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A Pontiac Aztek.

He was president and COO from 1997 to 2004 and CEO from 2007-2013.

Numenor was explicitly an allusion to Atlantis.

Slack supports it, though I suspect most enterprises (on Slack and elsewhere) use SSO instead, if they’re actually paying for the enterprise tier.

Yeah, if you need to manage individual servers/VMs, it's not a great fit. I've used cloud-init files to configure EC2 instances on startup with things like packages and SSH keys, a…

I'm shocked that no one has said Terraform yet. It has its own declarative DSL, which some people complain about (because people complain about everything), but it works well for w…

> Eventually you outgrow the cloud provider and go into a data center. By that point you’re talking number of racks vs VMs. How many companies actually hit this stage? I can only t…

This is true if the slides are for a presentation, but unfortunately, many people in business ( cough consultants cough ) use the deck as their deliverable and cram all the informa…

Solo maintainer vs. organization is definitely an imperfect heuristic for long-term support. But it's a decent approximation for dependencies that are low ROI but potentially high …

The big problem with one-person packages isn't so much security as it is support. I have been burned more than once by old applications where key features rely on random packages w…

There is a big difference between finding work for yourself and finding enough work to keep a whole team employed, as you would be doing if you ran an agency.

Python is a lot older and a lot more widely used, so it’s not as easy to just change things.

> Its type system was so lame that it gave rise to most of the "Gang of Four" patterns, most of which are just workarounds for Java- not some first order principles of programming.…

Another commenter on this post said that this service isn't available in India, so it seems like the real flaw is that this shouldn't have been presented to a user in India by what…

I don’t think it’s necessarily bad science. The null hypothesis is that cats would react the same as dogs, and the study suggests that’s not true. While this is not surprising to m…

Human beings didn’t evolve to spend 100% of their time staring into a webcam, only interacting over Zoom. Remote is great and should be part of the solution, but sometimes, you jus…

"solarwinds123" comes to mind.

A kinder way to put it might be "SOAP with the benefit of hindsight."

Rust is a great language, but how do you scale a Rust team? It’s a hard language to learn without a ton of developers out there. I suppose you could hire C/C++ devs, but if you’re …