onefuncman

I got started 15 years ago without my degree via a small consultancy giving me a shot like this, best of luck.

The first thing I thought of was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenn_treasure

I thought this was prevented by brake fluid being hygroscopic?

What's the logic behind the current pricing model? Shouldn't you derive much greater LTV from a subscription model?

Also, isn't it too early to monetize? Don't you want to accrue users before introducing premium?

For a Show HN I would have expected the ability to create tasks out of the box.

Also, instead of discouraging users from sharing code, you should embrace it via curation -- let people see other's solutions after they've submitted a solution of sufficient grade, let people code review each other's solutions, lots of low hanging fruit there that could be as simple as some automation on top of a private Github organization.

Right in the readme it describes how to launch interactively via `safelife play puzzles`

You don't make incompatible updates, via adhering to service contracts. You can use protobuf or Avro as the schema for these service contracts and get varying levels of forward and backwards compatibility guarantees for schema changes.

Microlending ventures clearly demonstrate the existence of under served markets.

Also, I think instead of "solved problem" you mean "solved for white people in rich countries"

You've clearly never tried to use "a free country's financial services" in this context. Even as a US citizen it is prohibitively difficult to open even the simplest of checking accounts from overseas.

There is no global, trans-national solution for financial services better suited for solving these issues than crypto. Your position of privilege in a first world country blinds you to the disruption available to bringing financial services to the 2nd/3rd worlds, though you are right -- it is the slowest moving gold rush we've seen from tech.

You also drastically underestimate the utility the global economy associates with tax avoidance -- disregarding the moral and legal implications, because that's what rich people do.

Unless you have insight into the end users DNS deployments I would say this is the appropriate amount of caution to apply. Besides just TTL being low, a frequent issue I had when first migrating to AWS years ago was CNAME to CNAME records not resolving among some end users. Primary schools were the worst offenders, I assume some of them still have Novell deployed.

i have no affiliation but like the product -- try https://airtable.com/

huh, i just posted before i saw this comment that I never saw anyone plan out their access database like this, kudos

Sure it is ... the database underlying Access uses JetSQL which has its own fun syntactic quirks

It's also very bad at concurrent users if you do go down the path of dropping it on a network share if it's a normalized schema, since there's no server to cache queries or do optimizations... for strictly data entry against a simple schema you can maybe push it to low 100s of users, but backing up / restoring / rolling out new versions is a nightmare when the frontend and backend are commingled like that. You can deploy different versions of .mdbs if you have an external backend, though I've never seen anyone do so with an Access database backing an Access "UI" project...

Mirror Maker is fine for small scale, or you upgrade into https://github.com/uber/uReplicator ... region-homing data is generally more practical

You should provide examples of either better or cheaper to substantiate your claim.

You must have missed the Amazon Corretto announcement— there’s an Amazon JDK now.

Expensive compared to what? DynamoDB has the cheapest 4ms writes I can find...

But yes, absolutely prototype and measure costs with real workloads

The og-aws Slack or ##aws on freenode

But really, you should understand what kind of data store you need based on your use case is first and then decide on an implementation later...

You can certainly create a simulation in which the laws of physics are mutable, or have different immutable values than in our perceived reality.

I don't know what a high profile conservative is, can you reinforce your point with specific examples?

I looked at his site and he's pushing game state over websockets. I think he could eliminate almost all of his back end calls to his servers besides game initialization by using DynamoDB directly via Cognito, though the logic for proposing a move from one user and having it accepted in the game state by another user becomes an interesting problem.

Shoulda just FaceTime'd...

Fargate is serverless because the compute is abstracted away completely. A lambda runtime is just a specialized container and they've added similar customizability to it lately with Layers/Runtime configuration.

I love the approach of digging into the underlying pattern rather than fixating on the details of the routine.

I used to struggle with Agile and daily standups at $JOB until I started keeping a private journal daily. Now I have several years of daily notes across several jobs that I can refer back to and use for reflection, avoiding common pitfalls, revisiting particularly difficult challenges with a different perspective. The most valuable entries I have beyond technical details or company idiosyncrasies are about arguments I've gotten into or interpersonal dynamics I've noticed.

The biggest benefit I've noticed is that I feel much more resilient to both stress and change, and I don't sink near as much time and effort into distractions or rabbit holes. Random ideas get written down and set aside for monthly review and I can get back to work.

Tumblr has the nicest Feed API out of all the social networks, compared to Twitter Firehose, Facebook Public Feed, and Instagram (we built our own ghetto feed for Instagram by scraping with tons of api tokens).

It would be pretty amazing to have a streaming API of the wp.com universe.

> (I work at OpenAI.)

Can you do an AI CTF like the Stripe distributed systems CTF sometime?

no, businesses win or lose based on sales & marketing, not how productive their engineers are.

We used to all hand-edit binaries in the 90s when we were cracking copy protection by passing around text files indicating which hex codes to swap between JE/JZ and JNE/JNZ...

this complaint is almost as old as the Java language. you should use Jodatime if you can't upgrade to Java 8+ yet -- see https://www.joda.org/joda-time/

this is already true

>In Visual Studio 2019, hit Ctrl+Q

nope. Who picked this shortcut?

Actually, their electricity usage makes this everyone's problem, just like antivaxxers.