joesmo

Almost every software tool decision I make is one of garbage quality with features vs ok quality with no features. I can choose a text editor that does the basics but nothing else I need or an ide that does everything poorly. From browsers to package managers to debuggers to operations tools, the quality of software tools is absolutely atrocious. Why master any of this garbage when more garbage tools will be required later? It's hard to stay sane just using them. Yes, non software tools like reading and writing comprehension are useful, but for the most part, investing heavily in a tool that's bound to fail over and over again seems like a terrible idea. Then again, there simply isn't enough time to write proper versions of these tools. But amazing things have been built with much less tooling than we use today which leads me to think that the proliferation of software tools partly exists only to make the tool developers happy as they create useless rube Goldberg machines (especially in js land).

Justice is whatever the 'justice' systems says it is. Citizens have no recourse. The 'justice' system has no checks or balances that can be accessed, except by the rich. There are no penalties for abuse or misuse, even when uncovered.

Yeah, that's exactly what I think of when I think of the concept of 'justice'. One day some people might create a just society, but it almost certainly won't be in the US.

How can you have an intelligent discussion without a lot of racism and hate thrown in? It's impossible.

You're thinking of 4chan. Reddit has never been that--it's been moderated for many years.

Auto scaling in RDS? That'd require a multi-master cluster. As far as I know, that's impossible on RDS, Aurora or not.

Couldn't agree more. If you have a monolith, you can probably get away doing dev ops as long as you don't grow too much. We have a handful of microservices and trying to keep up with the ops work has been hell, though part of that is due to AWS's tools. And this is without even a growing user base, just a growing app base. Burn out is definitely a problem in either case.

The main lesson here is to leave a company that doesn't pay you immediately. The rest of the lesson is only for the idiots who didn't do that like the author.

Docker for Mac has issues that make it unusable? You don't say!

Apple reviews every single app that makes it to the store. Does the author really think this is not intentional?