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At work, whoever designed our setup put the staging and dev environments on the same domain and the entire massive company has adopted this pattern.

What a colossal mistake.

There is a reason why newer companies and younger people tend to make bigger changes…

It’s not a conspiracy. It’s not because they can’t.

It’s because all that they have built up from hard work has resulted in responsibilities to a lot of people that also now hold them back.

Let me tell you about 9/11 memes…

I think this related to the “critical thinking” skill that all my teachers always stressed about growing up.

But I still don’t know how to put in useful words what “critical thinking” is because it’s not one thing.

It requires synthesizing a lot of information together in very specific and meticulous ways. And through feedback, collecting your previous thoughts and keeping track of how often you are correct or incorrect.

You can explain critical thinking in many ways but none of it will teach someone critical thinking.

Java has a great ecosystem. It’s well thought out and I can compile and run 10 year old projects no problem. In fact, I wish everyone had just copied Java’s model instead of inventing their own worse model.

I love Python but it has a terrible package ecosystem with mediocre tooling that has only gotten worse with time.

JavaScript has gotten better but it seems they are just re-learning things that were long figured out.

When I see new package managers, I just see a list of problems that they forgot to account for. Which I find strange when there have been many package managers that you can learn from. Why are you re-inventing the wheel?

Then sign a contract with Akamai, who has been in business for 25 years? You outsource if you aren’t planning to do something very often.

There is no middle ground where you commit a mediocre amount of resources, end up with downtime and a mediocre experience, and then go “but we saved money.”

I see people take photos on the train tracks all the time and trains are pretty silent.

There would be a lot more dead.

Sure but that’s why your edge servers do request collapsing. And there are full blown CDN companies that will write an enterprise contract with you that can do this stuff with ease. Akamai is like 25 years old now.

Scale has increased but the techniques were figured out 20 years ago. There is not much left to invent in this space at the current moment so screwing up more than once is a bit unacceptable.

Static files have been pretty much the standard streaming protocols for both VOD and live for the last 15 years ago. Before, it was Adobe Flash (RTMP).

With the way that they are designed, you can even use a regular CDN.

While I am not ready to recommend that everyone install Traefik, this is false.

You can get a single node Docker “cluster” going with Traefik in 15 seconds. There is no maintenance except updating occasionally. It doesn’t use much more resources. You do not need to install any third party tools. There is no onion of services. You literally just boot up Traefik plus your app.

This has been doable since at least 2019 by just installing Docker via your OS’ package manager.

I’ve started using containers before 99% of people and so got to see the fundamentals build up. You do not need to skip directly to “Kubernetes.” That’s like needing to wash your clothes so you skip directly to buying an industrial washing machine and then lamenting how all washing machines are overkill.

You’re changing the goal post. Your original post was saying that you don’t need to know fundamentals.

It was not about whether AI is useful or not.

Wait until AI prints out something that doesn't work and you can't figure out how to fix it because you don't know how it works so you do trial and error for 3 hours.

The difference is that you can trust a good calculator. You currently can't trust AI to be right. If we get a point where the output of AI is trustworthy, that's a whole different kind of world altogether.

Being persuasive means understanding that there are a million more dimensions to communication than just “nice vs. assertive.”

After reading OP’s article, I did not even feel “I want to like a Facebook post in support.”

Because innovation tends to come from younger people who have bright ideas, or want to make a name for themselves, or simply because they have free time.

You also need other people to work with, so even if you have an idea, it’s much easier when there are a lot of people in the area with the right skill set.

With a significant declining trend in population, especially in younger people, there just wouldn’t be as many opportunities.

Japanese software is not the only place where we are seeing a decline in innovation. This is the country that that provided us a lot of modern electronics as well.

35% of people are now over 65 in Japan. A much larger percentage of the economy now has to be dedicated to taking care of the elderly. The percentage of elderly in 1950 was tiny.