elktown

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by elktown 1y ago
The comment history [0] suggests that it isn't trolling, but fanaticism - with the telltale hope of demise for everyone that can't see the light. If I digress a bit, I wonder what it is with some hypes - tech or just broader in so
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by elktown 1y ago
Honestly I think it's good to highlight it. As a industry we're too hampered by "Don't even try that, use the existing thing" and it's causing these end results.
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by elktown 1y ago
> code quality measuring tool I didn't, just an AI tool in general.
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by elktown 1y ago
> which I didn't sense that he does I'd take a wager.
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by elktown 1y ago
I think this is advertisement for an upcoming product. Sure, join the AI gold rush, but at least be transparent about it.
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by elktown 1y ago
- “Yes, the patient might die, but we’re confident that given enough resources, we’ll bring him back to life.” Well, to be fair, it’s basically what’s happening with LLMs atm. So, maybe feathering up Mammon and aiming for the sun will be th
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by elktown 1y ago
I've been online for 20 years. I've learned enough to know what going on now. 10 years ago I'd be laughed out of the room suggesting what reactionary bullshit is going on today, turn back to today, tech at large has just enth
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by elktown 1y ago
> So I'm saying to focus, online, on that latter part. Learning. Discussing. All of it calmly, so you can strategise. But there's absolutely zero success so far - in fact the opposite? You're only stroking your own ego.
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by elktown 1y ago
> Take it as an opportunity to engage in calm debate At some point people need to understand that this is just completely ahistorical and incredibly naive. It feels more like a cop-out to never take a stand for anything. I respect the ex
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by elktown 1y ago
I find it amusing how you can promise the world then people will just accept a compromise; "well, that's too far, but maybe it will replace juniors", even when that's also an extraordinary claim.
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by elktown 1y ago
Tech has a big problem of selective critical thinking due to a perpetual gold rush causing people to adopt a stockbroker mentality of not missing out on the next big thing - be it the next subfield like AI, the next cool tech that you can b
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by elktown 1y ago
> A better question would be what is the point of CNCF? I ask myself that every time I happen to stroll past CNCF things. I just can't avoid feeling that it's a big cloud complexity racket - and not even a classy one. A constan
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by elktown 1y ago
Uh oh, multiple layers of anecdata! :)
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by elktown 1y ago
> but the Dutch are not hampered by politeness. And our brutal honesty might help keeping standups efficient. Anecdotes are fragile; I've had the exact opposite experience, Dutch people taking offense for being direct when reviewing
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by elktown 1y ago
> what dependencies we had (eg, who needed the truck when) So in practice, that's a truck-sync meeting that needs to happen every day due to shifting needs and thus actually useful. Seems like there is room for improvement there but
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by elktown 1y ago
The closest middle-manager? They come with a whole range of titles.
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by elktown 1y ago
And this is painfully obvious to anyone not working in tech, where there seem to be some kind of blind spot for such obvious micromanagement bs as standups. "Yeah, we really trust you, but you need to give a status update in-person e
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by elktown 1y ago
1. It was set up during the Central bank's 300-year anniversary. 2. Without the central banks establishment of the perpetual funding there's no prize. Your argument is purely semantic and ofc snarky like your entire comment histor
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by elktown 1y ago
The price was created by Sweden's central bank, not the Nobel foundation. It's true that it's now considered a Nobel prize proper for most, but that's not to say that it originally wasn't the economics field leechin
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by elktown 1y ago
But if that's true, it seems like a bad idea to introduce that chain reaction of complexity to less skilled devs.
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by elktown 1y ago
The point is that it's clearly not a major issue to have large teams working on the same monolithic codebase, the problems are just solved differently or are just vastly overstated in the first place.
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by elktown 1y ago
Sure, but there are enough programmers to make the point.
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by elktown 1y ago
Talk about an axe to grind. Are you really implying that AAA releases being bad might be due to not having microservices as a method?
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by elktown 1y ago
> but a monolith with more than 50 developers working on it (no matter how you split your teams) isn't great either. Why can the game industry etc somehow manage this fine, but the only place where it's actually possible to ada
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by elktown 1y ago
That sounds like a good balance indeed.
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by elktown 1y ago
This is goes for a lot of things in tech unfortunately. For example, being stuck in a SRE/devops amusement park can be incredibly frustrating and surprisingly resource intense. Sometimes it feels like we could use some kind of a temper
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by elktown 1y ago
The value is papering over previous over-engineering. No need to reflect if we might’ve effed up - and we get to keep all the toys!
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by elktown 1y ago
Yes, but it creates a restrictive and fragile happy-path when the aim imo should be closer to a lab/woodshop where you can take it apart however you like and need for the moment.
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by elktown 1y ago
Disagree. It’s the same enterprise architecture gibberish that creates the problem in the first place.
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by elktown 1y ago
Welcome to the travelling SRE Circus! We travel to the smallest of villages! Our attractions are plenty, our maintainers are few, so please sign the waiver presented to you! / Greetings disillusioned dev once excited by the potential s

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