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> I suspect the one problem that will be difficult to solve is elegance and abstraction. The fact that this industry was able to sustain itself for so long and not actually get thi…

> These people have no real knowledge of history That's a kinda naive take, the ones actually writing those theories know history pretty well. Marx rewrote all history fit his dial…

> it makes the difficult things possible, and that's what we needed Indeed, the problem of just saying "you don't need k8s" is you may accidentally invent an even worse in-house ve…

> The argument that digital gold has no value outside of speculation usually comes from people in rich developed countries with a strong financial system Some developing countries …

They are stupid, but rich people sometimes wear them for a reason, if they ever get stranded in a messy situation and their wealth is confiscated, they can still sell their watches…

Unstable (most often than not) is almost an exact copy of the latest branch, which means it has most of it's packages updated to latest version. Given the nature and abstractions o…

Behind the pretty facade there's a hyper competitive environment inside the JS community, sometimes with very low stakes. What's the incentive to fix fundamental issues if the metr…

Dear lord, this hits too close home, I've been having nightmares maintaining some Azure infra lately. I'm not a cloud-provider fanboy, they all suck at the end of day, but Azure is…

Indeed, I've once met someone who migrated a COBOL project to Java, the biggest complain wasn't even the Language itself, but extracting business logic from a 40-year old spaghetti…

Seems to be that "what would happen if NixOS and Qubes had children" scenario. Glad to see Nix propagating itself, the fundamental ideas are right, maybe what we need is different …

Formal methods seems to be perfect for verifying protocols, specially finding design flaws, here an example of an ongoing effort to verify TLS https://www.mitls.org/ https://github…

You are always paying Microsoft, one way or the other.

In the 2000's you had people getting paid 6-figure salaries to just "program" in HTML, that was, of course, before the dotcom bubble burst. This seems to be a modern response to th…

> But it seems even after being a react god master you will still be x10 times less productive than an average rails developer for developing an everyday feature. This is a very en…

Not paying taxes to a corrupt managerial elite is one of them

Job hopping is the perfect strategy for mediocre developers in this "bull market", if done quickly you'll only tell stories of glory, never having to deal with your bad decisions l…

I look forward to the bright future were I have to maintain messy code from AI Rockstars.

I'd rather see the culture that gave us the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Vedas, Upanishads, Algebra and many more outstanding creations have it's own way of doing capitalism, or whatever…

> The whole system is a fiction and can be patched for a long time with new fictions That's a good way to summarize it, I tend to see this trend of governments creating their own d…

> Is Google inconsistent, or has their policy on how to deal with these things changed over the past few years? Nope, they're being very consistent if you use the correct ideologic…

Huh... sorry your whole post is borderline racist and denies science, please refrain from posting from on similar topics in cyberspace. Regards, Ministry of Truth

> Our national healthcare system is completely ready to face a pandemic like that I lost a younger brother to that national healthcare system 10 years ago. Maybe this might be the …

> But common sense doesn't seem to play a role anymore. If it were just a common sense problem the damage could be reverted in it's due time. It is about hierarchy, if you put weak…

Nope, but it's not the same thing. NixOS can easily provide me with free rollbacks and is mostly reproducible ( https://r13y.com/ ). The funny part about NixOS is that once someone…