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834karma·800submissions·October 29, 2025
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> Russian and China are already getting rid of Microsoft. I don't know what you mean by China "getting rid of Microsoft" in the context of cloud providers. I mean, Azure is already p…
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> 1. Europe doesn't have comparable offerings. I think you should pause for a moment. There are plenty of European cloud providers that allow you to run VMs in multiple points of presence acro…
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> Strangely enough, this is exactly the opposite of how it works. The dollars abroad tend to stay abroad, as either a more stable alternative to local currencies, or a reserve currency. I think you…
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Idempotence is a trait of an operarion. Operations are idempotent, but systems were passive. You don't have idempotent crashes.
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> I have bad news for everyone. Nothing in computing is synchronous. I think you need to sit this one out. This sort of vacuous pedantry does no one any good, and ignores that it's perfectly f…
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> That sounds like a lot of over engineering and a good way to never complete the project. Perfect is the enemy of good. Strong disagree. Addressing expectable failure modes is not over engineering…
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> Didn't we get to the point where we realized that microservices cause too much trouble down the road? That's a largely ignorant opinion to have. Like any architecture, microservices hav…
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> Kinda, yeah. You must be talking about an entirely different Hungary, because the one in the EU is described as "an ailing economy in Europe". https://www.lemonde.fr/en&…
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> You underestimate how sclerotic large corporations can be. I've seen people do zero work (...) This is the very first time I saw anyone with a straight face talking about Amazon workers and …
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Hungary's Orban has been in power for how long? 16 years and counting? Is Hungary a paragon of growth and strategic planning?
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> Say what you want about China's monoparty system, but it enables planning that spans decades. That's not a trait of a monoparty system, or even any totalitarian autocratic system. There…
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> when our SW project was going to shit due to insufficient resources and mismanagement from the start, what they did to address it was not to add more developers, but add two managers from other p…
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> It's not just brain atrophy, I think. I think part of it is that we're actively making a tradeoff to focus on learning how to use the model rather than learning how to use our own brain…
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> Yes, and that is exactlyt the problem, some of us do read the articles before posting. Some of us do. You clearly prefered to jump to comments without doing it.
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> I don't agree! It's easiest to printf() things since you don't have to have tooling to debug every language you want to work with! Nothing is easier than setting a breakpoint in a …
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> I'm building my entire back-end on CF Workers. The DX was really frustrating starting out, but I'm using Rust/WASM, which means most of my issues get caught at compile time. Cloudf…
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> Most people won't care because the extent of their debugging skills is console.log, echo, print. repeat 5000 times. I don't agree. The first thing any developer does when starting out a…
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> I really like the offering that Cloudflare has with workers, but for me they just seem to be lacking some DX tooling/solutions. Cloudflare in general is a DX mess. Sometimes it's dashbo…
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> No I cannot, because I usually don't use the programming languages it supports. You didn't even bothered to open the link, as it covers how the blogger vibecoded a couple of projects th…
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> I can't believe I just read that. What's the bar for a bad person if you haven't passed it at "it was simply easier to do the bad thing?" For starters, the bar should be …
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> Nothing particularly notable here. A lot of it seems to be 'We have something in-house designed for our use cases, use that instead of the standard lib equivalent'. The bulk of the rest…
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Here's a link to a previous HN discussion on forgejo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753523
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Yes you are absolutely right. The article even outright admits that Rust had nothing to do with it. From the article: > Protobuf is fast, but not using Protobuf is faster. The blog post reads lik…
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Name one application which uses HATEOAS.
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> It's designed to be written by hand. This assertion is comically out of touch with reality, particularly when trying to describe JSON as something that is merely "readable by humans&quo…
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Your comment doesn't sound well researched or thought all the way through. REST by definition is used nowhere at all, and virtually all RESTful APIs are RPC-over-HTTP that are loosely inspired in…
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> XML was designed for documents; JSON for data structures. JSON wasn't even designed for anything. It's literally the necessary and sufficient part of JavaScript that you could pass to a…
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