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citizen-stig··on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
> Why the focus on one single dominant player?

I don’t the answer to the all questions. But here I think it is just a way to avoid responsibility. If someone choses CDN “number 3” and it goes down, business people *might* put a blame on this person for not choosing “the best”. I am not saying it is a right approach, I just seen it happens too many times.

citizen-stig··on Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
Then testing how they play Factorio will work better
citizen-stig··on Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
Point is that software is much “softer” and fluid than buildings. If comparing changing wites ir rooms layout is similar what refactoring of software is like, then I am happy for experience you’ve had!
citizen-stig··on Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
I personally think that this kind of analogy is inheretenly wrong.

Software has very little bounds to physical world, comparing to actual architecture. Most of the bounds rise from ideas.

Toilet in this analogy cannot be moved, because it was originally decided, that it will be locked and didn’t invest in mobile toilet. Which was reasonable, but highlights lack of vision for the final product.

And this is the biggest difference with architecture. Nobody starts building a house without knowing final design.

While software is the opposite.

citizen-stig··on Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy
I had a new laptop somewhere around 2006. Vista was lagging and throwing errors constantly. I switched to beta of windows 7 and it was waay snappier and stable. On the same hardware.
citizen-stig··on Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs
It is easy to choose for others, isn’t it?
citizen-stig··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2020)
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Go, Rust Résumé/CV: http://golub.pro Email: nikolay.v.golub@gmail.com