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by awesomegoat_com 8mo ago
This reminds me the blog one would write around 2006. Not the text content, but the pixelated font and pictures of winamp wibe like that. Myself, I am rather happily using mplayer - without any gui. Initially it was practicality of not leak
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by awesomegoat_com 2y ago
I have seen this so many times. You almost made me weep. It's tragedy of commons. To stop this we need software engineers to own their own code legally.
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
Nod. I would love to hear more about these rewrites.
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
Today, I woke up feeling that elixir/phoenix is the best platform for rewrites. I mean, when you know the problem domain well, you can build a master piece in elixir/phoenix. I still feel that putting together the first prototype
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
I have built my web scraping system ( https://awesomegoat.com ) on Ruby on Rails. And while I spent this Christmas-break exploring Elixir/Phoenix, I am so far staying with Ruby on Rails. While it seems I could have built a
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
> I date in my age group. Sometimes changing the proposition can drastically change the outcomes.
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
I was always afraid to use on of these. I thought that the css selectors would be too brittle and ultimately break. I have build my own solution that is automagical at https://awesomegoat.com/ but I am running into next set
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
Haven't sandboxed programs in a privileged context been the root cause of me seeing BSOD so often in the late 90ties?
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
I have finally built myself reader app that fulfills my own needs first. I totally absolutely enjoyed every minute building my own thing and I highly recommend it for the burnout developers. https://awesomegoat.com
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
You just reminded me a slightly related strip: http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/elemental/605973
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
More spiritual society is the less stuff it needs to amass. One of the theories goes that ancient civilizations made progress in non material domains. How else would you explain these thousands years long periods in the history when a table
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
Yes. IIRC, Patternfly started many years ago, because many open source project (of Red Hat interest), had inconsistent ui. The idea was to develop a common guideline that other open source projects could use and be somewhat consistent with
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
Are we surely going in the right direction?
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
Shows power of market forces. And price sensitivity of the buyers.
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
> it requires devoting time and effort towards its upkeep, and that is not our core business, nor should it be. I would try to argue that this in fact may be subjective. For me, updating all the dependencies in my stack every morning is
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
That's battle tested by now. Call it enterprise.
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
Downvote me all you want. :-)
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
Yes, when that grows you can build a new corporate team babysitting control tower.
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by awesomegoat_com 3y ago
Indeed. Hacker news crowd is drinking their own cool aid on this topic and not recognizing how much costs can be avoided if they just drop EKS from their stack. Remember that in SRE all the abstractions are leaky and thus having more abstra
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by awesomegoat_com 4y ago
Happiness cannot be measured and managers cannot manage something that cannot be measured. You see?
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by awesomegoat_com 4y ago
It is amazing how badly managed they ended up being.
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by awesomegoat_com 4y ago
That won't be enough. I predict that AWS stopped growing this ongoing quarter and everything else is money loosing venture for Amazon. It will be interesting to watch if they can release the air without collapsing. The only thing that
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by awesomegoat_com 4y ago
Indeed. And ChatGPT already can babysit burnout engineers. (which has been major time sink of engineering managers that I know).
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by awesomegoat_com 4y ago
SA people that I have met so far (30+) can architect and more importantly talk about and market the solution. But the execution is often times lacking. And that is solely because the execution is less important. (If the contract is big enou
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by awesomegoat_com 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment. But on the other hand, I think CS brand and culture is more toxic than its balance sheet. I would like to be in the paratroopers squad cleaning the CS.
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by awesomegoat_com 4y ago
- Remote Ruby - TLB Hit
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by awesomegoat_com 4y ago
Incentives. One has to ride (and eventually) create trends to sell.
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by awesomegoat_com 4y ago
Well, this doesn't matter. It is all about incentives. CEO class is motivated by KPIs. Focus solely on KPI creates volatility in all the other variables that are not this year's KPIs. Hiring and then firing feels like work, hence
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by awesomegoat_com 4y ago
Try JIRA, once you implement JIRA in your org and set-up some company wide policies on fields and tags, your will to live will return.
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by awesomegoat_com 4y ago
Pardon me, but after 13 years in business I have to ask, why are we calling cheaper workers "talent" ?

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