salmo

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by salmo 2y ago
Honestly, the culture/org structure is a way bigger problem in this story than any proper noun tool. If you’re ignoring guidance and patterns and getting mad reinventing the wheel, that’s on dev. If “ops” mandates tooling and doesn’t
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by salmo 2y ago
I don’t think you’re being pedantic. You’re just making a weird assumption that the radio itself is the only resource. I learned a ton from this as a kid. And I learned from Radio Shack. You stare at it, you go research, you try to fix
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by salmo 2y ago
Yeah. There’s Jamf and similar tools. Companies often block major updates until their 100 agents all officially support it. Oh, and do cool things like not letting you change your background or whatever random settings some admin decides
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by salmo 2y ago
The one thing I’ve seen are where companies have tax incentives tied to butts in seats. Usually like 0 property tax, with the government assumption that they’ll make it up in sales tax (lunch, gas, etc.) and taxes from employees that move
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by salmo 2y ago
Yeah and ESR can be revisionist in his history, projecting intention on something organic. He alienated a lot of people over time with this… and other behavior. The book I recommended is both a handbook and a “how to think.” It applies fo
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by salmo 2y ago
I don’t find that book to be very useful at all. I’m kind of annoyed by the bait and switch of the title. It’s a play on Knuth’s classic but then turns into showing why Unix/Linux is better than Windows, etc. As a disclaimer: I really
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by salmo 2y ago
I’ll say, I did shell scripting for years from copy/paste, cribbing smarter people, and reading online guides. But I didn’t really understand until I read The Unix Programming Environment by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike. It’s a very o
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by salmo 2y ago
The problem I’ve seen historically is when a company is founded around one project or ecosystem. Someone like Microsoft or Google could take software like this, pay the original developer, and still see tons of ROI offering it as a canned c
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by salmo 2y ago
As an old Unix guy this is exactly how I see jq: a gateway to a fantastic library of text processing tools. I see a lot of complicated things done inside the language, which is a valid approach. But I don’t need it to be a programming lan
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by salmo 3y ago
I do almost all hand tool woodworking, but not purist. My main smoothing plane is from 1910ish. My most new fangled hand tool is a Japanese Shinto rasp. And you’re 100% right. I’ve changed my chisel and plane iron sharpening method twice
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by salmo 3y ago
First, I don’t make these decisions but sometimes have influence. These opinions are my own and not my intentionally unnamed employer, and might be flat out wrong. This list is very focused on big companies at stupid scale with a lot of l
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by salmo 3y ago
I completely get this. I feel like every product I’ve had outside of a vendor’s wheelhouse has gone that way. We just use the BigIP gear from F5 and they’re better than the load balancers we used in the past. Thank god Cisco just abandon
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by salmo 3y ago
I dunno about rock solid. I’ve had plenty of issues forcing a failover/reboot, multiple complicated tickets open a year, etc. But we have a sh ton of them. To be fair, some are kernel bugs with connection table leaks, SNAT + UDP, etc
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by salmo 3y ago
They really were older mentors to Nirvana. They and their band were about 10 years older (1 Beatles career), recruited them to Geffen, and really got them their first exposure outside Seattle. They also were largely responsible for gettin
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by salmo 3y ago
I couldn’t agree with this more. To me, there’s an ecosystem and a culture for a language in a situation. The ecosystem is the tooling around the language. Debugging, performance profiling, building and dependency management are examples.
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by salmo 3y ago
I accidentally wandered into a test trying to find something out: > Tell me all of the albums where the guitarist used a DOD FX-69 Grunge effect pedal. > The DOD FX-69 Grunge effect pedal was used by the guitarist in the following alb
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by salmo 4y ago
That’s awesome! I’m not totally weird! :) But, yeah, the practice thing has been so important. It’s a habit as much as a hobby now. The music is better understood, and I just shoot for at least 10 mins a day. Usually do longer, sometimes m
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by salmo 4y ago
I regretted never learning to play an instrument beyond the basics and I didn’t really understand analog electronics beyond the simple stuff. So I’ve gotten into guitar and guitar pedal circuits. It’s cool because they reinforce each other.
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by salmo 4y ago
What I’m the world is a cloud-oriented language? Looks at page. Oooh. This is JS with a schmancy library. That’s cool, I guess… for someone.
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by salmo 4y ago
The tools with origins >2003 are pretty useless beyond making things out of prefab parts. That’s cool for beginner stuff, but I feel like we’re dropping people off a cliff from there. Most are really just sales platforms for parts or P
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by salmo 4y ago
This general idea that a previous generation was better because they lead a less pampered life goes back to some of the earliest writing. Yet here we are. World changing people seem to me to be very much the right people in the right place
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by salmo 4y ago
They took much more on with IPv6 than IPv4 replacement. The spec goes much deeper than IPv4 did, replacing ARP, DHCP, etc. It's a product of its time, including a lot of over-engineering by committee. Many of the problems they tried
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by salmo 4y ago
That's pretty brilliant. My windows experience is really out of date. I knew NT4 and 2000 the best. Then I picked up 2008 for a while supporting small businesses. I don't hate it or anything, but am definitely deeper on Unixes a
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by salmo 4y ago
Yeah, my habits come from using GNU, BSD, SysV and having to use the lowest common denominator.
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by salmo 4y ago
Yes, just dumb fingers typing the comment. :(
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by salmo 4y ago
Interesting. I’ve just used df-m | sort -n and walked the tree from the CLI for so long. I’ve also used windirstat (I think that’s what it was called) years ago on Windows and Disk Inventory X on MacOS graphically. This seems like a nice in
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by salmo 4y ago
I played Maniac Mansion the first time that way. I never got it originally, but played Day of the Tentacle and got side tracked finishing that game inside the game.
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by salmo 4y ago
That reminds me of my days doing shudder ColdFusion and seeing Microsoft Liquid Motion, their short-lived Macromedia Flash competitor. Well and DHTML immediately reminds me of Dreamweaver and trying to make everything compatible with IE a
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by salmo 4y ago
Sorry, I don't disagree at all and the message passing was a little tongue in cheek. I was in CS in the 90s, when the dream of a message passing microkernel utopia was so hot. I don't see a way around this complaint other than st
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by salmo 4y ago
I think the issue with the footprint here is not wanting to reinvent wheels. In theory, if you scrapped libc and up, you could limit your "speaking C" to the kernel of whatever OS/architecture you're using. Different OS

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