celticmusic

The ole eyebrow started twitching when I read this. I once had a 6 month contract with a RoR shop where they had such bad performance issues they started developing in production mode so it wouldn't reload everything constantly. This allowed you to make some changes quickly, but 90% of everything required you to restart the web server and it literally took minutes for it to load everything. They had close to 200 rubygems, and I've always guessed that was the core of the issue.

When I suggested we need to fix that issue, the senior did-an-internship-here-last-summer developer got extremely passive aggressive with me (I didn't renew that contract). This guy thought he was amazing, I remember him arguing with me about a bug where they were storing decimal numbers as float in MySQL. I seriously had a 30 minute long conversation where he told me repeatedly I was wrong until I finally got exasperated, made the changes, and it fixed the bug. The guy was couldn't believe it fixed the issue and spent another couple of hours looking for why I was wrong.

I've never touched RoR again, that experience was horrific.

Sometimes you can't help the slowness, but I know I seriously dislike header-only libraries in C++ specifically because of their effect on the BTD loop. I have no idea how people can tolerate working like that, it's a slow hell for me.

Can we maybe find our way to looking at something from a different perspective than this?

"My marriage is in a sorry state and ripe for disruption". wut?

I know it makes me an old fucker, but I'm genuinely sad when I go someplace where we have to wait and it's just a sea of people on their phone with little to no interaction amongst themselves.

Then you take what you can do and leave the rest.

I think you're right that the author is young, but that doesn't mean the observations aren't useful for those who haven't figured some of this stuff out for themselves.

https://www.vmware.com/products/esxi-and-esx.html

Maybe you consider that normal in game dev companies, but I have to believe that's outside the norm.

The guy got suspended without pay for 2 months.

https://www.businessinsider.com/riot-games-suspends-coo-scot...

That seems like a nonsensical litmus test.

This one is probably the most egregious though, in that great software is created BECAUSE people aren't aligned and those discussions/fights are had.

You're going to have to source that because I have a friend who lives in China and he was telling me from the start that China was surprisingly open about all of it.

I obviously understood SOMETHING about it, even if it was just my own understanding.

I've read that some/most of the actors were actual police force at some point. I may be getting the details wrong, but I think that's why it felt so real, because it was real even if the specific situations were fiction.

The entire movie you're left wondering what the hell the plot is. What is the point of this movie. And then the ending happens and you realize the entire movie was crafted for the ending, and it wouldn't have had much impact without the journey before it.

> Companies like these are probably better off throwing money at the problem and putting it in the cloud. __THE SKILL LEVEL REQUIRED__ to successfully run something in the cloud __AND NOT COMPLETELY LOSE EVERYTHING__ is much lower. That's not to say there isn't skill involved, but you don't have to hire someone who may or may not decide to run your software that's involved in a multi-million dollar contract in a closet in your building.

I can give you a real life example.

Years ago I did work for this company that built flight simulators for the government. Millions of dollars rolling through their company. One day I get called up by this company and the woman is panicking because their website went down.

Well, come to find out, the entire site was running on a server sitting in an office of their building and the electricity went out due to a winter storm. To say that I was floored is an understatement. I started asking questions.

Well, when I did, the "sys admin" (and I'm putting that in quotes...) started talking to the owner of this company and it was ultimately decided that I couldn't be trusted.

Fast forward a few years and around august of last year this company contacts me again for more work. They apparently scored another huge government contract, built a new facility to be able to house actual government planes so they can strip them down and turn them into flight simulators and so forth.

While I'm at the facility I learn that they're running all their software off of a server sitting in the building. Now, this isn't completely unreasonable, especially for government work. But I again started asking questions.

- Is it environmentally controlled.

- Do you have a generator?

- Do you have multiple lines in case your ISP goes down (which 100% will happen at some point)

- Do you have backups?

- ARE YOU EXERCISING THOSE BACKUPS AT LEAST ONCE/QUARTER?

When this got back to the "sys admin", he was livid. I also found out that they didn't have the source code for the latest changes I made, despite me pushing said source code to a private git server this "sys admin" had stood up. Said virtual server apparently got removed when they moved facilities, but despite this the guy accused me of pushing it to my private github repo based purely on the fact that I stated in no uncertain terms that I had pushed that to the git repo.

But this software was a part of the government contract.

I just sent out an email the next day thanking them for the opportunity, but that I would have to pass on it.

My point is this.

They're an engineering company, that's where their expertise lies. But due to the nature of what they're doing, they were forced into the software side of things. They hired an incompetent.

Companies like these are probably better off throwing money at the problem and putting it in the cloud. The skill level required to successfully run something in the cloud and not completely lose everything is much lower. That's not to say there isn't skill involved, but you don't have to hire someone who may or may not decide to run your software that's involved in a multi-million dollar contract in a closet in your building.

At the end of the day, not all humans are thieves, but I still attempt to prevent all humans from entering my house.

The telco's themselves should be held legally responsible for the fraud in these cases.

If I hang up a phone, I expect that to be the end of it, period. Yes, that includes landlines.

> List events, going back up to 30 days.

If you're able to go further than that you may be paying extra for it.

Now, if you have the event id then you'll be able to pull it, but you can't simply list them out unless that documentation is lying.