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I do wonder how the expert in the article came up with the assertion that fake was now environmentally friendly than real. Surely shipping a pile of plastic from China is worse for the environment than growing a real tree for 10 years.

Even if the plastic lasts for a decade, and the alternative is to buy 10 real trees over that same time period, I'd have thought the natural option would be better for the planet.

But you need to take a very long position on this.

Someone's beloved cat died? That's your problem, because it's affecting the way they work. You need to help them through it.

Someone's working well? That's great, but you can't rest on your laurels. You need to help them grow into a more senior position so they don't get bored or disillusioned.

I recall hearing that in Eastern Bloc countries, telling the wrong story to the wrong person could get you 'disappeared'.

The (possibly apocryphal) story that sticks with me is of the young child who told their teacher that their parents didn't have a photo of Lenin in their house. The parents were taken away in the middle of the night, and the child went to live with their grandparents.

When I hear about how easy it is for innocent, law-abiding people in the US to be incarcerated, it reminds me of these stories.

I've worked with at least three people who were -x programmers. That is, they produced negative value to the organisation.

They did this by breaking systems (DNS, build pipelines, etc), producing code so bad that it had to be rewritten from scratch, and distracting everyone on the team through drama.

They also did it through endless requests for help - not the kind where they learn from it, though. The kind where they ask the exact same question next week of someone else. They would cycle through asking everyone on the team about the minutiae of their job, because they had no idea how to do it themselves.

I realise that the idea of the '10x rockstar' is an unpleasant one. But I also know that the best people I've worked with over the years were at least ten times better than the worst.

I love Fitzgerald's translations! I find Lattimore utterly dull and lacking in poetry; Fitzgerald is readable and fun, in my view.

Each to their own, of course, but I wanted to provide a counterpoint to anyone out there deciding on a translation to read.

It seems to me that the former is a convenient excuse for the latter.

AWS Instance Scheduler is an official AWS Solution: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/instance-sc...

It allows you to create automatic start and stop schedules for your Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS instances. It uses a combination of CloudWatch/Lambda/DynamoDB to check against tagged instances.

I agree that this is a large part of it. I did Alexander Technique for about five years, and that helped me unpick a lot of bad habits. It helped my singing, teaching me to stop getting in the way of my voice. It also helped me with broader problems like my posture when I'm using a computer.

Source: I'm a vocalist in a big band.

Here's the unrolled thread for anyone who find it hard to read long Twitter threads: https://threader.app/thread/1210242184341000192

The thing that really helped for me was Alexander Technique. You have to find a good teacher - there are a lot of cranks, unfortunately - but the good ones are amazing.

My teacher helped me to work on my underlying habits around movement and posture. Once I had worked through that, I was pain-free enough to be able to start doing weight lifting. The lifting helped a lot, but it was only possible because of the Alexander.

It misses a couple of big ones:

1. Offer a great user experience. Many cloud providers are just pumping products out the door with little to no concern for UX.

2. Have great personality. That could be through offering outstanding support, or through being the kind of company that people root for. (Honeycomb.io is a good example of this.)

You can definitely run Lambda functions locally, too: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/lat...

I don't think there's any link between certification and competency.

Here in Australia we're going mad for certifications. I had a friend who looked after kids in an after school program. A minimum wage job, but one that she loved. She'd been doing it for nearly 20 years. The government mandated that she needed a $2500 certificate in order to continue to do the job she'd been doing for two decades.

I don't believe there was anything that this certification could have taught her that she didn't already know. Heck, she should have been the one teaching the course. Instead it was being run by an organisation that specialised in running these kinds of certification programs, but certainly didn't specialise in the subject matter.

If we were to mandate certification for managers, my concern would be that - at best - it would end up as just another piece of paper. At worst, it would actively exclude the people who were most qualified and competent, like it did with my friend.

This isn't limited to just smaller sites. Many slower-moving organizations, e.g. government and banks, aren't yet up-to-date with zero-downtime deployments.

What would you would do if you were attacked by another country? What if your peaceful trade partner was being attacked? What if there were a genocide occurring in another country?

When I think of 'passion', I think of creating things, making things better, doing something that can bring me into a state of flow. I'm not an avid gardener, but I can absolutely see how gardening would tick those boxes for someone who was.

This is a great point. When I talk to people who are worried about cloud lock-in, the parallel I use is the operating system. Does anyone regret going all-in on Windows for their enterprise desktops 20 years ago? Did we try to go multi-desktop? Or build our own distribution?

And all your EC2 instances have noisy neighbors, no matter how many times you terminate and reinstantiate. A living nightmare.

My partner used to spend $10,000AUD on each hearing aid. It was insane. Now that we're going to Costco, she's paying $3000AUD each. It's still really expensive, but it's a darn sight better.

You might want to look into honeycomb.io and follow Charity Majors on Twitter. Heck, just follow Charity anyway - she's a genius.

Hence this service which would appear to be much easier than setting up a persistent remote ssh server with port forwarding.

The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) is the Australian government agency behind the Design System. Paul Shetler, the former CEO of the DTA, quit after a philosophical disagreement with the new minister. Shetler's company is now consulting with the NSW government on a lot of their digital transformation work, including their design system.

Except for the fact that Azure names seem to change once per year.

Our Azure SA was giving us a presentation and actually got confused himself. "So that's TFS... I mean VSTS... Actually wait, it's Azure DevOps now?"

I can only talk for AWS, not GCP or Azure, but there are services that can help mitigate DDOS attacks:

Shield (https://aws.amazon.com/shield/) is AWS's DDOS protection service. It's free and is basic protection against L3/4 attacks.

Shield Advanced (same URL as above) is a big step up in price, but gives you access to 'improved protection' and a global response team.

Cloudfront (https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront) is a CDN with global edge locations.

WAF (https://aws.amazon.com/waf) is AWS's web application firewall service. It's less about DDOS and more about specific application attacks, but is part of the whole solution.

For more detail, you can have a look at AWS's DDOS whitepaper: https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Security/DDoS_White_Pap...

Am I the only one who's a little disappointed they didn't call it CharybDB?

I just this morning read this interview with Lindsay Holmwood about how he does 1-on-1s, and it's a master class: https://soapboxhq.com/blog/meetings/how-envato-does-remote-o...

I've never had him as a manager, but I really wish I had.

'The dictionary defines infantilizing as treating someone “as a child or in a way that denies their maturity in age or experience.”'

I don't know whether to laugh or be offended!

> Kubric got the fastest lenses he could

Not just any lenses! Lenses designed for NASA to capture the far side of the Moon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss_Planar_50mm_f/0.7

Haha I don't have either, I'm afraid. Here's a link to the common architectures I helped out on when I was at Geoscience Australia: https://bitbucket.org/account/user/geoscienceaustralia/proje...

Here's a direct link to the awspec tests for one of the repositories: https://bitbucket.org/geoscienceaustralia/webserver/src/ab6f...

"The State has also agreed to waive the burdensome CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) for this massive development."

Well that's disappointing.