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Yes it links to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17393292#:~:text=Generally%20a%20footgun%20is%20something,shoot%20yourself%20in%20the%20foot
by superasn 5y ago
Yes it links to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17393292#:~:text=Generally%20a%20footgun%20is%20something,shoot%20yourself%20in%20the%20foot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17393292#:~:text=Genera....
The funny thing is there are definitions for it in wikionary and urbandictionary yet it is picking the HN one.
- tremon 5y agoThe other funny thing is that that definition is also from a thread involving MongoDB.
- marcosdumay 5y agoWell, the footgun on this thread is on Docker... There exists an entire class of software that is best avoided. Looks like their usage is highly correlated. As a parallel, I was just saying in a work meeting that the first step towards a good IT environment is not adding some crazy non-causal component like our F5 middlewhare, while waiting for a command to end on our Oracle database. That other class is highly correlated too.