getrealyall

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by getrealyall 3y ago
This was written by a company selling feature flag software. Use that information as thou wilt.
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by getrealyall 3y ago
The solution is not to use feature flags. Or maybe have them expire. Oh, also, discipline the developers who do this.
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by getrealyall 3y ago
There's that vaunted, cerebral HN discourse I've come to know and love.
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by getrealyall 3y ago
I doubt the people engaging in this behavior have stopped to consider the commons and the tragedies thereof that this kind of aggregate behavior might induce. Just because it works, doesn't mean it's not stupid.
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by getrealyall 3y ago
This is the endgame of rent-seeking and an abundance of (concentrated) capital, in a country that is largely comfortable letting everyone fend for themselves. Who needs to build cars when you can tickle Sam Altman's Markov chain genera
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by getrealyall 3y ago
I was bullied fairly relentlessly in school. Not sure cameras would've helped (don't even remember if we had them in classrooms), especially the verbal stuff, but I also don't like the idea of always being watched. Honestly,
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by getrealyall 3y ago
I mean this genuinely: do you have anxiety? Because I do, and it can make it hard to handle uncertainty and the feeling of not having control. A big project, especially one with lots of things left to do, is the definition of uncertainty. S
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by getrealyall 3y ago
Are these extremely large shops in some sort of pocket universe? Because I've been around the block enough to regularly experience Kubernetes's issues over and over again, and I'd say that the GP comment you're critiquin
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by getrealyall 3y ago
Let's be clear: all of the YAML-cum-DSL K8s deployment options are terrible. It's still just templating with extra steps. But Kubernetes is, fundamentally, one big while(1) loop turning YAML into infrastructure, so, eventually, yo
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by getrealyall 3y ago
Not having DBAs, the people with the actual skills to run the databases you need, available when you need them, certainly sounds like a business staffing problem, and not an engineering problem. Why are inexperienced developers managing dat
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by getrealyall 3y ago
It's okay, your managed Kubernetes provider also just happens to sell a managed database service! Isn't that convenient?
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by getrealyall 3y ago
Like fail2ban. Nothing quite like the anxiety of almost locking yourself out of your own system because you mistyped a password one too many times. It's a delicate balance (although, for something like SSH, I wouldn't even bother,
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by getrealyall 3y ago
That's fine, you can always use something like Perl or Python then. But at some point, it certainly seems like all people want to do is run shell commands, and a shell script is still the best way to do that.
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by getrealyall 3y ago
It's because web developers actually just want a command runner, and not a tool originally designed specifically for selectively recompiling parts of C programs. Make still works for what make is good at, and that's not simply run
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by getrealyall 3y ago
Make is not a command runner. That people are abusing it as such doesn't mean make needs to change, it means people need to use the right tool for the job. Shell scripts can do the exact same thing without the wonky syntax or attempted
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by getrealyall 3y ago
Financialization and mediocre developers. I haven't worked with too many people I could actually trust to even emit logs correctly, let alone develop a tool to collect and aggregate them. I've also been told, time and again, in no
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by getrealyall 3y ago
And I bet a hang glider can't fly from New York to Paris, either! The nerve! Recall that the poster said this was for a small startup. If you're Google, by all means, use Google logging tools. If you aren't, then solve the pr