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by bonesss 9y ago
That's a really good point. It's a spectrum of complexity over numerous components, inside the context of a greater development environment which also impacts decision making. As boring as it sounds this is why I force myself to
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> I mean, JavaScript isn't God's gift to mankind, but XSLT? Well... for just about any scenario where I would use XSLT, and demand the validation capabilities it provides, I can imagine the same functionality being delivered in
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For me it's "premature optimization is the root of all evil". Very often teams will use ages getting up on new frameworks to avoid a little hard programming, only to end up with hard programming wrapped in a huge framework th
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Nope. And directly conflicting definitions are not "nuance". You are missing a qualifier in order to make the point you think you're making (ie "the design of X is rooted in ..."). You've also wilfully read p
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Couldn't you make more drones to carry the Faraday cage? ;)
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> "The driver may (1) lease insulated delivery bags from Grubhub in exchange for wearing Grubhub t-shirts and hats" So if another source of bags were founds the Grubhub contractors could be wearing clothes that advertise a comp
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Sounds like an awesome excuse to implement a Star Trek/Enders game style "follow the lights on the wall" internal navigation system...
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> ...and there's two skybridges -- one that goes nowhere, and one that goes across 10th Ave to our space in that building. This sounds like a pretty awesome, yet harsh, way to handle internal performance reviews... Top performers
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by bonesss 9y ago
I think you've hit on the major issue with the "anti-hype" around kubernetes and related products: they're not something you need , per se, to develop an app. They are something you need to manage multiple parallel dev
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If you're juggling multiple incompatible versions of application servers across multiple platforms across multiple datacenters and multiple cloud providers with multiple dev teams... you're gonna see some real value to those kinda
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> what is the business value over raw executables + Nomad. It's not a given than any of the major business value generators are relevant to your shop, your domain, and your business demands. KISS is always good advice. Low hanging
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by bonesss 9y ago
> Something that is inspired by something is also based on that thing. Inspire -- give rise to -- stimulate, motivate, spawn, engender. Based on -- rooted in -- built upon, be founded on/upon, be anchored in something, rooted in
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by bonesss 9y ago
My co-worker was dealing with some credit card operations on a kiosk solution. During a key demo a quick test of the system triggered some fraud detection and the system threw up a huge "Got you, sucka!!" message. The new owners
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> Oh, and be careful of your messages in debug/trace statements This is one of the easiest ways I have found to distinguish mature coders and immature coders (green, rookies, whatever): read their test data entry. New coders write a
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by bonesss 9y ago
Naturally Star Trek style terraforming is off in the far future (if at all), but I wonder if we're not too far away already from some more humble projects... A genetically modified lichen, or fungus, that was designed as a stepping sto
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> raw package count gets to be an extremely poor indicator of quality after a certain level has been reached. Broadly speaking I think the best indicators are always going to be domain specific -- which set of packages is most used withi
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F# hits a really nice sweet spot for this: scripts with an integrated interactive scripting environment, and complete access to a plethora of unit testing frameworks. That lets you work line-for-line through your code, inspect and analyze e
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Further exacerbating that effect: for any particular silo or specific language any one programmer deals with there is already one or more dedicated language specific news hubs. Those articles aren't just competing for attention here in
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by bonesss 9y ago
> If someone just bought a new TV, then showing then TV ads is pretty much the dumbest move you can make. The target is at an all time low for probability of purchasing that item. And worse, you risk triggering buyer’s remorse. Repeated
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> Deployment and upgrades should be built in - as in it is part of your product. Not some afterthought. Kubernetes is one of several products that offer environment agnostic mechanisms to handle deployment and upgrades. If you're de
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> I've seen this attitude from people who didn't want to use ansible/chef/puppet because their shell scripts were "good enough". That attitude is also quite myopic. Not to condescend, but if one isn't w
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In addition to the dev benefits, there is also a built in cloud scaling story and strategy. It's not like every app needs that kind of robustness, but there is a certain calming security in knowing that if any part of your Kubernetes d
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I think it's important to judge the support model in context of what kubernetes is... As an API based cloud-management platform Kubernetes has a robust, stable, core topped with multiple layers of abstractions that build on, and use, o
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by bonesss 9y ago
Haven't more recent versions of k8s (say 1.9+), dropped some self-upgrading capabilities to smooth the pain of keeping klusters kurrent? I'm a few versions back on my clusters, but my understanding was that some decent work was be
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I see it, somewhat cynically, as an advanced competitive strategy. At some point something will become "the standard". Up to that point Google will have to be making huge investment in their own tooling to operate at their scale.
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There are definitely client app trends away from the Unix philosophy... I would argue that's a product of the success of the Unix philosophy, though. New apps are developed in a world where 'curl' or 'grep' exist
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You've given an insightful assessment of the orchestration space -- a modular DIY treadmill nightmare... Currently it seems Kubernetes is emerging from the fog as a de-facto standard to eliminate all those uncertainty points and provid
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0.01% of the Chinese soda market is hard to capture, for you or I, but doesn't provide the necessary market cap to engage in the fallacious thinking and investment at the scale that people who talk about "Chinese math" care
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> Darwinism isn't an optimisation algorithm. A set of circumstances that were favourable for survival with a particular trait may not necessarily be favourable in the future. While agreeing with the thrust of your post, personally
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> Many has business lines like, "The total market for car loans / social media advertisement / game currency is N trillion... I've heard this called "Chinese math", a near-fatal flaw in business plans, becau

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