johnpython

It's only unhealthy for your career at that specific employer. Fortunately for tech workers in the Western hemisphere, you can always move between employers

Promotions are for schmucks. One can easily get a promotion from the free market when their boss refuses to give it to them

For running applications in production, Alpine Linux is harmful and should be avoided. Getting a smaller container image is not worth trading mucl for glibc.

He was referring to sandboxing in terms of not polluting the installed packages/libraries on the server and not from a security perspective. But even from a security perspective, there are solutions to this problem like running containers as an unprivileged user using podman.

The utility of an air fryer. If you don't have one, you should buy one immediately. You will not regret it.

I think it's really easy to claim to be socially and environmentally conscious (especially nowadays with social media), but when you are faced with a scenario where your principles and values are put to the test, the decision you make reveals just how important to you those principles and values really are.

Indonesia has the largest population of Muslims in the world[1]. It is a Muslim country, but it is not governed by Sharia law, so it's not an Islamic country.

[1] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-large...

Have you tried applying for remote jobs?

This is why GCP has no hope of ever taking significant market share from AWS. Google thinks they can treat their cloud customers like they treat users of their free services. Customer support and communication are essential.

Yet another JavaScript project reinventing the wheel and badly at that. It seems the NodeJS community suffers from NIH syndrome more than others. This is a sign of lack of seniors and leadership.

Whatever my mind desires. Workplaces that enforce a dress code in 2017 are not worth your time. We're all adults and can make our own decisions.

Wait, they honestly asked you about the education level of your siblings? This is the most SVesque thing I've heard all year.

What percentage of millennials even understand Bitcoin? How many of us on HN are frequently asked about investing in cryptocurrencies by people who have no business approaching the topic.

Going serverless would increase your costs significantly. Have you seen how much AWS charges for Lambda use? Where did this myth of serverless saving you money come from?

I don't appreciate or value art at all.

This sounds cool, but it's needlessly complicated. Why not simply configure SSH to use multiple forms of authentication [1]: password + public key auth + 2FA (Duo Security, Google Authenticator, Authy, etc.). That's all you need to achieve a very secure state.

1 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Guidelines/OpenSSH#Multi-F...

If there is a gross lack of diversity within your company and you routinely use "culture fit" as an excuse to turn down PoC candidates, what conclusion can be drawn about your organization?

You just caused an infinite loop

We are extremely fortunate today to have resources that enable one to independently study the entire contents of a CS degree in the fraction of time on their own schedule. Pursuing a CS degree while actively employed in the field is a foolish waste of money.

Google is forward thinking? This is the same company that requested not only college, but highschool GPA and SAT scores from applicants and whose interview process is entirely textbook algorithm questions.

Neither. Work for a company that generates revenue by not encroaching on the privacy of every human being on Earth.

This is why I do not publish any open source projects except with GPLv3 license. I refuse to let Amazon profit off my hard work.

fewer than 1 percent of start-ups end up as $1 billion companies

Not every company needs to achieve a billion dollar evaluation. This eat-the-world mentality is incredibly toxic. An an entrepreneur one should be satisfied with making tens of millions in revenue, but of course you can't stop there when VCs are involved.

Like you I would never bring a device like this into my home. The issue is they are becoming normalized and mainstream adoption is growing at an alarming rate. What happens when you can't purchase a home appliance without these "features" and it refuses to work without connecting to your wireless network and being able to phone home?

Job postings that emphasize mandatory after-hours events especially based around alcohol are incredibly off-putting to multiple groups of candidates (senior engineers with families, introverts, non-drinkers, etc.). Things like "we have a beer keg in the office", "happy hours", or "work hard play hard".

It is being asked from sysadmins and network engineers to be able to code in at least 1 language (typically Python or Ruby).

Automatic green screen background so when on a video call, the remote worker does not have to masquerade where they are. Additionally this adds privacy for remote workers working from home who dont want their colleagues to see what their "home office" looks like.

With Kubernetes and other container schedulers gaining popularity and the host OS requiring less effort to be production ready, there is much less need for configuration management tooling. I don't see a lot of appeal for another tool in this space.

I'm not surprised by people here offering 'life ends at 30' advice here. No wonder there is so much rampant ageism in this industry.

DevOps is about shared responsibility between dev and ops teams. One guy with the title "DevOps Engineer" responsible for everything is doing it very wrong.