jmartens

This comment thread highlights an issue that Nix has...some people love it personally, some love it professionally. Some are software engineers, others are hackers.

Most of the comments here seem to be from people using NixOS on a laptop. NixOS as a production OS in the cloud or on a robot is a game changer.

In a world of LLMs and agentic coding, I think documentation is less important.

Check out https://zero-to-nix.com/

Also a delightful human in every interaction I’ve had with him.

I've used HubSpot in the past but currently just using Notion.

What is so interesting about Nix is that it's not one thing. Its not (just) a distro. Its not (just) a package manager. Its not (just) a system manager. Its not (just) a language. Its not (just) a build tool.

It is all those things, but specifically, what you want it to be. Yes, that makes it super confusing, but also powerful.

Interesting. I asked similar questions (Who will win the Presidential Election and Will XXX college football team win the national championship, etc) and none of the responses included percentages or yes/no indicators like the examples you link to.

Can you provide an example of the type of question that comes back with a reasonable prediction? So far, I've tried 3 times, and the answer each time was something along the lines of [prediction will be true] if [they do the thing that makes the prediction true] which is not useful.

Pings don’t seem like enough info

Like, do you want a 0.01% chance to raise money or a 2% chance to build a business that keeps you and a few others well paid and perhaps out of the rat-race.

I don't do startups to have a job, I do startups to do the hard things in an attempt to build something groundbreaking.

Presenting "raise money" vs "have a job" is a false dichotomy.

I don't see the need for this. I mean, its a fun idea for LLMs/Generative text, but does the target user struggle with figuring out how to configure an alert in their o11y tools?

How is this #2 on the front page? It doesn't do anything! I typed in a question, no answer. I typed in a public company name, no answer.

Wow I didn't know it was annual!

Best part of datsource plugins for Grafana is that the data doesn't need to be stored, just gets queried from the source in realtime.

How the F does a document storage company pivot to AI? The rush to AI is starting to look like an episode of Silicon Valley.

Now add monitoring of the cloud platforms that our servers run on. Its a big gap and what we are solving for with Metrist.

70% feels high high, but I guess it makes sense when we think about how many sites and apps go down when something like AWS has an issue.

Ignore the clickbait title of the post itself, as I did when sharing here. This is a master class on how to market to developers. Could take the HN stuff out and it would still be brilliant.

Rimmer might be our winner

Great point and examples!

That's bad, but I am sure there are worse!

I'm guessing you aren't a software engineer on a team that shares oncall responsibility, in an org with other engineering teams and dozens of mircoservices.

They've had great sales, and the stock was even upgraded by a major analyst last week because they show a track record of being resilient and still being able to grow. So unless they suddenly had a bad quarter (which ends next week), the CRO seems to have done a great job.

I don't know, sales have been great at PD and the exec leaving is the head of sales.

Big fan

Ex-PagerDuty here....my company uses Grafana Cloud and we love it!

Someone sell them a modern status page!

Real talk: how is "cloud observability" different than "observability?"

Odd way to do a humble brag, but okay

Europe is ruining the internet.