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Yes, totally agreed in theory, and it sounds like y'all built a great solution for your use case. But it takes substantial effort and discipline to do something like that at scale.…

What you're missing is maintenance, security, scaling, and protection from data loss. Bespoke CI is easy to build but no one wants to be in charge of rolling out a critical securit…

It's not explicitly pro-union, but this made me think of the Dolly Parton song "9 to 5": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxUSsFXYo4

What I don't understand is why they don't have a canary update process. Server side deployments do this all the time. You would think Windows would offer that to their institutiona…

We routinely implement phased / canary deployments in server-side systems to prevent faults from rolling out globally. How is it possible that CrowdStrike and/or Windows does not h…

> In other words, the founder doesn't have the qualifications or characteristics that the underlings assume they need to be in a leadership position. I find this to be an odd take,…

This was my great frustration with Twitter the last time I tried it. Even when I carefully curated my followers, random crap would constantly sneak into my feed. It was annoying en…

This blog post reads like it's written by someone using Subversion back in 2015. Most of the justification for committing on mainline can be addressed by following other best pract…

> I think we ought to consider a system where the Government or Fed provides the core functionality of “let me put $X in an account so I can use $X in the future” for free and bank…

One major draw of Lego is their licensing of expensive creative IP. Look at the Harry Potter, Star Wars, DC, Lord of the Rings themed sets. Smaller competitors likely can not affor…

You know the old saying "familiarity breeds contempt"? I believe the opposite is true as well. People who don't code think coding is typing. People who don't manage think it is as …

I do think a future where AI can generate convincing-but-subtly-flawed blog posts like this one is closer than one where chatgpt generates correct, on-spec production code. Maybe i…

This was funny. But I've seen too much clean code written by people smarter than me to agree. I actually think how "clean" your code is depends on lots of factors. Eg. (a) Do you c…

The key point is that someone else is watching the baby while you work. WFH is indeed wonderful for parents and families, but if you try to do it without childcare, you're not goin…

I think the author has a point here. In an ideal world, we would of course spin up a new microservice every time a PR in the foobar-widget-generator service begins to deviate from …

I agree, but a single year is long enough to learn that lesson. Looping magnifies the positive/negative outcomes of being assigned a good, bad, or indifferent teacher (or one you j…

People with jobs are free to seek out new jobs. Yoking a student to a bad teacher for 2+ years is the opposite of a real-life situation.

All work is fancy bricklaying if you're jaded enough. Surgeon? Just spackling the same old organs day in day out, with the additional downside of potentially killing someone if you…

Salaries for MBAs likely follow a similar distribution as for programmers. A small fraction of elite workers enjoy outstanding compensation, while the vast majority sit somewhere o…

So did you end up founding your own company? Was that your last interview ever? Don't leave us hanging!

I find it best to start small with this kind of thing. Have a single team start practicing GitOps, with an eye to eventually accepting contributions from other dev teams. Establish…

The very point I'm trying to make is that human nature has not changed in the past 120 years. What has changed is the social and technological context in which we live. Take a grou…

The idea that we have removed the social stigma for being obese is laughable. Obese people are discriminated against in healthcare, employment, and social settings. Furthermore, nu…

The kind of discrimination I am talking about is refusing to hire fat people for desk jobs (or not promoting them, or paying them less) because of stereotypes that they are lazy or…

This thread is full of people commenting along the lines of " I have been able to manage my weight successfully, so other people must be fat because they're lazy idiots." HN is ful…