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New comment by geodel in "The peril of laziness lost"

geodel — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:14:16 +0000

> Just want to make money and support my family.

That'd be just fine. But you do seem to care and feel hurt enough to call people online clowns.

New comment by geodel in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

geodel — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:33:54 +0000

I think you have put this in a correct, concise manner which I agree with entirely.

The smaller version of same phenomena I see in enterprises where musings of non/barely technical leadership of a tech org is not only considered as go-to strategy but also why previous plans and implementations which were so obviously crappy not totally replaced yet.

New comment by geodel in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

geodel — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:53:32 +0000

All these AI tools teams have most valid excuse "We are just a bunch of people who only know Javascript/typescript/NodeJS. Please bear with us while we resolve 10,000 open issues."

New comment by geodel in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

geodel — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:11:27 +0000

It could mean you know very few developers.

> Typically I see folks using the Amazon Corretto java distribution.

It means nothing. ~90% of core development of JDK and JVM is done by Oracle employees and it is shared by all distributions by various vendors.

New comment by geodel in "Nobody Is Coming to Save Your Career"

geodel — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:23:24 +0000

In my experience (mainly IT related), when one first starting a career, first 5-10 years are standardized are promotion/title change for an average employee. After that if one is known by at least 1-2 level above their managers and/or other team managers, to have any chance of further growth. IME as time go by current managers have less and less power to promote as gap between manager and employee reduces.

New comment by geodel in "Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase"

geodel — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:59:53 +0000

Huh, Enterprise usage of Blackberry was very very high and then it was not. And at one point SOA, SOAP/WSDL/XML usage was very very high and now I am told in my very enterprise job I'd be fired if I dared bring those names up.

Usage being high doesn't say anything about quality or suitability of a product specially in enterprise settings.

New comment by geodel in "Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers"

geodel — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:52:20 +0000

This has already happened or happening quite fast with cloud. Where setting up own data center, or even few servers could be crime against humanity if it does not use whole Kubernetes/Devops/Observability stack.

New comment by geodel in "Have a fucking website"

geodel — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:38:37 +0000

Agree.

From my personal experience I'd add a lot Director/Sr Director in relatively technical companies who manage scores of web application developers. So when you say most, it could literally be almost everyone.

New comment by geodel in "Java 26 is here"

geodel — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:15:05 +0000

Oracle's Java Mobile Edition could've crushed Android. No one stopped them.

> Google was the geek darling of do not evil, thus they got a pass from fanboys.

Oracle's case against Google went all the way up to Supreme Court of US. Oracle did not win anything substantial in courts against Google is not fanboys' doing.

New comment by geodel in "Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies"

geodel — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:02:32 +0000

I'd add tipping system for various services, but specially restaurants etc in definition of corruption too. Here blame pass around between employees, owners, restaurant associations, govt officials making/ passing laws etc. But end result is customer keep paying extra charges or being labeled as worst customers.

I love how media is in this game , printing endless articles how customers are really supposed to pay tips because poor server. And even when customers are revolting against tipping culture it is going from 25% to 22% as a way of speaking truth to power.

New comment by geodel in "Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs"

geodel — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:55:20 +0000

Yup, saw that review. My takeaway is if one has knowledge and training level of Scott Alexander then this book has nothing new to offer. But since most folks don't so this maybe a interesting read.

New comment by geodel in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

geodel — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:08:25 +0000

While I agree with what you said. In personal experience I have noticed the software design / architecture is becoming irrelevant for lot of enterprises (including mine of course). So design nowadays is about API design Input/Output/Error handling. And architecture is about Cloud/Kubernetes/APM , deployment and monitoring etc. Code now does not need much design. Things like performance, isolation, extensibility etc as those are now higher level concerns not part of code itself.

This is also where micro services pattern fits in well because individual unit is so small no design needed.

New comment by geodel in "Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs"

geodel — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:35:07 +0000

I mean Netflix is dealing with big, important things like container scaling, creating a million micro services talking to each other and so on. Having multiple tech blogging platform on Medium is not something they have a spare moment to think about.

New comment by geodel in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

geodel — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:53:11 +0000

I mean they can add Linux developer friendly features. This way they can sell literally dozens of iPads for hardcore developers.

New comment by geodel in "Big Breakfast Alters Appetite, Gut Health"

geodel — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:58:28 +0000

Big, if true.

New comment by geodel in "‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)"

geodel — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:26:22 +0000

I don't believe in it. Tomorrow they will say Software developer was just a job and they were not intellectually superior race who brought alien technology like NodeJS.

New comment by geodel in "Vouch"

geodel — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:52:09 +0000

> honestly i don't see my self networking just so that i can push my code

But that's good outcome. You would rather spend time on projects where you agree with the project policies.

New comment by geodel in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

geodel — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:39:30 +0000

I mean people are nowadays are really scared of using microwave oven too. What happens if I heat my coffee 1 min too long. Could be near death experience. Thats why I always drive down to Starbucks for coffee!

New comment by geodel in "Claude Code for Infrastructure"

geodel — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:55:54 +0000

Isn't AGI Adult Group Interaction?

New comment by geodel in "US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report"

geodel — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:01:43 +0000

Do they have Middle Age Grandpas on MTV nowadays?