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by zoogeny 3y ago
> every additional partner had the potential to break big, important parts of our stack ... > our distaste for contractual and technical lock-in grew dramatically I learned this through osmosis at one financial-adjacent company I work
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I agree with the sentiment and I've been watching his tweets on AI to see if Carmack has any relevant input on the field. But what I think is very interesting is that, from my totally lay-person perspective, the current challenge is sc
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Better/worse is one of those subjective things that comes with experience. No one can definitively answer such a question in a way that will apply to every circumstance. But as someone who rarely writes bash scripts but just enough to
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I have no idea why but I wanted to hate this article. Maybe jvns shows up on HN too often and I was in a bad mood. But this is a great article and as someone with 20 years of development experience is about as true as any meta-level discuss
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think the devil is in the details. As others have pointed out, this would drastically change the incentive structure of OSS. You would attract actors whose entire purpose would be to get listed on as many SBOMs as possible to maximize the
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I worked in an environment with similar setup. First step for all devices allowed to connect to the network was to install the companies custom CA root certificate. There are a lot of sharp edges in such a setup (like trying to get Charles
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I once worked on a project where a critical system started to leak memory during a critical weekend-long event. We basically took shifts every 4 hours to log into the boxes and manually rolling-restart the affected services. We did find and
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Something in the direction of SVG is probably correct. I like the idea of having arbitrary paths available. One common annoyance with existing tools is that there is sometimes a lack of shapes and colors that express what I want. I find the
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I have two main complaints that jump to the top of mind. The first is lines and when they merge and when they cross. Not all lines from two separate boxes to a third box ought to merge, but some should. Crossing is inevitable in most comple
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> forced to capitulate There it is again. As if it isn't possible for people to just, you know, decide that it is fine and move on with their lives? Are they really "forced to capitulate"? I recall working in an office bui
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It does bother me when that hate is directed at anyone who might make the decision to return to the office when faced with a RTO policy from their employer. The author is plainly saying such people are dehumanizing themselves. I would hate
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by zoogeny 3y ago
What is the difference between "making a choice" and "accepting an ultimatum" in the case of an employee working at a company where an RTO policy is enacted? The only point of a invective like the original article is to
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Conversely, if you let these assholes exert their power over you, you dehumanize yourself in submission. I normally like strong opinions even when I disagree with them. It is usually refreshing to hear people share their true feelings
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by zoogeny 3y ago
One problem with these tools is that even if you manage to get a good layout for a document then as soon as you need to add/remove/update then you have to wrestle with them all over again. I've used a few of these code-as-dia
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by zoogeny 3y ago
That is totally possible. One thing to watch out for is the fable of the fox and the grapes. The fox is unable to get the grapes from a high branch and so wanders away thinking "they are probably sour". It is just a reminder that
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by zoogeny 3y ago
In the past I've worked on really difficult bugs that took days to debug only to find a super simple and trivial one-line fix at the end of that hard road. That is, 90% of the effort was understanding what was happening well enough to
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> What is really the difference between Deno.KV being shipped as a standard library vs adding an `import KVService` statement at the top of the file? The same difference between `#include "myStringMap.h"` and `map[string]string
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think what Deno is aiming for here is actually very forward thinking. I'm using Go for the first time this year and some aspects of the language are very C like. Of the list of things that isn't C like (e.g. GC allowing one to r
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by zoogeny 3y ago
In the past I've lambasted some of these collections of wisdom. There is a certain point in a man's life where he feels he wants to write down a collection of hard-learned thoughts and experiences. These often appear on HN. Most o
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by zoogeny 3y ago
One thing that changed this for me (I agree the saying is a bit trite) was a comment by Joscha Bach in some podcast where he mentions realizing that he had a totally wrong conception of conversation when he was a kid. To paraphrase his idea
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by zoogeny 3y ago
There is a quote: "When you stop growing you start dying" (William S. Burroughs). I am not sure I believe that the kind of governance that Apache is providing is helping to grow the projects under its supervision. Your compariso
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I've felt for a long time (maybe even a decade) that Apache is the place OSS goes to retire/die. It is heartbreaking in some ways, they became the stewards for a lot of interesting projects [1]. And the venerable web server was so
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I have at various times in my life tried to use vim or emacs. Each time I get comfortable enough in them to appreciate them but I run into the same problem every single time: it is annoying to switch back out of them. I had an acquaintance
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I saw this YouTube video about some historical document from the middle ages (maybe the dark ages?). It was a set of journals/diaries written by a pretty normal guy who lived during the reformation. At first he was documenting the soci
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by zoogeny 3y ago
One thing about logging and tracing is the inevitable cost (in real money). I love observability probably more than most. And my initial reaction to this article is the obvious: why not both? In fact, I tend to think more in terms of "
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It seems the developer works for Tailscale in an evangelist / developer relations role. I feel that ought to have been disclosed in this article. That gripe aside - I love this idea and the general principle. Minimal OS's are real
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by zoogeny 3y ago
As an aside and unrelated to the content of the article ... but the form of the article, with footnotes in the margin, is really useful.
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think we are starting to see the cracks in the utopic vision of open source. I know it sounds very harsh, but I feel the vast majority of people complaining about these kind of situations are people who want the benefit of the tremendous
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by zoogeny 3y ago
While this is an exceptionally cynical article it contains a truth that transcends app development. Sometime during Covid I was in a massive supermarket that was nearly empty. I was in the deodorant aisle trying to choose from the approxima
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I would not argue against the value of professional services. Two that come to mind immediately are lawyers and accountants. It is probably a good idea to seek out professional advice for those. I think a similar case could be made for mark

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