billoday

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by billoday 3y ago
A redesign that is universally hated in my organization. Every standup has someone complaining about it.
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by billoday 4y ago
I think that's crazy reductive though. It's not an either/or, and it's a gross oversimplification that big projects only show benefit within their major focus. LHC has produced benefit in particle physics, yes, but I am
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by billoday 6y ago
In THIS case, a writer for the Atlantic with a bio of "Shannon Stirone is a freelance science writer based in the Bay Area" is criticizing. If we had an expert in planetary exploration doing the criticism, I think it would be a mo
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by billoday 8y ago
For us, it tends to be driven by the language/logging framework used. When using syslog-type logging messages, we log at critical/fatal for the REALLY bad ones. When using npm-type logging, we try to have the string CRITICAL in th
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by billoday 10y ago
In my last three companies, the bulk of the infrastructure was defined and managed via Python scripts (a lot of this predated Ansible being great), so what gets forgotten is the literal billions of lines of custom wrappers and classes that
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by billoday 10y ago
The truth is, it's Python. I'm not looking for a great language, I'm looking for language that'll help me get work done... quickly and not give me a migraine if I have to come back to it (Perl). The 3 changes are just bi
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by billoday 10y ago
You talk as if the switch doesn't look like a bunch of arbitrary decisions made on the appearance of purity. If more of an attempt had been made a maintaining compatibility, there wouldn't be nearly as much fight. Python 3 becomes
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by billoday 10y ago
This is the greatest thing ever - for systems work, python3 is a nightmare. Thanks for sharing this.
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by billoday 10y ago
Agreed - they still make the best computers, we just wish they were as good as last year's.