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A $200 smartphone isn’t enough for most people. They’ve been sold that ideology but all I see is people struggling with them constantly assuming that’s the best of the future in their hands.

What are you doing to your poor phones? Even my 15 year old’s SE is still mint.

I’m in the UK so I charge the shipping and handling to the buyer, sell on an offer day and there is no sales tax on private sales. Total cost to me is usually £1 to sell it.

Yes but that’s dishonest.

I’ve had no problems selling anything yet either. Usually goes within 6 hours here at a well inflated price.

I bought an iPhone 12 December 2019 and decided to swap it out for a 13 pro a couple of weeks back for the camera improvements. Apple accidentally refunded the entire AppleCare cost and I sold it for £190 less than I paid for it. So TCO was £16 a month.

This person gets it. As always if it’s a shit show, charge by the hour and get double time! If it’s easy charge by the job and spend two months getting paid to play solitaire!

I think that’s a separate point. It does include a template language because Go is “batteries included”.

You can write productive stuff without having to import any third party packages at all. Everything you need is properly supported by the core team and written to the same standard.

Yeah as always no one seems to have got the optimum apple ownership thing yet.

1. Buy the cheapest premium device plus one minor upgrade (more storage etc) as that has the lowest total depreciation.

2. Get AppleCare and pay up front

3. Sell it the moment the AppleCare runs out on eBay. Don’t part exchange it.

4. Your monthly TCO is the sticker price plus AppleCare minus the sale price all divided by the months you owned it.

Make sure all the costly events are someone else’s problem.

I’m running a whole stack of apple devices with little incidental cost if anything happens and lowest overall ownership.

Edit: keep one iphone back which isn’t yet entirely obsolete if you need a backup. Still got a working 6s here.

This is one reason I like Go. It’s exactly the opposite to Java in that respect.

Well the last dude I know who took LSD tried to call an ambulance for a pile of sacks of builders cement and pissed himself. YMMV on that one. There are probably more failures that are not romanticised and more successes that involved hard work.

I’ve spent enough time in fintech to know where this ends.

The interest in it is purely because of the vast problems it creates are opportunities to gain something. These are numerous compared to the roughly single benefit and the technology itself.

It’s yet another market created to manipulate arbitrary wealth tokens. The masters are different that is all.

If that happens I’m going to eat my mac mini for lunch.

There are some nasty escalation scenarios I’ve seen in that space. Cost increases as does workload backlogs and latency.

Eventually something breaks and causes an outage.

All leaks should be resolved lest you end up with floods.

I did always submit bug reports and patches. Most of the time some GitHub robot closes my ticket or PR after it is ignored for a month. That’s the new status quo: keep your ticket queue short by auto closing it.

That’s about right. I’ve got a dev who’s container just exits 0 ten times a day. He told me kubernetes takes care of it so it’s not a priority.

On this point I just deployed my first end to end ARM app. It’s a small aggregator but it’s written in Go on an M1 mac and deployed to graviton2 instance.

The killer is there was no friction at all and target is cheaper. It all just worked. Absolutely no issues at all.

The thing that scares intel is that they’re not special any more.

Full hazmat gear here. She’s right.

Remember GitHub is not Git. Needs to be pushed elsewhere. Everywhere.

Three kids here. I could never smell it either. To me babies mostly smell of poop and whatever medication of the hour you have slapped all over their bottom.

One thing I have noticed is they smell worse as they get older :)

Um err I’m writing this on a Mac mini M1 with Durgod keyboard, Logitech mouse and Iiyama monitor…

If I buy any laptop, other than Apple, I get whatever parts they managed to get from the lowest bidder.

Ironically one of the lyrics was “…you make a grown man cry” which, as a Solaris user at the time, windows 95 did.

This reminds me of all the unholy things I’ve seen done with excel over the years.

One guy I worked with at a big corp IT shop had broken PowerPoint and the IT guys couldn’t fix it (turned out to be a profile corruption issue). So he did his presentation in excel with and wrote something that captured a mouse click and used it to activate the next sheet in the workbook. I was vaguely impressed as he wasn’t a programmer by any means.

Sorry I meant export and push.

I took a management position and delegate my management tasks out to people who want to do them on my team. I am still hands on and it allows people who want to get management experience to get it and allows me to land a management salary. Problem solved.

Clone it then push it to a clean repo to destroy the history. Seriously. I understand security concerns but the history could expose previous bad practices which can be applied to other products you run. Bad patterns are endemic.

Also it gives you the chance to secret scan it and remove any swearing and embarrassing comments (I haven’t seen a codebase without any yet)

No. We don't have an active deployment in that region at all. It killed our build pipeline as ECR was down globally so we had nowhere to push images. Also there was a massive risk as our target environments are EKS so any node failures or scaling events had nowhere to pull images from while ECR was down.

Edit: not to mention APIGW and Cloudwatch APIs were down too.

This. We're under NDA too on internal support. Our customers know we use AWS and they go and check the AWS status dashboards and tell us there's nothing wrong so the inevitable vitriol is always directed at us which we then have to defend.

Your kidneys are probably mentioned in the small print.

Turning my phone off right fucking now!

Usually at this point it’s pitchforks and torches.

If it’s any consolation the enterprise support guys aren’t any better.

Threatening to move to Azure is about the only move that works.