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I think an unintended byproduct of prolonged cheap capital is an environment ripe with antitrust issues. I’m all for capitalism mentality but this feels like a logical extreme and is not good for the long term.
Other examples not mentioned: eggs, kids athletics, I’ve heard stories in fintech services as well
Not trying to detract from the OP, but to provide a combination I have running in production for 2 years.
- aws cdk (with outputs) - https://github.com/zappa/Zappa - a python script which stitches outputs from cdk into the zappa config - extra python scripts to do a few small things post deployment. Zappa has some bugs that would be tedious to fix vs 100 lines of python.
Our product has the luxury of only being used during stock market hours and really thrives in serverless everything. We use rds serverless (v2) along with lambdas.
Some of our work is heavy and we’ll dynamically spin up an ecs container which has the hallmarks of a normal django app: redis + celery queues. We try to saturate the ecs container resources with this type of setup. After the container is done, it’ll shutdown.
I was super skeptical of this 2 years ago. 4 envs costing ~$2k/month. I would do this setup again if the product warrants windowed usage.
tell that to melvin capital
GME was, in my opinion, what occupy wall street should have been. Much more effective even.
Not this specifically, but I think I’m starting to see a pattern. Redis, elastic, openai, wordpress. Each came to realize that the open source benefit has a glaring issue with their corporate interests.
Let’s not forget the 10% layoff rule just to hire another 10% in the next 6-12 months. Good for everyone, am I right /s?
interesting footer link https://notbyai.fyi/
I do wonder if Tim Apple would be so bold as to stop selling in the EU for all the rules and regulations that they have been required to follow. It would be amazing to see that play out imo. Like a reverse boycott could happen?
The secondary strategy Timmy could pull is a dumbed down ecosystem in the EU which I’m sure is even worse for everyone. But hey, you’d be able to buy audible books straight in the app. Is it worth it?
I resonate with this topic. Checking your own repos on a new computer is one thing… inheriting someone else’s project and running it on your machine in the node ecosystem is very rough.
Anyways, I made a slightly more advanced buildless vue project here: https://github.com/kyleparisi/buildless-vuejs
It has the advantage of using .vue files which I enjoy. Oh and guess what… it has code splitting because you have to define what components the page needs ;).
I used https://acquire.com/ in this case. I looked at maybe 80 companies just from the surface. Then inquired about 15-20 of them for more details. After about a week of thinking, zeplo wouldn’t leave my mind. There was one other close contender but zeplo was more present in my mind and had better metrics.
From there it was letter of intent, due diligence, asset agreement, escrow, and asset transfer. Hopefully this helps.
I acquired a side hustle in late 2022. It’s doing $1k/month. I’ve been enjoying it so far. Basic queues using http as input and http output.
Disclaimer: not a dba so my terms might not be appropriate
I’ve seen uuid4 which replaces the first 4 bytes with a timestamp. It was mentioned to me that this strategy allows postgres to write at the end of the index instead of arbitrarily on disk. I also presume it means it has some decent sorting.
[inspiration](https://github.com/tvondra/sequential-uuids/blob/master/sequ...)
This was a reason I left a job. The company I worked for was focused on government RFPs. During the Obama administration there were promises to support small minority and vet owned businesses. The company was failing to win any contract of substance. So one day we bid on a contract to provide dell servers. Out of desperation, the other members of the team decided to go lower than business could allow.
Turns out we finally won something… which we weren’t ‘designed’ to win. Dell came screaming in on the phone asking what the hell we were doing. Dell had written the RFP and ‘partnered’ with a small company to basically win the contract outright. That’s when I learned the system was rigged and it still favored big companies and their selected friends.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA
Maybe not true anymore.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA
Perhaps this is dated now according to other comments.
Toothpaste blows my mind. It’s literally plastic in some baking soda type substance. Extra whitening? Larger plastic.
Having worked on a flow based UI for a few years, I would say it very much depends on your core use case and the “standard library”. Since you’ll probably be making a DSL of sorts, there is a balance of simplicity and flexibility.
It really shines in the ETL area. Configuration and generation would be alright.
You can get an idea of where I got with js at [fluxion.app](https://fluxion.app).
Love to see other flow based applications. Fluxion (https://fluxion.app) was my baby for a long time.
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This guy cookies
A good friend of mine worked in compressor technology for 10 years. We had the fortune of working together for a few projects before he set off for Denmark to finish R&D of a new compressor for hydrogen fueling stations. He thought it'd only take 2 years. Took more like 5 years with all the certifications required and fine tuning parameters. So it's in use now in the EU.
When he was nearing the end of the project I asked if he thought the future of energy was battery technology or hydrogen or both? He answered both. The energy density of hydrogen is too good to ignore for commercial vehicles (buses, construction, 18 wheelers). The momentum in battery technology and infrastructure for (car) 'limited' range use is going to carry forward.
This friend now makes high end technology based liquor cabinets (chuckle). Probably too much pressure in his last gig.
I am very impressed with the hidden gems of stripe's landing page. Here's[1] a post I wrote that analyzed the drop down animation they use. I've never seen it anywhere else.
I agree. I've been working for a few years on my own interpretation of whether it's feasible to have a visual system aid in creating a real program output. Here is an example that I'm still refining: https://github.com/kyleparisi/pagination-layout#pagination-l....
The translation of the above project really caused me to think hard. My hope was that visual programming would make the cognitive load easier. This might have been because I had not determined the subtle rules required to write a flow. I need more practice, but I think it will be a different flavor of thinking. Not better, not worse, different.
You know what's funny to me is Mr. Robot does their scenes in.... flash. Even their mobile phone shots are done via flash.
I joined an edtech company earlier this year: yellowdig.com. I think the thing I'd echo from this post is that time definitely needs to be on your side. Having connections also really helps. I'll keep the points about cost in my back pocket.
Years ago I read The Wal-Mart Effect. Basically it was a whole slew of industries that Walmart had dramatically affected. Things like forcing vendors to manufacture in China and building a crazy infrastructure to get 'fresh' Salmon imported from Chile.
I got the impression they would turn the screws on industries to get cost savings via scale. This move seems odd.
I used to work in this exact industry and wrote my employer's tracking code. You didn't clarify whether you clicked on a google shopping product and landed on a product page. That's all that is needed.
Many ecommerce sites use both google and facebook for their campaigns. So by you landing on the product page, a standard facebook event would be fired. The website or the advertiser doesn't really need to know who you are but facebook does know who you are once that event is fired. Facebook can then tie you to a campaign around that product for that same website (if they have an active campaign going).
A friend of mine has been trying convince me and my peers for like 2 years that the universe is holofractal. Holofractal is different than holographic [1] but is also an interesting idea.
Things like the Em Drive device and this are really making physics interesting again.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/holofractal/comments/5r3i83/hologra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_(legislation)
Riders are a terrible idea. This wiki does a good job at describing them and illustrating that other countries don't like the idea either.