I like Kagi and want them to succeed. But currently (according to LinkedIn) theres 26 employees. They are building search, LLM assistant wrappers, a browser and now news. Please don't overextend the same way Proton is currently doing.
I used to love Proton, but they focus too much on feature development instead of stability and fixing long-standing bugs. E.g. zooming has been broken for years in ProtonMail on iOS. Some emails won’t even render at all :(
Yup, i quit Proton (Mail) for the same reason. I had been using it for a long time…
There are so many little bugs and annoyances, it’s frustrating to see new features being released all the time while obvious bugs and shortcomings are not fixed.
It was a very big relief going back to a normal email client.
I still support Proton (i pay for Proton VPN) and hope they will succeed in their mission.
How is Proton over extending? All of their services are pretty great imo. I'm happy with them. Doesn't mean I am ever going to use their bitcoin wallet app thing, but if they want to build it, great, they know their customer base so it's probably not out of left field.
In the drive mobile app you cant even download a folder. There has been issues opened on it for almost a year now and since then they've opened two entirely new services and added many extra features.
When you're paying for something you expect the basics to be there and thats what annoys me about proton.
A similar one for Kagi: All other popular search engines have an alternative URL that enforces safesearch, allowing IT admins/parents to prevent safesearch being turned off at a DNS level (e.g. forcesafesearch.google.com, strict.bing.com). Kagi's had an open request for one for 3½ years[1] and it was recently downgraded in status away from Planned.
Was that his solution for getting a job or do you think he was marketing himself? Did it work? Is he featured in a WSJ article? Do you think that helped get his name out more than clicking Easy Apply on LinkedIn?
Can we get an amendment to the US Constitution banning promotion-driven-development? Seriously, I feel like that would improve by 2x the output of the US economy.
Seems very much in line with the solutions we see from customers. I still think there a big savings in embracing the managed cloud service of the individual providers, but customers see it as a risk.
I don’t know if managed clusters is actually a savings unless you really need the elasticity. Usually managed solutions are 2 or 10x the cost of dedicated servers or on prem, respectively.
Sorry, I was talking about managed database, lambda, S3. I agree that managed Kubernetes is to expensive. Unless you have a very specific workload, it honestly doesn’t make sense. Depending on your usecase building on cloud service and auto-scaling VMs is going to be much cheaper.
Lots of hype about event sourcing and CQRS, usually in combination. 99% won't need it. Has the potential to ruin your team and even company unless you have a well-above-average engineering team.
This. Why do people try unproven tech in a business? A well-above-average engineering team isn't going to go for this. I would leave before this shit show even got started. The problem should be begging for this pattern if it fits. Like those mentioning the use of ES for high speed stock trading, for example.
One of my unwritten requirements for any system is being able to drop in inexperienced devs for maintenance...after I leave. Most people are likely to shoot themselves in the foot by not understanding (or even being aware of) database isolation levels much less grokking an event pipeline.
DDD strikes me the software version of Agile sometimes. The ideas and philosophy behind are good, but ends up being taken as a silver bullet. If you do this you will have a good architecture and your software will be well architected.
Especially in the .NET world i've seen DDD being branded together with CQRS as "Clean Architecture" which in reality turns out to be a mess of layers and separations.
> DDD strikes me the software version of Agile sometimes.
DDD is more about managing your business software needs than making software. If you read "Implementing DDD" a good thing to take from it the fact you should focus your efforts on your business core value add. It's where you put your best developers, architects and money. Anything outside this core will get less resources and can often be outsourced.
And to evaluate what is this core and what is needed, you need your technical team to speak often with the domain experts. Using some common language.
The coding aspect is itself agile as usually there will be miscommunication at first between your tech team and your expert giving you a less than good result. More communication, more knowledge shared and understood will make you think differently about your product and its architecture: that's when you refactor.
I map it the same way to caps lock and experience exactly the same you describe. I noticed after the last patch a few weeks ago it went away for now. Been driving me nuts until.
Plenty of these systems have caught some focus the past year. A different question might be - why do developers not say no to work on this type of software?
There always will be someone to deliver a product. Why are there engineers developing weapons systems even though they know human beings will be killed by their creation...? The salary is raised until someone is willing to do that job for the offered money.
I want to use the GTX1050, so I set gpu-index to 1. Only 1 CUDA device so I set cuda-index to 0. To use the OpenCL device for the GTX, I looked at the bus # (bus 2), found OpenCL device on bus 2 (device 0), so I set opengl-index to 0. Not sure if this is the right way, but it worked for me.
