I was recently in India a few weeks ago for a friend's wedding. I am not an Indian national/citizen/whatever and my experience related to anything tech and money was absolute awful (esp the obsession with OTPs)
* The problems start as soon as you land at the airport. I land at the Delhi airport, my friend has sent a driver to pick me up and gave me his contact info. I try to connect to Airport wifi and bam it's asking me for an Indian number to text an OTP to connect to the public WiFi. Why is having an indian number at the Delhi INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT an expectation? What do they expect foreign travelers to do? Ridiculous. Luckily I found someone and asked to use their phone to whatsapp the driver and figure out where he was.
* Foreign credit cards are hit and miss. I have 2 credit cards, I let my bank know I would be traveling and I still could not reliably use them, they worked maybe a fraction of the time. Apparently Indian government added some "security" requirements earlier this year to "prevent fraud" that ices out a large number of foreign cards at many payment tills. This essentially makes India a cash-only economy for foreign tourists.
* If you try to use your foreign cards while shopping, many places will ask to send an OTP to your (indian) number even for relatively small amount of money involved, and again as a foreigner you are out of luck.
* Since I can't use my cards reliably, I am now forced to carry around cash. Worse... the highest denomination available is 500 rupeees, which is equivalent to about $6. This means that if you are planning on doing any type of shopping as a foreigner you have to carry a fat wad of cash on your person the entire time. I intended to do some shopping, eating out and drinking which meant I had to carry around 20,000 ruppees at all times, which was neither comfortably due to how fat that wad of cash is, not relaxing as I am constantly worried about losing it.
* I finally decided to get an Indian phone number to get around all the OTP nonsense and get some data while walking around. And bam to get an Indian sim card you need an indian ID or as a foreigner go through an application process involving a bunch of documentation (and not trivial documentation, requirements like a picture that matches the exact dimensions accepted by them) and it's not a quick process. Red tape upon red tape to get a sim card for normal usage! Thankfully, someone helped me out with a SIM card they purchased via their govt ID and gave it to me saving me the pain.
* The pain doesn't end here. After I get my sim card, I realize I need to buy a bit more data. Easy enough I think in my head... there's even an app from the provider! I pick the upgraded plan and try to buy via my credit card and boom, international credit cards are not accepted for e-transactions. I literally just want to give them the equivalent of $10 to get an additional 25 gigs of data and I can't do it online. Again, I asked someone to buy it for me and paid them in cash.
* Then I wanted to buy a friend a gift that is only available on Amazon. The red tape strikes, apparently as of this year Amazon India can no longer accept foreign credit cards as methods of payment due to "security and anti-fraud requirements" by the indian govt. Again, I have to find someone to buy it for me from Amazon using their card and pay them cash for it.
The bad is that everything is so needlessly complicated and red-tapey for foreigners. Things that should be trivial are hard.
The good is that you can always find someone to help you circumvent the red-tape by paying them cash :).
> But in such cases surely there's some kind of rate limiter in place?
Not really, our team maintained a reverse-proxy that fronted all requests that came into amazon. And whenever we would have a self-ddos event, we'd get a request from the backend team whose service was getting self-ddos'd to shed traffic before it reached their service hosts to prevent it from browning out. In many case ddos's were coming from kindle devices which were not even easy to update so deploying a "fix" wasn't even always an option.
I am not disagreeing with you but self-ddos is not entirely uncommon. When I worked at Amazon this would happen a few times a year. Not on the main amazon.com website but on supporting services often initiated by but not limited to kindle devices. Having something like this slip through the cracks of even experienced engineers isn't uncommon.
First thing I would try is seeing if the front end has a different retry strategy for a different status code (say 503). If so I'd change the status returned for throttling to be that (503).
Barring that, turning off server side throttling or atleast making it less aggressive to slow the retry storm seems the most reasonable.
Exactly, severance was absolutely a no brainer based on that email. I have gone "hardcore" many times in my life working crazy hours but all of that has either been in exceptional circumstances or me doing it because I was having fun. If someone emailed saying that "going hardcore and crazy hours" is the baseline for acceptable performance (note, not even good performance, just acceptable performance), I'd be outta there too.
I feel bad for all those who are on visas though and may not have the flexibility to accept the severance offer.
I didn't want to use that word but that's the only thing that comes to mind describing what you are saying.
Why in the world would you find it acceptable to work at a place where the baseline is extreme hours and where extreme hours are required for just an acceptable performance review if you have other options?
I have worked extreme hours in many jobs but that has always been because either it was an exceptional situation or I was doing it of my own accord. Other than those two situations the only other reason I would do it is either:
1 I am working at a startup (preferably it's my own or I own a lot of equity)
2 I needed the job that badly
3 There was some "higher mission" associated with the work (eg manned space travel to mars, rushing to find a vaccine)
2 doesn't apply to twitter engineers and 3 certainly doesn't apply since twitter whose "higher mission" is selling ads.
If you are willing to work significantly over normal work hours, for market value pay for a company with no greater mission beyond selling ads so that Elon can service the interest on his debt then by all means go for it. That is literally cuckold behavior but some people are into that so if that works for you good for you.
I know my value and won't work in that type of environment.
I reject PRs every day at work with varying level of "badness" and it works just fine. Normal people can put 20 seconds of thought and come up with a response that explains why a patch is unacceptable without resorting to name calling, even in this PR response Linus does that for the most part but in the end just can't help himself from throwing in a couple of petty jabs. There are other open source communities where this behavior would be unacceptable (for example the GoLang core team).
I am calling this out because Linus specifically said that he wants to handle himself better in public, he is aware of how he comes across and wants to change, it is not an RMS type situation where the guy has no self-awareness. Reading the rest of the thread I bet he regretted his response esp considering the response of the branch maintainer.
There is nothing wrong with rejecting the patch... there is something definitely wrong with calling it "unintelligent" and "idiotic". Esp since a year or two ago Linus publicly committed to toning down some of his more toxic behavior.
> End result: no way will I accept this kind of completely arbitrary and
frankly not very intelligent patch.
> If people want to disable console printing, that's THEIR CHOICE. It
could be a new config variable where you ASK people about what they
want. Not this kind of idiotic tying together of things.
I thought Linus had committed to changing how he behaves in public forums? Even if he didn't like the patch, calling it "unintelligent" and "idiotic" doesn't accomplish anything. He could have just left the rest of the comments in there without using inflammatory language and it would have the same affect.
My reading of the situation is that India is not necessarily pro-Russia, instead its position on Russia vs the West and Russia vs Ukraine is to quote Trump "very fine people on both sides" which may be problematic in of itself but is less red-flaggy than "pro-Russia".
My point is that Linux is a great desktop environment and people shouldn't write it off based on isolated complaints from people for whom it didn't work for as there are a lot of people who never encounter these issues that keep getting brought up in these threads.
Designing Data Intensive applications- specifically chapter 3 and 4 which deal with strategies and algorithms for storing and encoding data to be stored on disk and their pros and cons.
Once you read that, I'll suggest reading the source of a simple embedded key-value database, I wouldn't bother with RDBMs as they are complex beasts and contain way more than you need. BoltDB is a good project to read the source of https://github.com/boltdb/bolt, the whole thing is <10k lines of code and is a full blown production grade system with ACID semantics so packs a lot in those 10k and isn't just merely a toy.
Can't speak for this as I don't have a device with an FP reader
> - battery life is poor compared to Windows on same machine
I get ~6hrs on my laptop running Ubuntu + XFCE. I haven't ran windows on it but Amazon reviews claim ~5-5.5 hrs battery life for the same machine so seems to be inline for me.
> - suspend and hibernate doesn’t work
Works for me
> - random freezes
I can think of only 1 freeze I've had in the last year and that was due to me dropping the laptop
> - charging indicator unreliable
Pretty reliable for me except when it comes to the last 5%... my work macbook pro seems to have the same issue though when predicting how long that last 5% will last.
> - boot failures after OS updates
Never had this problem, on the other hand our work macbook pro has nothing but problems when upgrading os major versions. Atleast 1-2 people on our team always end up losing an afternoon whenever we are forced to upgrade it.
> I have now switched to a Mac with Apple Silicon.
> I really tried with Linux for philosophical reasons, but honestly what professional developer has time for all this?
What professional developers have the time or patience to deal with a Mac with:
* It's proprietary hardware without any ability to upgrade components
* Garbage oversized trackpad which registers false positives all the time
* Terrible built in keyboard
* All the nonsense with "we have a physical escape key, now we don't, now we do" actively making it unusable if you use Vim/Vim key bindings
* Whatever nonsense they have done replacing physical function keys with that touchbar thingy
* Actively user hostile decisions like putting the headphone jack on the right side of the laptop
* A complete inability to connect peripherals unless you buy a (often expensive) dock.
* Docker being a complete hog on these machines, yes that is not the fault of the mac but still something developers have to deal with every day
I am forced to use a macbook for work and the only reason I can even bear working with it is connecting it to external keyboard/mouse and using it in clamshell mode.
Shellcheck https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck : Shell scripts are unavoidable, you have to write one every now and then but shell is a terrible language with massive footguns around every corner. I don't write shell scripts extensively enough to remember all those footguns and even if I did, not sure I'd want to waste brainpower remembering all that archaic trivia.
Shellcheck makes writing shell scripts bearable and dare I say somewhat enjoyable. They have managed to collate all the shell scripting potholes and tribal knowledge into one static analysis tool. No shell script now gets checked in at work or on my personal machine without being pumped through shellcheck.
SQLite, KVM, Firecracker, GraphQL, Serverless... if this was written in Rust it would hit the holy trinity of all the HN buzzwords that pull a post to the frontpage ;)
With that setup you have essentially lost any benefits that SQLite provides, specifically any performance benefits by making a DB read/write a network call instead of a local call in the same process that manipulates some file on the same machine. You are closer to a postgres/mysql patterne except now your writes don't scale as well. What are we actually gaining with this setup other than perhaps easier administration of the "db service" compared to a mysql/postgres deployment?
I wonder how an alternate timeline might have played out if Richard Hipp had not named it "SQLite" and instead called it "SQLightning" or "SQLExpress" or something like that. For much of its lifetime, SQLite wasn't taken seriously despite being an extraordinary technology and part of me is convinced it was in large part due to "Lite" being in the name.
* The problems start as soon as you land at the airport. I land at the Delhi airport, my friend has sent a driver to pick me up and gave me his contact info. I try to connect to Airport wifi and bam it's asking me for an Indian number to text an OTP to connect to the public WiFi. Why is having an indian number at the Delhi INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT an expectation? What do they expect foreign travelers to do? Ridiculous. Luckily I found someone and asked to use their phone to whatsapp the driver and figure out where he was.
* Foreign credit cards are hit and miss. I have 2 credit cards, I let my bank know I would be traveling and I still could not reliably use them, they worked maybe a fraction of the time. Apparently Indian government added some "security" requirements earlier this year to "prevent fraud" that ices out a large number of foreign cards at many payment tills. This essentially makes India a cash-only economy for foreign tourists.
* If you try to use your foreign cards while shopping, many places will ask to send an OTP to your (indian) number even for relatively small amount of money involved, and again as a foreigner you are out of luck.
* Since I can't use my cards reliably, I am now forced to carry around cash. Worse... the highest denomination available is 500 rupeees, which is equivalent to about $6. This means that if you are planning on doing any type of shopping as a foreigner you have to carry a fat wad of cash on your person the entire time. I intended to do some shopping, eating out and drinking which meant I had to carry around 20,000 ruppees at all times, which was neither comfortably due to how fat that wad of cash is, not relaxing as I am constantly worried about losing it.
* I finally decided to get an Indian phone number to get around all the OTP nonsense and get some data while walking around. And bam to get an Indian sim card you need an indian ID or as a foreigner go through an application process involving a bunch of documentation (and not trivial documentation, requirements like a picture that matches the exact dimensions accepted by them) and it's not a quick process. Red tape upon red tape to get a sim card for normal usage! Thankfully, someone helped me out with a SIM card they purchased via their govt ID and gave it to me saving me the pain.
* The pain doesn't end here. After I get my sim card, I realize I need to buy a bit more data. Easy enough I think in my head... there's even an app from the provider! I pick the upgraded plan and try to buy via my credit card and boom, international credit cards are not accepted for e-transactions. I literally just want to give them the equivalent of $10 to get an additional 25 gigs of data and I can't do it online. Again, I asked someone to buy it for me and paid them in cash.
* Then I wanted to buy a friend a gift that is only available on Amazon. The red tape strikes, apparently as of this year Amazon India can no longer accept foreign credit cards as methods of payment due to "security and anti-fraud requirements" by the indian govt. Again, I have to find someone to buy it for me from Amazon using their card and pay them cash for it.
The bad is that everything is so needlessly complicated and red-tapey for foreigners. Things that should be trivial are hard.
The good is that you can always find someone to help you circumvent the red-tape by paying them cash :).