elktown

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by elktown 2y ago
For repeat offenders, I prefer to call it out.
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by elktown 2y ago
Sealioning is not respectful discussion. A respectful person would've taken the burden onto themselves of offering counter-evidence instead of firing off a barrage of obstinate questions.
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by elktown 2y ago
> It doesn't require a sociology degree to pattern-match your comment history. ^^^^ > Then when I respond nicely you come back to tell me to “fuck off”. I did not.
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by elktown 2y ago
11 questions, impressive Sealioning.
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by elktown 2y ago
The problem is further exacerbated by needless complexity being seen as sophistication, and in the end; one's competency level. A lot of today's bloat and bullshit is caused by this attitude. Like a football team full of body bu
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by elktown 2y ago
I will never understand how adults can feel fealty to powerful people like this. How does it even come about?
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by elktown 2y ago
Sounds like schooling your even drunker mate 8 pints deep into a weekend bender.
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by elktown 2y ago
Only 500MB? Now you're being charitable.
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by elktown 2y ago
> Meanwhile you’re defending the prerogative of unelected career bureaucrats to veto what the public wants. Sorry, you’re the bad guy. The federal “Resistance” workers are the bad guys. No, the person advocating for a purge of employees
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by elktown 2y ago
> the cloud-native space I'd argue that a big chunk of that particular space is sales innovation rather than tech innovation. But I'm admittedly pretty jaded and cynical of all the bs at this point.
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by elktown 2y ago
To be fair, software discussions in particular are absolutely overflowing with snark, reflexive dismissals, and just general one-upmanship. So I can understand people assuming the worst.
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by elktown 2y ago
> with far left views that in the recent decade have become the loudest voice basically every online platform. > the same toxic far left hub that Reddit has become > shifting away from the far left messaging that has been the defau
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by elktown 2y ago
The problem is that it can create a chain-reaction of complexity because it opens up possibilities for over-engineering. In the sense of: "Yes, it's a bit over-engineered, but k8s makes it manageable for us anyway!" - consc
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by elktown 2y ago
That doesn't follow at all.
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by elktown 2y ago
But that's the problem right, in any other industry self-serving pursuits without proper motivation is rightly seen as wholly unprofessional. But somehow our field has come to not only accept it, but encourage it. Imagine a carpenter g
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by elktown 2y ago
The level of reductionism of that comment is honestly quite amusing given the topic. Maybe we can use it as an unintended warning of not going too far in the pursuit of simplicity.
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by elktown 2y ago
I don't think one should underestimate the incentives at play here though. Complexity sells not just in literal money, but in career prospects too and so on. It's really bad incentives all around in favor of complexity.
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by elktown 2y ago
It's a matter of proportionality in power and influence. E.g: Yes, most football fans are likely well meaning folks, but the World Cup is still ending up in absolute monarchies with all excuses under the sun suddenly appearing to defen
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by elktown 2y ago
The only consistency you'll find in business and politics is self-interest - perceived or real.
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by elktown 2y ago
This is so unnuanced that it reads like rationalization to me. People seem to get stuck on mantras that simple things are inherently fragile which isn't really true, or at least not particularly more fragile than navigating a jungle of
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by elktown 2y ago
Meanwhile in the glorious land of "never invented here": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38526780
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by elktown 2y ago
It's a general observation on over-engineering, "resume driven design", and proportionality being somewhat of a blind spot in software. But yeah, I'm not going to lie, my brain certainly patterned matched towards "t
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by elktown 2y ago
> And they can fix that problem in 5 minutes, big deal :-) Honestly, a big issue I see is that people can somehow argue with a straight face (and successfully too!) to invest weeks of work introducing a pet project to avoid a 1 hour inco
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by elktown 2y ago
Gaza seems like a pretty effin strong data point to consider here?
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by elktown 2y ago
Yeah, this ain't it.
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by elktown 2y ago
Do you inspect your neighbors garage workshop for branch safety standards & best practices? Context and proportionality.
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by elktown 2y ago
- "A single-binary app behind a load-balancer might scale to far beyond our needs, but the promotion/resume trade-off can't be justified."
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by elktown 2y ago
Why skip point 1 and do some strange tangent on a SaaS product unrelated to using k8s or not? Most people looking into (and using) k8s that are being told the "you most avoid vendor lock in!" selling point are nowhere near the siz
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by elktown 2y ago
I don't understand why this "you shouldn't be vendor-locked" rationalization is taken at face value at all? 1. The time it will take to move to another cloud is proportional to the complexity of your app. For example, if
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by elktown 2y ago
I think some are just pretty sick and tired of the explosion of needless complexity we've seen in the last decade or so in software, and rightly so. This is an industry-wide problem of deeply misaligned incentives (& some amount of

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