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Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#422Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently that's a no-no: ... Flint replied, "Well the top 5 are my primary focus, but the other 20 come in at a close second. They are still important so I'll work on those intermittently as I see fit as I'm getting through my top 5. They aren't as urgent, but I still plan to give them a dedicated effort." To which Buffett replied: "No. You've got it wrong, Mike. Everything you didn't circle just became your 'avoid…
I'm no Warren Buffet, so I hesitate to disagree, but these kinds of stories always make me think of a parable about weight lifting. You go to a gym to learn to lift weights. You see a big strong guy and ask him to teach you. He must know how to lift weights and get big and strong, right? He's done it after all. Sure enough, the big guy knows just what to do. He's got all sorts of advice, he disagrees with conventiona…
"Where Buffet lets lower priority tasks slide or delegates them they still get done by his employees. If you do it then your house is going unmaintained or a relationship is getting neglected etc."
Perhaps that's the lesson.
I'm reminded of the startup aphorism "You don't have to be good if you're great." It's really a statement about market dynamics. If you are "great" (the monopoly provider of a service, asset, or technology that other people value) then you will attract capital and people who are "good" (hardworking and skilled people who specialize in the non-monopoly fields you need). You can then trade access to your skill for access to theirs, and do so with great leverage because there are many more of them than you.
If you don't have a monopoly skill or asset, then - assuming you want to take advantage of these market dynamics - your first priority should be to acquire one. And yes, that means that your house is going unmaintained and your relationships are getting neglected. So what?
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#423I don't like the new way of doing things. Kubernetes, node, react, terraform... Everything is more complicated and also more fragile. I feel like the software world is collectively mad and I'm sitting on the outside asking "wtf is going on?" Or maybe I'm the crazy one.
This is just some MVP java app with an nginx proxy, elastic-search, and mysql? Why is this running in k8s on aws via Kops in conjunction with a cloudformation template for aurora inside of a VPC? With containers separately built via packer +ansible kicked off via jenkins after each pull request merge? The CI pipeline also kicks off a canary deployment in our UAT environment with a prometheus exporter for monitoring o…
I dunno, I think it's a pretty neat stack. At least you don't have to deal with OSGI and the works.
In all seriousness though, please don't build things on k8s unless you have a couple of microservices or the infrastructure in place already.
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#424I don't like the new way of doing things. Kubernetes, node, react, terraform... Everything is more complicated and also more fragile. I feel like the software world is collectively mad and I'm sitting on the outside asking "wtf is going on?" Or maybe I'm the crazy one.
This is just some MVP java app with an nginx proxy, elastic-search, and mysql? Why is this running in k8s on aws via Kops in conjunction with a cloudformation template for aurora inside of a VPC? With containers separately built via packer +ansible kicked off via jenkins after each pull request merge? The CI pipeline also kicks off a canary deployment in our UAT environment with a prometheus exporter for monitoring o…
Oh God. I want to believe this is "best practice" and everyone is sane, but when I hear things like this (or am a part of such project), I can't help but think that it's driven by a devops guy who wants the learning experience (the same way programmers want to do projects in languages they want to know better, instead of the ones they know well).
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#425I don't like the new way of doing things. Kubernetes, node, react, terraform... Everything is more complicated and also more fragile. I feel like the software world is collectively mad and I'm sitting on the outside asking "wtf is going on?" Or maybe I'm the crazy one.
You're not the only crazy one, or even crazy at all. Even before the technologies you mention, devs were complaining [1] about how the non-innate aspects of software development had overwhelmed the joy of writing code. [1] http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/just-let-me-code/240168735
Yup. It's like this huge bureaucracy we've created for ourselves. You can't just run code on a target platform, you have to learn about all the thousands new forms to fill, and then fill them all in triplicate.
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#426I've been struggling with adulthood ever since turning 30 and starting a family. I have this image in my head of what life after 30 looks like from seeing my parents and all their friends doing basically the same thing as each other. It's not a life I want for myself, but every decision I make pushes me further and further in that direction. My mind has been programmed to think and act in a way that eventually lands…
Mid-life crisis? How do you feel about Corvettes?
Lol 30 year old midlife crisis. Wait till you are 50 and you look back and think of what you didn’t do. The flip side is you can look back at what you did with some satisfaction.
My point is that 30 is not old by any measure. Barring bad luck, you still have another 40 to 50 years to do something different.
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#427I struggle with the fact that I'm going to have to quit academia and get a data science job (probably). I love academia. But I am too slow, and personal life means I am geographically constrained. My plan is to choose a topic and work at that as an academic side project, with the aim to still publish either alone or with seated academic friends.
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#428Try to use the Pomodoro Technique[1]... believe me, it helps.
It organizes your tasks in rounds of deep focus with intervals and the results are very good, specially if you are dealing with multiple things at once.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique?wprov=sfti1
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#429I don't like the new way of doing things. Kubernetes, node, react, terraform... Everything is more complicated and also more fragile. I feel like the software world is collectively mad and I'm sitting on the outside asking "wtf is going on?" Or maybe I'm the crazy one.
Less than two days ago lerna left-padded out of being FLOSS and since Babel uses lerna we're having this conversation now: https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/8579#issuecomment-4169... I pine for the times when we could just place a few tags here and there and call it a day.
This just in! They reverted the license change. Go back to work.
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#430Earlier quoted context omitted.
Less than two days ago lerna left-padded out of being FLOSS and since Babel uses lerna we're having this conversation now: https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/8579#issuecomment-4169... I pine for the times when we could just place a few tags here and there and call it a day.
This just in! They reverted the license change. Go back to work.
Here's the revert btw: https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/1633