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If you like data and are analytical by nature, and since you’re on HN that’s fairly likely, I’d highly recommend using them for a little while if you can afford it. They’re great for newly diagnosed people to understand in near real time without repeated finger pricking. But those are no terrible either and much better than not managing and monitoring! Slightly annoying at first but it is something that most people can get used to fairly easily.

Comment · 3 years ago

It likely has more to do with the “data” team being different than the “application” team at a lot of big companies. It leads to many handoffs and inefficiencies and so people do a lot of things to route around it.

Not a knock against SQLite at all, I use it in production for my own projects and some professionally as well.

Comment · 3 years ago

By most measures https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11 seems to be doing alright. But given the trajectory I’m not sure the anecdote holds.

Comment · 3 years ago

| Webauthn with fido/u2f is supported on most websites and oidc providers.

I wish that was true. I’ve found that webauthn is becoming more common in the last year, but is still relatively rare. Many “important” sites and services make use of them. https://www.yubico.com/works-with-yubikey/catalog/ is a great place to see them, but they’re still quite rare as a whole.

Comment · 3 years ago

Two things stand out to me:

1) the ability to create content, and have that content consumed, that lets new folks come up to speed. Reading and comprehending is a lot harder for a lot of people than we like to admit.

2) Letting people know that failure and experimentation as part of learning is ok and expected. It’s generally easier for new folks to sit and do nothing than to try, fail, and ask for clarification and help. Paving the path for the latter both culturally and technologically is extremely difficult at scale.

Comment · 3 years ago

A lot of LBs in the 40s and 50s. I’d qualify those more as medium sized (but meaner) uglies :)

Comment · 3 years ago

He’ll be missed. I’m a (relatively) young fan of his and been to several shows over the last 20 years. He’s of course best known for Margaritaville and Come Monday. But theres a wealth of great storytelling and sing-along type songs in his catalog.

A few of my favorites if you’re interested in exploring:

A Pirate Looks at Forty

Son of a Son of a Sailor

Havana Daydreaming

The Captain and the Kid

Barefoot Children

Treat Her Like a Lady

He Went to Paris