Honestly, the culture/org structure is a way bigger problem in this story than any proper noun tool. If you’re ignoring guidance and patterns and getting mad reinventing the wheel, that’s on dev. If “ops” mandates…
I don’t think you’re being pedantic. You’re just making a weird assumption that the radio itself is the only resource. I learned a ton from this as a kid. And I learned from Radio Shack. You stare at it, you go…
Yeah. There’s Jamf and similar tools. Companies often block major updates until their 100 agents all officially support it. Oh, and do cool things like not letting you change your background or whatever random settings…
The one thing I’ve seen are where companies have tax incentives tied to butts in seats. Usually like 0 property tax, with the government assumption that they’ll make it up in sales tax (lunch, gas, etc.) and taxes from…
Yeah and ESR can be revisionist in his history, projecting intention on something organic. He alienated a lot of people over time with this… and other behavior. The book I recommended is both a handbook and a “how to…
I don’t find that book to be very useful at all. I’m kind of annoyed by the bait and switch of the title. It’s a play on Knuth’s classic but then turns into showing why Unix/Linux is better than Windows, etc. As a…
I’ll say, I did shell scripting for years from copy/paste, cribbing smarter people, and reading online guides. But I didn’t really understand until I read The Unix Programming Environment by Brian Kernighan and Rob…
The problem I’ve seen historically is when a company is founded around one project or ecosystem. Someone like Microsoft or Google could take software like this, pay the original developer, and still see tons of ROI…
As an old Unix guy this is exactly how I see jq: a gateway to a fantastic library of text processing tools. I see a lot of complicated things done inside the language, which is a valid approach. But I don’t need it to…
I do almost all hand tool woodworking, but not purist. My main smoothing plane is from 1910ish. My most new fangled hand tool is a Japanese Shinto rasp. And you’re 100% right. I’ve changed my chisel and plane iron…
First, I don’t make these decisions but sometimes have influence. These opinions are my own and not my intentionally unnamed employer, and might be flat out wrong. This list is very focused on big companies at stupid…
I completely get this. I feel like every product I’ve had outside of a vendor’s wheelhouse has gone that way. We just use the BigIP gear from F5 and they’re better than the load balancers we used in the past. Thank god…
I dunno about rock solid. I’ve had plenty of issues forcing a failover/reboot, multiple complicated tickets open a year, etc. But we have a sh ton of them. To be fair, some are kernel bugs with connection table leaks,…
They really were older mentors to Nirvana. They and their band were about 10 years older (1 Beatles career), recruited them to Geffen, and really got them their first exposure outside Seattle. They also were largely…
I couldn’t agree with this more. To me, there’s an ecosystem and a culture for a language in a situation. The ecosystem is the tooling around the language. Debugging, performance profiling, building and dependency…
I accidentally wandered into a test trying to find something out: > Tell me all of the albums where the guitarist used a DOD FX-69 Grunge effect pedal. > The DOD FX-69 Grunge effect pedal was used by the guitarist in…
That’s awesome! I’m not totally weird! :) But, yeah, the practice thing has been so important. It’s a habit as much as a hobby now. The music is better understood, and I just shoot for at least 10 mins a day. Usually do…
I regretted never learning to play an instrument beyond the basics and I didn’t really understand analog electronics beyond the simple stuff. So I’ve gotten into guitar and guitar pedal circuits. It’s cool because they…
What I’m the world is a cloud-oriented language? Looks at page. Oooh. This is JS with a schmancy library. That’s cool, I guess… for someone.
The tools with origins >2003 are pretty useless beyond making things out of prefab parts. That’s cool for beginner stuff, but I feel like we’re dropping people off a cliff from there. Most are really just sales…
This general idea that a previous generation was better because they lead a less pampered life goes back to some of the earliest writing. Yet here we are. World changing people seem to me to be very much the right…
They took much more on with IPv6 than IPv4 replacement. The spec goes much deeper than IPv4 did, replacing ARP, DHCP, etc. It's a product of its time, including a lot of over-engineering by committee. Many of the…
That's pretty brilliant. My windows experience is really out of date. I knew NT4 and 2000 the best. Then I picked up 2008 for a while supporting small businesses. I don't hate it or anything, but am definitely deeper on…
Yeah, my habits come from using GNU, BSD, SysV and having to use the lowest common denominator.
Yes, just dumb fingers typing the comment. :(
Honestly, the culture/org structure is a way bigger problem in this story than any proper noun tool. If you’re ignoring guidance and patterns and getting mad reinventing the wheel, that’s on dev. If “ops” mandates…
I don’t think you’re being pedantic. You’re just making a weird assumption that the radio itself is the only resource. I learned a ton from this as a kid. And I learned from Radio Shack. You stare at it, you go…
Yeah. There’s Jamf and similar tools. Companies often block major updates until their 100 agents all officially support it. Oh, and do cool things like not letting you change your background or whatever random settings…
The one thing I’ve seen are where companies have tax incentives tied to butts in seats. Usually like 0 property tax, with the government assumption that they’ll make it up in sales tax (lunch, gas, etc.) and taxes from…
Yeah and ESR can be revisionist in his history, projecting intention on something organic. He alienated a lot of people over time with this… and other behavior. The book I recommended is both a handbook and a “how to…
I don’t find that book to be very useful at all. I’m kind of annoyed by the bait and switch of the title. It’s a play on Knuth’s classic but then turns into showing why Unix/Linux is better than Windows, etc. As a…
I’ll say, I did shell scripting for years from copy/paste, cribbing smarter people, and reading online guides. But I didn’t really understand until I read The Unix Programming Environment by Brian Kernighan and Rob…
The problem I’ve seen historically is when a company is founded around one project or ecosystem. Someone like Microsoft or Google could take software like this, pay the original developer, and still see tons of ROI…
As an old Unix guy this is exactly how I see jq: a gateway to a fantastic library of text processing tools. I see a lot of complicated things done inside the language, which is a valid approach. But I don’t need it to…
I do almost all hand tool woodworking, but not purist. My main smoothing plane is from 1910ish. My most new fangled hand tool is a Japanese Shinto rasp. And you’re 100% right. I’ve changed my chisel and plane iron…
First, I don’t make these decisions but sometimes have influence. These opinions are my own and not my intentionally unnamed employer, and might be flat out wrong. This list is very focused on big companies at stupid…
I completely get this. I feel like every product I’ve had outside of a vendor’s wheelhouse has gone that way. We just use the BigIP gear from F5 and they’re better than the load balancers we used in the past. Thank god…
I dunno about rock solid. I’ve had plenty of issues forcing a failover/reboot, multiple complicated tickets open a year, etc. But we have a sh ton of them. To be fair, some are kernel bugs with connection table leaks,…
They really were older mentors to Nirvana. They and their band were about 10 years older (1 Beatles career), recruited them to Geffen, and really got them their first exposure outside Seattle. They also were largely…
I couldn’t agree with this more. To me, there’s an ecosystem and a culture for a language in a situation. The ecosystem is the tooling around the language. Debugging, performance profiling, building and dependency…
I accidentally wandered into a test trying to find something out: > Tell me all of the albums where the guitarist used a DOD FX-69 Grunge effect pedal. > The DOD FX-69 Grunge effect pedal was used by the guitarist in…
That’s awesome! I’m not totally weird! :) But, yeah, the practice thing has been so important. It’s a habit as much as a hobby now. The music is better understood, and I just shoot for at least 10 mins a day. Usually do…
I regretted never learning to play an instrument beyond the basics and I didn’t really understand analog electronics beyond the simple stuff. So I’ve gotten into guitar and guitar pedal circuits. It’s cool because they…
What I’m the world is a cloud-oriented language? Looks at page. Oooh. This is JS with a schmancy library. That’s cool, I guess… for someone.
The tools with origins >2003 are pretty useless beyond making things out of prefab parts. That’s cool for beginner stuff, but I feel like we’re dropping people off a cliff from there. Most are really just sales…
This general idea that a previous generation was better because they lead a less pampered life goes back to some of the earliest writing. Yet here we are. World changing people seem to me to be very much the right…
They took much more on with IPv6 than IPv4 replacement. The spec goes much deeper than IPv4 did, replacing ARP, DHCP, etc. It's a product of its time, including a lot of over-engineering by committee. Many of the…
That's pretty brilliant. My windows experience is really out of date. I knew NT4 and 2000 the best. Then I picked up 2008 for a while supporting small businesses. I don't hate it or anything, but am definitely deeper on…
Yeah, my habits come from using GNU, BSD, SysV and having to use the lowest common denominator.
Yes, just dumb fingers typing the comment. :(