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At work, whoever designed our setup put the staging and dev environments on the same domain and the entire massive company has adopted this pattern.

What a colossal mistake.

There is a reason why newer companies and younger people tend to make bigger changes…

It’s not a conspiracy. It’s not because they can’t.

It’s because all that they have built up from hard work has resulted in responsibilities to a lot of people that also now hold them back.

Let me tell you about 9/11 memes…

I think this related to the “critical thinking” skill that all my teachers always stressed about growing up.

But I still don’t know how to put in useful words what “critical thinking” is because it’s not one thing.

It requires synthesizing a lot of information together in very specific and meticulous ways. And through feedback, collecting your previous thoughts and keeping track of how often you are correct or incorrect.

You can explain critical thinking in many ways but none of it will teach someone critical thinking.

Java has a great ecosystem. It’s well thought out and I can compile and run 10 year old projects no problem. In fact, I wish everyone had just copied Java’s model instead of inventing their own worse model.

I love Python but it has a terrible package ecosystem with mediocre tooling that has only gotten worse with time.

JavaScript has gotten better but it seems they are just re-learning things that were long figured out.

When I see new package managers, I just see a list of problems that they forgot to account for. Which I find strange when there have been many package managers that you can learn from. Why are you re-inventing the wheel?

Then sign a contract with Akamai, who has been in business for 25 years? You outsource if you aren’t planning to do something very often.

There is no middle ground where you commit a mediocre amount of resources, end up with downtime and a mediocre experience, and then go “but we saved money.”

I see people take photos on the train tracks all the time and trains are pretty silent.

There would be a lot more dead.

Sure but that’s why your edge servers do request collapsing. And there are full blown CDN companies that will write an enterprise contract with you that can do this stuff with ease. Akamai is like 25 years old now.

Scale has increased but the techniques were figured out 20 years ago. There is not much left to invent in this space at the current moment so screwing up more than once is a bit unacceptable.

Static files have been pretty much the standard streaming protocols for both VOD and live for the last 15 years ago. Before, it was Adobe Flash (RTMP).

With the way that they are designed, you can even use a regular CDN.

While I am not ready to recommend that everyone install Traefik, this is false.

You can get a single node Docker “cluster” going with Traefik in 15 seconds. There is no maintenance except updating occasionally. It doesn’t use much more resources. You do not need to install any third party tools. There is no onion of services. You literally just boot up Traefik plus your app.

This has been doable since at least 2019 by just installing Docker via your OS’ package manager.

I’ve started using containers before 99% of people and so got to see the fundamentals build up. You do not need to skip directly to “Kubernetes.” That’s like needing to wash your clothes so you skip directly to buying an industrial washing machine and then lamenting how all washing machines are overkill.

You’re changing the goal post. Your original post was saying that you don’t need to know fundamentals.

It was not about whether AI is useful or not.

Wait until AI prints out something that doesn't work and you can't figure out how to fix it because you don't know how it works so you do trial and error for 3 hours.

The difference is that you can trust a good calculator. You currently can't trust AI to be right. If we get a point where the output of AI is trustworthy, that's a whole different kind of world altogether.

Being persuasive means understanding that there are a million more dimensions to communication than just “nice vs. assertive.”

After reading OP’s article, I did not even feel “I want to like a Facebook post in support.”

Because innovation tends to come from younger people who have bright ideas, or want to make a name for themselves, or simply because they have free time.

You also need other people to work with, so even if you have an idea, it’s much easier when there are a lot of people in the area with the right skill set.

With a significant declining trend in population, especially in younger people, there just wouldn’t be as many opportunities.

Japanese software is not the only place where we are seeing a decline in innovation. This is the country that that provided us a lot of modern electronics as well.

35% of people are now over 65 in Japan. A much larger percentage of the economy now has to be dedicated to taking care of the elderly. The percentage of elderly in 1950 was tiny.

I think the author’s tone in the article causes more damage to the cause than good.

Even if you are right, you don’t ever win the hearts and minds of anyone when your argument comes off as entitled or deserving.

The mockery that OP refers to is the direct result of the tone that the author uses. Mocking the other side is how you get mockery back. Then you have to write an article about being mocked.

I’ve been to Japan many times now and have sampled a lot of konbini food and have come to realize that a lot of it is just as junky as the food you can find at 7-11 here. The initial novelty was that it was Japanese junk food.

Don’t get me wrong: I will still absolutely f’ up a steak and cheese roller from 7-11 in the states and will continue to eat konbini food when I’m in Japan, but all of it is kind of mediocre. They hit the spot like (American) Denny’s at 2am.

I think it's population decline.

It's extremely severe in Japan. Percentage aged 15-64 is now nearing 1950 levels.

And it's only going to get even worse. 12% are young kids today. In 1950, it was over 35%.

A little of both. I understand getting a warm fuzzy feeling that you did the right things, but if you don't achieve your goal, what's the point?

But let me clarify -- OP mentioned a contrast between consequentialism and virtual ethics and I think you can be "too much" consequentialism too. I'm wouldn't call myself a rule follower but I also follow rules 99% of the time too. It does create a sense of order and and predictability and I value that.

There is a right balance where you do follow rules but you also know when to break them. What I can't really stand are rigid people -- diehard rule followers or diehard "no one can tell me what to do." I find working with rigid people hard because you have to work around their "buttons."

I don't think this is limited to security.

I have friends who are very scary drivers but insist on backseat driving and telling you about best driving practices, and coworkers who are insistent on implementing excessive procedures at work but constantly are the ones breaking things.

I think following rules gives some people a sense of peace in a chaotic and unpredictable world. And I can't stand them.

Something that has worked for me, and I don’t know how to describe it any other way, is that some projects have “style.” Like I thought Docker, React, jQuery were actually cool when they came out. Elegant, pretty, fun to use and I could see the future for them.

But when I think about Backbone.js, Vagrant, AngularJS, or Dojo.js, I remember thinking how lame and ugly they were and hated how popular they had become. I thought “this is it? you got function but no form.” But in the end, those projects fell into disuse and I was happy again.

WebAssembly adds a virtual machine so you run any high level language in the browser.

C++, Java, Go, Erlang, Rust, PHP, JavaScript, C#, whatever

The US Navy has has a problem with people hijacking their old FLTSATCOM comm satellites as a walkie-talkie.

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/

Video consists of many frames and you have to apply the same but slightly different transformations to each frame. Building a pipeline (via nodes or not) to describe these repeated changes is worth the extra effort.

Outside of batch jobs, image editing tasks are generally one offs with image-specific actions and building a change pipeline is unnecessary work.

At the end of the day, both workflows are different tools, like hammer vs. mallet.

A lot of people’s personal sites are still like this. The trend never really bucked for that.

Although it’s more the websites for designers and artists rather than developers.

There are also websites that showcase these types of websites, although I don’t know any anymore.

I have to say, building these kind of websites is more fun now in HTML than Flash because you aren’t constrained to a fixed viewport. And HTML has surpassed in Flash in features and you have WebGL and WebAssembly and other fun things… well, except a nice IDE with a timeline.

This website can be written with vanilla JS, HTML and CSS on any framework or in a raw HTML file.

If this was still 2004, you could have gone to DyanmicDrive.com and stolen some sample code.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040117050039/http://dynamicdri...

Neoliberals believe in free market and deregulation, not market restrictions.

Nixon was the one that started the war on drugs and also enacted price controls. I would not call him a neoliberal. He also primarily interested in foreign policy and not the economy.

Also, Sudafed was only banned from being purchased easily in 2006. The bill was introduced by a random congressman from Indiana, a congressman was also easily offended by an offensive joke written on someone’s else cake.

I just know people who say things similar to OP who lament that live music is dead but they never go out or do anything when you ask them to go.

Their anecdotal experience is more a reflection of their own preferences.

The venues in my suburban area have only grown over the past 10 years and new venues have opened.

Sure, but having additional responsibilities when you have a family is not a new phenomenon created in the last 30 years.

Well the shows I go to are packed and there are other people dancing.

I live in a small suburban US town and I’ve seen live music 6 times in the past 2 weeks?

I go dancing regularly??

I have three tickets next week to see <$30 bands.

I can’t relate to any of this.