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nitinaggon The Work-from-Anywhere War Is Beginning

Experienced sought after talent wants to work from anywhere while the young fresh talent wants to work in person, unfortunately they won’t get the mentorship needed as the experienced folks are all remote

nitinaggon A Chart of the Housing Market

The house mortgate/equity ratio is much lower this time around 40%, vs 60% during the last bubble. That would actually protect housing prices this time around.

nitinaggon Someday we will all program in Python (2009)

It came true, but instead of Python being fast, all the apps are slow. And we AWS is making $$$ hosting these Python apps on 10X bigger machines than what would be needed if written in a faster language

nitinaggon Musk: Tesla close to self driving better than human and will get there this year

Super exciting. The question is would the world accept “better than human” results or would it expect 100% accuracy. Airplanes have been self piloting for years now. But pilots are still required by law

nitinaggon Netflix loses $45B in value as subscriber numbers drop

Almost flat subscriber base, 10% more revenue, ~5% decreased profits.

nitinaggon Most Americans (Who Don’t Use Twitter) OK with Elon Musk Buying Twitter

It’s true that only a few elites use Twitter. But they also control the narrative in other platforms unfortunately

nitinaggon The Six Stages of Internal Development Platforms

There is a 7th stage, by the time you reach 6th stage, there is so much evolution in the tech stack (next k8s etc.) that you spin off all the new teams/products stop using this and they start from stage 1

nitinaggon Stripe's new one-click checkout product

Some stripe engineer's side project after hearing Stripe invested >100M in Fast.

nitinaggon Ask HN: What happened to Apple's self service repair program?

Apple is probably waiting for the EU laws which would actually force them to do this. Until then this would be on the backburner

nitinaggon Inside the longest Atlassian outage

Selectively restoring data only for certain rows is super hard. But the communications by Atlassian has been the worst I have ever seen in the industry.

nitinaggon Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folders stored in multiple locations

So dropbox always deduped data at it’s backend without any such user facing change. How is this better than that?

nitinaggon A tiny Docker image to serve static websites

For static websites, hosting them directly on S3 with cloudfront, or on cloudflare might be a better option?

nitinaggon I bought a short domain name. What should I do with it?

hb.sbs -> How about some b*l s*t

nitinaggon Privacy-Respecting Software

Wondering if folks would be interested in a framework to run/deploy the self hosted items here easily on the public clouds..

nitinaggon White House warns of 'extraordinarily elevated' March inflation

Populism (from both sides) is going to destroy this economy

nitinaggon Show HN: Multiplayer Demo Built with Elixir

Neat demo. What are the scaling limitations?

nitinaggon The Senate bill that has Big Tech scared

Don't trust the current super old and not at all tech savvy government to do the right thing. But I do believe the anti-trust laws must be updated for tech.

nitinaggon Real World Recommendation System

What's going wrong with Google search's recommendations every day?

nitinaggon Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging

In electric cars, there shouldn't be a huge difference in efficiency wrt to the speed

nitinaggon Microservices Transition – why, what, how

We are seeing more and more companies doing the transition earlier as the tooling gets more mature. But worrying about microservices before the product is not a good idea