bravetraveler's comments

On: The Startup CTO's Handbook

[bravetraveler]

This may put me and my peers out of work (in a good way). SRE is a consequence of this function being lost, IMO. Pattern: developers don't like it? Give it to Ops/SRE.

Take away the escape, we will all be better for it.

On: Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)

[bravetraveler]

Elon would never let them pay for the same thing twice

On: Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal

[bravetraveler]

With this, I'm going to get the executives living in the shell as much as I do

On: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

[bravetraveler]

Condolences, Hashicorp folks. Been there.

On: Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

[bravetraveler]

The day {n,}vim take away my color schemes, I die. Convenience until it isn't, eh?

[iLemming → bravetraveler]

Yeah well, MSFT - the behemoth among evilish corporations, invests vast sums into developing a sophisticated tool with extensive features - more than their combined philanthropic initiatives - and offers it freely to just about anyone. This generosity doesn't seem questionable at all, eh?

I mean, when I use Vim and Emacs, the benefits clearly flow to users and the developer community. Back when I paid for the IntelliJ license - I knew exactly how their revenue model worked. Yet whenever I download and use VSCode, I don't really know what's Microsoft's grand plan here, does anyone else do?

[not_a_bot_4sho → iLemming]

Community goodwill is valuable. It's what gets someone to start to think, "this is pretty good, maybe I should try that Azure thing..."

Same reason Xcode is free.

[bravetraveler → iLemming]

Microsoft <3 Open Source /s

On: We Issued Our First Six Day Cert

[bravetraveler]

+1

"We really want to make sure you have automation, so certificate lifetimes have been reduced to 36 seconds; accounting for RTT and, in our generosity, time for a single timeout/retry" /s

Let it be my problem, please. I'll even use certbot or whatever is in fashion, just find another knob to turn [or don't].

On: Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?

[bravetraveler]

By the time our work hits stable/ongoing operations, it's well on the path to outsourcing

... to begin the loop again

On: You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)

[bravetraveler]

Only a little senior, if you're still working and not sitting in meetings all day - rungs remain

[syndicatedjelly → bravetraveler]

Why is sitting in meetings all day considered the top of the IC developer ladder? I don’t want my career to end up like that

[bravetraveler → syndicatedjelly]

Beats me, I didn't want it either :(

On: Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas (2007)

[bravetraveler]

Zealots do tend to be wrong, yes.

On: The Hidden Costs of Men's Social Isolation

[bravetraveler]

Lost the desire to break isolation when I spent my 20s being taken advantage of. Got a career though, which is 'nice' in that I no longer worry about food

The hidden cost of unprepared and unlasting parents. Spare this masculinity nonsense, some of us have (and had) real problems to deal with. The bonds worth having will still forge.