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> A better question would be, why do you think you did not succeed. Is that a different question than "why you failed?" from the GP?

Nice & succinct problem definition for why ACLs are so important for everyone: > Let me show you an example. You have a Redis instance and you plan to use the instance to do a new …

The tldr here is that this is a nice recounting of personal experience interviewing with Uber and being frustrated by it, pointing out the many warning signs seen in the interview …

> even for a small company, $8k/year is admittedly a small fraction of one engineer This is certainly true, but overlooks the fact that many major products start out as experimenta…

Capital expenditures might shed some light on this. I don't think there's enough public data to be clear but in 2015 Amazon (4.8B), Google (9.9B) and Microsoft (5.9B) were at least…

Lots of downvotes here – any explanation? The GP uses the phrase "the phenomenon itself" referring to the Kantian term "Ding an sich", which (as applied to phenomena) is just a log…

"Entitlement programs" is politicized as a term, certainly. "Cost disease", though... possibly in search for a new keyword? > I'm referring to the phenomenon itself. From your exam…

> "cost disease" has become politicized Citation needed. Where is this term common and where is it broadly discussed?

Tangential, but why do people write things like "even after adjusting for inflation" when discussing long timespans (40 years in this case)? Is there any reason to not adjust for i…

Author here. I completely agree. Embedded gists didn't have this annoyance when I wrote the article. I figured GitHub could be relied on to not change things up too much, but that'…

Lots of useful, successful things appear to be magic (especially in their selling points). Early Heroku is a great example in this space. I didn't see anything in the initial premi…

It's too bad (and uncharacteristic of mitchellh) that this post is so light on specifics. Were the "previously unknown challenges" simply that not enough people adopted Otto? Or we…

> Languages are faster, development times are shorter, and chips are WAY faster. This is due to Moore's law, not the software design choices that the article bemoans. Those $30k/mo…

It doesn't need to be compared to anything to be called a mess. dpkg/rpm have been widely useful, but package and dependency management is still a PITA.

Even if you are genuinely curious, such inquiries from a boss/"authority figure" can easily come off as threatening, so tread very carefully with advice like that.

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You get lockin issues with any vendor - even server colocation :) AppEngine is a great tool for a great price. It scales smoothly with an affordable increase in pricing. Heroku is …

Their total costs between Heroku and Redis infrastructure are less than $3000. I don't think you'd be able to hire a devops engineer for less than $30k, anywhere. It's surprising t…

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