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This reminds me the blog one would write around 2006. Not the text content, but the pixelated font and pictures of winamp wibe like that. Myself, I am rather happily using mplayer …

I have seen this so many times. You almost made me weep. It's tragedy of commons. To stop this we need software engineers to own their own code legally.

Nod. I would love to hear more about these rewrites.

Today, I woke up feeling that elixir/phoenix is the best platform for rewrites. I mean, when you know the problem domain well, you can build a master piece in elixir/phoenix. I sti…

I have built my web scraping system ( https://awesomegoat.com ) on Ruby on Rails. And while I spent this Christmas-break exploring Elixir/Phoenix, I am so far staying with Ruby on …

> I date in my age group. Sometimes changing the proposition can drastically change the outcomes.

I was always afraid to use on of these. I thought that the css selectors would be too brittle and ultimately break. I have build my own solution that is automagical at https://awes…

Haven't sandboxed programs in a privileged context been the root cause of me seeing BSOD so often in the late 90ties?

I have finally built myself reader app that fulfills my own needs first. I totally absolutely enjoyed every minute building my own thing and I highly recommend it for the burnout d…

You just reminded me a slightly related strip: http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/elemental/605973

More spiritual society is the less stuff it needs to amass. One of the theories goes that ancient civilizations made progress in non material domains. How else would you explain th…

Yes. IIRC, Patternfly started many years ago, because many open source project (of Red Hat interest), had inconsistent ui. The idea was to develop a common guideline that other ope…

Are we surely going in the right direction?

Shows power of market forces. And price sensitivity of the buyers.

> it requires devoting time and effort towards its upkeep, and that is not our core business, nor should it be. I would try to argue that this in fact may be subjective. For me, up…

That's battle tested by now. Call it enterprise.

Downvote me all you want. :-)

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Yes, when that grows you can build a new corporate team babysitting control tower.

Indeed. Hacker news crowd is drinking their own cool aid on this topic and not recognizing how much costs can be avoided if they just drop EKS from their stack. Remember that in SR…

Happiness cannot be measured and managers cannot manage something that cannot be measured. You see?

It is amazing how badly managed they ended up being.

That won't be enough. I predict that AWS stopped growing this ongoing quarter and everything else is money loosing venture for Amazon. It will be interesting to watch if they can r…

Indeed. And ChatGPT already can babysit burnout engineers. (which has been major time sink of engineering managers that I know).