This should be worthy of a Hacker News black banner today.

You can tell the author is mostly worn out not from long hours or challenging technical work, but from fighting against the overwhelming inertia that faces building/shipping anything. It’s exhausting.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26050894

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The world of open source tooling and easily re-usable SAAS offerings means everyone has access to the best tools, whether you’re a small startup or a big company.

Anyone who longs for internal, corporate tooling baffles me when they can use things that actually have polish, user experience and likely better implementations under the hood.

Companies should spend their time/energy building things unique to their problem domain, not weak also-ran corporate tooling.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19543617

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We moved back to Boston and have been overjoyed with fleeing the peninsula. I'd still love to visit north of San Francisco of south of Monterrey on vacation but they literally couldn't pay me enough to live there.

Reading all the design and discussion I was. Rey curious how you structured things at a brass tacks storage level.

So this markup may be based on discounted cost instacart pays, not necessarily what YOU would pay at the store.

Still think it's a crazy premium, but I enjoy grocery shopping.

https://www.ezcater.com/company/about-us/

ezCater is the #1 online marketplace for business catering in the United States – a $21 Billion market.

We’re backed by Insight Venture Partners and have been growing 3X per year, and we want to grow even faster. We’re always looking for highly skilled engineers to help build our web and mobile apps, while riding this rocket ship of growth.

At ezCater, technology is valued as a differentiator and also as a key component of our success. We push ourselves everyday to better the codebase, improve performance, and deliver an amazing customer experience.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer: https://www.ezcater.com/company/apply/?gh_jid=78210

Senior iOS Engineer: https://www.ezcater.com/company/apply/?gh_jid=78582

We can get a house 3x as large for 2/3 the cost and have a much better quality of life.

What seems insane is to use a single github repo as the universal directory of packages and their versions driving your package manager.

There's a reason rubygems has their own servers and web services to support this use case for the central library registry, even if the source for gems are all individually projects hosted on github.

If this code was part of a web application, the I/O bound latency of backend/persistence calls will almost always outweigh any CPU bound processing time.

So they may have made this method call 14x faster, but how much latency were they really shaving off their average request? I would be surprised if it were more than a rounding error.

The test case used text in a table, which is an extremely poor example. Modern designs use a lot of images and CSS, where presenting a complete document and stylesheets allows much faster time to render than client-side rendering followed by fetching all those assets and applying styles.

The pain for your users is multiplied by the slowness of mobile devices/networks and the complexity of your UI's layout to render.

It's a very different thing to write a web application or web services that can run on many hosting platforms than to give responsibility for your entire backend to a service provider.

I can't see the benefits here, if they want water cooling colocation with hydro-electric or other freshwater flows seem much better.

Is there any connection or just a weird coincidence?