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Great point!
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Thank you for explaining that. You are exactly right. I really should have spelled it Quality, to show that I meant the philosophy of Quality rather than its more mundane interpretation. At the same time, in an interview with Pirsig that I
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> Pirsig used note cards or slips of paper Ah, yes, my mistake. In my memory I confused index cards with PostIt notes. > and not really about motorcycles at all It's Zen, but it's not about Zen; it describes motorcycle maint
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Sadly, I did not enjoy _Lila_ nearly as much as ZATAOMM. It seemed to be less organized or something.
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Sorry you feel that way. I feel it’s a work of genius, the regular structure of which reflects Pirsig’s obsession with quality.
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I totally love and revere the book (ZATAOMM), and have read it multiple times. Then again, I am super-detail-oriented, so that makes sense to me, because IMHO that’s the kind of audience for whom Pirsig wrote the book. It _is_ a book about
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> Since the metadata service doesn’t require any particular parameters, fetching the URL http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credent... will return the AccessKeyID, SecretAccessKey, and To
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Support for your assertion: https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/cloud-security/aws-security-vu...
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Now just run Erlang on VMS and you have an uptime match made in heaven :)
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Great article, and I love the blend of art and technology. You are so often doing projects that involve visual, physical, and conceptual creativity; sort of concretizing the abstract into aliveness.
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> It scales about as well as any other language You can get just about anything to "scale" given architectural compensations (like scads of containers), so this, ipso facto, doesn't mean much. > so why not use a languag
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Probably because they really are holding it wrong?
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I can't refute your personal experience, but 10 years of Erlang work left me longing for more. It sounds as if perhaps Erlang was not used optimally, or, alternatively, best practices may not have been followed. 10 years ago the ecosys
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Nitpick: “piqued”, not “peaked” (though it’s a homonym)
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If I did half the things I already know to do, I would be in great shape. Tell me how to make myself do the right things so that I actually do them consistently, and you will be immensely wealthy after you publish that self-help book.
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That’s oversimplifying it. Knuth was writing about micro-optimizations, like writing a section of code in assembly language to shave off some milliseconds from a critical section of code. What many people today mean by optimization is a far
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But if you ignore the performance aspects of architecture and build, by the time you try to meet performance specs it is likely too late.
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Maybe the missing key component is the role of architecture in providing a platform for performance ;)
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This is too narrow a focus. Performance starts at the architecture level and can’t be bolted on after the fact.
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I’m with you, but good luck getting some scrum shop to include enough detail to achieve this.
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Thank you for writing this. So many people don’t get it. You cannot tack performance on after the fact like some aftermarket pony car part if the performant architecture is not there to support it.
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eke
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I keep sending copies of this paper to numerous colleagues. AFAIK almost none of them finished (or even started) reading it. I’m at a loss to explain why, since it is such a deeply insightful paper.
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This is spot on. I say this as an aging person living in irreversible and progressively increasing discomfort. To quote an old film title, whose life is it, anyway?
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Some codebases are legacy from the word go. Legacy is more about the maintainability than the age of the codebase.
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by defined 7y ago
Might it be worth using a password manager instead, like 1Password, or KeePass and its variants?
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I am type 2 diabetic and half an apple will send my glucose levels into orbit. The same goes for many other fruits. Fructose is still sugar, and I haven't particularly noticed fiber slowing down its uptake in my metabolism. I just stee
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by defined 8y ago
"Analysis paralysis" is a real thing, so I partly agree with you. Sometimes you have to take parts of a large concept and "dick around" with it to discover the unknown unknowns and how not to do it, then feed that back i
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I’m currently 1 week into recovery from a painful shredded (the surgeon’s words) patellar tendon and repair. On reading certain passages, my afflicted leg (and only that leg) got tingles and goosebumps and the rest of me just... cringed...
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Not really such a leap. It’s pretty well-known[1] that unmanaged long-term stress leads to physical ailments (some of which can be deadly serious), including - Anxiety - Depression - Digestive problems - Headaches - Heart disease - Sleep pr

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