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A redesign that is universally hated in my organization. Every standup has someone complaining about it.

I think that's crazy reductive though. It's not an either/or, and it's a gross oversimplification that big projects only show benefit within their major focus. LHC has produced ben…

In THIS case, a writer for the Atlantic with a bio of "Shannon Stirone is a freelance science writer based in the Bay Area" is criticizing. If we had an expert in planetary explora…

For us, it tends to be driven by the language/logging framework used. When using syslog-type logging messages, we log at critical/fatal for the REALLY bad ones. When using npm-type…

In my last three companies, the bulk of the infrastructure was defined and managed via Python scripts (a lot of this predated Ansible being great), so what gets forgotten is the li…

The truth is, it's Python. I'm not looking for a great language, I'm looking for language that'll help me get work done... quickly and not give me a migraine if I have to come back…

You talk as if the switch doesn't look like a bunch of arbitrary decisions made on the appearance of purity. If more of an attempt had been made a maintaining compatibility, there …

This is the greatest thing ever - for systems work, python3 is a nightmare. Thanks for sharing this.

Agreed - they still make the best computers, we just wish they were as good as last year's.