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by area51org 5y ago
Exactly this. A capable engineer can learn whatever's needed. The idea that you should hire only niche specialists sounds good but is completely wrong-headed. The best engineers I've ever worked with were good because they would
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by area51org 5y ago
Really? I find him self-important and full of dubious ideas. I know that's not the conventional wisdom about him here, but take a long look at what he actually says about things. He's often wrong, and is rarely open to the possibi
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by area51org 5y ago
It's amazing how many people still fall for the 'fuck-as-acronym' myths. I've literally argued with people convinced that FUCK stands for Fornication Under Consent of the King, or (as Van Halen apparently believed) For U
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by area51org 5y ago
I did. The whole post is worded in a confrontational way, intending to piss people off and start arguments.
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by area51org 5y ago
If it's good for you, that's fine. But most of your ideas here are dead wrong. Things like "oh yeah real innovation happens because of hallways conversations" come from pervasive myth, not actual reality. Oh BTW pair pro
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by area51org 5y ago
"Company culture" does not arise from physical presence. I've been at this for a long time, and have worked for all types of companies: mandated office presence, flexible WFH, and fully remote. All had company cultures, and t
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by area51org 5y ago
As someone who's now been in the workforce for decades: presence in an office is mostly a waste of time and money. In my experience, those who demand "facetime" do so because - it's part of a political power/control
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by area51org 5y ago
Somewhat ironically, this kind of thing was what Tim Berners-Lee originally created the Worldwide Web to do. Obviously Curvenote is much more advanced, and meanwhile the web has become something more than Tim had imagined.
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by area51org 5y ago
I half expected there to be a torrent for the entire collection. Slightly surprised there isn't one.
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by area51org 6y ago
It's all and none of these things. The single biggest problem with documentation is that it is written by people who are not imagining themselves as the USERS of the software . Typical docs are descriptions of the software, like you&#
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by area51org 6y ago
Yeah, my first reaction was: you're fleeing what ? SF is not California. It's not even the Bay Area. It's one city. This is what a lot of incoming people never seem to grok, regardless of how much time they spend living in S
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by area51org 6y ago
The Scott Adams adventure games were variations on the Colossal Cave adventure game, not really Zork. Crowther & Woods, man.
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by area51org 6y ago
None of the variants so far are any more lethal than the original. Isn't that right? I have heard nothing to the contrary, although this guy seems to think it's already happened.
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by area51org 6y ago
Debian/Ubuntu are great. However, there are people and companies that prefer the Red Hat way. That's also great.
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by area51org 6y ago
... which makes Amazon Linux more relevant than ever. There's now OEL and Amazon Linux unless you want to live on the edge with CentOS Stream. (If there are others based on RHEL, I can't think of them. Yes, I'm well aware of
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by area51org 6y ago
Does that actually happen with GKE? If so: do not use GKE. Other vendors surely have better-supported k8s services.
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by area51org 6y ago
Setup = a k8s service? You should have support from the vendor, period. Setup = rep groups, internal services, etc? You need k8s-savvy ops people, or really good devs who like ops stuff.
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by area51org 6y ago
It really depends on what your needs are and whether your provider's k8s service addresses them. AKS for example does work but, I'm told, is missing some fundamental stuff in regards to security etc. (Caveat: I only know this thro
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by area51org 6y ago
And, not everything should be in a container. Just because you can does not necessarily mean you should. Containers are awesome but they are not a cure-all silver bullet.
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by area51org 6y ago
Thx for writing that. To me it seems mind-boggling that in the 21st century you still have to point out to people that you shouldn't just adopt a technology because it seems cool. Of course you should ask yourself what problem you&#x
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by area51org 6y ago
I'll pile on: this is a bad article. It's considered harmful. It's also just a set of arbitrary opinions positioned as information. It is not information. It is just noise.
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by area51org 11y ago
Every feature you mention was available in the '90s. I'm not saying Slack is bad, just that it's nothing impressive or innovative. The only surprising thing about it is that someone didn't make it sooner.
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by area51org 11y ago
Adium has a plugin available (OCS) that lets you connect. No video or audio, but if you just need IM to work, this'll do the job.
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by area51org 11y ago
Between the two I'd pick Slack, hands-down. Lync is awful, and I have to use it—so I use the Adium with the OCS plugin instead. It doesn't do audio calls or video, but it is stable and fast. (For video, hangouts are much better
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by area51org 11y ago
What's missing from this guy's evaluation: whether or not any of these unicorns are close to or at profitability, and what their actual market potential is. If the businesses are based on bullshit, then he's probably right. I
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by area51org 11y ago
There are lots of companies doing a lot more with containers than just using them in a pipeline. Google, for instance, runs all of its apps (including search) in containers (using Google's own container framework, LMCTFY), managed by K
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by area51org 11y ago
Thanks for posting this.
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by area51org 11y ago
It's a catch-all that's used far too often to mean too many things. I once came across a post (from Red Hat maybe?) insisting that "doing DevOps" meant that you "get management and the techies together and talk abou
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by area51org 11y ago
Openshift user here: there is no downside. Bronze truly is $0/mo. It's just that you have to given them a CC number (while you do not need to do that for the "free" plan). Why the CC number? Bronze lets you pay for more
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by area51org 11y ago
Privacy as a legal construct is relatively recent. It's as old as the fourth amendment. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects , against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be vi

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