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not in the USSR at the time of the events.

At a company I work for we get b-day cards promptly. They all get sent by workday :) What I found upsets me the most is companies paying no respect to my private time.

They all want me to be on-call and carry my laptop with me. Hiking, on a beach, at a restaurant, sleeping at night – i am expected to be reachable and get on it right away.

Some international companies don't even try to schedule support according to time-zone sighting on-call efficiency and knowledge segregation.

And yet, they fücking refuse every effort developers make to focus on fixing issues leading to incidents.

They fücking need to fix their act.

What does the term mean? I think the answer to your question is obvious.

Yea, keep this coming. A 2014 coup in Ukraine worked wonderfully!

that's a great point. and make it proportional to how much they make off it. looking at you aws for all the great oss software you sell.

hm, families need to eat.

Genuinely interested in the knowing the context for that remark.

Hm, I'd be curious to know how it is better than any of the modern developed languages such as german, french, russian, chinese or japanese ( and many others ). I could see that english borrowed many words from other cultures but other languages borrow too on as needed basis.

yes, i can relate to that. everything went down-the-fucking-hill since then.

but let's not forget the war in Yugoslavia – even in the best of times there were wars.

Putin doesn't need to fake elections. His approval rating is very-very high. You need to be russian to know that.

> My heart (and donations) goes out to the Ukrainian people

your donations go straight into the pockets of the elites. You need to be an idiot to think you are helping by sending money, unless you are sending it to your relatives.

They have that which matters the most - people with certain set of beliefs. That's the wealth of China, which they share generously with the West - just look at the Chinese developers and scientists that work in the West.

> Exactly when do you believe this decline started? with 'perestroyka' in the USSR which predates end of the cold war - ever since they thought they won over communist/socialist ideas and accelerated with the breakup of the USSR

>I wonder what it is that you want to say but can’t.

Nice try, this won't provoke me.

>That’s true. Unelected officials can stay in power and accrue wealth for much longer than elected officials.

Sure, sure. The systems are setup differently but you are using the same logic for both coming from the assumption that power is used to acquire personal wealth.

For some (many) power isn't about acquisition of wealth but about responsibility, taking care of a hard chore. It's a mistake to think that Xi is in power for wealth.

I often draw a parallel with being a father. You have some power, but mostly you have responsibilities.

>Lack of action due to the expectation of long timelines is one of the sins of the lawyerly society.

>But American problems seem more fixable to me than Chinese problems.

China has stayed on trajectory of improving life of its society for a long time. USA has been in decline all that time and decent accelerated after Cold War with Russia ended.

All of China's growth comes from its internal resource. Growth in the USA had been driven by exploiting other countries.

>I made clear in my book that I am drawn to pluralism as well as a broader conception of human flourishing than one that could be delivered by the Communist Party.

Pluralism had been eradicated in the western society. I can't speak freely in Canada. People get cancelled or jailed for speaking their mind in UK. US is not too far behind in that.

There is no meaningful pluralism in the West. They never make a long term plan they can follow for many years.

China has monolithic ( more so ) society with shared culture, language(s) and national identity that runs deep to the gene level. They don't don't allow foreign influence to erode it. It's much easier to make progress when people share the same long term vision and goals.

CPC is doing just fine leading the country into the future. Sure, it has a monopoly on power, but it also owns its mistakes and fixes them. Multiparty systems of the USA and the rest of the West are just two curtains on the stage, and when you draw the curtains you see the same people attending the same party.

Elected officials aim to earn as much as they can in their short stay in power. After all, they only have a few years before they get replaced, better make use of the short time you got.

China IMO has a much brighter outlook for the future

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> You can't design software you don't work on

In 30 years in software dev, I am yet to see any significant, detailed and consistent effort to be extended into design and architecture. Most architects do not design, do not architect.

Senior devs design and architect and then take their design to the architects for *feedback and approvals*.

These senior devs make designs for features and only account for code and systems they've been exposed to.

With an average employment term of 2 years most are exposed to a small cut of the system, which affects the depth and correctness of their design.

And architects mostly approve, sometimes I think without even reading the docs.

At most, you can expect the architects to give generic advice and throw a few buzzwords.

At large, they feel comfortable and secure in their positions and mostly don't give a shit!

Hm, isn't there another layer between the db process and the ssd in particular in aurora https://majdarbash.github.io/aws-posts/getting-started-with-... ?

Shouldn't that add another dimension to considerations?

I could see them buying the rights to popular free or DRM-free books and bringing them into their store, along with all the consequences that would entail.

Not to mention the spying they'll do - Whatcha reading?

1. take emails from other breaches 2. make files similar in structure to the ones leaked with junk links 3. flood internet with this junk data 4. problem solved

I do that when I am mentally exhausted. Not sure if that's the same reason for the author.

Thanks for this.

I keep wondering how the recent 15h outage have affected these eventually consistent systems.

I really hope to see a paper on the effects of it.

Yep, this is definitely that.

Yea, that resonates!

>I have often wondered why the government doesn't do anything about this. Is the science not clear enough yet?

Government is always on your side!

Why should smarter people be happier? May be happiness lays in a dimension that does not correlate with smarts.

Ukranian, technically.

It won't be over until long after AWS resolves it - the outages produce hours of inconsistent data. It especially sucks for financial services, things of eventual consistency and other non-transactional processes. Some of the inconsistencies introduced today will linger and make trouble for years.

Couldn't afford the luxury of reading...

I'd think the feds or individual states should own the machines...