smalltalks (u/smalltalks)

smalltalks commented on Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 14 infoq.com/news/2022/07/am... · Posted by u/schranz

melony · 4 years ago

Dynamo underneath amirite?

smalltalks · 4 years ago

From one their talk the CTO hinted it was regular EBS.

But for many other database such as "Amazon DocumentDB" , "Time Series" humour suggest it's Dynamo.

smalltalks commented on Ask HN: Is it just me or do 99% of SWE jobs offers seem completely pointless? · Posted by u/throwawaynay

smalltalks · 4 years ago

> it just seems that almost every job out there is about squeezing more profit out of people

Yes you are right 100%.

Few years ago I tried to raise cash for a devtools startup

I met with lots of VC. It was a fascinating yet horrible experience.

VC were not even interested in discussing about the product itself. They just wanted the growth numbers...

They couldn't care less about the problem I was trying to solve.

Software industry and Startups has evolved a lot from two decades ago.

20 years ago startups were built to be disruptive and bring innovation to the mass.

Today they just apply the YC model on repeat until the founders can make their exit and move to another startup...

Most Founders these days are just in for for the money and the fame , they want to appear on "Forbes" ,"Washington Post" and escape the boredom of Entreprise. In reality they don't care about actually solving problems , R&D nor software at all.

I'm not gonna blame them , why make something actually great when something mediocre will make you rich and famous ?

I was fortunate enough to find a job in banking with remote work , I only work 5-10 hours / week with a very high salary.

My team is full of incredible people super funny who don't commit their personal life on a shitty job to pay their bill , nor try to turn two founders from Berkley from multi-millionaires to billionaires.

I've worked in startups with 300M in the bank , SME , Enterprise , I've done them all ! No one cares about software, trust me after 10 years of experience I can tell you that no one cares about software !

All modern startups care bout is money !

I can only recommend you to find a boring job in a fortune 500 thats lets you have a fulfilling private life , I've done this choice and I'never been much happier in my entire life !

smalltalks commented on GraalVM at Facebook medium.com/graalvm/graalv... · Posted by u/pjmlp

rapsey · 5 years ago

I guess they made a deal for a discount on GraalVM if they promote it?

smalltalks · 5 years ago

The article is written by GraalVM Developer Advocate , it's not even written by Facebook technically.

I remember a contrat with Kong API Gateway , they offered generous deal if we agreed to sign an agreement to attend their conference to promote their product.

Very common in the industry to have those terms "legally binded".

smalltalks commented on Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market cobylefko.medium.com/no-w... · Posted by u/wyldfire

lazypenguin · 5 years ago

This article did little to convince me we’re not in a bubble. The housing supply argument doesn’t hold up to me, as older people leave their homes newer people should be able to take there place. Base asset prices increasing because interest rates are down? Sure that’s finance 101. All asset classes (houses, stocks, cryptocurrency) only ever increasing in value? That’s too good to be true.

smalltalks · 5 years ago

> The housing supply argument doesn’t hold up to me

Strongly disagree with you , I'm in Europe. I'm in the 25% richest of my state , I can't manage to rent a home because every time I contact a landowner for a property to rent there is 30+ person who applied before me within 4 hours...

Covid-19 has created a "remote economy" boom as well as accelerated household project to move to another state and acquire a property or just to invest in real estate.

Thus real estate market is performing just as expected... As long as the supply does not meet the demand the price goes up.

For crypto it's different , 99% of crypto transactions are speculation base. It's by design.

smalltalks commented on Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision economist.com/europe/2021... · Posted by u/doener

smalltalks · 5 years ago

Netflix is moving into European production because governements subsidies it. It's a pure commercial move , Netflix doesn't care at all about the respective culture of 20+ country of UE.

I'm From France , my country back movies with hundreds of millions of funding every year. New European laws are forcing governements to open those fundings to "Foreign Institutions", that's why they are making this move.

This law enable Netflix to make content much cheaper using public funding while using each country culture to improve customer retention.

As a French coming from African descent I'm absolutly terrified of what they are going to do with character like Napoleon or Charles de Gaulles...

Lupin show a clear tendency to override history fidelity toward a much more political narrative... It's frightening because they is literally THOUSANDS of story that do contain French coming from African Descent or Foreigners soldiers who decided to fought for France[0]

Seeing Big tech taking over everything with a political agenda is deeply saddening.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegalese_Tirailleurs

smalltalks commented on Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails mailstudio.app/... · Posted by u/martinaglv

smalltalks · 5 years ago

The developer is super smart , it's Bootstrap Studio[0] rebranded as something new.

I remember Michael Seibel talking about YC company "launching multiple times" because you shouldn't be stopping until you find your product market fit.

This time it's seems like the right shot , but the pricing is quite high for what is it...

[0]https://bootstrapstudio.io/

smalltalks commented on Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20) supabase.io/blog/2021/03/... · Posted by u/kiwicopple

yclurker · 5 years ago

Supabase is NOT open source and it's Founders are highly unethical. Here’s why.

We heavily rely both on postgres and Firebase. And when Supabase came as an “open source” Firebase alternative (also a YC company), naturally we were excited. However ever since the launch, time and again the community has kept asking for a self-hostable version to no avail. And community is requesting that since not all of Supabase is open source. If it were, community themselves would have built it. But Founders have been “milking” the words “Open Source” and ignoring the community altogether.

Here is the full story : Few weeks ago, I checked supabase self hosting documentation again ==> they were callous enough to even mention how to move away from Supabase and had no instructions to self host! Completely put off by this unethical means of taking community and words open source for granted, I prompted them about it. And their response has been to remove “How to Self host” section altogether from the website, documentation and Github. And then provided a fully watered down version of docker-compose which “is barely functional or useful” to community as it has no dashboard within it.

Whenever self hostable questions comes up, Supabase Founders cover up by providing vague answers like ==> “We are building with existing & proven OSS tools. We stitch them all together seamlessly”. When decrypted, that translates to ==> “We use open source to build our software (hey nothing special here : bazillion companies do that). There will never be a usable self-hostable solution in near future”. F** you Supabase.

Every single open source company that I can think of can be self-hosted. World class open source companies go to great lengths to ensure its always self hostable even by compiling source.

Supabase founders : You should be so ashamed of yourself for setting such low standards on what could be termed as open source.

smalltalks · 5 years ago

Everything said above is true.

Supabase started Open Source , their GitHub repo had tutorials on how to host the platform yourself with a bit of documentation. Basically from what I understood they've been growing SO FAST ( they raise 10+$M IIRC ) they had to make a choice between "Growth" or "Integrity".

Obviously it's a YC company , the market they're going after is massive , they chose growth over integrity and doing things "that don't scale" but that have "traction".

I agree with the author , the founders should come clear about the marketing and the status of Self Hosting and Open Source... Supabase is no where near Open Source as it promised when it was published on HN few months ago... It's getting closer to a "MuleSoft/Serverless Inc" type of thing that lets you connect your own providers...

Don't get me wrong , I'm saying this because I'm an Enterprise Architect in one of the largest Bank in Europe , I desperately need an Open Source Firebase Clone to move 300+ Developers and Business Analyst into a Cloud First / Product Focus model away from legacy Cobol Enterprise App, Supabase seemed the ideal candidate.

Unfortunately it has been a huge deception.

smalltalks commented on Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income yahoo.com/entertainment/t... · Posted by u/imartin2k

smalltalks · 6 years ago

Technically speaking , many European countries already have "Basic Income". ( France , Sweden , Norway...)

They are reserved for individuals "Not Active" though ( Unemployed and not looking for a Job ) over a certain age.

Those "BI" massively lower poverty , which usually massively reduce crime-rate , drugs related usage etc...

With 700€/Month you aren't gonna far anyway, you have enaugh for food and rent , and that's it...

For America it's different, America cannot technically afford "BI" because the entirety of the US economy has been built on having 20% of the population living under the poverty line in order for good & services to be cheap and consumed in mass.

Having "UBI" in US would create a skyrocket inflation because worker who are paid 10$/Hour would drop their work and stay at home and do something that is more profitable for them.

Hence , the American culture revolve almost entirely around production of good and services for happiness.

In France few workers drop off the "Industrial" economy , they buy a Farm and live of "BI" and their own agriculture and go back to the city to buy commodities ( Gas , Cosmetic etc... ), it's common in Italy and Spain as well IIRC.

smalltalks commented on Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube support.google.com/youtub... · Posted by u/zaggynl

ddevault · 6 years ago

Google & YouTube employees on HN: how do you justify still working at this company? Enough of the cognitive dissonance. Face your choices and tell me how you square yourself with them. For shame.

smalltalks · 6 years ago

> Google & YouTube employees on HN: how do you justify still working at this company?

Not a Google Employee , but in 99% of the case it's money + experience/situation.

This is similar to what others tech company are doing ( Reddit , Adobe etc.. ) in terms of arbitrage when they decide to enter Chinese Market , Partner with Chinese VC or with ideas that challenge their values.

Regardless of where you'll go in tech you'll end up in Amoral corporations like Google/Amazon/Microsoft which are driven solely by Money and Growth , regardless of the consequences. ( Remember Gillette and Child Labour ? Nestlé ? )

Also , the last people who tried to Unionize at Google , which could have enable them to do something about it , got laid off instantly[0] , same pattern happened in all others tech companies...

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/25/20983053/google-fires-fo...