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Look, if you're going to submit your own blog posts to Hacker News --- I assume sleepycal is the same Cal as the Cal who wrote the blog post --- then take the t
by escape_goat 12y ago
Look, if you're going to submit your own blog posts to Hacker News --- I assume sleepycal is the same Cal as the Cal who wrote the blog post --- then take the time to polish them up a little, and tone down the flameshow.
Would you like it if I told people your blog post was useless because you buried your thesis in the third-last paragraph and led off with an either astounding or false assertion that you tested docker (which you had previously disliked) by putting it in production for six months? That sort of needs some explanation and story telling. If Docker induced so much bile in you, then how and why did you end up stuck using it in production for six months?
- sleepycal 12y agoThank you for your honest thoughts, I respect that. I've updated the article to reflect the comments that yourself and many others have made, and you're right to call me out on it. You are right that I've failed to justify my testing, other than stating that it was used in prod for 6 months, and in hindsight this was a mistake. I'll amend the article to reflect this, naturally it will be of limited use without reproducible code snippets, but it will at least complete the story. As for polishing, I'd spent around 18 hours writing this article, with 4 full cleanups. I had considered putting a job out on fiverr to perfect the grammar, but that felt wrong.