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Unfortunately many of thr same poor UI decisions are baked into Backstage, so soon you’ll have a similar experience deploying code onto your companies development platform.

Of course, it was a conversation and the engineer was happy to let me go in depth on storage after we discussed and dismissed other areas, like the front end, integrations, native apps which were not related to infrastructure.

We also covered other areas like messaging, authentication, authorization, read / write paths, etc… so it was very strange to get the response from the senior manager I got.

Citation needed. By this logic no part of a car would be legally serviceable by the owner.

At most of the companies I’ve interviewed at (except Google as you note), the hiring manager and principal engineer didn’t understand system design themselves. They only understood how to pattern match against a regurgitated answer.

Case in point, when asked how I’d build Slack, I spent most of the time on data persistence because slack stores all data forever even on the free plan. I got rejected because, “we don’t care how they store data.”

Ok, but that’s still a key part of the system design…

Seriously, if homeless camps aren't a problem then why aren't you hosting one?

So you'll host a camp in your backyard then?

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I always write "comedian"... (And I bet that made you laugh, which is proof)

If your app needs a secret, and it forks, I would assume the child processes also need that secret.

Oh, I think I've worked with you before! Perhaps multiple times...

Who are these people who can't hear the difference? And what sort of listen setup have you used to test this? Even my parents can hear the difference!

I worked on a project automating some parts of an Azure infrastructure for a big company. Half-way through development, JSON integers returned by Azure changed from strings to ints, back to strings. E.g., "42" became 42, then a few weeks later went back to "42".

This and other API weirdness gave me such Azure PTSD that I promised myself I would never touch it again.

Why do you think the Washington Post is garbage?

I have family in Austin, and I agree with everything in this post... Except the part about Austin being charming. I don't find anything charming about the arrogant texan attitudes, the mini-malls, and the crappy collage-town bars on 6th street.

The problem is, when devs don't write their own tests, the code they write tends to be untestable.

Classic Intel

Regardless of how you feel about either of these companies, I think this is great news for software and society.

Oracle claiming copyright to various APIs is a slippery intellectual property slope.

But don't try to use BC dates with time.Duration, because they don't work!

Yes, and reading reports.

They manually scan financial reports for info so they can manually type them into excel, and manually run various formulas and ultimately past the charts into powerpoint so they can fill up a directory full of files that hardly anyone will read.

Compared to the 10-20 hours I could spend debugging some stupid problem with passing objects to a function in the wrong order...

I started making music in the 90s when computers were obviously much slower, so we're only used for MIDI sequencing of external hardware. I spent my highschool years doing y2k prep for a few companies, and saving evey dollar do I could buy hardware samplers, mixers, synths.

These days, it's modular synths (some of which I've built), and many computers.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0aqdYuKQ9dpJHxdef1zGiq?si=zQ...

I've heard there is a few Redhat servers on the internet

I don't think Apple pays normal bandwidth fees for updates.

A family member was working at a telecom company when the iphone was first announced. One of the big worries from the cell providers was all the bandwidth required to push OS & App updates to all the phones. Apple finally agreed to deploy proxy caching POP servers to various locations, and pay to maintain them. I don't know for sure if these still exist...

However, one of the only ways that I can fully saturate my 1gbps FiOS connection is to download Apple updates.

It looks like this is written in Javascript with C backend components. I would never trust giving root to a web service written in C.

If anyone deploys this, make sure to bind only to localhost, and use an ssh tunnel to access it remotely, otherwise you're opening a massive attack surface.

Big difference in the type of drugs being used here... don't you erowid? You can't compare homeless people on crack living under a bridge to tech bros boofing ayahuasca with their personal shaman on a weekend getaway.

Classic startup idea validation one-pager. I'm sure you'll get at least a few people signing up, but I don't think this is a good measure if people are really interested. Final price, look of the product, and the ability to market b2c matter much more.

23's success is more based on the execution of their product and marketing. They already have proven for you, there are customers in this space. Now you just need to build something great.

As a current AWS employee, doesn't the popularity of this site prove the customer's demand for an official version to exist?

And then since it doesn't exist, Isn't it safe to assume that AWS intentionally obscures pricing?

Me too. The only people who think Azure is viable, haven't actually used it.

Sounds like Azure... Solid 500s from API, but status is green.

Fear-driven boomer bosses thinking that Windows is easier than Linux, and that workers who know Windows are more fungible.

The reality is that a relative few people outside of Microsoft are actually experts, and that running Windows in large scale production is considerably more difficult than Linux.