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At work, whoever designed our setup put the staging and dev environments on the same domain and the entire massive company has adopted this pattern. What a colossal mistake.

There is a reason why newer companies and younger people tend to make bigger changes… It’s not a conspiracy. It’s not because they can’t. It’s because all that they have built up f…

Let me tell you about 9/11 memes…

I think this related to the “critical thinking” skill that all my teachers always stressed about growing up. But I still don’t know how to put in useful words what “critical thinki…

Java has a great ecosystem. It’s well thought out and I can compile and run 10 year old projects no problem. In fact, I wish everyone had just copied Java’s model instead of invent…

Then sign a contract with Akamai, who has been in business for 25 years? You outsource if you aren’t planning to do something very often. There is no middle ground where you commit…

I see people take photos on the train tracks all the time and trains are pretty silent. There would be a lot more dead.

Sure but that’s why your edge servers do request collapsing. And there are full blown CDN companies that will write an enterprise contract with you that can do this stuff with ease…

Static files have been pretty much the standard streaming protocols for both VOD and live for the last 15 years ago. Before, it was Adobe Flash (RTMP). With the way that they are d…

While I am not ready to recommend that everyone install Traefik, this is false. You can get a single node Docker “cluster” going with Traefik in 15 seconds. There is no maintenance…

You’re changing the goal post. Your original post was saying that you don’t need to know fundamentals. It was not about whether AI is useful or not.

Wait until AI prints out something that doesn't work and you can't figure out how to fix it because you don't know how it works so you do trial and error for 3 hours. The differenc…

Being persuasive means understanding that there are a million more dimensions to communication than just “nice vs. assertive.” After reading OP’s article, I did not even feel “I wa…

Because innovation tends to come from younger people who have bright ideas, or want to make a name for themselves, or simply because they have free time. You also need other people…

I think the author’s tone in the article causes more damage to the cause than good. Even if you are right, you don’t ever win the hearts and minds of anyone when your argument come…

I’ve been to Japan many times now and have sampled a lot of konbini food and have come to realize that a lot of it is just as junky as the food you can find at 7-11 here. The initi…

I think it's population decline. It's extremely severe in Japan. Percentage aged 15-64 is now nearing 1950 levels. And it's only going to get even worse. 12% are young kids today. …

A little of both. I understand getting a warm fuzzy feeling that you did the right things, but if you don't achieve your goal, what's the point? But let me clarify -- OP mentioned …

I don't think this is limited to security. I have friends who are very scary drivers but insist on backseat driving and telling you about best driving practices, and coworkers who …

Something that has worked for me, and I don’t know how to describe it any other way, is that some projects have “style.” Like I thought Docker, React, jQuery were actually cool whe…

WebAssembly adds a virtual machine so you run any high level language in the browser. C++, Java, Go, Erlang, Rust, PHP, JavaScript, C#, whatever

The US Navy has has a problem with people hijacking their old FLTSATCOM comm satellites as a walkie-talkie. https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/