you describe.

> Maybe a bit of public shaming will fix that...

Wow dude (or dudess), I was on your side but you are losing me there.

You seem to be pretty pissed, and I hope you are anonymous and not Steven Hao... There is little room for emotion in business. Grow up.

Hopefully not. Cardigan obviously is has the company's interest in mind, even if perhaps the execution is a little flawed. Cardigan has just learnt a lot about PR and also gave a lot of free airtime to Scale.

Also hopefully Scale will use this opportunity to educate team members about situations like this.

I see, thanks for the clarification!

Can you please explain the bit about 2019? Do you feel a downturn is happening/coming?

Fair enough, I do agree it's a dangerous game, I just don't agree that it's a completely stupid point.

And what is your reasoning behind that? People who take psychedelics are very familiar with the concept of not breaking through and being stuck in a limbo state between where your ego still has a chance to fight.

Also please note this we are talking about a world renowned expert in LSD psychotherapy, who has 5 decades of experience in the matter. How many trips did you guide?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Feldm%C3%A1r

It's not a poisoning. It's a mental state.

Yeah, unfortunately the people in this thread do not have experience with this stuff and just reply based on their gut feeling.

That middle zone you describe where you are stuck between the two worlds are probably the worst.

Well, I do trust the experience of psychologists, or at least the ones familiar with LSD. I personally know some who have assisted hundreds/thousands of people during their trip.

Not necessarily. Andrew Feldmar, a prominent psychologist I held in high regard advises to do exactly that: if you feel bad already, might as well take more.