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billman··on Arkade: A Kubernetes app installer
Can you explain the advantage of this tool vs. helm?
billman··on John Carmack talks about “antifragile” idea generation (2015) [video]
Does that make you a black hat?
billman··on Modern Data Lakes Overview
My biggest problem with Oracle is not the database itself. There is no doubt that Oracle is a fine piece of software, and is bullet proof, and has decades of experience built into it.

My problem is the scalability and elasticity of it's licensing model. It doesn't meet the needs of today's analytics without spending enormous amounts of money up front.

billman··on Modern Data Lakes Overview
First mention of hoodie here. I'm surprised.
billman··on Larry Tesler Has Died
Wow. I didn't realize how influential the Bronx High School of Science was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bronx_High_School_of_S...

billman··on Ask HN: How do you handle toxic coworkers?
My advice would be if you discuss this with either the individual or another employee, I think it's important to talk about the behaviors and results of the behaviors that are of concern and not get to stuck on attacking the person. Sometimes people are just aware of how their actions are affecting the environment around them. Sometimes a honest frank conversation is all it takes. Only sometimes though...
billman··on Bruce McEwen, who found stress can alter the brain, has died
Curios if your familiar with any of Gabor Mates writing, and if you have any thoughts?
billman··on Coherent spin control of s-, p-, d- and f-electrons in a silicon quantum dot
Can someone ELI5?
billman··on Show HN: Managing SSH Access to AWS EC2 Instances Using SSM
Can anyone give any experience using this method vs. AWS Secrets Manager?
billman··on Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?
I like the part about writing things down. There is a lot of mental organization that needs to happen when you write it down. It also forces you to make decisions.. which is also hard.
billman··on History of Mel Brooks: Both Parts
Fun fact: Mel Brooks took drum lessons from Buddy Rich.
billman··on Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?
He's not everybody's cup of tea, but I don't get the sense at all that Marshall Rosenberg was in it for the money.
billman··on The Art of Dying
Thank you for sharing. I would like to share a documentary called Griefwalker that was very influential to me in dealing with loss.
billman··on Ask HN: Best book to gift someone for getting into software engineering?
Warning: Software engineering can be quite boring to someone who has done little programming. In my opinion, when your starting out it is better write anything that compiles and runs, then to write incomplete "proper" programs. Software engineering principles make more sense after you've hacked yourself though a bunch of badly written code.
billman··on RDS Pricing Has More Than Doubled
For someone coming from shops that mostly ran Oracle, RDS pricing is a beyond awesome.
billman··on Things every programmer should know
you might be missing the point
billman··on Google under investigation for ‘Thanksgiving Four’ firings, discouraging unions
true dat
billman··on Google under investigation for ‘Thanksgiving Four’ firings, discouraging unions
I have always thought of corporations as a system that reacts to the forces working upon and within it.
billman··on Amazon CodeGuru – Preview
heh.. I wish it were only junior devs.
billman··on Gnosis Retreat Center
Thank you for sharing. For one lucky enough to have found Love, I appreciate your courage.
billman··on Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016)
Some classical techniques for memory involve creating your own mental spaces for memorising things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_memory

billman··on The Body Keeps the Score: Book Summary
Have you read John Sarno?
billman··on Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products
Amazon is not a search engine. You are doing it wrong!
billman··on A hierarchy of software engineering discourse
How's that going for you ;)
billman··on Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
Totally agree. Open source software is possible on Android, but it's nowhere near the level of say Linux.
billman··on The End of Agile
Agile was never a thing, it was always a how.
billman··on A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017)
I'll bring the chips :)
billman··on Most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs
History is written by the victors.
billman··on Capital One Cyber Staff Raised Concerns Before Hack
I think the problem with this is that there will always be "unethical" ways to work around the legal system. In fact, having more laws can make this easier and more obscure.
billman··on What Stress Does to the Brain
You been working hard. I give you permission to leave early today. Spend some time doing the things you love.
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