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721.
by fleddr 4y ago
One of the great frustrations with Google is that they never ever face consequences for their gross mismanagement. They're Yahoo-level incompetent but without consequences as they simply continue to print money.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Excel runs the world. Every large company claiming to be ERP-native is telling lies. Shit gets done in Excel, and is then exported back into ERP, if at all. Things you would consider quite irresponsible to be done in Excel, is done in Excel
723.
by fleddr 4y ago
A recent favorite, which you can use whenever something bad happens in the world: "My grandfather of 73 y/o didn't fight in WW1 and WW2 to let it come to this!" "What?? He wasn't even born in WW1, and a toddler
724.
by fleddr 4y ago
A man sits on the train and as he looks up, he sees a dinosaur sitting across him. "A dinosaur? on the train? What on earth is happening?" Dinosaur: "Well, don't get used to it. Tomorrow my car is fixed".
725.
by fleddr 4y ago
A seal walks into a bar, hops on a chair and orders a beer. Bar tender: "A talking seal! I've never seen anything like this. You should go work in a circus!" Seal: "Why? Does the circus need microservice architects?&quot
726.
by fleddr 4y ago
My secret for success, you ask? I get up at 2AM, with a smile. Then do 7 hours of running after which I have my usual 3 racks of eggs for breakfast, whilst I speed read 3 books. I'm fluent in one language: the language of success, whic
727.
by fleddr 4y ago
I must have hit a nerve. Saying that computers are used more often and by more people makes my assessment even more impactful.
728.
by fleddr 4y ago
Absolutely terrible, sorry that happened.
729.
by fleddr 4y ago
None of that means anything. The web is slower than ever. Desktop apps 20 years ago were faster than today's garbage. We failed.
730.
by fleddr 4y ago
I get what you're saying but I reject the notion that some of these tech choices are 100% subjective and that there's no "right way" at all. If hardware has increased in speed/capacity by a factor 10-100 in a decade
731.
by fleddr 4y ago
True, it's complicated, but I can offer the counter generalization that the US view on European worker protection is dramatically overstated. Case in point, Germany did not have a minimum wage...AT ALL...until 2015. In the Netherlands,
732.
by fleddr 4y ago
I actually respect he French attitude and willingness to stand up for their rights and way of life. We can endlessly debate whether they take it too far but in the backdrop of the rest of the world doing fuck all, I see it as a positive.
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by fleddr 4y ago
There's different types of unions, those in Europe tend to be different from the unions the US used to have (and perhaps still have). Unions in my country (Netherlands) do not protect the individual. You do not get hired via a union (f
734.
by fleddr 4y ago
I was going to make the predictable joke that you need a factory. Disappointing that you took care of it already.
735.
by fleddr 4y ago
This is where you need to see the glass half full. Obviously, serious mental health issues are not restricted to a fixed day per year. Yet the company did give some relief, which they also could not have done at all. There's a real wor
736.
by fleddr 4y ago
We're not a very serious industry. Despite uhm, it pretty much running the world. We're a joke. Sometimes I feel it doesn't even earn the term "engineering" at all, and rather than improving, it seems to get ever wo
737.
by fleddr 4y ago
You're right on the CDN part, but my criticism was highly generic, for sure this doesn't mean every single distributed architecture is a bad idea.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Good, in my book this means the company is allowed to send said email and be taken seriously.
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by fleddr 4y ago
The power of the elite is an illusion as is well documented. It is based on mass and flawless compliance. The current state of the world demonstrates how even relatively small disruptions create a tidal wave and break down systems. The poin
740.
by fleddr 4y ago
Each of those statements are rather simplistic, but for the sake of argument true-ish enough. I'm not at all surprised that there are sociopaths willing to leverage the twisted incentives in our system. The sociopath comes natural, the
741.
by fleddr 4y ago
I agree, unions and legislation. The devil is in the details but those are the main instruments, if only we were more willing and motivated.
742.
by fleddr 4y ago
What is the tangible benefit of being that witness?
743.
by fleddr 4y ago
I had no idea, thanks. Consider this a broken clock being sometimes right.
744.
by fleddr 4y ago
We live in such morally bankrupt times. You can just say "you take responsibility" without actually taking responsibility at all. Our expectations have become so low and we've become so complacent that just the statement is e
745.
by fleddr 4y ago
Our industry summarized: Hardware engineers are pushing the absolute physical limits of getting state (memory/storage) as close as possible to compute. A monumental accomplishment as impactful as the invention of agriculture and the in
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by fleddr 4y ago
The entire point of the article is that your dated example no longer applies: you can fit the vast majority of common loads on a single server now, they are this powerful. Redundancy concerns are also addressed in the article.
747.
by fleddr 4y ago
Your scenario is data recovery, not backup restoration. Wildly different things.
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by fleddr 4y ago
No, it's irrational when taking into account the examples given where from the start it's obvious that the choices are "equal enough". The point is not that it's hard work to distinguish between similar option, the
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by fleddr 4y ago
"Use snap judgements on all nonobvious decisions?" That's the premise of the article, yes.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Same here. We once had to shop for new curtains to decorate the new home we bought together. We walked into this giant store with 500 options and I directly walk to a rack and point at my preferred choice. She's puzzled and navigates t

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