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rbankston··on Why are we templating YAML?
I've worked with both. The simple items are nicer in ansible but when there are a lot of custom roles and functions ansible isn't much better than chef from what I've seen in practice.
rbankston··on The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined
Might want to look at how that has worked at the state level. The state of Michigan has this and it has only exacerbated issues held in check because people had incentives to help people and get re-elected. Michigan now squarely gets its policies from lobbyists and special interest groups because at the end of their terms that is who will hire them.

Term limits do exist and are called elections. Every single election is a chance to vote someone out of office who hasn't done a good job. The thing that has essentially broken elections as term limits is partisan gerrymandering.

rbankston··on Hone your tone of voice: A linguistic perspective on how to talk to customers
As someone working in a customer facing role for a lot of my tech career, most of it is sound advice. The one missing item that isn't is deescalating urgent situations by not assigning blame during the interaction.
rbankston··on Equifax statement regarding extent of security incident announced Sep 7 2017
Just have to add that in circumstances like this a corporate death penalty seems appropriate. Equifax is an entity that you are not able to be removed from in any way. When you look at the financial and security ramifications of the breach and what was released and the response, seems appropriate. The kicker is that Equifax also offers credit monitoring for fraud prevention as a product to line their coffers.
rbankston··on Comcast to combat cord cutting by limiting speed increases to cable subscribers
Yet another reason to support any local ISP over embedded cable companies. This also would be a great time to take a look at municipal broadband or regional broadband. At least I'm glad I got to cut Comcast from my life with a local fiber company.
rbankston··on Amazon EKS – Highly available and scalable Kubernetes service
They announced they were going to be using their open source cni plugin https://github.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s/
rbankston··on Phoenix 1.3.0 Released
Learned a lot from the pragmaticstudio resource as well and couldn't recommend it highly enough.
rbankston··on Missing Detroit: My Dad and the disease of blight
Indeed, Oakland County is a great example. It has happened elsewhere in the state of Michigan but not on as large a scale. When you look at Genesee county and the hole that is Flint with the its wealthier suburbs around it.
rbankston··on The Other Side of Diversity
I'm personally racially mixed and feel comfortable many different races but can understand her feeling of Oakland. I personally can't speak for Sunnyvale, Santa Clara or San Bruno but do have personal experiences in Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose. Oakland has a more comfortable feeling while in the city. Oakland feels welcoming more so than the other cities to me personally.