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by jq-r 2y ago
I think it's a management strategy to keep developers under constant pressure with feet close to the fire. There is always something to do, report, meet, discuss in a formalized way, damn everything else. Even if you didn't do muc
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by jq-r 2y ago
I went from 2700 to 5800X3D and the difference is absolutely dramatic and well worth it. Originally I had a 1440p monitor with Geforce 1080 which was fine. Then I bought a 4K monitor and it brought it down to it's knees. Then upgraded
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by jq-r 2y ago
While I agree that the prices (of everything) went up, it wasn't due to adoption of euro. The grocery prices dramatically rised in the year before euro adoption due to inflation and then continued to rise after that. Also I do find it
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by jq-r 2y ago
Vista was utter garbage. It is historical revisionism to only blame it's failing on minimum requirements. Not only was it slow, it was a horrible clickfest eg with almost 20 clicks and almost as many windows to change wifi settings. At
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by jq-r 2y ago
Exactly the same story over here in Croatia. It's a narrative from political elites blaming "lazy and demanding" workers. The real truth is that working conditions, salaries and culture suck, and yes, workers are emigrating t
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by jq-r 2y ago
Health. I'm in lower 40ties and in two and a half years had two surgeries to fix a herniated disc. After the first surgery a part of my recovery were exercises on pilates reformer and it worked wonders. Unfortunately I needed a second
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by jq-r 2y ago
Exactly! And it doesn't even have to be a fallback. The same company could have won (or "won" if you know what I mean) many/majority of those tenders and are intentionally spread thin. Because once you win it, you leave
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by jq-r 2y ago
And the phone cases became overpriced junk.
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by jq-r 2y ago
Good attempt at tone policing, I'll grant you that. You can keep calling yourself whatever you like, or more to say, swallow whatever little pride you still have. But I don't subscribe to that and I won't be called a tool&#x2
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by jq-r 2y ago
We're also using it in production. And people might laugh, but naming something which looks fine/cool/quirky on paper, but is actually terrible in practice is a big con. The amount of frowns and laughs we got from colleague
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by jq-r 2y ago
Those are great points. Even the page layout of the documentation is terrible. Whywe have huge monitors and millions of pixels if I have to read content from a very narrow column, which is a mile long? Eg: https://doc.traefik.io&
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by jq-r 2y ago
I've lost my cool one time when a very young "manager" asked: "Do we have a backend resource on this call?" It really got my blood boiling and I've said something very similar to: "No we don't have a
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by jq-r 2y ago
Happening in Croatia too. The government is chest thumping how we're having stellar economy, high GDP and whatnot. The economists I've listened to are saying that this is mostly propped up by injection of EU funds so the economy a
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by jq-r 2y ago
Right on. > All this rhetoric about european health insurance and job security is good but it is good today. Will it be good tomorrow? In Croatia it already went down the drain years ago. People who never needed hospital treatments in th
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by jq-r 2y ago
When talking about public spaces, I'm certain that the big reason is corruption of the financial sort. At least in my part of the world, the local government is in charge of public works. Be it streetlights, walkways, fountains, signs,
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by jq-r 2y ago
This is exactly how it went with my ex neighbour. Her dad offered her cigarettes on her 18th birthday to "use responsibly". She's been smoking since that day. She's retired now and a heavy smoker most of her life. I&#x27
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by jq-r 3y ago
As a counterexample, in socialist Yugoslavia, everyone and their dog got housing. Public companies made tons of it, towns and large part of cities were built during 60ties to 80ties. It was very easy to become the owner of a unit and most i
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by jq-r 3y ago
True, and SRE teams get smaller and smaller and/or tasked to do other non-related things. So when users start leaving for some competitor, the same SRE team suddenly gets more heat, pressure, more belt tightening, more meetings "f
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by jq-r 3y ago
I think you made a huge leap from military leadership to "leadership" what the article is about. I would argue that military leadership has a good component of meritocracy, while business leadership has a good component of the opp
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by jq-r 3y ago
And then what happened on the fifth day? We all know the answer. The dream ended and everyone was back in the reality. Managers keeping workers busy, depressed and docile with scrum and jira dogshit while themselves playing game of thrones
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by jq-r 3y ago
I think the answer is much more simpler. My own CEO and his immediate lackeys consider themselves "leaders". This is just to distingush themselves from lower level management. They "lead" the company, so "of course&
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by jq-r 3y ago
Its not free, but it can be cheap as in the recent times. You fire/"RTO"/"manage out" the well paid engineers of yesterday and hire cheaper engineers while the market is flooded with them.
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by jq-r 3y ago
I've attended a talk on Kubecon last year on how one company adopted Istio service mesh. I've lost the guy in the first 10 minutes of the talk as it was so complicated, and decided that service mesh is 100% not going into our k8s
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by jq-r 3y ago
It was about 5 to 7 years ago. Time does fly! Its not a typical experience in my view. I've definitely seen and experienced crazy stuff over the years in the airports. But what was perfectly clear to me is that they (native people work
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by jq-r 3y ago
> Just Spending time in the Dubai airport is a fascinating experience if you get the change. It depends on what you mean by fascinating. I was stuck in a limbo because on arrival they've lost my visa (which takes days to process).
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by jq-r 3y ago
While this sounds nice in a vacuum, I don't think that the reality for many people over here. Its usually: "our product needs X, get it done". You can listen to that manager for hours or days, use your psychiatrist hat to ext
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by jq-r 3y ago
> "regular cadence meetings with our AWS account manager" and I am not sure what could be discusse. As being on a number of those calls, its just a bunch of crap where they talk like a scripted bot reading from corporate buzzwo
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by jq-r 3y ago
> but I'm just going to say that we run a few 8XL and 12Xl RDS instances and we pay ~40% off the sticker price. Genuinely curious, how do you that? We pay a couple of million dollars per year and the biggest spend is RDS. The bulk
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by jq-r 3y ago
Having worked in two separate teams/companies with both regular VMs (that includes AWS EC2) I think it comes to the same to the number of people needed. I would even say that there is less work with Kubernetes, but maybe that's my
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by jq-r 3y ago
We've got pretty much a significantly scaled down mirror of production as a developer enviroment. The k8s development cluster looks the same, has the same workloads, tools, services etc. The AWS infra is the same but also scaled down.

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