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A few reminders from the HN commenting guidelines: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Please don't post

A few reminders from the HN commenting guidelines: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

lijok 3y ago
Normally I would absolutely agree, but this article is the equivalent of one called "Flying a Boeing 737" in which the author advises you to invert the plane, fly at sea level and turn off all instruments. That is how little the proposed approach in this article makes sense. Given that, how is one supposed to reply critically to such a post? I'm genuinely curious and open to suggestions, as it's something I'm clearly not good at.
- marcinzm 3y ago
  >Given that, how is one supposed to reply critically to such a post? I'm genuinely curious and open to suggestions, as it's something I'm clearly not good at. Link to or describe a better approach and explain specifically why it's better. Your only specific part was that it's slow to deploy a new service which for most organizations is somewhere on the bottom of their priority list. In fact many organizations probably prefer slow deployments as that implicitly discourages unnecessary services and infrastructure bloat. That in turn lowers the long term maintenance burden and technical debt. Five hundred services that are in reality owned by no team or whom no one knows about are not what you want in an organization.
- primax 3y ago
  You reply critically to such a post by using experience, references and rhetoric to explain your position. You know this. These Reddit level comments don't belong on this site.
mathisfun123 3y ago
Do you know what tone policing is? hn is one of the most conservative echo-chambers I visit (yes I should stop) because constantly everyone is always being tut-tut-tut-ed.

lijok 3y ago

Normally I would absolutely agree, but this article is the equivalent of one called "Flying a Boeing 737" in which the author advises you to invert the plane, fly at sea level and turn off all instruments. That is how little the proposed approach in this article makes sense. Given that, how is one supposed to reply critically to such a post? I'm genuinely curious and open to suggestions, as it's something I'm clearly not good at.

marcinzm 3y ago
>Given that, how is one supposed to reply critically to such a post? I'm genuinely curious and open to suggestions, as it's something I'm clearly not good at. Link to or describe a better approach and explain specifically why it's better. Your only specific part was that it's slow to deploy a new service which for most organizations is somewhere on the bottom of their priority list. In fact many organizations probably prefer slow deployments as that implicitly discourages unnecessary services and infrastructure bloat. That in turn lowers the long term maintenance burden and technical debt. Five hundred services that are in reality owned by no team or whom no one knows about are not what you want in an organization.
primax 3y ago
You reply critically to such a post by using experience, references and rhetoric to explain your position. You know this. These Reddit level comments don't belong on this site.

mathisfun123 3y ago

Do you know what tone policing is? hn is one of the most conservative echo-chambers I visit (yes I should stop) because constantly everyone is always being tut-tut-tut-ed.