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New comment by james_s_tayler in "“Who Should Write the Terraform?”"

james_s_tayler — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:03:06 +0000

Pulumi

New comment by james_s_tayler in "“Who Should Write the Terraform?”"

james_s_tayler — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:01:15 +0000

You can have more than one platform team.

I think reality is more complicated than a one size fits all approach. It's going to be specific to your org, your project, the stage it's at etc. To add to that, the right thing to do is often in flux.

Dedicated capacity is necessary, as is embedding. Not always at the same time or in that order. That's where only the information found inside the walls of your organisation can help you decide what is necessary to solve your problem.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "HTTP Cats"

james_s_tayler — Fri, 20 May 2022 10:04:04 +0000

Hahah. Reminds me of the time I used to work at a place where the software's demo company was called ISIS and that didn't used to be a big deal until ISIS itself became a thing. Part of our solution contained a web-portal we could up-sell to our clients that their end users could manage their accounts through etc. Anyway I remember one fun afternoon hacking graphics of ISIS the terrorist organization into the web-portal of the demo org and showing it around the office for laughs. It never made it to a customer site thankfully and it was pretty funny at the time but my boss told me to cut it out pretty quick just in-case hahaha.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "Why I left Google: work-life balance"

james_s_tayler — Wed, 11 May 2022 09:43:59 +0000

sounds like the beginnings of either burnout, depression or both. I'm in a job that's not quite demanding enough at the moment and it caused me to fall into a depression. It's good to catch it in time to do something about it.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "Ask HN: How do you stick to projects?"

james_s_tayler — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 20:55:30 +0000

Same here. I would add if you experience what the OP does combined with looking around the house every day and seeing piles of unfolded washing and dirty dishes waiting for you that fill you with existential dread every time you look at them while you quietly ignore them and go back to whatever it is you're excited about at the moment then seek an evaluation.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "Ask HN: Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?"

james_s_tayler — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 19:01:10 +0000

https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/

You're welcome.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "The Big DevOps Misunderstanding"

james_s_tayler — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:47:49 +0000

I use containers in production and for local development dependencies but for exactly these reasons I run the application locally via the IDE like I always have, with the option to run it locally via Docker for the times I need to dip into making sure specific bits run there fine. So, I still have all those nice things.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "Ask HN: How do you manage or avoid meltdowns?"

james_s_tayler — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 21:00:00 +0000

>You're too old to be having melt-downs and it's a bad example to set for your relatively new child.

Sorry, but this just comes off as so ableist.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?"

james_s_tayler — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:43:15 +0000

I'm OK with not being in career heaven, so long as I'm not in career hell.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "What’s the jankiest piece of tech you’ve seen a company depend on?"

james_s_tayler — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 04:06:15 +0000

My previous team lead hated JIRA and would frequently rail on it during our agile ceremonies. Me who likes coming up acronyms would refer to it as that "Janky Irritating React App" during our ceremonies as a result. Good times.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "What’s the jankiest piece of tech you’ve seen a company depend on?"

james_s_tayler — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 23:11:24 +0000

I like how the arguments used to import the database need to match the arguments used to export the database. I can recall on two separate occasions receiving a database dump from a client site that took us two weeks to figure out how to successfully import. The second time we wound up writing a series of bash scripts that used the strings command on the database dump file in order to grep/sed/awk enough information to reconstruct the arguments needed to successfully import the database. We wound up taking it that far because the other two offices that worked on the product we did had DBAs and ours didn't, so their process when they needed to replicate bugs customers were reporting was to pester the DBA to import a DB for them which would take several days, and our process was to import it instantly via our magic script. Fun times.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia"

james_s_tayler — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:29:29 +0000

Just sign up for Facebook through Australia.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development (2018)"

james_s_tayler — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 03:47:15 +0000

Buefy is my favorite. Most productive I've ever felt on frontend. But it is a little limited compared to most other component libraries, so YMMV but I really love it.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "Hard work vs. Long work (2011)"

james_s_tayler — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 01:57:49 +0000

Never really thought of computers as needing convincing but come to think of it it takes about as many tries to convince my computer to do want I want as it takes to convince my son. Hmm..

New comment by james_s_tayler in "The magic of ion channels in the neurons"

james_s_tayler — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 23:02:06 +0000

Interesting. I knew most of that more or less but didn't know the mechanism by which the myelin sheath speed up the propagation of action potentials but it makes sense.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "Apple showing signs it may soon launch a search engine"

james_s_tayler — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 22:01:07 +0000

Buy books then.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "New case studies about Google’s use of Go"

james_s_tayler — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:58:39 +0000

Does C# rely on VS? MSBuild is separate from VS and you can use Rider (yay!) or VSCode instead of VS.

The ecosystem is definitely growing in the last 5 years too since open source has been embraced by MS and the community.

The major rewrite of .NET -> .NET Core and then now renaming it back to .NET again is good in that it's a much better framework now, bad in that it's turning out like Python 2 vs Python 3. Huge projects just can't upgrade, so old .NET Framework stuff is sticking around longer than it should.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder"

james_s_tayler — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:40:08 +0000

Which im sure some poor soul will mishear as "Pussy-Slut Academy" once the names are reversed and Arkady is put into Katakana and it's late into a night of drinking at the mandatory after work drinks. Hahaha.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "Belarus turned off the internet – citizens hot-wired it"

james_s_tayler — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:59:16 +0000

Kinda hard to have real democracy when you have dictators that just kill people they don't like.

Want to stay as far away from that dynamic as possible. It's garbage and always will be.

New comment by james_s_tayler in "Belarus turned off the internet – citizens hot-wired it"

james_s_tayler — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:57:28 +0000

You just keep on telling yourself that.