Started my career in the decade of offshoring and didn't think we'd have anything close to an "AI" taking our jobs before we potentially unionized or had a government that would protect its labor force from being replaced by literal robots.

2020-2022 felt like the usa tech ship was finally growing into something really great. All gone now.

When I worked in devops I always worried that my job was automating away other engineers, it definitely had a "when will this come for me" feeling, because it really was, now the dev and ops are both getting automated away.

This is my first time looking at HN in practically a year. Tech is just so uninteresting to me now. Nobody is hiring SDE/SWE/SREs except for the problem makers, like Anthropic, Meta, etc. Anthropic has pages and pages of $300k-$600k roles open right now. But do you go help the rest of your colleagues lose their jobs?

I guess lets talk about kubernetes or something...

Oh no, that TV show I'll forget about in a year cost me $15/mo instead of $60 of blurays.

I jump in my cars and hit a button and music plays. Almost any music I want. That's amazing.

I'm also not pirating games. I'm not 12 without a job. I have a job. I pay developers for their work. I want more games, like Kingdom Come 3, to come out.

Weird ass comment. You seriously think we're going to put our lives on hold to.. what, fight "digital media"? You think I care about netflix? Or societies use of it? I haven't used netflix in years. I don't know anybody under 40 with a netflix account. Everyone on your end of the pirate spectrum uses debrid nowadays, anyway.

Next you're going to tell people to install the "Black XP Windows" edition to not support Microsoft and they all get malware and their credit cards stolen because they installed some pirated and modified cracked windows. Genius.

MSNBC just cancelled Andrea Mitchells TV show, today, because she brought in no younger audiences. So yes, shows do get cancelled by not being watched.

This comment was upvoted? Hn needs a break. This is some I'm 14 and edgy bullshit that sounds like it belongs on an eastern european piracy forum.

Nothing in my life made me ever want to go back except for when I got back into playing hockey, and all the hockey leagues use facebook to communicate a few months ago.

I made a new account, had to literally upload a picture of my face to pass verification.. and then a few days later I was immediately banned and couldn't use my account. I assume because they searched previous data and compared my face to find out I have a "deleted" (lol) account and matched me. I've assumed they'll only let me log in if i use my original 10 years ago deleted account.

Fuck meta. Fuck zuck.

Somebody at Godaddy probably did this before you thought of the domain in the past, which is why its in their network and rejecting bids. It knows the incoming bids. It's sitting on it until someone like you came along.

I use porkbun, no idea if they've stayed course in honesty but I believe so.

Also if you're looking at GoDaddy era webhosts, they all own most of the market. Bluehost, Hostgator (EIG), etc are all grouped with a ton of other webhosts for that low end $10 market.

So, stay away from those.

Registrars are a scam, too. And stupid tlds.

These are $10k-100k+ servers. My multitenant/offload capable NICs are usually $10k-25k themselves.

Seeing people line up at the curve in the road where he was shot in Dallas was wild. It's literally just a curve in the road going downtown. Nothing remarkable. Too bad he didn't return a few years ago, I guess.

Which, honestly I really do get from his end money wise, because I have friends in that industry who are worth hundreds of millions today from lucky breaks, timing, etc. and I'm still a wee-engineer.

But he made those choices, he was always the CEO. I didn't start with the funding my rich friends had.

And they can thank mysql.. and apache.. and php..

Take your money and be happy.

I met some of the worst people (CEOs) working in webhosting. Some truly awful people became very rich.

edit; I thought this was referencing old drama. This is brand new. www.reddit.com/r/wpdrama. I don't know anything about Mullenweg, I don't mean to sound like I'm calling him awful specifically.

Some C-levels newphew into computers and need a school project or something?

I know it was twitch and them giving free chairs away to get more people to buy them. Great marketing.

Writing this from my aeron tower.

They might have a family PC in the living room for research and papers but everyone used consoles.

In 2024 some of my genz friends have grown up doing their research/papers on their iphones. I could never. I get mad typing on mine, I need a keyboard and an ultrawide.

It's crazy how regionally the internet spread across the USA absolutely massed from California.

If this is more about living in a more dense area where you have friends closeby, absolutely. I live in a very dense area and I have friends all over the neighborhood. Some across the street, some down the road. We can meet up and see a show or do friendsgiving or whatever or just grab a beer.

It's not cheap and I don't live in a big place but I am astronomically happier here than I was when I owned a house in the suburbs 2016-2019 and had to drive 25 minutes minimum to meet up with people.

I found this post from Dec 2023 that has a mention of 121 million euros net revenue. > https://steamcommunity.com/app/236390/discussions/0/40347264... it's specifically referencing ONLY Hungarian income data for the company directly- https://www.ceginformacio.hu/cr9311454780_EN

If you look at that today in 2024- https://www.ceginformacio.hu/cr9311454780_EN

It's 137,097,280 euros a year today. $131 million revenue with 200 employees.. I've worked at 1200-2500 employee companies that were 10ths of that, if that.

Gajin has companies all over the world, I'm assuming this is only their hungarian revenue. I don't know if its only their hungarian employees, I assume so..

edit: I just noticed the ceginfomacio.hu link shows 56 people, 1 owner reported 1/1/2023. So, 56 hungarian employees?

I love building the cool edge network stuff with expensive bleeding edge hardware, smartnics, nvmeOF, etc but its infinitely more complicated and stressful than terraforming an AWS infra. Every cluster I set up I had to interact with multiple teams like networking, security, storage sometimes maintenance/electrical, etc. You've got some random tech you have to rely on across the country in one of your POPs with a blown server. Every single hardware infra person has had a NOC tech kick/unplug a server at least once if they've been in long enough.

And then when I get the hardware sometimes you have different people doing different parts of setup, like NOC does the boot, maybe boostraps the hardware with something that works over ssh before an agent is installed (ansible, etc), then your linux eng invokes their magic with a ton of bash or perl, then your k8s person sets up the k8s clusters with usually something like terraform/puppet/chef/salt probably calling helm charts. Then your monitoring person gets it into OTEL/grafana, etc. This all organically becomes more automated as time goes on, but I've seen it from a brand new infra where you've got no automation many times.

Now you're automating 90% of this via scripts and IAC, etc, but you're still doing a lot of tedious work.

You also have a much more difficult time hiring good engineers. The markets gone so heavily AWS (I'm no help) that its rare that I come across an ops resume that's ever touched hardware, especially not at the CDN distributed systems level.

So.. aws is the chill infra that stays online and you can basically rely on 99.99something%. Get some terraform blueprints going and your own developers can self serve. Don't need hardware or ops involved.

And none of this is even getting into supporting the clusters. Failing clusters. Dealing with maintenance, zero downtime kernel upgrades, rollbacks, yaddayadda.

I think this is because it's so new with these apps. 1password acts really strange with them sometimes and my chrome extension will lock up or not actually push the passkey through or whatever it does. Sometimes I just get annoyed and throw it wherever worked.

When they're flawless they're awesome. I don't mind the quirks right now.