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economist420 commented on The costs of microservices (2020)   robertovitillo.com/costs-... · Posted by u/kiyanwang
PedroBatista · 2 years ago
"desktop class web app" is a subset of "modern web-app". If you need frameworks, use them.
economist420 · 2 years ago
The meaning behind these is pretty blurry between whats considered a website vs an app, it's a spectrum. I consider a web app something that has a similar UI experience to a desktop app, as the word "application" came derived from the desktop.
economist420 commented on The costs of microservices (2020)   robertovitillo.com/costs-... · Posted by u/kiyanwang
PedroBatista · 2 years ago
Similarly with frontend devs thinking a "modern web-app" can only be built with frontend frameworks/libs like React/Vue/Svelte, etc, lately I feel there's an idea floating around that "monolith" equals running that scary big black ball of tar as a single instance and therefore "it doesn't scale", which is insane.

Another observation is the overall amount of code is much bigger and most of these services are ~20% business/domain code and ~80% having to deal with sending and receiving messages from other process over the network. You can hide it all you want, but at the end of the day it's there and you'll have to deal with the network in one way of another.

Just like the frontend madness, this microservice cult will only end once the economy goes to crap and there's no money to support all these Babel Towers of Doom.

PS: microservices have a place, which is inside a select few of companies that get something out of it more than the cost they pay.

economist420 · 2 years ago
While I agree with you that a lot of websites overuse javascript and frameworks. Can you tell me what else I'm supposed to use if I'm going to build a desktop class web app without it becoming a huge mess or I having to end up up inventing the same concepts already existing in these frameworks?
economist420 commented on Google no longer offers new domain registrations   domains.google/... · Posted by u/sparshrestha
economist420 · 2 years ago
Never again will I trust google. I'm so sick of this.
economist420 commented on Microsoft to support Windows 11 on M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership   theverge.com/2023/2/16/23... · Posted by u/ta_u
mattcantstop · 3 years ago
I am at a weird spot right now, where I have teenagers who want to play games that are on Windows, but am not wanting to do that through emulation like Parallels. But I am also not willing to purchase a Windows machine as my primary machine. So it leaves me not moving to Apple Silicon and just keeping my old Mac despite wanting to upgrade.
economist420 · 3 years ago
Have you tried Crossover? It's a fork Wine with good support for lots of windows games. Very good performance on M1 for lots of games, even in benchmarks the m1 performs is comparable to the highest end windows machines.
economist420 commented on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022    · Posted by u/Dicey84
littledev · 3 years ago
The Zendure Passport III worldwide travel adapters changed my reality in 2022 (~$70). It sounds boring, but man. I've had many worldwide plug adapters in my day, and many chargers. But the Zendure has a 65W USB-C fast charger in it, plus 3 more USB-C and a single USB-A. When I travel (and that includes "traveling to the coworking place"), I used to bring:

* A plug adapter

* My big ol' laptop charger brick and cord

* A medium-sized USB-A charger for phone, headphones, power bank

* A USB-C charger for iPad, Kindle

* A small power strip because I had to plug several things in

Now I just bring the single Passport III adapter. Done. It has a single power outlet pass-through, but I haven't even needed it because the only thing I ever plug in is chargers.

economist420 · 3 years ago
I just bought this, it's great, only issue is it sometimes is too bulky to fit into some sockets.
economist420 commented on You Can Forget About Crypto Now   theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/giaour
HebericNewt · 3 years ago
I can't imagine this ageing well.

It doesn't feel different. The evangelists will hurt and the whole crypto industry is set back, the cynics gloat and revel in the schadenfreude and claim for the 748th time that crypto is dead... Until 12 months later when we do it all over again.

It's not the biggest, it's not the first, it won't be the last, it's nowhere near the most catastrophic. At least let the dust settle before making such bold declarations. Any such declaration at this point is more hope than expectation.

economist420 · 3 years ago
There's a limit though. All ponzi schemes eventually collapse because there's simply not enough people to scam again.

u/economist420

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