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"They might be politicized, and of course have a left-oriented gay agenda" (said for Apple and Amazon). So Apple and Amazon have a _left_ and _gay_ agenda...

Sorry, but I don't think I need to read further after this. Non-sense started very early. Just another foggy-headed guy glorifying his vile into a freedom fighting guise. Same with countless other religious fanatics. Logic is out of the window.

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A bit of fact-checking would be nice before adding to false stereotypes https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS Use the arrows to sort for any year. Then check the ordered list.

Why do you think that this only applies to autistic people? That's exactly how a lot of non-autistic people feel/behave/strategize as well.

Add to this countless hours going into engineering tests that have to bent over backwards and mock the universe itself to test a tiny bit of logic that doesn't make sense to test in the first place. Then multiply with the hours getting lost trying to debug frail tests that break time-expensive continuous integration pipelines.

Good unit and integration tests are a rarity. Instead tests like the above ones which actually are being developed like a side-project to the real project are the norm and they are bogging down the whole project. But you cannot deliver any code that is not "covered" because that would be against the current 100%-TDD bible/best practice/call it however you want.

So the next dev/maintainer has to work out a badly written test (probably bearing untrue assumptions about the programs intended business logic) and after some fun hair pulling he does the reasonable thing which is working around the test or pampering the test to get it to pass. And that is how you end up with test code that is actually buggy and problematic in itself and does not really test much but it is increasing the test-coverage holly counter.

It's not housing though. It's hotels - quite different. Rents have been climbing up for the past years (it's now worse than London or Munich) and they don't seem to slow down. Tech boom (low taxation on tech firms), Brexit and AirBnB are the main drivers. People are coming in (quite often with fat paychecks) but few new apartments/houses are being build. New hotels will compete w/ AirBnB but will do little to alleviate the housing crisis(1).

1. It has been publicly recognized as such for quite long now. Crisis meaning that lower income families are unable to compete in this market (i.e. evictions and such). Also this is a hindrance to further economic development (who's going to work on all these new jobs when s/he'll have trouble making ends meet?). You get the idea.

```whereupon you are no longer obliged to give a shit about fashionable thinkers, network at the planet’s most boring parties, or quantify self-worth for scurrilous committees (and whereupon you are free to ignore the latest same-old controversy), for even when you know at the time that the place is toxic ``` Same goes for most SW-dev houses/companies.

What's your field of research btw? And how do you manage to muster energy for it _on_top_ of a full time job?

There are also age limits on that career, right?

What an alpha-male antagonistic dog-eat-dog bloody hell is this! Jesus, if that is the current or future the norm in this profession I'd better jump off to a career (any career) that involves as little relation to computers as possible.

Kudos for saying it aloud though. Honesty is gold (at least in my books).

I don't understand (and always disapprove anyway) the downvoting. Fella above is contributing an honest point of view that actually adds a lot to the understanding of the situation. If anything s/he should be upvoted.

I think that the unix philosophy of focused and relatively simple tools that are easy to glue together is a better way to future-proof. Yet to do that you need to have a stable substrata to provide the basis of composition. In k8s case it seems that k8s _is_ the basis where the composition is to happen upon.

I think Istio (https://istio.io) is a nice effort to create both an abstraction on top of k8s and to package a set of commonly needed functionality out of the box. Unsure of its production status or overhead though.

Also I'd only go with a managed k8s solution and I'm not sure I'd consider k8s for older or non-microservice/containerized architectures. In the later case though I don't think there's anything better out there in terms of orchestration.

Head first is a much better option IMO https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Design-Patterns-Brain-Frie...

To a large extent a job is what you make of it. I understand why being a lifer might seem terrible to one and a dream to another. There are no constants here - it's all relevant.

Someone gets a permanent position and is dragging his feet and dying out of boredom. Someone else sees that as an extra degree of freedom (not having to worry about his job security) and he is branching out say to explore/contribute to a tech stack that is not popular with employers.

Funny enough I had a related talk with a friend just yesterday. Say that there is a hard contest with cruel winning odds which -if you succeed- you get a permanent position in a public sector body (say ECB) with very good salary for life. Also say that the situation in private sector (job market) goes to hell and shows no signs of reverting any time soon. Then say you succeed and get that lifer position where no one can fire you from but yourself. Then imagine you get a boss or an environment that it is so damned toxic that is unbearable. But still no one can fire you. No one but you. But now the dilemma is huge. Do you quit a permanent position and jump back to hell (even less well equipped since the time you left it) or do you just hang on in there hoping for a wind change? The stakes are much higher than if you were in yet another private job where you'd be just refreshing your CV and interviewing.

Dunno - I guess there are cases where you need to be careful what you wish for.

Reminded me of this excellent book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26030703-disrupted

Hm - not sure I get why the risk in porn industry is higher. If anything I'd bet that it's the most stable industry ever catering for a real need that won't go away as long as people care about sex. Dunno but I feel that there are a lot of business opportunities here and a huge market that has been sloppily served for anyone that cares to look at it seriously.

And why sex-workers and porn industry (I'm talking about legal stuff here) have not created their own paypal all these years?

Note: For the most part I agree with the sentiment of the article and I am allergic to all harassment but the "financial domination" thing rings other bells. The people having a taste for it seem to me akin to gambling addicts and in need of protection.

So they won't accept it because it is convenient to skin you if your usage runs amok rather than get what you can actually pay and terminate the service there. The more I rub shoulders with the cloud the less I like it.

Same here. Yet, as I'm gonna be job hunting soon, I feel that investing in learning more in Elixir/OTP won't land me a job (let alone a remote one). Too few jobs asking it. It seems that the vast majority is all about microservices/java (still), k8s, nodejs and the like.

I agree but in containers' defense they weren't supposed to be about security in the first place. In my understanding the main incentive for the huge push behind them was immutability and them being microservices-friendly technology.

Exactly.

Github also had real trouble with their cash flows. MS bought the popularity and the current and future projects that are hosted there (probably overpaid for all that).

Now - why remoting would work better for the company (off the top of my head): 1. next to zero office-space rental costs 2. you're going shopping for talent in the whole world and you can hire regardless of visas, eligibility, etc. I.e. you hire better talent, for less money (they don't need to pay outrageous rents for SF/London/Munich/Dublin/whatever) 3. You get happier employees (they don't get to see their families once every six m onths or so) 4. You get easier on-calls schedules 24/7/365 if you get a few ppl on different timezones 5. You get diversity from day 0 and local eyes in almost all markets that you care to sell anything 6. You _have_ to document more and better since you _have_ to work with tickets 7. You make your meetings worthwhile because your time matters (and you're not valued or paid according to "chair-time" that can be filled with boring nonsense meetings so that you can coast through the day)

There's a bunch of other advantages in other areas (ecology, general economy, tech, etc) but since the focus is on what's in it for the company I won't go into these.

Millions of years? That's an exaggeration. We've been around for much less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution

Maybe you can find a similar configuration as a helm chart (https://helm.sh/) (i.e. a k8s pkg manager of sorts).

It seems that k8s has won the deployment race by and large. I see a lot of success stories around (I'm hearing nice things from the DevOps teams in my organization as well). Yet I'm curious to hear a few cases where things did not pan out quite right.

Note: The 5-15s DNS problem seems a pretty serious one. Weird that it didn't get more publicity (and a proper fix).

I cannot upvote enough your comment (and I am a guy). Computer Engineering and IT are overcrowded with males and male behaviors which hurt the field and drive away a lot of people that are smart and eager to offer but they cannot tolerate the machismo of the field. A sad state of affairs for any profession.

I'm not saying that all males are exhibiting these behaviors but the ones that do are prevalent (and it seems that by doing so they're gaining an edge which makes them successful memes that stick and expand).

I'm not a web or compiler/interpreter dev so this is probably a noob question but here it goes anyway. If the main complain about ruby is that it is slow then why not trying to make it faster? I don't know how easy or feasible that is but is there an effort towards that?

" Long story short some decent friendly developers were highly criticized over minor jokes they say on social media.

    I’m not going to name that language as it would just spawn a fire of outrage comments from that community. It would just prove my point but at the same time I’m not suicidal.

" who would that be?

As an introvert myself I can feel the pain. It only gets worse once you get into one of the big soulless companies out there. You get trampled and backstabbed every step along the way by the extroverts that -regardless of their technical skills- are better in politics, self-promotion and managing your clueless managers. Hell - I'm currently regretting not going for a sailors' career when I could.

Oldie but sort-of classic by now. TL;DR: use new shiny technologies in moderation and rely on time tested ones that have proved themselves.

Specially loved the footnotes (chuckled at 2)