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capelioon We don’t use a staging environment

I’ve worked with multiple teams where QA tests in prod behind feature flags, canary deploys, etc. Staging environments and QA don’t always go hand in hand.

capelioon Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

You’re right. You can’t take advantage of it. But not for any of the reasons you listed.

You’ve already decided you would fail, and that’s all it takes to seal the deal.

Dare a little. You’ve already made a list of your weaknesses. Now make a list of your strengths. Then sell yourself on how each weakness can be explained as a strength. If there’s nothing there at the end of the exercise, you haven’t lost anything. But you may just end up with some useful clarity on your worth in the marketplace.

capelioon NSO Group CEO says law-abiding citizens have 'nothing to be afraid of'

A knife has plenty of valid uses beyond being able to kill someone. Malware doesn’t.

capelioon Bastion – A Highly-Available Distributed Fault-Tolerant Runtime for Rust

You could have read the entire README in the time you spent posting something based off your assumptions.

capelioon Transitioning from Docker to Podman

Unless you're optimizing for stagnation, this really is a terrible approach to reaping the benefits of innovation. If your prereq to trying something better is that it needs to mirror something that's "decent already," you'll spend most of your life stuck on the same plateau.

capelioon Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript

How much more real world evidence does HN need to see before the "JS isn't a real language" meme is abandoned?

Pretty sure we're up to billions of real world value created by software written in Javascript. If you're still dismissive at this point, it's time to catch up. You've missed the boat.

capelioon Backblaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q1 2018

We use their Python-based CLI to do daily off-site backups of Postgres snapshots from a Linux box.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/quick_command_line.html

capelioon Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps

Even so, Java is now at a place where you can ship self-contained, zero-dependency applications that are comparable in size to other compiled languages (and superior to web-hybrid options like Electron).

For cross-platform desktop GUI apps, I would argue that JavaFX combined with Java 9 modularization is hands-down the best choice available today.

Electron is succeeding in the desktop GUI space because it tears down the barriers to desktop app development. While the author's article is excellent, when it comes to Electron, he (like most engineers) is still missing the point: the choice between Electron and its alternatives doesn't pivot on file size.