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Yeah fuck this account. I'm going to password out of it. Feel free to just delete everything I've written in the past that you don't agree with as well.

Almost like a question for democracy to decide as opposed to vigilante justice?

Well you'll be happy to know that my comment about democracy was forcibly removed by the mods. I won't repost it since it was made quite clear the opinion contrasted with the mod's opinion and not welcome here.

Yeah, fuck democracy. Just do whatever you want to shared resources. Gotta look out for number 1! /s

There is no incentive to improve the software under those circumstances

Classy. This comment is 100% exactly the attitude. This is why Step 1 is to find a new job. This poster is punishing you like a parent would a child. Is this the way you want to be looked at and treated? Did you study as hard as you did and spent so much time developing your craft for this?

There are better opportunities out there. 1,000s of them. Avoid the jrockways of the world and you will have a much happier career and life.

Anything in the world can be part of a job description. That speaks nothing about if it is reasonable or ethical.

Many, many, many industries have overnight staff to handle these issues, but likely because software engineers tend to be young, lack a union and are paid salary with no overtime compensation, it is somehow acceptable in this industry. Which is why I honestly asked that question. Why do you and the above poster, find it so normal to be on pager duty when so many other industries, often with much more critical services, do not require it?

The same people who do this is other industries. Paid staff scheduled to work those hours. Honest question: You didn't know that?

Launchcode certainly does[0]

[0] https://www.launchcode.org

My quick guide to pager duty.

Step 1: Find a new job.

There are way too many opportunities out there to subject yourself to this nonsense. Pager duty is essentially wage theft.

As an aside this type of thing gets me throttled pulling down 500MB+ git repos. Not T-Mobile specifically but Clear.

Ownership of the frequency bands.

Maybe I was down voted because my comment was too brief. In the U.S. companies bid on and purchase wireless spectrum which they then own in perpetuity.

Anytime you want to go toe to toe let me know. Being cheaper and more predictable is so different from actually having to make the best possible product.

Please, I beg you not to let go of your compassion for human life. These people obviously had troubled lives and went through great amounts of pain. There is a time and a place for debates about gender equality, but I don't feel like it is helping anyone to do it here. With that said I understand your frustration and sincerely wish you well.

we will decide how everyone lives

everyone? Dial back the extremism for a minute. Get off Facebook.

Why would documentation about docker include basic fundamental knowledge about deploying services in production? This isn't docker knowledge, this is service based architecture 101. Why is it docker's responsibility to teach you general software engineering concepts?

Seriously? You have gotten to the point in your extremism that the New York Times, one of the most respected news sources in the entire world is not factual to the point it should be banned. How did the country seriously get to this point?

I would strongly recommend first making sure you are comfortable with the concepts and architecture of decoupled systems and services. The biggest pain I see in practice are groups that come from monolithic software development backgrounds.

This article is a great example where in using docker for the first time they chose to attempt to run the state layer(database) in a container. State layers tend to be always available and difficult to scale horizontally anyway. This cancels out a decent chunk of the benefits of containers in production. If that team had more experience with service based architecture they would have known to use an third party database service provider(RDS) or host their own on a persistent server. Especially on their first experience with containers.

I hate to say it but this article sounds like it was written by your typical one trick pony, technology averse client services agency.

They are the last to adopt new things as they tend to be the lowest on the talent chain as meeting estimates, often via client coercion or moving goalposts, is much more important than successful solutions over the mid-ling term.

For anyone reading this that is part of that group, leave stuff like containers to outside organizations with stronger engineering talent and focus on what ultimate makes you money which is client networking and sales.

It's not just tech companies. The whole shielding responsibility via contractors is basically the name of the game for any large corporation. One quick example is chicken farming.

This article was about a lawsuit about chicken waste in 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03...

The relevant quote from the article is a statement from Perdue Chicken "Perdue owns no factory farms," the company said. "Families that raise poultry for Perdue are independent farmers."

Obama's recent statement that news needs to be "curated" by government appointed gatekeepers

Facebook is leaking, I can already imagine what the clickbait headline looked like...

"Obama to assemble government censorship agency"

I just deleted it because honestly, it's not like I'm going to get a real answer anyway. You continue to group people into baskets. Now it's "Americans" and "Fox News", race and class. I was just trying to understand where that comes from. Someday I truly hope to get some better insight as to where the general extremism is coming from. The reality is it's not going to happen in this thread so I was better off just deleting it as opposed to cluttering the discussion for no real benefit.

Honest question, do you get most of that stuff from Facebook, email chains, talk radio or maybe another source I'm unaware of?

I would hope you wouldn't elect a high school student to be President of the United States. I would also hope that knowledge of basic geography of important regions in the world would be a prerequisite for a position that largely deals with foreign affairs.

If we completely ignore basic competency, then I must conclude his rhetoric, which largely revolved around scapegoating immigrants and the people of foreign nations, played a large part in the decision.

Edit: Again, this is intended to give context as to why some, including myself, look to those issues as a driving force in the election.

The reason many people, including myself, look to xenophobia as one of the driving forces in the election is because I'm fairly certain Donald Trump would struggle to place somewhere like Belgium on the map and likely can't list the countries that border Syria.

He is so grossly unqualified for the position that it is difficult for me to understand what other reason someone would chose to vote for him.

Clinton was a poor choice for sure but Trump doesn't even pass the phone screen of the basic necessary knowledge for the position.

Edit: I should clarify that the point of my comment is not to reopen the debate about Trump as opposed to give some context as to why many people look to those specific issues as a driver of his election.

NLTK[0][1] (Natural Language Toolkit) was fantastic as an initial resource for me. Because it's a self contained book and library, I found it to have a very smooth learning curve. There is some introductory programming stuff that you can very easily just skip in the beginning so don't let that turn you off initially.

[0] http://nltk.org [1] http://nltk.org/book

I have a feeling you were not alive for the "Contract with America".

On a side note this is one of the most naive things I have ever seen. I was a bit agnostic before, but wow this is literally handing Russia and China the keys to the global economy while thinking he is doing the opposite. Yikes, I really did not realize he was this under qualified.

The Dot Com and Real Estate crashes(both fueled by very poor investment choices) didn't hurt anyone? Interesting take.

"If they fail, only their investors lose"

You realize that isn't actually how a capital market based economy works, right? Investors are the "command" part of the economy, responsible for allocating resources. If they decide to only invest in ridiculous, worthless ideas then we all definitely lose. So far that hasn't happened, but never forget that it is very important for us all where investors put their money.

So happy to be wrong about the future of Firebase. Firebase makes it so easy for setting up the basics of any crud and I'm glad Google continues to support it.

Absolutely agree with you and my apologies if my comment made it out to sound like I felt like he did not work for what he has accomplished.

No problem with what he did and it sounds like he does a great job

My comment was about the indiehackers title and link. It seems to be a pretty common occurrence for that site to greatly exaggerate the 0 to $X and this article is unfortunately no exception. Much respect to Elliot for all he has accomplished.