Draiken

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by Draiken 3y ago
100%. It's missing the forest for the trees. You can focus on those 10 60 line PRs and completely miss the bigger context. Not to mention these PRs can be reviewed by different teammates that can easily lead to missed issues within the
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by Draiken 3y ago
There's no context in this to say what kind of change that is referring to. I can make hundreds of 2 line PRs fixing typos and reformatting text or whatever else low stake change that are as small as this. So, yeah, obviously those low
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by Draiken 3y ago
What a weird claim. PRs that are <50 lines are more often than not documentation, typos and small fixes in my experience. Most real value add PRs end up bigger due to tests, documentation changes, and the actual change. This for me is th
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by Draiken 3y ago
> Because hero worship is an evolved instinct that we're trying to confabulate a post-hoc justification for, rather than a coherent predictive framework. But that's not why I'm posing the question. Maybe my phrasing wasn&#
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by Draiken 3y ago
>It's about both. I agree. But then why would we ever worship the few lucky ones and allow them to have basically unlimited power? We could even claim intelligence is mostly about genetic luck. But if we really wanted to reward peop
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by Draiken 3y ago
Am I going to be back in those times where that capital was a lot? Where what we have today isn't there? Will I have access to the contacts and his network? Let me guess: no? What an odd request. This is such a lazy argument. > So w
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by Draiken 3y ago
> they all suck because they all have one thing in common - they are planned I suggest you read The Republic of Walmart [1]. Every big corporation in existence works with planned systems. Every. Single. One. That argument is a fantasy re
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by Draiken 3y ago
Sure you have similarities with a competitive game and life, but that's simply not enough to say that they're the same. People can and will do things in games that you don't do in life because... it's just a game. > I
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by Draiken 3y ago
What an outrageous analogy. Let's compare a competitive game to a complex system that rules the lives of basically all humans.
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by Draiken 3y ago
> No there isn't. We simply don't know if a different system could produce the same, because the few attempts we had were either corrupted or actively sabotaged. I'd argue if we look at China we actually can see how someth
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by Draiken 3y ago
More importantly, Bezos did nothing. Nothing. He used money he hoarded from another venture to allow the thousands of engineers to build it. Anyone can do that. And I'm 100% sure Bezos was not the one that came up with the idea either.
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by Draiken 3y ago
Unfortunately unemployment numbers don't mean shit if you still can't even pay your rent with your salary. This focus on unemployment is absurd. It has nothing to do with the wealth gap. More people working, but always with less w
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by Draiken 3y ago
What a load of crap. Capitalism rewards existing capital. These people have opportunities 99.999999% will never have and still they got lucky. It's not about competence. It never is. Our current society rewards people that can lie, che
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by Draiken 3y ago
What? You're ignoring all the lives he ruined to play with that company. Sure, he lost money, but he has plenty to lose. He wrecked a company and thousands of lives. They pay the price, not him. It's always the workers that pay th
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by Draiken 3y ago
The key is that it's not polish, it's simply because the baseline level increased. Now it's easy as hell to get something that looks polished, but that's all it is: visually polished. If you talk about actual functionali
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by Draiken 3y ago
> we'll pay you for a while and if this works out your options will be your reward for sticking around If it was at least as you describe, that'd be one thing, but not even that is guaranteed. At the time an exit event actually
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by Draiken 3y ago
That's most definitely a US centric view. There's a much bigger world out there
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by Draiken 3y ago
Mostly for SV startup folks. In other words: Apple fanboys. Jokes aside, the US is notoriously dominated by Apple, but it's not the same worldwide.
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by Draiken 3y ago
I'd love more help bubbles, since I'm not familiar with a ton of these toggles and boxes. I'd also love to see how much employees would get, not just me. I know people generally care more about themselves, but seeing how it w
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by Draiken 3y ago
That's not how Ansible is meant to be used by default though. Modules are, in general, meant to be generic. I bet you if I started writing modules for everything in most companies, people would complain. Unfortunately defaults matter.
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by Draiken 3y ago
Yeah, but the article is about YAML and my original comment was about configuration in multiple formats. So, to clarify, for JSON JS is definitely not the worse option. For me though, even for JSON, you have much better options.
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by Draiken 3y ago
JS is actually not that great for this IMO. You probably need an NPM package to even deal with YAML because JS has a shitty standard library. Sticking to a scripting language with a strong standard library is way better. Any unix system can
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by Draiken 3y ago
The complexity is already there. If you only need static state like you say, then YAML/JSON/whatever is fine. But that's not what happens as software grows. You need data that is different depending on environments, clouds, t
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by Draiken 3y ago
This makes no sense to me. You have complex enough logic to warrant a language, you should use a real language. You'll have more support, less obscure issues, a solid standard library and whatever else you want, because it's a REA
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by Draiken 3y ago
I agree that YAML templating is kind of insane, but I will never understand why we don't stop using fake languages and simply use a real language. If you need complex logic, use a programming language and generate the YAML/JSON&#x
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by Draiken 3y ago
Nah, that'd imply they think about this objectively. Most companies simply don't. Most time this "opportunity cost" is then spent on useless hacky features that are never used and forgotten right after release (redesign
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by Draiken 3y ago
I couldn't agree more. People today write static blogs with TS/React/Next/whatever because that's what they know. It's not because it's the best tool for the job (or even close to that). It has become stan
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by Draiken 3y ago
They don't break their site for Firefox users for starters :) I do say this as somewhat of a joke, but that's for me a real reason. It's not the first time Google has intentionally screwed over Firefox users. Even if we belie
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by Draiken 3y ago
I am in a similar boat with an ages old Gmail account. My comment was originally intended to be only about Google search (I realize now I didn't specify that, lol), but leaving the entire ecosystem is definitely a lot harder...
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by Draiken 3y ago
Another reason to stop using Google. Don't waste the opportunity! Switched to DDG ages ago, and even though it's not amazing, it's already better than Google. Although, if we're honest, searching these days is absolutely

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