rantwasp

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by rantwasp 5y ago
let’s unpack this for a while. what is python:3.8? is this reproducible? what is apt? where is the install coming from? What about poetry? Yeah it’s cool for shits and giggles but when this thing breaks you’re going to be in a world of pain
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by rantwasp 5y ago
no. you cannot.
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by rantwasp 5y ago
lol. as someone who has packaged stuff I can tell you that this K8S is orders of magnitudes more complicated. Also, once you figure out how to package stuff, you can do it in a repeatable manner - vs K8s which you basically have to babysit
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by rantwasp 5y ago
K8s may have its time and place but here is something most people are ignoring: in 80% of the time you don't need it. You don't need all that complexity. You're not Google, you don't have the scale or the problems Google
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by rantwasp 5y ago
you know. deep down inside: we are all code monkeys. Also, as much as people like to call it software engineering, it's anything but engineering. In 95% of cases if you want to get something/anything done you will need to work at
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by rantwasp 5y ago
It's not sarcasm. A lot of things simply do not have visibility and are not rewarded at the business level - therefore the incentives to learn them are almost zero
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by rantwasp 5y ago
there is a huge difference between understanding what something is and actually working with it / being proficient with it. huge. I understand how a car engine work. I would actually explain it to someone that does not know what is und
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by rantwasp 5y ago
I think you may have missed the point (as probably a lot of people did) I was trying to make. It's one thing to know what assembly is and to even be able to dabble in a bit of assembly, it's another thing to be proficient in assem
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by rantwasp 5y ago
you're mixing having an idea of how the OS works (ie: conceptual/high level) to having working knowledge and being able to hack into the OS when needed. I know this may sound like moving the goal posts, but it really does not help
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by rantwasp 5y ago
I really like the way you've put it "Glue a few X together". This is what most software development is becoming. We are no longer building software, we are gluing/integrating prebuild software components or using service
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by rantwasp 5y ago
LoL. Also Ex-Amazon here. I can tell you for a fact that most SDE2s I've worked with had zero clue on how the OS works. What you're describing may have been true 5-10 years ago, but I think is no longer true nowadays (what was tha
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by rantwasp 5y ago
this is the right attitude. Things should be results oriented not hours-worked oriented. The problem with the industry is that the factory worker metaphor still persists when knowledge work is nothing like producing something in a repetitiv
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by rantwasp 5y ago
cloud agnosticism is, in my experience, a red herring. It does not matter and the effort required to move from one cloud to another is still non-trivial. I like using the primitives the cloud provides, while also having a path to - if neede
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by rantwasp 5y ago
this is bound to happen. the more complicated the stack that you use becomes, the less details you understand about the lower levels. who, today, can write or optimize assembly by hand? How about understand the OS internals? How about write
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by rantwasp 5y ago
software development. anybody that tells you they are working 40hours/week at full steam is bs-ing you
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by rantwasp 5y ago
if people want to work more that’s fine but the others should not be punished for it. you see: some people push very hard because their life is their work. They don’t have time for something else because they work a lot, and they work a lot
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by rantwasp 5y ago
to be fair, my TomTom (when google maps was just a baby) screwed up multiple times before the online maps revolution. It’s just that at that point in time people were expected to actually think vs today when every screwup is someone else’s
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by rantwasp 5y ago
yes but no. us was formed roughly around the same time (+/- couple hundred years). the states in the EU have a long history (thousands of years) and a long tradition of doing things their way. i’m not ruling out the possibility but I t
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by rantwasp 5y ago
the EU is not an empire. and it’s members are loosely coupled at best. Look at what happened to the UK: they just got their toys and left. the EU just does not have the cohesion to act like and empire and conquer anything. It’s more like a
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by rantwasp 5y ago
except the dog. truly our best friend. pretended to like even that awful place. :)
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by rantwasp 5y ago
it’s not the sleeping part. who cares. it shows recklessness to mix your job with your personal/emotional life. and to do this with multiple people from your job?
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by rantwasp 5y ago
the point is that this shit is turning into Minority Report. It’s one thing to accuse someone of attempted murder when they actually tried killing someone, it’s another thing to accuse someone of attempted murder for suspecting them about t
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by rantwasp 5y ago
slept with all the female board members. jfc. this looks really really bad, even without context
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by rantwasp 5y ago
hmm. so if we swap out bitcoin with lumber. and I accumulate a lot of lumber and after that sell it do I need to register with FinCEN? or do lumber KYC? this is part of the FUD campaign against Bitcoin. If they committed other crimes, etc,
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by rantwasp 5y ago
it depends a lot of the culture (i don’t think there is a one size fits all). i am spending more time shooting the sh*t with my team mates since the pandemic started. it’s a mix of slack async + “face to face” meetings. we have a social hou
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by rantwasp 5y ago
narrator: it doesn’t matter
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by rantwasp 5y ago
projects that are not viable should simply not get done. it always amazes me that people put up with this insanity. The first thing I teach junior developers that join my team is 1) learn to set boundaries 2) your WLB and mental sanity is m
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by rantwasp 5y ago
using interns as this is unacceptable. is there a dev shortage or is there an expectation that you can hire people for cheap and work them to death?
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by rantwasp 5y ago
was thinking a toyota or a honda. btw, I would take a ford over a tesla any day
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by rantwasp 5y ago
ding ding ding. if you don’t punish a bad behavior (ie not buying their crappy cars) they really have no incentive to change

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