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iendson The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled

Fargate is still pretty expensive.

iendson Ask HN: People who watched the General Magic movie, what did you think of it?

The company General Magic was before my time as a mid-30s developer. I thought the documentary was great because there was a lot of history I was not familiar with. I recommend it.

iendson Ask HN: Are you friends with your manager?

My current manager was a peer until we decided to combine teams and for me to back to more of an IC role.

It's been weird for me ever since. Not friends. In fact, sometimes I've felt he's had the exact opposite of my interest at heart.

iendson First tax year with Stripe Atlas

Are you sure? I work for a tech company but not a FAANGM and $2,300 plus a $4,000 out of pocket max is about spot on, maybe even slightly less. I’m often told my providers that I have “great” insurance.

iendson Going the Other Way

Heroku is great but I find it too expensive for hobby projects. I recently converted a small hobby project on a $5/mo VPS to lambda and api gateway and it now costs about $1/mo unless it gets more traffic.

Yes, I can afford to pay a lot more, but I don’t want to and I’m willing to invest more time into something to save money if the process is repeatable.

Lately this has been writing cloud formation that can easily be copied between projects. I wish it was easier though.

iendson How I got my Japanese permanent residency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League

iendson ExSaaSperated: A blog about the struggle to start a sustainable SaaS

One of the trends I’ve noticed is that people who have minor SaaS success can 5x their income by creating an ebook + course + masterclass about how they did it. Selling shovels in a gold rush....

iendson Deno vs. Node (cold-start on AWS lambda)

No, it’s 100% not related.

iendson Deno vs. Node (cold-start on AWS lambda)

You should be using deno bundle:

https://deno.land/manual/tools/bundler

iendson Ask HN: Is anybody using a standing desk with a treadmill? Does it work?

I recently looked into them and was put off by the price. So I bought a Cubii, which is an under desk elliptical. I’m only a few days in but so far it’s been solid.

iendson Ask HN: What are the best books for people new to CS?

The New Turing Omnibus

iendson Ask HN: How do you track your expenses?

For personal expenses, YNAB has literally changed my life. It’s also helped my wife and I’s relationship with money and forced us to plan each month. When my wife was furloughed due to COVID19 a month ago, we knew we’d be ok because we have been planning our finances for 5+ years.

iendson Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

The person in the photo you are using is not properly wearing their mask.

iendson Ask HN: Physics/engineering lessons for 14 year olds?

Feynman's physics lectures: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/tuva-richar...

iendson What Armenians should know about life in America (2014)

I was told it would cost $80,000 to redo all the windows in my house.

iendson Erlang or Java (Reactor)

Use what you know.

iendson “I'm not sure there is an acceptable solution to the problem we are facing”

The information about masks is from a public health perspective and not a personnel health perspective due to a global mask shortage. Just because it’s better for society as a whole that all PPE go to where they can help the most people, doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the best result for you as an individual.

If there were an infinite supply of masks the advice would be entirely different.

iendson World Economy Shudders as Coronavirus Threatens Global Supply Chains

America's response has been somewhat alarming. In 2018, the Trump admin cut funding to a lot of health programs to deal with pandemic responses at the CDC, HHS, etc: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump...

Recent proposals are asking for more cuts: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/10/trump-world-health-orga...

Recently, the CDC has botched test kit rollouts, preventing widespread testing: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/20/cdc-coronavirus-116...

Without getting too political, I don't have any confidence that America's response will get it done.

iendson Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic, We Should Prepare Now

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump...

Are you confident in this administrations ability to handle national crisis in light of the funding and personnel cuts mentioned in the above article?

Also, why has the CDC testing so botched thus far?

iendson South Korean police impose curfew on late-night studying (2011)

It’s probably like a lot of companies that offer remote work: if you have demonstrated already you are world class, they’ll make exceptions.

iendson Ask HN: Do you have issues with your new 16' MacBook Pro?

Hi, I’m still in the area but am not sure about the meetups in a long time. There are a bunch of other local meetups on meetup.com, but haven’t been to any in several years because I have an almost 3 year old.

iendson Ask HN: Do you have issues with your new 16' MacBook Pro?

I get graphics card related kernel panics about once per week. Usually, related to opening and closing the lid. Often the panic message is “Bad Magic”.

iendson Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin

Is this Android only or iOS too?

iendson Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

Too bad there is no safe or easy way to get X-rays just by sending a home kit to customers.

iendson Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

Are you in the United States? If so, how do you get past the regulatory hurdles that is each state’s dental board comprised entirely of dentists?

EDIT: Sorry, I missed the reviews part. Do you mean easily getting a second opinion based on diagnostic imaging?

iendson Why Some Doctors Purposely Misdiagnose Patients

The standard of care in the United States is xrays for diagnosis. Depending on how often you go to the dentist, this doesn’t seem unreasonable.

iendson Why Some Doctors Purposely Misdiagnose Patients

It’s not just about hardness. It’s about biocompatibility.

iendson Ask HN: Which programming languages to learn in 2020 for an experienced dev?

FYI: Discord is in SFO. So is pinterest.

iendson Ask HN: Which programming languages to learn in 2020 for an experienced dev?

Outside of the bay area?

iendson Ask HN: Which programming languages to learn in 2020 for an experienced dev?

In the same boat as the OP, kinda, but for me, I feel like the interesting problems at interesting scales are not being done in Node:

- I do 100% Node.js backend work and am a technical lead.

- I did a lot of Java in college, and tiny bits of Java over the past 10 years (servlets on websphere)

- I've gone through phases of doing Go in my free time, and really like it, but jobs seem scarce

- Before JS I spent ~2 year doing Python/Django professionally. I used to do all my whiteboard questions in Python but now use JS. (I've been paid to write Perl, C, & C# in addition to the languages mentioned above.)

I've looked at Elixir, Rust, & Go but none of those languages seem to have critical mass. Do I really need to learn enterprise Java to go up market in terms of money and scale?