So 16 year olds are wise enough to vote, but not fully leave education, buy alcohol, drive a car, join the army and get married without your parents consent, the lists goes on.
At last, an examination of the true nature of 'edge' computing is presented. Despite the appealing promises made by posts from Fly.io and others that depict 'edge' computing as a simple success, the reality can be more complex.
I have recently spent a fair bit of time experimenting with this on Fly for my application (https://www.ssrfproxy.com). It's hard to beat the straightforwardness of deploying in a single region, with the database in close proximity. This approach probably to meets the needs of what 99% of developers require. Aka Heroku.
Thanks for mentioning FireSync, we haven't even offically launched yet! After 10+ years of building real time collabrative apps based on Operational Transformation (ShareLaTeX -> Overleaf.com) we have become quietly very excited about CRDT's and Yjs. Now we are focused on building a scalable Yjs compliant backend ontop of PG with FireSync.
If anyone has thoughts about this space, feature requests, would like a preview of what we are building, or anything else, please do reach out direcly to me at [email protected], I'm talking to as many people as possible at the moment.
Résumé/CV: Former founder of ShareLaTaX, successful exit from bootstrapping it. Now on First job hunt in 10+ years. Lots of experience in ops/dev ops, fast real time collaboration with big scale. Full stack developer at heart, with lots ops experience in recent years managing large scale cloud migrations and infrastructure. 12+ year’s experience.
Thanks for creating this. I have found it pretty impenetrable though, i've spent a good few minutes trying to get some of the bots to harvest, but they never seem to move.
It feels like it could do with a bit of over the shoulder user testing.
After a while the game does get canceled which may be the root cause of the issue?
I have found it easy to overload SQLite with too many write operations (20+ Concurrently), is this typical behaviour referred to in the post, or a write heavy workload?
Some of the franchises did make decent profits, westcost/virgin etc. This generally happens at the end of the franchise once most of the up front investment happened. A lot of other franchises make a loss so it isn't quite so black and white.
With the previous model a lot of the risk was on the private company, if times were good profits were there, in bad times they made losses. Now with the new model the risk has gone over to the UK government, for better or worse.
The new setup should guarantee a low level of profitability for private companies, with a theoretical lower max, what will be interesting is to see how many companies actually bid.
The private companies actually own very little when running a franchise, most things are leased, such as rolling stock which is largely owned by German funds if memory serves. Investments into stations/parking/ticketing etc is left in place for the next person to take the keys.
I completely agree, Northern trains are a disgrace.
I don't think it was a failure of private companies though, rather Network Rail failing to deliver. The government has speced electrification for decades like you say. The cost of eletricifcation has gone through the roof, mainly due to health and safety (good thing). We have also lost a lot of expertise in electrification, much like how we lost the skill to tunnel.
Most will sympathise with public run railways (rightly or wrongly) so it is worth highlighting some positives from private companies running of the railways.
The private companies have pushed for a very large increase in the number of operating trains, with around a 50% increase in the past couple of decades, they are trying to squeeze every drop possible out if the tracks.
The train companies are also often making a loss on these routes, commonly subsidised by foreign Europeans governments looking to expand their rail business, Dutch or Italian tax payers should be annoyed at how their taxes are being wasted.
Profits are also capped so these are not potential cash cows people suspect. British tickets are expensive because the government doesn't subsidise the ticket price, which is a separate debate.
The Public Vs private debate will continue until the end of time, the truth is there are benefits to both systems.
Disclaimer, my wife is senior in a rail franchise, as well as being left leaning, fwiw.
This isn't life optimisation, it's putting cost optimisation over happiness.
Having a yard/garden with kids is wounderful, open the back door and shove them outside without shoes to play for accessible easy outdoor time.
Half the fun of Friends staying over in the guest room is when you can have a few drinks and everyone relaxes knowing no one is traveling. The next morning you can all have breakfast together.
Car shares are great for going to the shops on Tuesday, getting a car for Christmas when you want to see family is a different ballgame.
I would love to see pret move out a bit further where people live and WFH, or even have a delivery truck which works the local area.
My partner and myself both WFH in Peckham, we would love to buy a couple of sandwiches and coffees from pret via an app. We get the occasional falafel wrap on just eat but there are not enough quick delivery options for healthyish lunches.
Is the market salary based off other startups who have closed large rounds, or a FAANG company? It is common to be paid a bit less at a startup compared to a very large company. However if you feel you are being shortchanged it will likely result in friction with the company sooner or later.
Ask for more, worst case they come back with no, then you have to decide if you want to stay at that rate. Odds are your stock isn't going to be worth a lot, but I am a pessimist when it comes to equity.
Thanks for the great work, I am a big Elixir and Phoenix fan. Although I don't think it will ever hit the heights of ruby or node in terms of popularity, I believe elixir and phoneix are very good long term bets.
The improved Compiler checks are
a great step in the right direction. I know elixir language isn't going to change much (if at all?) now, so putting more time into things like safety and developer productivity will be warmly welcomed.