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jslaby commented on Tell HN: Azure outage · Posted by u/tartieret

alt227 · 2 months ago

Thats the whole point, big players like AWS and MS can go down, but here we are still talking on the internet.

Decentralisation is winning it seems.

jslaby · 2 months ago

Not everyone has moved over, but I'm sure there have been thoughts or plans to.

jslaby commented on Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance chuniversiteit.nl/papers/... · Posted by u/SlackingOff123

piskov · 2 months ago

My nation-wide C# Silverlight app lasted almost 12 years. And it had grid, animations, what have you in 2010 better than most html5 in 2018. Not to mention tooling.

And you know what? No matter the browser, no matter the OS it all worked and rendered the same.

Probably Adobe Flash was like that also.

First app we rewrote to AngularJS. You know what happened to it. So then we rewrote it to Vue.

The same effing app just to keep the stack “modern”.

I don’t know what is wrong with all these people.

God I wish something like Silverlight returned in a way that is mobile battery friendly.

jslaby · 2 months ago

Silverlight was awesome, too bad Microsoft abandoned it. You think they could've done something with it like decoupling from the browser, instead of making all these different UI frameworks that are fizzling out.

jslaby commented on Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance chuniversiteit.nl/papers/... · Posted by u/SlackingOff123

sixtyj · 2 months ago

Yes, don’t tell me this. I have to rewrite PHP based website because a framework doesn’t work with new PHP anymore. Back compatibility sucks in many software.

jslaby · 2 months ago

It must be a pretty old framework if it doesn't work with new PHP.

jslaby commented on Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation · Posted by u/rakshithbellare

citizenpaul · 4 months ago

On the other hand I worked for a small place that was spending over 250k'ish per year on website maintenance to a company that setup their headless CMS website that they sold them.

They complained about it constantly but they kept paying (7 years and going when I was doing work for them which by they way they constantly tried to shortchange me). Never feel bad about taking money from a company, its just business. Setup your income stream and take care of yourself. I'm not sure why there is this bizarre self sacrificing mentality in tech to make other people rich at your own expense.

Not to mention if you invoke those companies you are putting yourself in their walled garden that makes them money and takes control of your income away from you. Why would any person want to do that? There is no moral quandary here.

jslaby · 4 months ago

There is some truth to this. One of the fails we had was pricing our product too low, where it was looked at as a stepping stone to something more expensive, even though it provided the same exact functionality minus the fancy looking ui. There were businesses that wanted to get out of their existing application suite, but are hooked in due to management perception and the sunk cost fallacy. The company who overpriced considerably is reaping millions per year on that application. If I could just go back in time..

jslaby commented on SQL Design Patterns (2010) vadimtropashko.wordpress.... · Posted by u/mci

datadrivenangel · 4 months ago

"We use Oracle syntax and write <column expr> <alias> instead of ANSI SQL <column expr> AS <alias>. Ditto for table expressions"

Footnote on page 3.

jslaby · 4 months ago

T-SQL can handle that alias expr just fine, but the seqNum returned is 4,8,12,16,20 instead of the 1,2,3... I tried on MySQL and it works fine. I'm not sure how SQL Server is handling those cartesian joins differently

jslaby commented on SQL Design Patterns (2010) vadimtropashko.wordpress.... · Posted by u/mci

jslaby · 4 months ago

Of course, trying out the first example doesn't work on SQL Server..

jslaby commented on Why I'm resigning from the National Science Foundation time.com/7285045/resignin... · Posted by u/jbegley

apercu · 7 months ago

>"effectively gutting the least efficient parts of the government (my take, at least from 50,000 view)"

Based on what? See, I think of myself as a highly informed, curious person that is a voracious reader and yet I absolutely know I have zero basis to make such a determination. So what data do you have that I don't?

jslaby · 7 months ago

Efficiency is at an all time high now. We can see one air traffic controller handling a workload that would have required ten or more.

jslaby commented on A cryptocurrency scam that turned a small town against itself nytimes.com/2025/02/19/ma... · Posted by u/lxm

onlyrealcuzzo · 10 months ago

This wasn't a sophisticated attack - Pig Butchering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam.

The scammers promised him outrageous returns, and he kept giving them more and more money - without ever actually seeing any real returns.

One has to wonder how this bank ever managed to be successful before.

With all the fraud and scams in the world - how did no one find this guy sooner?

jslaby · 10 months ago

Unless I missed somewhere in the article, it is possible that it wasn't a scam and he probably just leveraged his initial stake. When it fell below the margin, he needed the money to avoid the loss.

jslaby commented on Deferred resignation email to federal employees opm.gov/fork... · Posted by u/dnissley

spencerflem · a year ago

I'm in WA, could you extend it to all of Cascadia? ;)

Last time a state tried to leave there were words though. I doubt this will go smoothly

jslaby · a year ago

WA was the only state to decrease in Trump vote margin

jslaby commented on Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year dillonshook.com/laid-off/... · Posted by u/luu

zamalek · a year ago

Oracle

jslaby · a year ago

First time hearing that one, no doubt coined and promoted by Oracle themselves