anchochilis

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by anchochilis 9mo ago
Yes, totally agreed in theory, and it sounds like y'all built a great solution for your use case. But it takes substantial effort and discipline to do something like that at scale. At some point, you develop complex interdependencies w
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by anchochilis 9mo ago
What you're missing is maintenance, security, scaling, and protection from data loss. Bespoke CI is easy to build but no one wants to be in charge of rolling out a critical security patch to that on-prem box no one's touched since
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by anchochilis 1y ago
It's not explicitly pro-union, but this made me think of the Dolly Parton song "9 to 5": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxUSsFXYo4
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by anchochilis 2y ago
What I don't understand is why they don't have a canary update process. Server side deployments do this all the time. You would think Windows would offer that to their institutional customers, for all types of updates including (e
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by anchochilis 2y ago
We routinely implement phased / canary deployments in server-side systems to prevent faults from rolling out globally. How is it possible that CrowdStrike and/or Windows does not have a similar system built in for large, instituti
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by anchochilis 3y ago
> In other words, the founder doesn't have the qualifications or characteristics that the underlings assume they need to be in a leadership position. I find this to be an odd take, given context in the article. It sounds like the wr
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by anchochilis 3y ago
This was my great frustration with Twitter the last time I tried it. Even when I carefully curated my followers, random crap would constantly sneak into my feed. It was annoying enough that I started just manually navigating to a few bookma
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by anchochilis 3y ago
This blog post reads like it's written by someone using Subversion back in 2015. Most of the justification for committing on mainline can be addressed by following other best practices: 1. Run the same suite tests additional quality ch
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by anchochilis 3y ago
> I think we ought to consider a system where the Government or Fed provides the core functionality of “let me put $X in an account so I can use $X in the future” for free and banks compete based on value added. Don't credit unions
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by anchochilis 3y ago
One major draw of Lego is their licensing of expensive creative IP. Look at the Harry Potter, Star Wars, DC, Lord of the Rings themed sets. Smaller competitors likely can not afford the same offerings. And Lego probably has deep enough pock
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by anchochilis 3y ago
You know the old saying "familiarity breeds contempt"? I believe the opposite is true as well. People who don't code think coding is typing. People who don't manage think it is as simple as forwarding emails from executi
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by anchochilis 3y ago
I do think a future where AI can generate convincing-but-subtly-flawed blog posts like this one is closer than one where chatgpt generates correct, on-spec production code. Maybe influences and hustlers will be the first to go. Someone shou
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by anchochilis 4y ago
This was funny. But I've seen too much clean code written by people smarter than me to agree. I actually think how "clean" your code is depends on lots of factors. Eg. (a) Do you care if your coworkers find it easy to modify
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by anchochilis 4y ago
The key point is that someone else is watching the baby while you work. WFH is indeed wonderful for parents and families, but if you try to do it without childcare, you're not going to be working much.
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by anchochilis 4y ago
I think the author has a point here. In an ideal world, we would of course spin up a new microservice every time a PR in the foobar-widget-generator service begins to deviate from generating foobar widgets. In practice, we make delivery tra
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by anchochilis 4y ago
I agree, but a single year is long enough to learn that lesson. Looping magnifies the positive/negative outcomes of being assigned a good, bad, or indifferent teacher (or one you just don't get along with).
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by anchochilis 4y ago
People with jobs are free to seek out new jobs. Yoking a student to a bad teacher for 2+ years is the opposite of a real-life situation.
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by anchochilis 4y ago
All work is fancy bricklaying if you're jaded enough. Surgeon? Just spackling the same old organs day in day out, with the additional downside of potentially killing someone if you have an off day and place a brick upside down. Profess
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by anchochilis 4y ago
Salaries for MBAs likely follow a similar distribution as for programmers. A small fraction of elite workers enjoy outstanding compensation, while the vast majority sit somewhere on a long flat tail of mediocre incomes.
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by anchochilis 4y ago
So did you end up founding your own company? Was that your last interview ever? Don't leave us hanging!
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by anchochilis 4y ago
I find it best to start small with this kind of thing. Have a single team start practicing GitOps, with an eye to eventually accepting contributions from other dev teams. Establish good patterns in IaC repos, write documentation, add linter
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by anchochilis 4y ago
The very point I'm trying to make is that human nature has not changed in the past 120 years. What has changed is the social and technological context in which we live. Take a group of people from the 1900s and drop them in to the US i
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by anchochilis 4y ago
The idea that we have removed the social stigma for being obese is laughable. Obese people are discriminated against in healthcare, employment, and social settings. Furthermore, numerous studies have show that fat shaming does not lead to w
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by anchochilis 4y ago
The kind of discrimination I am talking about is refusing to hire fat people for desk jobs (or not promoting them, or paying them less) because of stereotypes that they are lazy or lack self-discipline or simple distaste for the way they lo
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by anchochilis 4y ago
This thread is full of people commenting along the lines of " I have been able to manage my weight successfully, so other people must be fat because they're lazy idiots." HN is full of people who will accept nuance and compl
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by anchochilis 4y ago
"Healthy at any size" does not literally mean "obese people are as healthy as thin people." I recommend reading the book, the entire point of which is about shifting one's health efforts from an exclusive focus on w
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by anchochilis 4y ago
Do you live in the US? Fat people are routinely discriminated against in employment and healthcare. A few Instagram influencers and ad campaigns don't negate that. I have never met a fat person who wasn't aware they are fat. I do
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by anchochilis 4y ago
On the contrary, people have been saying we need to eat less food and work out more for decades. The "just educate people and they'll make better choices" approach has not worked.
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by anchochilis 4y ago
Did you actually read the copy on the website? > Measure your baseline inflammation levels and see how they fluctuate with lifestyle choices (nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress) so that you can make the right choices for you > Be Gold
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by anchochilis 4y ago
I see I'm getting downvoted: why? I'm a thoroughly average 33-year-old, for what it's worth :) I don't mean to imply that we shouldn't continue strive for growth and development as we age, but I certainly am not as

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