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Wrapping docker/docker-compose with makefiles or bash aliases is an anti-pattern, particularly on team projects.

It's a convenience to you, but it's a loss for newbies because they'll just learn that abstraction only. It's also a loss to experienced people because you're forcing your own opinions on them. I would git ignore that file.

WeWork is another Theranos waiting to happen.

- Unicorn status. Check.

- Douchey founder(s). Check.

- Shady dealings and corruption. Check.

You get what you pay for :-)

I hope business schools teach about the failures made by Sears executives. Especially about not adapting to change and investing in technology.

Great post!

If you haven't listened to Fugazi before check out End Hits! Good intro record.

Legalizing CBD, pulling troops from Syria & and it looks like we're leaving Afghanistan soon too. It's a good week for America.

I spent like 2 mins looking at this and I still don't know what I'm looking at.

Can someone add a link to this ^ comment from the Wikipedia entry for "Straw Man"?

Very fast indeed. Hard work paid off!

Power tends to corrupt.

I fear that earlier stage companies will read posts like this and implement it blindly without considering the big picture, which is:

- Stripe is a large and resourceful company with a relatively large engineering team. They can afford to have people focused only on things like this.

- The demand to work at Stripe is high. Therefore they can afford to have a long, grueling interview process. Most engineers will not want to go through a 7 step hiring process at a low prestige company.

I'm angry at them for this, but more angry at myself for not deleting my data years ago when I stopped logging in.

This is textbook gaslighting.

In one moment you're saying "Thats what Fargate is" as if Fargate == Running Serverless Containers.

On the other you're saying "you can make fargate spin up a container for an event, but it would be too slow for any useful event driven computing", which is the truth, but it contradicts your initial comment.

Fargate is a great service, but it's not a serverless solution not by any mainstream definition of the term (although Amazon seems to be intent on stretching the definition lately).

Create a simple ping/pong HTTP service in both and you'll quickly see difference in everything from billing to startup time.

You're aware thats an entirely different service right? We're talking about Serverless and Lambda.

Missed opportunity to just support one runtime to rule them all: Docker containers.

These recommendations are a time capsule from the 90s.

This is getting old.

DHH routinely posts "humble brag" type photos on Instagram of his exotic cars and his ocean side view. Meanwhile he's telling the rest of us not to bother trying to "make it to the top"?

If he feels so guilty about his luck, he should give it away or pay if forward in a constructive way.

The worst part is that people read headlines like this and think that this is what capitalism is.

(Hint: this is not capitalism, this is crony capitalism and corporatism).

Nothing. It sounds like this person is inventing their own dichotomies.

American taxpayers paid over 500 million for Healthcare.gov.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthCare.gov

I don't see the confusion. I'm saying its inconsistent and arbitrary. You're saying it is not.

I'm providing an example as to how it is inconsistent (friends experience) as well as an a priori rationale for why it's arbitrary (e.g Googliness is a fuzzy criterion that allows interviewers to make any arbitrary call).

Whether you work there or not, I'm afraid you are misinformed.

Three of my friends (all similar backgrounds) interviewing at Google this year have had completely different interviewing experiences. One even bypassed the phone screen and was flown to Mountain View for an IRL technical screening/interview. These are all for the same role.

How does your data reconcile that?

I wish someone at Google had the courage to admit how inconsistent and arbitrary the hiring/interviewing process is at Google.

"Googliness" is just a qualitative lever in hiring that allows Google interviewers to enforce whatever biases they have.

Just because you can't think of any examples of businesses not cowering to censorship, doesn't mean that there are none.

Twitter has made lots of mistakes, but they've also stood on first principles many of times when it comes to free speech. Cloudflare is another great example.

> Why should they force themselves to support organizations that promote the wholesale elimination of other classes of people

Straw man arguments like this really lower the quality of discussion.

I don't visit Gab, but I will definitely be closing my Joyent account.

If you're not a courageous and principled defender of free speech, you should get out of the cloud business.

The context for this post is that money is money and money is currently cheap. VCs work hard to create the perception that their money is more valuable than investor's money.

Call me old fashioned, but I like functions that return something. Hard pass.