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Excuse my harshness but people doing it needlessly is just unprofessional waste and abuse. Some people seem to have no concern with the needs and timetables of

Excuse my harshness but people doing it needlessly is just unprofessional waste and abuse. Some people seem to have no concern with the needs and timetables of the would be customers but instead burn through cash building fancy nonsense. It's like going in to a car mechanic for tires and then finding out it took 3 weeks because the guy wanted to put on low rider hydraulics and spinner hubcaps for his personal enrichment. The worst part is it's inherently ambiguous to the next people. They don't know if the reason something is there is because it's needed or because it's just shiny bling.

mianos 2y ago
I am certainly not saying everything you say is not all true. My comment is dark humour. I really like your last point. Years ago I replaced a huge hadoop cluster data processing job with a single app on one machine with a few CPUs, that reduced a job that took over 8 hours to 20 minutes. What is even dumber is, it was just a python script and gnu parallel, which used to be perl.
- kristopolous 2y ago
  I've seen people do hadoop clusters for a few hundred MB. It's so insane. Like hiring a long haul truck to pick up a sandwich
BeFlatXIII 2y ago
…but if the bosses at competing mechanic shops hire based on quality of low riders a mechanic can install, of course they'll practice on the paying customers.
- kristopolous 2y ago
  I quit working about 1.5 years ago. I think I still love computers while I simultaneously hate "the web". Don't get me wrong, to my amazement people have called me the best web developer they've ever met and I routinely get put on web like things at every company I go to - hardware, logistics, finance, I've been trying to run away from it but it keeps finding me and I think I hate it. I've got this allergic reaction to bullshit and fetishize successful products and customer satisfaction. I think we've both changed; I'm different than I was 20 years ago and so is web development. Tight applications with minimal tools that can be pivoted and changed swiftly which require competence and finesse to administer where you don't create developer debt, these are out of fashion. All profitable hacker spaces professionalize as romantic magic becomes a liability. I'm a middle aged divorced man, not divorced from a person, but from a profession and I've been trying to date around with new loves.

mianos 2y ago

I am certainly not saying everything you say is not all true. My comment is dark humour. I really like your last point. Years ago I replaced a huge hadoop cluster data processing job with a single app on one machine with a few CPUs, that reduced a job that took over 8 hours to 20 minutes. What is even dumber is, it was just a python script and gnu parallel, which used to be perl.

kristopolous 2y ago
I've seen people do hadoop clusters for a few hundred MB. It's so insane. Like hiring a long haul truck to pick up a sandwich

BeFlatXIII 2y ago

…but if the bosses at competing mechanic shops hire based on quality of low riders a mechanic can install, of course they'll practice on the paying customers.

kristopolous 2y ago
I quit working about 1.5 years ago. I think I still love computers while I simultaneously hate "the web". Don't get me wrong, to my amazement people have called me the best web developer they've ever met and I routinely get put on web like things at every company I go to - hardware, logistics, finance, I've been trying to run away from it but it keeps finding me and I think I hate it. I've got this allergic reaction to bullshit and fetishize successful products and customer satisfaction. I think we've both changed; I'm different than I was 20 years ago and so is web development. Tight applications with minimal tools that can be pivoted and changed swiftly which require competence and finesse to administer where you don't create developer debt, these are out of fashion. All profitable hacker spaces professionalize as romantic magic becomes a liability. I'm a middle aged divorced man, not divorced from a person, but from a profession and I've been trying to date around with new loves.