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TFA is written by a guy who took the job to collect anecdotes to write a book to show how miserable life is for low wage earners and now it is time to market the book. Sorry but I am skeptic about this article and think it is an exaggeration. At the same time if it is true why are folks not simply resigning and going to a better job? It is a free country isn’t it? Why is minimum wage still so low and why are all political parties not coming together to raise it?

Yes many people won’t understand this article it but there is a strong and subtle point that Balaji makes. It is the power that technology brings to the common people. Technology will one day make food shelter healthcare clothing ie all the basic necessities so automated and so cheap that everyone can be guranteed free access to these basic needs. Already certain countries have started experimenting with annual basic income. This does not stop people from excelling or working hard to do better but will help us to stop worrying about going homeless or going broke just because one loses ones job. This is where technology can take us and this is what we dream about. Thank you.

They have a volume agreement with the postal services. So for example every month they pay 100$ for shipping 100 items. However if some month they have only shipped 90 items they still have room to include another 10 items no matter what they sale it for. The real story is that they are giving things for free and no one can beat them. How do I know this? Just through some rational thinking.

An End to Parking? 11 years ago

Yeah? Go to a place like China or India where there is no place to park your car. Nowadays almost everyone in the world have a car so we need place to park. If you don't want to own a car it is your problem. The new generation is losing independence FAST....

All new monitoring systems should be named YAMF-X (Yet Another Monitoring Framework)

Jokes aside.. while the stream processing on events seem powerful there was something similar in graphite but probably not as advanced or easy to use. However the push approach brings its own limitations specially on existing setups.

Instead of solving the problem or urban overpopulation, high real estate prices we are a new generation foolishly celebrating these kinds of toys that little by little is chipping away our personalities. The new generation is indeed globally slave labour.

Why would someone delete a existing index without recreating it first? This is common sense for a DBA but not for our full stack engineers who have to know everything about everything g.

With all these container talks people forget Solaris zones which were pretty advanced sort of containers in Solaris. However Sun was honest about not mentioning zones as the solution for everything. The most important problem with containerization is that due to dependence of multiple containers on the same kernel of the host or VM OS , any kind of upgrade specially the security patching is virtually impossible to do without taking full downtime.