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This was written by a company selling feature flag software. Use that information as thou wilt.

The solution is not to use feature flags. Or maybe have them expire. Oh, also, discipline the developers who do this.

There's that vaunted, cerebral HN discourse I've come to know and love.

I doubt the people engaging in this behavior have stopped to consider the commons and the tragedies thereof that this kind of aggregate behavior might induce. Just because it works…

This is the endgame of rent-seeking and an abundance of (concentrated) capital, in a country that is largely comfortable letting everyone fend for themselves. Who needs to build ca…

I was bullied fairly relentlessly in school. Not sure cameras would've helped (don't even remember if we had them in classrooms), especially the verbal stuff, but I also don't like…

I mean this genuinely: do you have anxiety? Because I do, and it can make it hard to handle uncertainty and the feeling of not having control. A big project, especially one with lo…

Are these extremely large shops in some sort of pocket universe? Because I've been around the block enough to regularly experience Kubernetes's issues over and over again, and I'd …

Let's be clear: all of the YAML-cum-DSL K8s deployment options are terrible. It's still just templating with extra steps. But Kubernetes is, fundamentally, one big while(1) loop tu…

Not having DBAs, the people with the actual skills to run the databases you need, available when you need them, certainly sounds like a business staffing problem, and not an engine…

It's okay, your managed Kubernetes provider also just happens to sell a managed database service! Isn't that convenient?

Like fail2ban. Nothing quite like the anxiety of almost locking yourself out of your own system because you mistyped a password one too many times. It's a delicate balance (althoug…

That's fine, you can always use something like Perl or Python then. But at some point, it certainly seems like all people want to do is run shell commands, and a shell script is st…

It's because web developers actually just want a command runner, and not a tool originally designed specifically for selectively recompiling parts of C programs. Make still works f…

Make is not a command runner. That people are abusing it as such doesn't mean make needs to change, it means people need to use the right tool for the job. Shell scripts can do the…

Financialization and mediocre developers. I haven't worked with too many people I could actually trust to even emit logs correctly, let alone develop a tool to collect and aggregat…

And I bet a hang glider can't fly from New York to Paris, either! The nerve! Recall that the poster said this was for a small startup. If you're Google, by all means, use Google lo…