New comment by firsttracks in "Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns"

firsttracks — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:33:00 +0000

Some feedback: The drill style approach seems helpful, but needing the variable names to exactly match threw me off. It would be great if we could _relax_ this constraint via a toggle for drill mode. "Precision Mode" feels like it's misnamed; when it's toggled on it feels more like a "guided mode" since chunks of boilerplate are written for you. It would be great if exiting Drill mode remembered choices, such as what portions were selected.

Ended up deciding to buy a subscription, but looks like the site still says "82% claimed" and "17 spots left". I appreciate the one-time purchase model, but feel that it's a bit shady of a tactic.

New comment by firsttracks in "You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it"

firsttracks — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 21:30:59 +0000

At the end of 2021 Facebook announced they would begin to use more AWS services [0]. Now, I wouldn’t call it Facebook going full cloud and I definitely expect FB to continue to use on-prem for the majority of their compute/storage; but I think it’s worthwhile to note that even FB (which may be one of the largest private clouds) sees value in using cloud providers to supplement their on-prem solutions.

[0] https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...

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