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Honestly, the culture/org structure is a way bigger problem in this story than any proper noun tool. If you’re ignoring guidance and patterns and getting mad reinventing the wheel,…

I don’t think you’re being pedantic. You’re just making a weird assumption that the radio itself is the only resource. I learned a ton from this as a kid. And I learned from Radio …

Yeah. There’s Jamf and similar tools. Companies often block major updates until their 100 agents all officially support it. Oh, and do cool things like not letting you change your …

The one thing I’ve seen are where companies have tax incentives tied to butts in seats. Usually like 0 property tax, with the government assumption that they’ll make it up in sales…

Yeah and ESR can be revisionist in his history, projecting intention on something organic. He alienated a lot of people over time with this… and other behavior. The book I recommen…

I don’t find that book to be very useful at all. I’m kind of annoyed by the bait and switch of the title. It’s a play on Knuth’s classic but then turns into showing why Unix/Linux …

I’ll say, I did shell scripting for years from copy/paste, cribbing smarter people, and reading online guides. But I didn’t really understand until I read The Unix Programming Envi…

The problem I’ve seen historically is when a company is founded around one project or ecosystem. Someone like Microsoft or Google could take software like this, pay the original de…

As an old Unix guy this is exactly how I see jq: a gateway to a fantastic library of text processing tools. I see a lot of complicated things done inside the language, which is a v…

I do almost all hand tool woodworking, but not purist. My main smoothing plane is from 1910ish. My most new fangled hand tool is a Japanese Shinto rasp. And you’re 100% right. I’ve…

First, I don’t make these decisions but sometimes have influence. These opinions are my own and not my intentionally unnamed employer, and might be flat out wrong. This list is ver…

I completely get this. I feel like every product I’ve had outside of a vendor’s wheelhouse has gone that way. We just use the BigIP gear from F5 and they’re better than the load ba…

I dunno about rock solid. I’ve had plenty of issues forcing a failover/reboot, multiple complicated tickets open a year, etc. But we have a sh ton of them. To be fair, some are ker…

They really were older mentors to Nirvana. They and their band were about 10 years older (1 Beatles career), recruited them to Geffen, and really got them their first exposure outs…

I couldn’t agree with this more. To me, there’s an ecosystem and a culture for a language in a situation. The ecosystem is the tooling around the language. Debugging, performance p…

I accidentally wandered into a test trying to find something out: > Tell me all of the albums where the guitarist used a DOD FX-69 Grunge effect pedal. > The DOD FX-69 Grunge effec…

That’s awesome! I’m not totally weird! :) But, yeah, the practice thing has been so important. It’s a habit as much as a hobby now. The music is better understood, and I just shoot…

I regretted never learning to play an instrument beyond the basics and I didn’t really understand analog electronics beyond the simple stuff. So I’ve gotten into guitar and guitar …

What I’m the world is a cloud-oriented language? Looks at page. Oooh. This is JS with a schmancy library. That’s cool, I guess… for someone.

The tools with origins >2003 are pretty useless beyond making things out of prefab parts. That’s cool for beginner stuff, but I feel like we’re dropping people off a cliff from the…

This general idea that a previous generation was better because they lead a less pampered life goes back to some of the earliest writing. Yet here we are. World changing people see…

They took much more on with IPv6 than IPv4 replacement. The spec goes much deeper than IPv4 did, replacing ARP, DHCP, etc. It's a product of its time, including a lot of over-engin…

That's pretty brilliant. My windows experience is really out of date. I knew NT4 and 2000 the best. Then I picked up 2008 for a while supporting small businesses. I don't hate it o…

Yeah, my habits come from using GNU, BSD, SysV and having to use the lowest common denominator.

Yes, just dumb fingers typing the comment. :(