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I had to integrate Azure Pipelines and wanted to shoot myself in the face. The idea that you are simply configuring a pipeline yaml is just one big lie; it's code, in the world's s…

I do have a bias against front end development being from my perspective quite a mess, in the same way that physical scientists often look at the social sciences, though the social…

Plenty of discussion has been had around incentives and I agree with all that, but also there's another angle here: aside from dark patterns, I think the problems of terrible front…

I was a little underwhelmed by Tarkovsky's take on Solaris; the book was written with a lot more evocative prose, especially with respect to color, which made the film seem just so…

One small error (I think) - I noticed your link to pathfinder linked to someone's 2020 fork of the repository rather than the upstream servo repository.

Every time I am unfortunate enough to do something front-end it's just as bad as I remember. Edit: professionally, that is; when I do front-end related stuff for myself, it's fine,…

I was thinking the same thing as I was reading. Seems like feedback lag while drawing brush strokes would be frustrating for an artist. But then again, we have examples of surprisi…

Motivation from within is the strongest, and requires that work be aligned with personal goals, either in developing skills or making something happen. In these conditions, I've fo…

How much of this is specific to Kubernetes and how much is more accurately because you moved from managing your own VM infrastructure to using managed services? Cloud providers hav…

My experience is that the support is shit. Azure has good parts but if the grass isn't greener elsewhere then I weep for the state of the field.

I originally read this as question of whether any startups are hiring that are "solving for software engineering" and was very confused.

The right answer to this, as usual, is probably somewhere in the middle. Perspectives like this are pessimistic, but important because the industry has age bias and yet we need to …

Specifically, performance optimizations and reliability improvements. More generally, applying my most unique and valuable skill set compared to the people I work with and advocati…

I think you've been a role model in how to build and maintain a popular software project while keeping the spirit of FOSS and promoting a positive community around it. I look forwa…

I guess I'm mostly thinking of a server in concurrent reader/writer scenario. The common advice seems to be to use SQL or some form of database, especially for networked applicatio…

> And then, I didn’t hear anything back from anyone at Microsoft for six months. This does not mean he did not ask during that time.

Fuck anyone callous enough to take something as far as an onsite trip with the pretense of a job and then just ghost them. I can't think of a much clearer way to show that much dis…

I briefly looked over this project when this link first popped up and didnt think much of it, but then i was surprised to see this huge surge in votes. I dont do much in the javasc…

A capitalist blames a lack of demand for the deep socioeconomic flaws that disasters like this shine an ugly light on. By his logic, if people wanted these things, capitalists woul…

How timely. I found this series after watching The Ascent of Man, which I found after watching Cosmos. Highly recommend all three, especially the Ascent of Man. James Burke has a w…

"Why? Because coding a percentage in COBOL would take an estimated five months." Five months to code a percentage, or five months to add the calculation, integrate that data point …

Sounds nice. And idealistic. The reality is at this point the newer is often not much better, or may be just a step sideways rather than forward, and therefore does not replace any…

A constantly cycling proliferation of different languages, frameworks, libraries, etc. that all do the same things in a different way and are most often mutually incompatible with …