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Post by justinclift »

exac wrote: post #228
thisisnotauser wrote: post #137

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I've had the incredible displeasure of having to maintain multiple massive legacy COTS systems that were once designed by promising startups and ultimately got bought by IBM. IBM turned every last one into the shittiest enterprise software trash you can imagine. Every IBM product I've ever used is universally reviled by every person I've met who also had to use it, without exaggeration in the slightest. If anything,…

I think this is an interesting graph comparing web searches for "terraform alternative" and "opentofu". Notice the spike when the IBM rumors began, and the current spike now that the acquisition is complete? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=terrafor...

Both of those are still a rounding error compared to searches for Terraform though:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=terrafor...

That being said, it'll be interesting to see if it's still a rounding error 2 years from now.

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Post by avhception »

johannes1234321 wrote: post #257
jl6 wrote: post #248

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Not just accountants. I remember watching fully “non-technical” insurance admin / customer service people play the green screen keyboard like they were concert pianists. People can cope with a lot when they have to.

There is a learning curve, but not coping. One of the crest things with terminal: with experience one can type ahead, even before the form fully opened one can type data, which is queued in the input buffer and work efficiently. In a modern GUI application a lot of time is wasted with reaching for the mouse, aiming and waiting for the new form to render. That requires coping with it

Case in point: the aforementioned accountant obviously hated the new GUI-based app, exactly because of what you said. Aiming the mouse, looking for that button, etc. slows you down.

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Post by skissane »

airplaneears wrote: post #219
skissane wrote: post #21

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> These clowns want $2500 goddamned american dollars for the privilege of reading their bloviations on this topic, which i absolutely will not pay. You aren’t the target market for their “bloviations” - they are targeted at executives, and it isn’t like the executive pays this out of their own pocket, there is a budget and it comes out of the budget. Plus these reports generally aren’t aimed at technical people with…

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It has never paid my bills, in that I've never worked for an analyst firm.

My bills have been paid by working for vendors, where I have seen how sales and marketing use their reports in action. I have seen the amount of effort engineering and product management put in to try to present the best possible vision of their product and its future potential to these analysts. (I've never been personally directly involved in any of those activities though, I've just observed them from the margins.)

But, it isn't like the vendors have a huge amount of choice – if you refuse to engage with the analysts and utilise their reports in your sales cycle, what happens when your competitors do?

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Post by gertrunde »

avhception wrote: post #238
zifpanachr23 wrote: post #201

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The green screens tend to be much quicker and more responsive than the web frontends that are developed to replace them. I've seen a lot of failed projects for data entry apps because the experienced workers tend to prefer the terminals over the web apps. Usually the requirement for the new frontend is driven by management rather than the workers. Which is understandable to me as a programmer. If it's a task that I'm…

I second the TUI argument here. Back in ... maybe 2005 or what, in our ~60 people family business, I had the pleasure to watch an accountant use our bespoke payroll system. That was a DOS-based app, running on an old Pentium 1 system. She was absolutely flying through the TUI. F2, type some numbers, Enter, F5 and so on and so on, at an absolutely blistering speed. Data entry took single-digit seconds. When that was c…

An application I used to deal with was similar, but with a somewhat quirky developer, who would deliberately flip between positive/negative confirmation questions, e.g.:

- Confirm this is correct? (Yes=F1, No=F2) - Would you like to make any changes? (Yes=F1, No=F2)

And maybe sometimes flip the yes/no F-key assignments as well.

In theory this was done to force users to read the question and pay attention to what they were doing, in practice, users just memorized the key sequences.

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Post by proxysna »

schmichael wrote: post #110

I joined HashiCorp in 2016 to work on Nomad and have been on the product ever since. Definitely a lot of feelings today. When I joined HashiCorp was maybe 50 people. Armon Dadgar personally onboarded us one at a time, and showed me how to use the coffee maker (remember to wash your own dishes!). There have been a lot of ups (IPO) and downs (BUSL), but the Nomad team and users have been the best I've ever gotten to wo…

Just wanted to say thanks for your work on Nomad. Amazing tool that had me rethink a lot of things about how i work with infra and software in general and is always pleasant to work with by itself.

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Post by ForHackernews »

lovehashbrowns wrote: post #75
ForHackernews wrote: post #27

Sad to see this, but I will again shill for HashiCorp's Nomad as a better alternative to Kubernetes.

Definitely not better than Kubernetes, but I don't regret working on it and I like it as a simpler alternative to Kubernetes. I remember trying to hire people for it and not a single person ever even heard of it.

> I remember trying to hire people for it and not a single person ever even heard of it.

I know, it's really sad. Kubernetes won because of mindshare and hype and 500,000 CNCF consulting firms selling their own rubbish to "finally make k8s easy to use".

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Post by simonh »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #175
simonh wrote: post #129

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If the company gets 30 applicants, 10 of which go to the final round and 7 of those are really good, if they only have 5 openings then 2 really good applicants are not getting offers.

Those two should at least get told they didn't make it.

Oh sure, agreed. That's pretty poor.

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Post by bonzini »

bayindirh wrote: post #263
SEJeff wrote: post #232

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Centos stream still exists and it is in fact the actual upstream of rhel.

CentOS was the downstream of RHEL, and much more people used it than RedHat/IBM knew or wanted to admit. I can argue that at least 90% of their users (by the number of installs) didn't even need any help to configure/troubleshoot that either. But with a very IBM move and with some tunnel vision, they got triggered by the few people who abuse RedHat license model and rugpulled everyone. More importantly universities,…

> they got triggered by the few people who abuse Red Hat license model and rugpulled everyone

Alma is not a clone of CentOS Stream. You can use Alma just like you were using CentOS. It's really no different than before except for who's doing the work.

I agree that communication was bad. But why do you believe that Red Hat isn't able to screw up on their own?

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Post by ahoka »

cyberpunk wrote: post #267
pea wrote: post #168

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Isn’t MQ pretty good?

It’s heavy and old. We have to consume some but Kafka is nicer to work with typically (provided someone else is running it)

If Kafka is nicer to work with, then it must be horrible.
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