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string commented on Show HN: Fastify DX, a full stack framework based on Fastify and Vite github.com/fastify/fastif... · Posted by u/jgalvez

hsn915 · 3 years ago

No, I'm a web developer (unfortunately?).

Maybe you don't realize there's a hundred ways to develop websites and just because you know a certain stack does not mean everyone else knows it (or cares about it).

string · 3 years ago

I too don't use half the things mentioned in the project's documentation but I know what they all are, the ecosystem isn't that big.

I'd be really interested to hear what stack you use to develop websites.

string commented on Show HN: Fastify DX, a full stack framework based on Fastify and Vite github.com/fastify/fastif... · Posted by u/jgalvez

hsn915 · 3 years ago

As usual, I click the link, I try to read the page content but I have no idea what it's saying.

Buzzword buzzword, buzzword!

Just tell me what is it, and if you don't want to, that's your right, but then why are you sharing the link?

- What general category of tools is it?

- What makes it different from other/similar tools?

Don't tell me "it's fast and developr friendly". Tell me what makes it that? What makes it better than the other tools? What do these other tools lack that you are providing?

string · 3 years ago

I can only assume you're not a web developer? Because just the title of the post makes it clear to pretty much any web dev what this is. The package introduction sections accessible in one click are also very clear and concise.

string commented on Details of yesterday's Bunny CDN outage bunny.net/blog/the-stack-... · Posted by u/aSig

manishsharan · 5 years ago

TIL about BunnyCDN. I had been paying $0.08 per GB on AWS Cloudfront whereas BunnyCDN is only $0.01 per GB. Can you comment on you experience with them ? Are the APIs comprehensive e.g. cache invalidation ? do they support cookie base authorization ? Any support Geo-Fencing?

string · 5 years ago

I noticed another user has already commented, sounds like they've had more experience with the things you're interested in than I have, for FWIW, the APIs have been sufficient for my use cases and you can definitely purge a pullzone's cache with them.

My primary use has been for serving image assets, switched over from Cloudfront and have seen probably a >80% cost reduction, and no noticeable performance reduction, but as I mentioned I'm operating at a scale where milliseconds of difference don't mean much.

string commented on Brave Search beta search.brave.com/... · Posted by u/vmullin

jonathansampson · 5 years ago

Please don't take my words for granted. Verify everything. If you wish to prod a little, I'm always happy to chat :-)

string · 5 years ago

Appreciate you taking part in the conversation. So often people complain about companies not communicating like humans, but when they do people almost seem to get more pissed off. You can't win really.

string commented on Details of yesterday's Bunny CDN outage bunny.net/blog/the-stack-... · Posted by u/aSig

string · 5 years ago

Good and clear explanation. This is a risk you take when you use a CDN, I still think the benefits outweigh the occasional downtime. I'm a big fan of BunnyCDN, they've saved me a lot of money over the past few years.

I'm sure I'd be fuming if I worked at some multi-million dollar company but as someone that mainly works for smaller businesses it's not the end of the world, I suspect most of my clients haven't even noticed yet.

string commented on Ask HN: What is your “sales stack”? · Posted by u/oliverx0

legostormtroopr · 5 years ago

This is a really unuseful answer and I’m really curious to know why you even bothered responding.

For those of us who are technical people moving into sales this is a valuable question.

string · 5 years ago

I found it useful. "Being in sales" is a moral grey area for a lot of us, so it's interesting to see the response when someone indirectly challenges those that don't share that viewpoint.

string commented on AlpineJS alpinejs.dev/... · Posted by u/monkey_monkey

cute_boi · 5 years ago

Vue started with same simplicity but now its big. People were saying same it looks perfect balance on small project.

Looks like it is inevitable in Javascript ecosystem to reinvent the wheel again and again.

string · 5 years ago

Isn't Vue like 13kb? By what measure is that considered big?

string commented on French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ independent.co.uk/news/wo... · Posted by u/nomoreplease

mahkeiro · 5 years ago

The ability of a native english speaker to speak any other language than their own is abysmal…

string · 5 years ago

Not exactly surprising given the ubiquity of the English language. I always find it funny how it's used as a criticism of English speakers. We are no less able to learn other languages, it's just far less of a necessity. I can speak a bit of German, a bit of French, a bit of Japanese, a bit of Lingala, etc. Inevitably whenever I attempt to speak these languages in their native environments, I am spoken to in English. So I can learn them as a hobby but need to far less out of necessity.

string commented on Japanese government is selling houses for $500 to populate rural areas insider.com/japanese-gove... · Posted by u/protomyth

lhorie · 5 years ago

It's probably not as romanticizing as you expect.

Watch the beginning of Totoro to get an idea of what an abandoned house in rural Japan looks like (rundown, in the middle of nowhere). Vacation homes anywhere get quite dusty in a mere week, so you'd be looking at a spring cleaning event on every trip (very much like in the movie).

Bear in mind also that flight tickets to Japan aren't exactly cheap either; you can get a week worth of hotel stays in the US for the price of the round trip flight from US to Japan.

string · 5 years ago

That's funny, I always think of the house in My Neighbour Totoro as probably the most idyllic place I could imagine. I'd swap my place in relatively central London for it in a heartbeat.

string commented on The only Buddhist region in Europe dw.com/en/the-only-buddhi... · Posted by u/janandonly

Quarrelsome · 5 years ago

It doesn't sorry, I rather mean that one is forcing a personal sense of morality on one's supply chain, that isn't necessarily a bad thing. But what is bad is that one only drops what is advertised to them as being bad which makes one think it was never about the sense of morality in the first place.

The implication being that every single supply chain is bad (e.g. cobalt mining in DRC) but we conveniently just don't uncover everything because we'd have to drop too much. We're terrified (to an extent) to accept the negative impact our existence has in this world so pursue a dream of moral purity to escape that harrowing reality.

Bald is a sex tourist so we'll never watch his channel but where is our cobalt mined from? As long as we don't know (our ignorance gives us plausible deniability) we can keep buying products that indirectly kill children while still showing everyone how good we are by not watching Bald's content. I think there's a hypocrisy here because I think relatively speaking Bald is acceptable but to purge him and just permit the rest (because the subjects are more boring or more distant) I think is bullshit.

string · 5 years ago

I readily accept that the reality is harrowing, but I don't agree that just sharing information about some potentially immoral thing is anything like the pursuit of some state of moral purity. Is it not better that individuals try to make supposed moral decisions where possible, even if they ultimately fall short?

It seems that in order to function one must come to terms with the fact that existence is a moral balancing act and that we all do immoral things. I accept that I own many things that likely caused others suffering. I have had a fascination with the DRC for a number of years and am acutely aware of what goes on there, yet I bought a new phone last year and a laptop the year before that. I accept the hypocrisy. But I am still glad people share information about what happens there. Whilst most of us will ignore it, some person or people better than me may be able to use that information to enact some positive change. At least the conversation can occur.

It is also a harsh reality that the less abstracted the situation, the easier it is for humans to face up to their own sense of morality. For whatever reason having intimate knowledge of a person is more impactful than hearing that an item you purchased was manufactured using some material that was mined by a nameless individual thousands of miles away. Right or wrong, we attach more weight to our judgements of others when a more direct connection can be made. It seems to me unrealistic to ignore that humans operate in this way.

Ultimately the intention of my original comment was not to tell people what to do, nor to judge, nor to demonstrate virtue. I was just sharing information so others could also make an informed decision. I chose not to watch his channel based on my own personal moral compass and my own boundaries of inconvenience.