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Comment · 5 months ago
Enterprise software is full of this kind of stuff. Half our customers are on year old UI's because they don't want to re-up contracts yet.

That is, features are contractual and when you've only got 50 customers but they're all paying high 6 figures does anyone really care about feature flag complexity?

Comment · 5 months ago
I use both go and python in my day job. The code that Sonnet produces for Go is much better than the Python it creates.

This could be because our go code is typically smaller more defined services but I don't really believe that since even the isolated python services are pretty spaghetti looking.

Comment · 5 months ago
That role doesn't exist and never will you basically just make nothing but enemies calling out bullshit and when a 6-7figure job is on the line you don't want enemies.
Comment · 5 months ago
Fastmail if you like shiny. If you use a client anyway just purelymail.
Comment · 5 months ago
You even get a couple of new ones for free.
Comment · 5 months ago
I started putting things in a big ansible playbook repo. Don't need to have it fully managed by ansible either I mostly just have setup configured there I still do lots of by hand management.
Comment · 5 months ago
Why is the extension not being named?
Comment · 5 months ago
It's useful for low velocity teams that spend too much time in review.

For everyone else it's a net loss.

I've used Gerrit years ago, I thought it was great being able to shape my diffs into stacked chunks that reviewers could effortlessly navigate in a coherent story I'm telling.

Then I joined a company that wanted you to build and ship it in the same day. Now I dread the idea of going back to week long review cycles.

Ick.

Comment · 5 months ago
How much does that cost you to run monthly?
Comment · 5 months ago
We already reached agi a while ago.
Comment · 5 months ago
Great list but I dunno about coupling being evil, it is literally the only place anything important happens.
Comment · 6 months ago
I know, I just get the feeling this thread is getting too far away from reality - lots of gas lighting about things that don't matter.
Comment · 6 months ago
It's because it's 4gb and Apple still sells devices with 256gb hard drives.
Comment · 6 months ago
Yes, that is the purpose. It incentives R&D by providing a sanctioned monopoly on the result. The trade in return is that the public domain gets access to the trade secret after enough time has passed to provide the inventor with reward for their investment risk.

The problem is the time has been repeatedly extended across the world to the point that society gets very little from this arrangement.

At this point we're better off removing the concept of IP entirely.

Comment · 6 months ago
Try Sarah Pain for middle/eastern history.

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