One of my favorite pieces of technical writing is Brandur Leach’s “Transactionally Staged Job Drains in Postgres” where he reasons through the outbox pattern from first principles. I remember reading it for the first time and feeling like I had been let in on a big secret. Clever, simple, powerful. I still use the pattern all the time.
Ironic to show ads only to your users with the least spending power. Me thinks this will not last. Once the ads get “good enough” they will be everywhere.
I just want to express my gratitude to Wes and the team of people who worked on this. I had to go back and read it twice that it's been 10 years since the PR for v5 was opened. That's wild! I can only imagine the immense amount of work it must have been to change the inertia of this project. Cheers to a new chapter!
Really cool! But your site could really benefit from having more examples. One image is not enough. Maybe you can link to an instagram account with examples that users share with you. I could see this being a fun activity at a wedding event.
I’ve been enjoying the ByteByteGo newsletter. The content is often very abbreviated, but the breadth of topics touched on keeps it interesting. I always learn a little bit about something new.
Yes - 5 years ago I had my own small startup building Shopify apps. The business wasn’t growing as fast as I’d have liked and so I was taking on part time contract work on the side. I responded to a job post here on HN from a YC company, and ended up doing a little contract work for them. They liked it and they came back a few months later to see if I’d join them full time to lead the product eng team. I considered my options, and what I liked about the opportunity at the startup was that they were building in a similar space as I was with my business, except better capitalized and further along. I took the job and have been with the company 5 years now. As with any startup, it’s had its ups and downs, but overall it was a good decision for me and I have no regrets. And I owe it all to HN. Thank you HN!
I read it for the first time last year and found most of it still very relevant. And there’s an updated version with a chapter on http/2. I’d love to see an http/3 chapter added.
Intelligence Squared[1] did a debate on this topic. It's definitely worth listening to.
To summarize a couple of the more compelling arguments in the camp _against_ extending lifespans:
1. Turnover of ideas from the older generation to a new generation with fresh ideas. This turnover is healthy and benefits our society's ability to progress.
2. Negative impact on our decision making processes. We construct a narrative of our lives and often the decisions we make are based on how they impact our personal narrative, knowing there is an 'end' to our story makes us value each decision we make, and thus make better decisions.
AA was built on their wholesale business, and only later built their direct sales model. So it's hard for me to believe 'edgy' had much to do with their initial growth. As of Q1 2015, retail sales still only made up about half of their total sales[1]. I don't think the wholesale buyer is interested in edginess, but rather price/quality/variety, which, IMO, AA had, especially considering it was all domestically made.
Sometimes value added becomes much clearer after a product or feature has been built and people are using it, in which case we don't have the option of choosing how fast we go by how much value we're providing. I think 'speed' is a subjective concept and 'fast' will be different depending on who you ask. For me, this makes it hard to think about what 'speed' actually means.
> you have to pay the exercise price + applicable taxes (which can exist even if you only have theoretical gains) yourself...
Is this certain? My understanding is that the spread between the current stock price and exercise price _can_ be taxed at the AMT rate. And if you were to sell the stock, you can get any taxes paid back in the form of an AMT credit. Still liable to pay capital gains or short term gains tax though at the sale. Without the AMT credit, it would essentially be double taxation.