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Say what you want about European financial organizations but they are legally obliged to practice their recovery strategies. So every other month production clusters with all user …

... but then you have two competing organizations: OLD versus NEW. This is how it plays out: NEW starts as your shiny, agile, start-up-ish org with all the young people with the la…

Same here. Tried to connect an old Midiman Midi interface to a recent MacOs. Oh boy. Someone built a driver and I´m grateful for that but it was quite something to get the thing wo…

Last time I checked programming had something to do with computer science. You could say its applied computer science. So I ask myself: how come that this discipline, already 50+ y…

This begs the question: what do you recommend instead?

Ah. Sweet memories of a legendary Steve Ballmer moment: https://youtu.be/eywi0h_Y5_U

> If you're 100% serverless then this doesn't really apply, but if you're spinning up eight different Kubernetes clusters for eight different teams then you probably need to collab…

I don't want to spill the beans here, and well: you figured it already out by yourself.

You are joking but this place exists, in California in the middle between SF and L.A. and spent 5 months there. Didn‘t write an article about it though.

Why does it have to be the CEO? My first association was that Winston Wolfe character from Pulp Fiction. Wouldn´t it be neat if companies had that kind of fixer who you could call …

Out of curiosity: what features from Ruby are they reimplenting? I have no experience in Ruby but in a few other languages and framworks. And having encountered something missing y…

> I do realize that this no-tech-interview approach would probably never work for permanent positions This. Booking a freelancer is a completely different game than hiring an emplo…

> I can imagine Go shining a lot more brightly when working with a team which has mixed skill levels. Thank you for expressing that thought. However: I came quite to the opposite c…

Just did the other way last month from jekyll -> hugo after years on jekyll. Compile times down from 30 seconds to 300ms. Also was not able to reinstall jekyll with lots of ruby re…

I think you just described the Keynesian beauty contest: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest

Warren Buffet stories are like Chuck Norris jokes. Buffet does this, Buffet does that. Oh well. I just see a pattern in that story: Save your precious time. Use your resources in a…