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Casting aside the fact that any trading firm of any size or seriousness already has this dataset in 10 different flavors...

Why? Is there an alternative? Considering opportunity cost in which parts of my entrepreneurial endeavors I choose to spend time on; self hosting web-servers for a blog does not have anything resembling good ROI.

Yep. Again, the nuance of this point is lost on the "homelab" crowd, but if you're in a software business, your software is what your business is.

Not running a monitoring platform, not running a logging system, not building your own PaaS. Outsource this as much as possible to 3rd-party agents with a sizable economy of scale.

Nearly all engineering teams(outside of FAANG) simply aren't resourced to re-invent the wheel over and over, especially when it means providing after-hours support for the wheel as well.

Yea reading HN comments gives me the impression most of the readership has never had to manage anything of complexity beyond their "homelab".

I know this utterly misses the larger point of your comment, but:

> They used Ansible scripts to spin up various AWS services

This seems less about using the "cool/new" tech... rather it's about using the "right" tech. Config management tools like Ansible/Chef/Puppet are very much previous-generation when it comes to cloud infrastructure.

They... can manage cloud infrastructure, but they were created prior to the ubiquity of cloud deployments, and the features are glued on. Not choosing a more modern IaC framework tells me they(those devs) were going to be making sub-optimal implementation decisions regardless.

Jira is bad, but the worst part about it is that it makes it non-trivially more likely you'll also be using Confluence, which is an absolute blight upon the software landscape.

> I hate that people are doing all these weird gymnastics to reconcile being a champion of free speech and firing people that criticize you.

You're just seeing the psychic ripples of all the Elon fanboys and pseudo-libertarian technofascists wrestling with the cognitive dissonance of their savior turning out to be a pretty vanilla corporate capitalist.

After all the chest-thumping and general toxicity I find their discomfort endlessly amusing.

Yes. I have to ruthlessly prune anyone who reposts chaff... which is sadly a non-trivial number of individuals.

Discourse on Blind makes HN look like the Athenian Assembly.

It’s almost as if all the right wing pearl-clutching about “free speech” on Twitter was a bad-faith argument…

Your logic is unfortunately being cast into the reason-devoid abyss of HN commenters consistently overestimating the value of the lone wolf, "competent" Linux admin.

Say you don't understand opportunity cost in software development without saying it.

I won't delve too deeply on the obvious: most "competent Linux sysadmins" have a very over-inflated sense of their own skill set, and tend make for toxic team members.

Most software development shops are in the business of developing their particular software, not deploying and self-managing DVCS, much less hosting, monitoring etc...

Sure, could one person set up a Git/GitLab system? Absolutely. Can they operationalize it effectively? Not really... the bus problem is a thing and anyone that thinks tying the entirety of a system's uptime to one individual is an operational improvement over GitHub's outage SLA is deluding themselves.

Where was the ad-hominem slant? More straw-men and an appeal to authority! I'm convinced you're playing logical fallacy bingo at this point.

> I am expecting more from HN tbh.

In a previous comment you(an HN user!) framed all comments or discussion that might portray EM in a negative light as painting him as:

> "...the force of evil and a reincarnation of satan."

A pitch-perfect example of a straw-man argument, and now you're claiming the level of discourse is not up to your standards?

> the only conclusion would be that Elon is the force of evil and a reincarnation of satan.

Speaking of one sided... I'd argue there are many more nuanced conclusions you could derive.

I'm sure there have been comments towards him that are ad-hominem accusations of "evil", but in general and this thread specifically I think it's his virtue signaling around "free-speech" and "innovation" rightfully being called out for what they are; self-serving and quite vanilla capitalist maneuvering.

Setting up straw-man arguments like you've done is the same kind of defensive, fallacious reasoning his aforementioned zealous followers engage in.

Like Rick & Morty and Jesus, the worst thing about Elon tends to be his fans.