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And the strengths of C# are [...] Runtime-level coroutines so you don't need `async/await` everywhere

If I'm not mistaken, that isn't the case. Could you elaborate?

If I had to make an educated guess, I'd say Greece doesn't think about these types of public spaces as much as other countries do and the ones that do exist are probably a bit hostile towards the homeless.

Nowadays, it's usually not the lack of aircons that is a problem in greek households. Compared to local wages, energy prices have risen so much that lots of people cannot afford to keep their aircons on.

How so?

I'd love to believe that, but unless our timeline is disrupted (world war / climate change / regulation re: power generation and consumption), I unfortunately can't imagine a future different to the one I described - and I've tried!

Pandora's box is open; we're moving towards a world where white collar workers will be working 24/7 and they'll be expected to do so.

It won't matter if I'm washing the dishes, walking the dog, driving to the supermarket, picking up my kids from school. I'll always be switched on, on my phone, continuously talking to an LLM, delivering questionable features and building meaningless products, destroying in the process the environment my kids are going to have to grow in.

I'm a heavy LLM user. On a daily basis, I find LLMs extremely useful both professionally and personally. But the cognitive dissonance I feel when I think about what this means over a longer time horizon is really painful.

I've used this approach in the past with great success:

https://www.evanmiller.org/ranking-items-with-star-ratings.h...

All Evan Miller's posts on user ratings are excellent - https://www.evanmiller.org/ and search for "Mathematics of user ratings".

Thank you for your reply. I'm not a native speaker and find your writing style quite intriguing, which always makes me wonder "what does this person read?". Could you suggest a couple of your favourite books?

Apologies for this public private message, there seems to be no contact info in your profile.

If you found this article interesting, definitely give "Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future" a read. One of the most eye-opening books I've read in the past few years.

If this is your first kid, keep in mind that the negative emotions you may be feeling are amplified a lot by all the exhaustion - physical and mental - a new baby brings.

FWIW, in one of my previous jobs, in a company with 1.5K employees, there was this engineering architect with great insights, deep understanding of the overall architecture, and true impact across the board. I would always follow the slack threads he was contributing to as there was always something to learn in there. It took me by extreme surprise when I learned he was completely blind.

I wish the best to you, your kid, and your family.

Semi-related: I guess some companies have already started augmenting their search with the use of LLMs. If you've worked on a similar project, what is your (very) high-level architecture? Did you see a noticeable difference in relevance and query time?

One has to appreciate how someone put conscious effort to write a "Synopsis" that's larger than the book itself.

Genuine question - could someone give some insight on why the post was flagged? I found the article interesting and it wasn't my intention to divide the audience. If anything, I believe lots of the comments here contribute positively in forming a more educated and all-round view on the matter.

That is a great answer, thank you so much!

It is clear you are only trying to help - and honestly, thank you for that - but it is also clear (to me) you are making too many assumptions about us and our backgrounds. Simply put, we are both pretty decent engineers in our domains but also clueless re: how to structure a business. And it doesn't help that startup wisdom is very limited where we are now based.

The reason why it didn't sound like a red flag is that I'm not a founder, market fit has already been established, and google results suggest that 5% is a great deal in such cases. So the potential of going up to 9% sounds even greater to me.

My unknown unknowns are more than my known unknowns though, hence the post.

That's an extremely myopic and immature view of what management is. You have probably only worked with incompetent managers and your experiences reduce a role that can be both stressful and complex to nothingness.

After moving to the UK in 2016, I found my first job in London via Who's hiring. I formed deeply meaningful, very strong relationships with some of the amazing people I was fortunate enough to meet there.

Does anyone have any source (books/videos/open source projects) on backend development for multiplayer games? The scale and real-time aspect of it seems like a fascinating subject.

Such an insightful article.

I'm really curious how one acquires the knowledge and develops the skills needed to write so eloquently about a deeply complicated topic. What does patio11 read, who are the people he interacts with, what helped him nurture his exploratory traits, how does he structure new knowledge. It's all a fascinating mystery to me.

I'm intrigued by all these comments praising second-hand bookstores as I've never been in one myself. My discovery methods are pretty simple and quite targeted.

Could you name some interesting, non-fiction books you've discovered that would be impossible or hard to find in online bookstores?

Interesting question, I wrote and deleted many answers, all probably equally valid.

At the end of the day, it is frightening to raise a child in a world you are not optimistic about. And I can't imagine my youth without this idea of a bright future.

Out of curiosity, what industry is your company in?

If I could, I would downvote anything that does not increase the signal-to-noise ratio. In the last 1-2 years, there has been an upward trend in reddit-like comments like "Yes!", "That sucks", and smart-ass/low-quality oneliners that are supposed to be funny.

if only those comments could just disappear from HN.

Now they try to reduce their labor costs by stretching the limits of the law

Why would you say they are stretching the limits of the law? My understanding is that they had no obligation to renew those 3-month contracts.

Except if their goal was to become a monopoly and then charge whatever they want for deliveries.

Even if that's the case (highly probable), it would still be a huge improvement compared to the pre-efood era when lots of delivery riders would not be paid on time, work (illegally) with no insurance/pension, sometimes even get humiliated by terrible bosses.

Thanks for your recommendation, I pre-ordered it =)

Thank you so much for your input on this topic, very informative answers!

* Designing Data-Intensive Applications

* Monolith to Microservices

* Streaming Systems

* Designing Distributed Systems

* Building Event-Driven Microservices

* Kafka-Streams in Action

A comment in this post also suggests "Building Microservices" but haven't read it.

Exactly-once is not a requirement but ordering is. I had Kafka and Kinesis in mind when writing this question but just in case you haven't seen it, there is a way to get ordering guarantees using SNS and SQS:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/10/amazon-sn...

do event-driven architectures work at all, and has anyone "fully embraced" it. It doesn't have to be "fully embraced" to be successful.

For context, I've seen successful event-driven architecture implementations when it comes to data ingestion for analytics/ML purposes.

What I have yet to see is a successful implementation of microservices using local state stores built by joining streams owned by multiple domains. That's where the (arbitrary) "fully embraced" term came from.

Does everyone implement the outbox pattern themselves? Or treat their streams as the only source of truth, materialising the state that is already embedded in them?

Interesting, does serverless help with data ownership?