eaton

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by eaton 2y ago
DXP: When you have nine products, one logo, and a hundred salesbros.
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by eaton 3y ago
I see you, and feel seen
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by eaton 3y ago
FWIW, the "Drupal should be a framework" vs "Drupal should be a web page management tool" issue wasn't a matter of ignorance in the community as much it was a point of contention — there were fairly high-profile tal
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by eaton 3y ago
The belief that somewhere, someone else will do the hard stuff?
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by eaton 3y ago
> if you’re planning to be a top 10 site on the internet, you’ll need a custom stack To be fair, that's the case with pretty much any CMS. Even if they start with a stock system, by the time they actually hit top 100/1000 (let
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by eaton 3y ago
I've been doing software professionally for about thirty years now, and what's interesting to me is that the conversations I had with my grandfather about factory work involved all of the same dynamics. Prototyping new solutions v
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by eaton 3y ago
Unions don’t exist so that people you consider unskilled will get raises. Unions exist so that people who sell their labor can cooperate to influence the conditions they work in. If you consider nothing more important than your own individu
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by eaton 4y ago
This reminds me of mirror-universe conversations I've had with executives about developer experience for APIs. If an API functions and is technically capable of performing all of the operations that are business-critical, it works an
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by eaton 5y ago
I really do love the fact that mass deportation and the digital equivalent of building codes are being treated as equivalent. Peak HN.
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by eaton 5y ago
The whole post boils down to: "HTML is bad because it has scope creep and people use it for bad things, but PDF is good because I made this particular document in a way I like for a use case I prefer." You do you, man! Some people
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by eaton 5y ago
> If a fire has burnt out, it can’t deliver any warmth anywhere, not just at some things. You're putting a lot of weight on the mechanics of "burning," but the physics of combustion are an analogy of convenience, not the d
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by eaton 6y ago
> Trying to act like just because they aren't all a scam doesn't mean there isn't a systemic problem of waste that still needs to be addressed No, of course not. But it's undeniable that these threads on HN (and other
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by eaton 6y ago
Heh. That stuff has always felt like an inexplicably weird trope, like Hackers-inspired visions of computer people as living Mondo 2000 articles. After 8 hours in a windowless conference room with a parade of stakeholders, making RACI matri
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by eaton 6y ago
One of the biggest challenges for large orgs is that the knowledge they need to do a given thing is almost always present inside the organization — but it's fragmented and scattered across different teams, roles, and balkanized adminis
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by eaton 6y ago
I'd never in a million years argue that Deloitte did an awesome job on a large government contract, but it's mind-boggling to watch the regular ritual of HN posters blithely insist that anything more over $20K and a pile of pizzas
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by eaton 6y ago
Statistically, though, that's what the people in this thread are saying — that the majority of the projects in ML/AI are destined to fail because they're BS with unrealistic goals. "Personalization" is in a simila
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by eaton 6y ago
Technically not a slippery slope, just a false equivalency. Renaming a branch and rewriting a project in another language are in no way equivalent levels of effort, so comparing them based on the principle of "no skin off my back"
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by eaton 6y ago
Let's say I'm standing in the aisle at the grocery store, and someone asks me to step aside so they can pass. It takes minor effort on my part — inconsequential but more than simply standing there — but makes things better for the
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by eaton 6y ago
This is what's felt disingenuous about a lot of the pushback energy, at least to me. The conflict is framed in terms of: "People who say they'd be more comfortable if X were changed to Y," and "People who say X vs Y
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by eaton 7y ago
That is the tweet of a man who slept through 2014.
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by eaton 8y ago
Biased nerd here: I work for Lullabot and have been adjacent to a number of projects that used Tugboat for client QA and approval over the past year or two. While I can't speak to the implementation details, I can definitely say that t
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by eaton 9y ago
It's called GodTube.com, and it's terrible.
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by eaton 11y ago
That's really the crux of the problem, isn't it? If the organizer of a conference decides not to give a platform to neofascists who want to end democracy, they MUST also bar women who are being harassed by *chan trolls. There&#x27
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by eaton 12y ago
> Some scumbag got a guy fired by publicly shaming him on twitter for making a joke to his friend in a private conversation. That is one of the most hostile, weird, and hateful ways I've ever seen someone behave. A conference attend
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by eaton 14y ago
"The fact that a lineup of white male speakers (because a majority of programmers are male) automatically makes you think that it is an INTENTIONAL act by the event organizers..." -- You're missing the point. The concern expressed about the
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by eaton 14y ago
Yes, but I'm ashamed to admit it to my friends.
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by eaton 14y ago
Once again, you're veering into "No True Cathedral" territory here. The UNIX design philosophy -- small utilities loosely joined into a coherent whole -- is a coherent vision for a platform, under the definition you've repeated. And the Mic
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by eaton 15y ago
Maintaining disguises on the internet is freakin' EXHAUSTING. We're too busy trying to get a roadmap for the next round of refactorings ironed out. ;-) http://drupal.org/node/1224666 http://drupal.org/node/1273344
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by eaton 15y ago
Perhaps you should listen to the core developers who started this debate, when they explain what's burning them out? For better or worse, architectural decisions in Drupal's past have resulted in very large workload for a relatively small n
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by eaton 15y ago
>> Frankly, I think that the majority of the current problems would be solved by trimming all of the fat from the core. The challenge, of course, is that everyone has a different definition of "Fat" versus "Muscle." The developers w

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