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The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande is a must read

We did a similar thing. Started all in on Heroku and then slowly moved database, redis, MQ and CICD off to dedicated providers over a 4 year period. Then we spent several months cr…

We have a analytics SaaS which displays, among many other pieces of data, ratings from different providers, including Yelp. I assumed that Yelp had been doing this all along and we…

We received the exact same letter from Yelp. Our usage is significantly higher and when we talked to them, the prices they quoted were ridiculously high (thousands of dollars a mon…

It depends on the company and their policies. When working at large companies, there is generally a HR department that has to "approve" all firings. This is usually to make sure po…

I had coworkers fly out to a training class and met up with some other attendees in the lobby prior to the training. That's when they all realized that there was no training course…

When I moved into my last house, I had a fun electrical problem. We moved in October and I would end the day by taking the trash out. Now, my garbage can was outside the door from …

You can (and probably will) have multiple different frontends with website vs app. If you have a clean API for the backend, then you have one set of calls which can be made from mu…

People died of Pellagra for political and racism reasons. See: https://www.theelephant.info/op-eds/2021/09/03/hunger-in-the...

The random lady from HR is why a previous manager sent out a message to my team wishing me a Happy Birthday. In between saying thanks to my teammates, I messaged my boss that my bi…

woke? You mean treating all types of people with respect?

She was not convicted on any charges about falsified medical results. She was only convicted on defrauding investors

Yes. This is a system problem. Why are cars allowed to be near pedestrians? Why were cities/streets designed to make it possible for cars to run over pedestrians? Saying it was an …

Safeguards do not make a company less nimble and it's frankly embarrassing that people think that. We should not have to sacrifice people in the name of growth. And the thinking th…

You need to push to get 1-2 junior devops engineers that you can handle the day-to-day tasks (unblocking engineers, fixing common issues), so that you can focus on larger picture t…

Java came out 3 (or is it 4) recessions ago. There are entry level developers who were born after I started using it. It's a legacy technology.

He did say quickly

No wonder we start counting at zero, it all started with a nun.

Except that Lauren says that she didn't write the story. https://mashable.com/article/facebook-teen-vogue-sponsored-c... "At some point, Teen Vogue contributor Lauren Rearick was l…

That's not what Colonel Hogan taught me.

And stole a hostage and killed several soldiers.

And what did the Ewoks eat prior to the Stormtroopers arrival? Were they cannibals?