HardlyMatters

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by HardlyMatters 2y ago
With his first sentence, "I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale." the author reveals his arrogance and poor communicati
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by HardlyMatters 3y ago
By "production grade software" do you mean major sites like Instagram or Reddit?
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by HardlyMatters 3y ago
I don't see how the static typing of the bound languages enters into it. Python has type hints which can be enforced by some compilers, if you are so committed to type safety in your config scripts. If you have Pkl output YAML or XML t
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by HardlyMatters 3y ago
Looks very interesting. Thanks for the pointer.
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by HardlyMatters 3y ago
So true. One of the major config mgt utilities which shall remain nameless, (cough, Ansible, cough), is written in python but created an excrable POS config language build on YAML. At least Ant had the excuse that Java was not suitable for
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by HardlyMatters 3y ago
I thought it odd that the language bindings didn't include the most popular langage, Python. In fact, Python seems not to be mentioned at all in the linked page. So I'm wondering, is it 1) Because the developers of Pkl are Python
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by HardlyMatters 3y ago
More likely a fan of Smokey and the Bandit who has ever so sligtly better taste in beer.
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by HardlyMatters 3y ago
Importing Miller beer into Germany raises questions anyway, but it's a good thing that the guy didn't try to import Coors. Germany would have had real problems with their slogan, put in place by Joseph Coors, of "Arbeit macht