I don't get it..
Readit NewsOne thing that makes me sad, is the old "contract agent" seems to have gone the way of the dodo.
I clearly remember these folks. They acted in almost exactly the same way as literary or artist agents; searching out opportunities for their clients, and setting up interviews, etc. As a hiring manager, I dealt with them frequently, and had friends that used them.
They used to make a lot of money, because they would charge a percentage of the rate they negotiated for you.
Nowadays, it looks like they have been replaced by "race to the bottom" sites, like Upwork, or these contract companies, that hire you at a fairly low rate, and shop you out for very high rates. You get to "enjoy" the crappy treatment most companies give to contractors, but at rates lower than the employees that sit next to you, shooting spitballs at you.
I encountered this, when working with recruiters, after leaving my last company. The ones that didn't immediately hang up on me, after finding out I was older, started trying to lowball me into being one of their contract shop employees. They would love telling me that I shouldn't ask for too much, "because of my age," before "generously" mentioning that they happen to have a contract shop that would be willing to do me the huge favor of "throwing some work at me."
It's a real slime-pit, these days.
I think you've just had a bad experience with recruiters. To me that's exactly what they do, helping you find the best position and taking a cut for it
It's my understanding digital ocean "managed postgress" allows you to create multiple databases.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-many-da...
Wow nice how did I not know that? 10GB for $15 is perfect, thanks a bunch
Have you considered spinning up a cheap Linux box from any VPS provider and deploying your own relational database of choice there? Sure, there will be more administrative overhead for you than there would be with managed solutions, but it will be cheaper in the long run. In your case it sounds like you might be better off just spinning up a weedy Linux box on DigitalOcean, or Vultr, or some other cloud provider and just use that.
True that could work. The overhead is what I'd like to avoid, but if it were minimal I'd take that over a giant cloud bill. Thanks
wingshayz commented on Ask HN: Do you use foreign keys in relational databases? · Posted by u/frogcoder
It would seem a bit crazy to me to ditch FKs for that reason. Why not just drop the constraint? I would much rather keep my data integrity.
The issue with managing the relationship just in code is if you ship a bug to break the relationship, you now have to manually fix your data, and if you want to find out when or where the bug was introduced, you're looking at commit history instead of a migration history. Same thing when it comes to making manual updates or adds in the db. Even if it's just on a dev stage, if your code makes an assumption about the constraint which isn't true, you can end up with bugs or exceptions on dev, which is also annoying. If you want to remove the assumption of the relationship from the code entirely, that would be more understandable, but not if instead it means replacing what would be an efficient constraint and join with a separate query.
wingshayz commented on Stable Diffusion is a big deal simonwillison.net/2022/Au... · Posted by u/simonw
Some of the tech and especially the platform they're building is impressive, but in terms of raw image generation quality from results I've seen and my own experience, I don't find it anything close to DALLE-2
wingshayz commented on Tips for Developers Who Want to Build a SaaS Startup · Posted by u/prasenjit_pro
wingshayz commented on Tips for Developers Who Want to Build a SaaS Startup · Posted by u/prasenjit_pro
I think the author is making some huge generalisations here.
"Don’t pick something that needs a pretty UI": What if I'm really skilled in UI dev and have a good visual eye? Or a friend happy to do some free mockups?
"In-person sales are very weird for the developer personality": there is no one developer personality, I wouldn't rule this out at all.
"You don’t want to be going around talking to actual humans.": this is almost never going to work for a startup. Actually talking to people (users, clients, integration partners) is probably the most important thing you can do as a founder.
Cryptocurrency is different. No government is able to steal your Bitcoins by printing some more colored paper.
Yes today there are issues with volatility, but conceptually cryptocurrency is better than fiat money for the reason written above.
But if you like getting robbed every year then of course continue using fiat money.