peteridah

I recently received AWS startup credits and claude models via AWS Bedrock are included.

I've been thinking about the gap between analytics and action in software systems.

Most companies have dashboards and analytics tools, but someone still has to interpret the information and decide what happens next.

This article explores the concept of AI Decision Engines - systems that convert data, rules and reasoning models into operational decisions such as approvals, routing actions or recommendations.

Curious whether people see this emerging in real systems.

Conversely, good developers can now leverage LLM’s to master any domain.

I just want to say thank you for your python courses. I learned a lot over the years from your teaching style.

I feel you – I had heard a _lot_ about dark launching and never actually worked at a company that actually did it until I worked at Hashicorp. Now in my mind it seems mainstream. I truly am in a bubble.

this 100%. I have experienced flow as I watch with awe as my fingers move on the keyboard to play chords/keys that my conscious mind could not have conjoured up. I later stop and use my conscious mind to learn the new thing that `I` just played.

I understand your context 100% as I am an African currently living in Europe. It is almost impossible for anyone who has grown all their lives in the western economic system to fully grasp what is wrong with the status quo and the need to engage in a plausible alternative. Heck even I get so comfortable sometimes here and forget the context I grew in and question the need for change.

naive is an understatement

As a POC, I find this comment and line of thinking demeaning, and out of touch with the reality we face daily.

If you are unable to hire elsewhere the skill-set that your ex-colleague brings to the table, what happens to your startup in the short to medium term ? i.e would that set your MVP back by x months ? I would try to frame the question in those terms and balance it against the commitment/culture fit concerns.

This has been a very useful thread.I have struggled with weight for many years. I have sufficient motivation to exercise and I am normally able to keep a disciplined schedule. But with our 2yr old daughter, sleeplessness has kind of messed me up and I struggle to keep any form of discipline now. It's hard. I am just glad to know that I am far from the only one :)

I attended the ultimate go course last year. I loved the in-depth nature of the curriculum... oh and yes, Bill is simply the best :)

I am quite surprised that companies still use Red Hat Satellite Server. In 2010 while I was still at Red Hat, deploying and managing it was the mainstay of the consulting business, and it was based on Oracle RAC. It was to my mind already legacy software at that time.

The pod abstraction can be implemented as a vm. Take a look at clear containers

This resonates with me so much. I am currently trying to do the same.

I second this, I have no idea why it's been downvoted.

LOL, I thought for a brief moment that my brain must be replicating things.

I find this useful https://github.com/progrium/bashstyle

containers provide a reasonable level of abstraction/isolation for applications, and have been used in production for some years now. Docker may be shiny, but containers not so much.

Congratulations Ludovic! I just want to echo that this is absolutely an underserved market. Yes there are definitely challenges, but also great opportunities. African content is just really beginning to emerge; Nollywood and the like are just scratching the surface and yet to unearth the richness of 1000's of years of heritage. Kudos also to YC buying in :)

Thanks for this, it cleared up some confusion in my mind. A blogpost capturing these thoughts would be great.

yes, flannel works very well in the VxLAN mode on AWS

kudos to you for sharing this and standing your ground. This behaviour is simply unacceptable on all counts and we should collectively check this here. I wonder if the OP is open to naming this investor.

Without knowing all the facts surrounding this choice, it is rather difficult to judge if this decision was ill-conceived. But as a father of a home-schooled 5yr old, I find myself constantly questioning the value/trade-offs of traditional education paths rooted in a paradigm that doesn't quite fit todays' world. With a bit of planning, History and Socialization skills can definitely be learnt outside the High School System. I am all for a blended learning experience, taking the best of the traditional approach and mixing with unconventional learning opportunities.

yes this, I get those too and no btrfs

I bought a kano/raspberry kit for my 5yr old. We explore the terminal, python interpreter, minecraft etc and he is totally pumped, with the ipad lying idly just by his side. What really clicked for him was the fact that he now had a real computer that did stuff like dad's and calls himself a 'real hacker'.

Thanks shykes for chiming in on this. We use docker heavily for our applications in production (and all other envs), and would absolutely like to extend that to our Postgres DBs. Are there any examples you can point us to with a pattern for Postgres HA clusters with docker? Thanks.

Nothing wrong with mounting volumes, but certainly not for production DB's, at least not at this point. I don't have much insight to share on this, besides my intuition based on several years working on HA systems. The clusterhq folks are working on this problem though, and I am following keenly.

We decided not to use docker containers for our postgres DB in production; Volume mounts just don't make me sleep easy. We use an S3-backed private docker registry to store our images/repositories.

WhatsApp has become the defacto medium of communication with my friends and family in Africa, emerging way ahead of phone numbers, sms, facebook et al. I am not thrilled by the service, but if you want to stay in the loop, you have to join the bandwagon.