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Painfully cool. Wow

This is my setup. Compose and Makefiles

Ben running like this for 3 years. No fuss.

It is very uneven across industries. Gaming (non-gambling) has had a big 2020, and bonuses went out.

I have also seen up to a 20% boost in hourly rates for consultants across the EU.

This is a very uncharitable take on Confluent.

They contribute heavily to the project and offer enterprise support, professional services, and proprietary tech like Cluster linking.

Source: I am an enterprise customer of Confluent.

Using Kafka only for ordered pub-sub is like ordering tap water at French Laundry.

Where our parents would hedge with gold, Gen-x and younger who got a foothold on finance are hedging with digital.

Consider this: We have 2 generations who are digital native. They have digital relationships. They buy digital. They consume digital. The missing part has been to earn and spend digital.

No that digital natives have been handed $$$ in govt handouts which has caused an explosion of economic activity in crypto.

Now they can and will speculate in markets with digital. And do it with provable scarcity

They are discovering scarcity

AI is pointless without the underlying skills to acquire and clean data.

If all you ever plan to do is take off-the-shelf data from some repository and teach yourself the mechanics of tensor flow or the others then by all means go ahead.

But if you expect to use AI in novel ways in novel applications truly new ways then you must understand how to acquire and create clean viable data.

That is a real grind for many. Unfortunately that is what many “data engineers“ are doing in practice.

It is a valuable skill but you might even have to get good at Excel.

Judd is also one of the artists who went out and colonized Marfa, Texas in the 1980s.

Far West Texas is beautiful on its own. It didn't need the arrogance of simplistic and nihilistic concrete and steel boxes left in the land like an abandoned worksite.

Do they have a similar list for customers?

There is some atrocious behavior out there in both the passenger and driver seats.

Go back to 1999, and diaper delivery via fedex was as useless as a digital token.

I would say there was a frenzy equal in magnitude around the 2000s dot-com. Yes, this looks crazy because we have never seen it.

Then again, who would have thought we would get diapers and dog food delivered to our home the same day we order it?

Or that mini-flying machines would bring me a Big Mac?

The future is a very weird place, but the winners will be the ones who embrace the crazy.

Jason Calicanis has a good story about when he met the founder of Robinhood (The trading app). The idea sounded so nuts that it was worth a bet.

I'm shocked how many Swedes (and Stockholmers in particular) don't know this.

They just think that Globen (the Sun) is just a big spherical venue.

EDIT - but to be fair there is also a surprising lack of signage or announcement that such a thing exists.

Agreed, but it seems that some of the marketplaces have things like verified accounts and pay-to-play with significant entry fees.

A reputation system for artists is interesting. One hopes fraud and unoriginal Derivatives/copying are not in the collectors culture

No. NFTs are provably rare and counterfeit proof, which gives it a leg-up on the physical art world.

This makes it valid as a store of value, as we have already seen.

Yes, there is stupid stuff out there, but there are many legit use cases like sports collections.

Separating the wheat from the chaff....well that is another story.

Thanks to the author who took the time to write up his/her experience with this way of working. My macbook pro 2015 struggles to keep up with docker, pycharm, zoom, outlook, and slack during the workday.

Maybe it is time to burn a weekend to trying out a setup like this.

This is horrible and a sobering reminder to do the things we don't enjoy or consider -- disaster recovery.

How many of us here plan Fire Drills within our teams and larger organizations?

Criminals act with impunity because there is little to no enforcement for those who are detained/apprehended.

So yes, the DA definitely has a big hand in this.

Couldn’t you just put up a stripe payment page and flip a flag on your user when the webhook fires?

I’ve built very basic payment flows like this in an afternoon.

Unfortunately this entire topic leads to Balkanization.

While I acknowledge your point of view and opinion, I do not agree with your premise. Racism is not as important as the current political discourse would have us believe.

I leave these topics of race to comedians who bring so much needed levity. Theo Von

https://youtu.be/MvzwmoZaNHQ

That is not a uniquely black experience.

You could remove race from the whole thing and the same would be true for anyone coming from the same economic starting point.

This is not a black tax. All those struggles are the same regardless of race.

I heard via LinkedIn she sold the business. I hope the character remains.

Daily standups seem to work ok for operations teams like SRE. I find it is the human equivalent of alerting and observability.

SCRUM/AGILE/whatever for development and product teams is a red flag for me. I find that bi-weekly demo days seem to set a better culture and pace for things without the constant oversight.

Sprinkle in some weekly "forums" across teams to chat, BS, and discuss issues. Invite people to bring their agenda questions, concerns, etc.

The biggest thing (especially in remote) is that all your humans have visibility to the other humans in a semi-consistent basis. The org-chart matters.

Cool! Anything to bring back the weirdness of the internet is a good thing

Exactly -- SEO is a non-starter if I get to curate what goes into the index in the first place. And for transparency-sake I would want to see what sites are indexed, as well as if any of them are "boosted" in rankings.

I'm very serious about this space. Please reach out if anyone wants to connect and chat. Links in Profile!

Wow, search engines are having a busy day. First Brave and this one is on the front page.

I said it about Brave's purcahse of the defunct Clickz, and I will say it here:

Privacy is a feature, not a platform.

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Building a business on this feature is not enough. It actually has to be better.

Competing with Google's 20+ year and 500 billion dollar head-start on broad search seem foolish unless you are willing to buy up the talent and resources to go head-to-head.

I'm not here to poo-poo effort, but I do think there is a better way.

One based on niches and human curation.

We can get around the problem of head-to-head competition with general search by focusing on better facets and data sets curated by subject matter experts.

At least, that is one hypothesis.

Anyone building (or in this case, buying) a search engine takes a fight they cannot meaningfully make impact.

1. Privacy is a feature, not a platform. If the search engine cannot deliver better results than google or bing (a tall order) then there is no reason to use it no matter how private.

2. Google has a 20+ year head start and billions invested. You will not catch up playing the same game (eg - broad search). Google, for all its faults, is amazing technology. If you try to be a general search engine and compete I do not see a win.

3. Find another strategy, like BETTER search results within a niche. Curated by subject matter experts and enthusiasts.

4. Source your search results from trustworthy data sources. SEO has ruined search. Google setup the rules and the Black/Grey/Whitehat practitioners out-smartted them every step of the way. It is full of crappy data sources.

5. Curation, not scale is the key here. I don't see a win for Brave.

Talk about building a funnel that optimizes for bias.

King, the makers of candy crush among other games. candy crush is the most popular mobile franchise with hundreds of millions of monthly active users.

Mostly on prem.

However they are moving workloads to cloud these days.

This was my issue, and apart of the reason I've been experimenting with this: https://django.curaffe.com

I work a lot with Django and simply mapped out the ecosystem, and then put a search layer on top of it.

If I can get a little traction with this one then I would happily roll one out for each of the other language and framework ecosystems.

At least now there are a few slack groups and forums I can ping into when I get stuck.