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How Software Infrastructure Affects Sales

ublaze — Tue, 28 May 2024 09:37:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/how-software-infrastructure-affects

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40498998

Points: 3

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New comment by ublaze in "US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving 'ignition' over and over"

ublaze — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 19:27:16 +0000

ICF: Inertial Confinement Fusion

MCF: Magnetic Confinement Fusion

CFS is Commonwealth Fusion Systems - https://cfs.energy/

Q is the ratio between energy in and out in a fusion system. Q > 1 is the holy grail, which implies we have more energy out of the fusion system than in. CFS is aiming for Q 11 in its prototype reactor.

SPARC is the "Smallest Possible" ARC I believe. It's their prototype reactor that they're working on that uses magnetic fields through superconductors to contain Hydrogen as it heats up into plasma and goes through the fusion process.

ARC is the 400MW reactor that will be produced (aimed for within a decade) if SPARC succeeds - it's the scaled-out version of SPARC.

It has an impressive set of people working on it (ex-SpaceX).

And yes, ARC is named after the Iron Man reactor.

New comment by ublaze in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

ublaze — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:58:56 +0000

Tech blog: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/

Substack to keep it simple. But I'm not extremely happy with the design.

Quadratic C.I. Cost Growth

ublaze — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:51:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/quadratic-ci-cost-growth

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36537175

Points: 1

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New comment by ublaze in "OpenAI salaries are not 800k"

ublaze — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 03:28:59 +0000

These are company reported base salaries for OpenAI members of technical staff. The base salaries look very similar to standard tech bands.

They could be underpaying immigrants, but that's unlikely, given that it's illegal and they have a lot of attention on them.

OpenAI salaries are not 800k

ublaze — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 03:28:59 +0000

Article URL: https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=openai+inc&job&city=san+francisco&year=2023

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36475420

Points: 3

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New comment by ublaze in "Launch HN: Inri (YC W23) – Wealthfront for Investing in India"

ublaze — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 01:20:06 +0000

That's too expensive. I'd prefer a monthly/yearly fee.

Cloud storage abstraction with Object Store

ublaze — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 12:21:48 +0000

Article URL: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/abstracting-cloud-storage-backends-with-object-store

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33202535

Points: 1

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New comment by ublaze in "Good CI/CD and SRE Blogs"

ublaze — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 23:14:04 +0000

Thank you!

Systemizing Platform Strategy

ublaze — Sun, 01 May 2022 19:20:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/systemizing-platform-strategy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31227841

Points: 2

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New comment by ublaze in "Ask HN: Do you find working on large distributed systems exhausting?"

ublaze — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 12:59:51 +0000

Yeah, large-scale systems are often boring in my experience, because the scale limits what features you can add to make things better. Each and every decision has to take scale into account, and it's tricky to try experimenting.

I think it has to do with the kind of engineer you are. Some engineers love iterating and improving such systems to be more efficient, more scalable, etc. But it can be limiting due to the slower release cycles, hyper focus on availability, and other necessary constraints.

New comment by ublaze in "Git in one image"

ublaze — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 14:53:58 +0000

Does anyone know which tool can be used to make such visualizations?

New comment by ublaze in "Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is stable"

ublaze — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 21:29:07 +0000

To clarify, the slow git push was likely custom pre-receive hooks being slow.

New comment by ublaze in "Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is stable"

ublaze — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 21:28:36 +0000

I remember we migrated 2+ million LoC to being formatted by Black at Dropbox.

Our Livegrep instance with a custom Git blame implementation always crashed at the commit made to do the migration :-) We had to pause our merge queue because we didn't want to run into conflicts, and I remember the `git push` ended up taking a while.

There was only one change that we had to make to Black to get it working on our codebase - https://github.com/psf/black/commit/024c9cab55da7bd3236fd887...

Glad to see it's now stable.

Building Zerodha with Kailash Nadh

ublaze — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 14:29:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-37-building-zerodha

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29240917

Points: 1

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New comment by ublaze in "Highlights from Git 2.34"

ublaze — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:56:40 +0000

I interviewed one of the creators of the Git sparse index a while back: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-32-derri... which had some interesting tidbits.

Migrating the Windows source code to Git [audio]

ublaze — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 14:56:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-32-derrick-stolee

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28576742

Points: 1

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New comment by ublaze in "Building PlanetScale with PlanetScale"

ublaze — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:47:15 +0000

I've been following PlanetScale for a few years and interviewed their CTO Sugu last week: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-29-sugu-..., if anyone's interested to hear their story of building Vitess for YouTube and some details on PlanetScale behind the scenes.

Sharing our Engineering Career Framework with the world

ublaze — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 15:52:32 +0000

Article URL: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/sharing-our-engineering-career-framework-with-the-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27822484

Points: 3

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New comment by ublaze in "The modern trap of turning hobbies into hustles (2019)"

ublaze — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 18:53:53 +0000

This resonates well. I have a hobby software podcast (https://softwareatscale.dev/) and the most common question I get asked is around how I'm planning to monetize it. I've had unsolicited offers from acquaintances to partner up to set up merch deals (?) and even NFTs to sell episodes.