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We used `pgdog` as a proxy during a recent database backend migration (Heroku -> EC2 -> RDS) and it was much smoother than PgBouncer. Really nice seeing more things in this space, and having the team's work recognized.

To follow up here, it sure sounds like Andre is not entirely acting in good faith.

https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-org-aws-root-access-ev... discusses that a precipitating event was Andre asking for a copy of the http access logs to monetize them.

I think this is confirmed by Mike Perham's comment in https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1o2bxol/comment/ninn6...

In this case I have first hand knowledge since he pitched me on the idea: would Sidekiq, being a big sponsor of Ruby Central in the past, be interested if rubygems could somehow use the remote IP to identify the companies downloading the sidekiq gem so I could use that to upsell those companies

TBH the whole thing is pretty opaque. There are a lot of accusations floating around. It's pretty easily to capitalize on "Big evil shopify is making a takeover", but I suspect there's a lot more happening behind the scenes.

Given some of the ways Andre Arko gets described (See https://justin.searls.co/posts/why-im-not-rushing-to-take-si... for a recent overview) I'm a little wary of what the motivation behind this is.

Given some of the ways Andre Arko gets described (See https://justin.searls.co/posts/why-im-not-rushing-to-take-si... for a recent overview) I'm a little wary of what the motivation behind this is.

I remember this differently. SVN had great _branching_ but horrific merge support. They resisted improvements to merging, because they wanted something theoretically perfect.

Git came along with great merge support and the entire world loved it.

Are there details about how key management works? Where are the keys stored, what has access to them, etc? Because this tweet is empty hype.

In a different vein, https://www.redactle.com is a fun wikipedia game

For calculator languages, I think there are several choices. Depends a bit on what you know, and what you need...

Frink (https://frinklang.org/) has been around for ages, and is rooted in physical unit conversions

Calca (http://calca.io/) has come up a handful of times. It looks pretty reasonable

R, if that's your flavor

Anything with a REPL. Though the OP suggests these are cumbersome, I'd counter argue that anything you know well is usually more efficient than learning something new.

A very long list of commercial tools: Matlab, Mathematica, WolframAlpha, STS, SAS, etc

It often does -- basically whatever information you had, that subjected you to it, is still meaningful for a length of time. Depends on the details.

Kolide -- Go Software Engineer -- US based, Full REMOTE

https://www.kolide.com/company/jobs/4134612004

We're a small startup building device management tools. We believe strongly in https://honest.security and are trying to bring these principles to how companies think of security and their employee computers.

We're looking for software engineers to work on our endpoint agent. It is entirely open source and written in go.

See comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29551572

What about this does not feel like a postgres use case?

It's neat to see this! But somehow, an RPM based distro, that solely documents its instructions for Ubuntu feels very something.

For AWS and GCP you can setup cross-project permissions. I've run a single project of secrets, which grants specific access to various service accounts

This feels like a somewhat narrow and biased comparison. It is focused around getting startup credits, and while that's important, I think it's a very limited view of onboarding.

Better would be to think about what the general initial usability of these services are. How easy is it to spin up the compute load? Create reasonable IAM policies? Debug problems?

My own experience (and bias) is that while AWS has vastly more features, GCP is much more usable. The latter feels like a coherent setup with projects and IAM. AWS always has a surprisingly amount of work around org accounts and IAM setups.

So maybe it's faster to get AWS credits, but it's much harder to make use of them.

This is super exciting. Apple has been moving away from kernel extensions. This is basically a user space replacement for Google Santa

(commented above -- https://github.com/kolide/kit/tree/master/munemo)

(commented above -- https://github.com/kolide/kit/tree/master/munemo)

https://github.com/kolide/kit/tree/master/munemo

Implements two dialects. An original one compatible with the inspiration, and used in some of our earlier product. And the replacement (syllables above) which is alphabetically sortable.

I'm fond us using a base100, made of up 2 letter syllables. It results in a vaguely pronounceable string.

For syllables, I use: syllables: %w[ ba be bi bo bu ca ce ci co cu da de di do du fa fe fi fo fu ga ge gi go gu ha he hi ho hu ja je ji jo ju ka ke ki ko ku la le li lo lu ma me mi mo mu na ne ni no nu pa pe pi po pu ra re ri ro ru sa se si so su ta te ti to tu va ve vi vo vu wa we wi wo wu xa xe xi xo xu ya ye yi yo yu za ze zi zo zu ],

I can dump an implementation somewhere if people are really curious

No. MoPub is an entity in AdTech. Druid is an analytics platform

I'd love to see a bit of the docs telling me how this improves on pkg/errors and go 1.13. At first pass, I'm not sure?

It seems to have a bit of a cleaner presentation in the error stack -- Its an array, which feels nicer than a string.

It's a good route, if you're running your own. I'm mostly in clouds, and they've got lower limits

Well there we go.

So while postgres makes for a pretty awesome database, and a pretty good queueing system, some folks may be seriously impacted by the max number of connections

Postgres generally has a fairly low maximum connections. If you're running your own servers, you can adjust this, but in the cloud you may not be able to. For example, Google CloudSQL maxes at 1000, Heroku at 500.

At that point, people usually start looking at the connection pooling tools. Depending on how much work you need from the DB, connections pools can be a win. Anyone know how connection pooling works with listeners?

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There weren't a lot of jobs.

I was at one place through much of the boom, eventually they folded. I was the last employee, part of my job was winding down and archiving the assets. After that, jobs were a bit scarce.

I didn't mind the break, though it was a bit demoralizing. Much like today, if you can create a name for yourself, it's easier to get hired.

Stack Exchange is a weird place. I've generally found their user community pretty hostile. I find the idea of giving people badges for downvoting to capture something about their negativity.

Extra interesting as things like https://github.com/sethvargo/chef-sugar have removed themselves pending Chef canceling that contract.

The Fog of War video game idiom predates both Silent Hill, and every platform it runs on.

I'm not really sure we should be touting the sexism in bust size as bug or feature here. It's mostly just sickening.

Deep Blue making a random move doesn't sound like a bug to me. Certainly not in the usual sense. It seems like a fairly reasonable choice, if no better one is presented.