btmcnellis

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by btmcnellis 4y ago
A Pontiac Aztek.
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by btmcnellis 4y ago
He was president and COO from 1997 to 2004 and CEO from 2007-2013.
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by btmcnellis 4y ago
Numenor was explicitly an allusion to Atlantis.
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by btmcnellis 4y ago
Slack supports it, though I suspect most enterprises (on Slack and elsewhere) use SSO instead, if they’re actually paying for the enterprise tier.
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by btmcnellis 4y ago
Yeah, if you need to manage individual servers/VMs, it's not a great fit. I've used cloud-init files to configure EC2 instances on startup with things like packages and SSH keys, and that works pretty well if you can treat th
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by btmcnellis 4y ago
I'm shocked that no one has said Terraform yet. It has its own declarative DSL, which some people complain about (because people complain about everything), but it works well for what it's intended to do. Providers can be created
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by btmcnellis 4y ago
> Eventually you outgrow the cloud provider and go into a data center. By that point you’re talking number of racks vs VMs. How many companies actually hit this stage? I can only think of a few, and usually it's because they have ve
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by btmcnellis 4y ago
This is true if the slides are for a presentation, but unfortunately, many people in business ( cough consultants cough ) use the deck as their deliverable and cram all the information in there. A memo or report would be better in most case
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by btmcnellis 4y ago
Solo maintainer vs. organization is definitely an imperfect heuristic for long-term support. But it's a decent approximation for dependencies that are low ROI but potentially high impact if they break, like a UI widget that gets used e
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by btmcnellis 4y ago
The big problem with one-person packages isn't so much security as it is support. I have been burned more than once by old applications where key features rely on random packages with one maintainer who disappeared years ago. At least
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by btmcnellis 5y ago
There is a big difference between finding work for yourself and finding enough work to keep a whole team employed, as you would be doing if you ran an agency.
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by btmcnellis 5y ago
Python is a lot older and a lot more widely used, so it’s not as easy to just change things.
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by btmcnellis 5y ago
> Its type system was so lame that it gave rise to most of the "Gang of Four" patterns, most of which are just workarounds for Java- not some first order principles of programming. Java wasn't released until after the firs
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by btmcnellis 5y ago
Another commenter on this post said that this service isn't available in India, so it seems like the real flaw is that this shouldn't have been presented to a user in India by whatever site you were using.
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by btmcnellis 5y ago
I don’t think it’s necessarily bad science. The null hypothesis is that cats would react the same as dogs, and the study suggests that’s not true. While this is not surprising to most people, it is still a more rigorous attempt to understan
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by btmcnellis 5y ago
Human beings didn’t evolve to spend 100% of their time staring into a webcam, only interacting over Zoom. Remote is great and should be part of the solution, but sometimes, you just can’t beat face-to-face.
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by btmcnellis 6y ago
"solarwinds123" comes to mind.
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by btmcnellis 6y ago
A kinder way to put it might be "SOAP with the benefit of hindsight."
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by btmcnellis 6y ago
Rust is a great language, but how do you scale a Rust team? It’s a hard language to learn without a ton of developers out there. I suppose you could hire C/C++ devs, but if you’re just making a fairly standard SAAS Web app, it might be