Hacker News: luctor_ad_astra

New comment by luctor_ad_astra in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

luctor_ad_astra — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 03:22:56 +0000

MSFT announced the acquisition of LNKD in June 2016. Your article is from March 2014.

New comment by luctor_ad_astra in "How release canaries can save your bacon"

luctor_ad_astra — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 05:01:33 +0000

A quick rollback frees up the developer's contextual burden and makes it easy to take calculated risks. This works better in some environments, of course. You wouldn't want it in testing a medical support system, for example. LinkedIn goes a bit further and has continuous release monitoring: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2015/11/monitoring-the...

New comment by luctor_ad_astra in "Engineer Converts Van into Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless"

luctor_ad_astra — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 22:55:15 +0000

He is a beautiful soul to want to put a somewhat passive belief system into usable practice. All you need is (loads of) love.

New comment by luctor_ad_astra in "The widowhood effect: What it’s like to lose a spouse in your 30s"

luctor_ad_astra — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 23:19:24 +0000

My wife died from cancer in November. We were married over twenty years. Life became despair. I can hardly remember 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. Photos serve only to realize the delta you don't realize week to week. What a cruel, cruel disease.