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by cbanek 7y ago
I'm with you on that. I come from a background of Dev and have been called DevOps (by others), although I just call myself a problem solver. The realization that I really needed to understand what happens in operations for me came aro
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by cbanek 7y ago
> But so many DevOps go out of their way to avoid writing code Well, this is the real problem, is that DevOps people should be writing code in my opinion, especially code to automate deployments and handle configuration. But many times
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by cbanek 7y ago
What people really hate is having to write complicated configuration. No matter what format you put it in, it is still complicated configuration. It's hard if not impossible to test, there's only one right way to do it, and it i
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by cbanek 7y ago
> companies that exaggerate their prospects sell at higher IPO prices If anything I think it's that they easily raise VC money, which then inflates the IPO price because people compare it against what VC's paid for it. WeWork
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by cbanek 7y ago
Seriously low. I'm impressed. Also it said in the article it only took half a decade to build, which is also pretty impressive for such a large instrument.
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by cbanek 7y ago
Interesting point. Although if they broke the leases, I'm sure that would also line his pockets (from early termination fees) without necessarily getting anything out of it?
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by cbanek 7y ago
I always read the "We raised $x million dollars" as "we're not going bankrupt this year, so we can pay your salary." You're right about raising less means you get in earlier, which means you should have more r
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by cbanek 7y ago
Apologies, and you're right. I meant to have recent in there. No doubt he's written a lot of great software (even if I'm a vim user). But I think his ideas about free software (GPL, copyleft) are more important (and hopefu
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by cbanek 7y ago
> I believe free software will be recognised as one of the paradigmatic changes in how science itself is done. I think we're already there. I'm an astronomer, and we (and many others) are already building platforms with softwa
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by cbanek 7y ago
I find myself speaking briefly, only because I'm expecting to get interrupted. It happens every time. Some people have said I'm very Zen by how quickly I can get a point across in few words. I tell them "it's the only
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by cbanek 7y ago
Well, if you don't understand what skills you're looking for other than the one buzzword "AI", then you almost certainly don't know how to measure those people. So then it becomes a credential / status game (&
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by cbanek 7y ago
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." - Isaac Newton on the South Sea Company Bubble.
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by cbanek 7y ago
I am so happy to hear that he's been acquitted. This was posted on HN after it happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20881509 It made me really angry then, and I think it's both hilarious and sad that it
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by cbanek 7y ago
I really suggest against building a database from scratch. It's just too annoying, and there's so much code to write (parser, storage, indexing, query planner, connections). If you're interested in internals, I'd say l
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by cbanek 7y ago
I think it's a good way to serialize the self-reflection. I do a lot of self-reflection and most of it isn't really healthy - more of just a circling anxiety over various feelings. Having to write it out means I actually have to
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by cbanek 7y ago
I think it's interesting that they say all the participants are right handed. I'm guessing left handed people (like me) would make it complicated to compare brain strcutures since the structures are cross-wired and therefore slig
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by cbanek 7y ago
It's just standard HN policy to let people know it's not exactly new (but still interesting), and many people, myself included, sometimes miss publish dates. So anything that isn't this year gets the year in the title.
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by cbanek 7y ago
To read, perchance to dream. Human creativity is unleashed in fiction, where anything is possible, yet still bound by its humanity. That it didn't happen makes it no less human, and possibly more human in that it is completely driven
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by cbanek 7y ago
My kindle helped me fall in love with reading books. Plus, not having to worry about physical books (heavy, easy to damage), being able to borrow books from the library electronically, and control font size and lighting easily has turned m
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by cbanek 7y ago
I love Kubernetes and think it solves my problems very well. Although I think I have problems that generally require it due to scale and failover. But I have also had a number of DNS problems that we still haven't resolved, and they s
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by cbanek 7y ago
I've seen this as well. It was also super critical bootstrapping code/config. It is so embarrassing I won't say who. But not having code in source control is still a thing. Sometimes if it's in source control, someon
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by cbanek 7y ago
"I could calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the people." - Newton
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by cbanek 7y ago
I think 5 lines is pretty short but good. At the very longest, I like a function to fit on one screen of text so I don't have to scroll to see the entire function.
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by cbanek 7y ago
Simplify, simplify, simplify. Don't make tomorrow's problem today's complexity. Get rid of any configuration options that no one uses. These things get passed around in flags sometimes to deep levels and can make logic compl
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by cbanek 7y ago
It's possible it could spread to general society, although I think: 1. Not everyone goes to college and gets indoctrinated like this thinking it is the way the world should be 2. America at least has free speech, which I really hope do
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by cbanek 7y ago
> every misguided thought or utterance is broadcast to everyone on the network, and immediately pseudo evaluated through likes/views/retweets/upvotes I really think you're spot on with this one. Plus, not only are th
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by cbanek 7y ago
> If you ask current students, and many administrators and faculty, what the goals of their colleges are, you will have to wait some time before hearing “knowledge.” And yet, costing more than ever. For what? It's not like people
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by cbanek 7y ago
"You don't look like us" - Illegal. "We don't think you fit in with our culture" - Legal. I think this is why any crime where the intention is part of it is so hard to prove, like discrimination, hate crimes, e
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by cbanek 7y ago
You are so right and it's quite Machiavellian. Specifically, chapter 18 - "In what way princes should keep their word".
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by cbanek 7y ago
Violent crime isn't all crime, and I think the counterexample to what you're talking about is the number of non-violent laws we make: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp... We have so

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