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amrx431 commented on Ask HN: How are you dealing with the job market anxiety?    · Posted by u/mightymosquito
the_only_law · 2 years ago
I ended up finding new work after a while but may not be able to hold it down for long.

At this point if the market is still garbage in preparing to resign and find something else to do with my life.

amrx431 · 2 years ago
Me thinking a 10 year stint at academia. Get a PhD.....
amrx431 commented on When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition (2019)   gkogan.co/blog/big-cloud/... · Posted by u/gk1
amrx431 · 5 years ago
INMHO any company that sells solution completely relying on managed cloud services by these 3 has 2 problems to deal with:

- What happens to the cost of these services when company scales out?

- Whats preventing AWS, AZURE or GCP from copying the stack and selling a new "managed service" which does what you did in the first place?

Seriously, I would like to know? Do people take these into accounts before relying on AWS, Azure or GCP completely?

amrx431 commented on Ask HN: How to negotiate continuing to work remotely?    · Posted by u/megasquid
dbenny · 5 years ago
CTO at Markforged here. If you can't work it out with your employer hit us up. We're hiring remote software engineers. We'll ship you a printer so you can dev from home. Good luck! Like a lot of other commenters have posted - you have options.
amrx431 · 5 years ago
Hey dbenny, Just browsed the careers page and I saw few positions where I could be a good fit. Are there TZ restrictions for the remote positions?

Thanks.

amrx431 commented on Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine   reuters.com/article/us-he... · Posted by u/lazycrazyowl
daliusd · 5 years ago
Now I will get downvotes from India, but let's try:

It is percent of population that matters not absolute number of vaccinated people. Israel is near 70%, while India is only 0.5% [1].

CFR per capita, while looks good (113.97 deaths per million) is not actually good compared to Mongolia (0.62 deaths per million)[2]. You know, who else is doing well - Belarus (195.31 deaths per million). I don't believe Belarus numbers as all countries around are burning (500+ deaths per million). Could it be that India is faking it as well? Based on corruption index [3] it is even worse than Belarus.

sources:

[1] https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker/?areas=gbr&are...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

amrx431 · 5 years ago
> It is percent of population that matters not absolute number of vaccinated people. Israel is near 70%, while India is only 0.5% [1].

Which is more commendable considering the vastness of the land itself. Israel == Delhi and surrounding reasons.

Given the economic parameters of the country, it has better CFR than US, Italy, Germany and UK. Thats pretty amazing considering the health expenditure and wealth of US, Italy, Germany, UK is enormously high than India.

As when number fudging that is not happening.You can look at data from independent foreign houses stationed in India.

amrx431 commented on Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine   reuters.com/article/us-he... · Posted by u/lazycrazyowl
scrollaway · 5 years ago
Israel feels like the only nation taking the importance and urgency of vaccination seriously.

Here in Europe, articles are coming out complaining that the slow vaccination could be harming the economy which, well, fucking duh. (https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/154626/c...)

Fast rollout. Involve pharmacies. Involve the army. Distribute widely and efficiently. Prepare for months before the vaccine is here. Follow-up campaign to convince vax holdouts. A real War Effort.

There's barely any calls for volunteering here in Belgium. Hospitals and vaccination centers will complain to the government that they are understaffed but you seldom hear them urgently asking for new volunteers to assign to COVID teams and vaccination centers. We spent a ton of time debating whether the social bubble should be 2 or 3 large, whether kids should be 12 or 14 before they count for it, etc etc and those spending that time were the same people who didn't prepare for the eventuality of a vaccine, and started doing so in late December.

Sorry this has veered off topic. The number of articles that can be summed up to "Vaccines work, are good, and israel is doing it right" frustrate little european me. :(

amrx431 · 5 years ago
India. It is an enigma that why is India's response to Covid-19 gets ignored. India to date has vaccinated more people than Israel and has one of the least CFR per capita.
amrx431 commented on Patterns of Distributed Systems (2020)   martinfowler.com/articles... · Posted by u/sbmthakur
mpfundstein · 5 years ago
id rather argue that his book was one of the major reasons why we ended up in over engineering hell.

i was affected by that as a junior and even medior as well and i caused a lot of harm :-)

luckily i learned to step away from it.

amrx431 · 5 years ago
I never had the courage of say this...

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amrx431 commented on We compress Pub/Sub messages and more, saving a load of money   blog.lawrencejones.dev/co... · Posted by u/kiyanwang
EricBurnett · 5 years ago
Related tip: anywhere you're looking to deploy compression in a backend, consider zstd (https://facebook.github.io/zstd/). I've found it suitable for streaming compression (Gbps+ flows without exorbitant CPU usage), storage compression (high compression ratios at higher levels; fast decompression), and found implementations available to every language I've needed. It comes out strictly better than gzip ~across the board in my experience, and should be the default compressor to choose or start evaluations from if you have no other constraints.

I don't think it's yet deployed in browsers, so I'm restricting my recommendation to tools and backends. IIRC brotli is worth considering for browsers, but I haven't deployed it myself.

amrx431 · 5 years ago
I wanted to try zstd for a rust based application running as on Android. The cross-compilation and integration left me in pain and I am stuck with `zlib` which is also great IMHO.
amrx431 commented on Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK   bbc.co.uk/news/health-552... · Posted by u/agd
amrx431 · 5 years ago
On a different note, some research must be done to investigate such low prevalence and fatality ratio in countries like India and Pakistan.

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