>> If there is an IDE available that works well out of the box, I'll certainly use whatever automation is available. But often it is broken, incomplete, slow, inaccurate, etc. ...
I think you are unduly harsh here. As a longtime emacs user and who switched to IDE recently (ones that come from JetBrains) my experience hasn't been what you mention. Yes there is a bit of time (not huge) to get adjusted to the shortcuts and efficiently navigate the code, but post that the IDE ecosystem is not as broken as you allude to.
True, there will be comments blaming CS for not doing faster rollout. But there would be some comments empathizing with CS viewpoint and pointing out the conflicting compromise between velocity, and correctness. Even now I think the comments wouldn't have been unequivocally critical, of CS, if the hosts affected were a variant of windows (say issue was seen on version of windows 10 which was two update behind),there would have been some emphasizing the thorniness of the problem and sympathetic of CS.
It doesn't matter what kind of update it was: signature, content,etc. Only thing that matters is does the update has a potential to disrupt the user's normal activity (leave alone bricking the host), if yes ensure it either works or have a staged rollout with a remediation plan.
Maybe there isn't a switch that says "content version",but from end user perspective it is a new version. Whether it was a content change, or just a fix for typo in documentation (say) the change being pushed is different than what currently exists.And for the end user the configuration implies that they have a chance to decide whether to accept any new change being pushed or not.
Disagree with the part where you put onus on customer. As has been mentioned in other HN thread [1], this update was pushed ignoring whatever the settings customer had configured. The original mistake of the customer, if any, was they didn't read this in fine print of the contract (if this point about updates was explicitly mentioned in the contract).
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41003390
Same lesson for enterprise customers as well -- test new distributions on non-production within your IT setup, or have a canary deployment in place before allowing full roll-outs into production fleets.
It was mentioned in one of the HN threads, that the update was pushed overriding the settings customer had [1]. What recourse any customer can have in in such a case ?
But as someone already pointed out, the issue was seen on all kinds of windows hosts. Not just the ones running a specific version, specific update etc.
Ignoring management part, one place where I have found breaking down to be helpful is when I have to work on some thing which I am not terribly motivated todo (say it is boring, lethargy, or it looks too daunting). In such cases I have found it useful to break down to smaller tasks and keep completing each of them which in turn generates a momentum to continue, as I have been able to make some progress from a situation where I was essentially in a deadlock (or was lethargic to work on).
I do read a lot, but I don't completely agree that reading is an active skill all the time. It also depends on what one is reading. When I am reading a fast paced thriller or page turner , it doesn't feel like a very active skill/activity.
What is all the more tragic is, Bangalore gets ample rainfall and stricter implementation of rain water harvesting is one remedial solution. Though local authorities mandate compulsory rainwater harvesting for newer residential construction the implementation is quite lackluster in practice. During house construction people spend fortune on interior decoration, but loathe to spend money towards water conservation and harvesting efforts.
It is a good movie. But I feel the story it is based (from Ted Chiang) is superior. Some of the nuances in the story deals with (seeing life as a whole, inadequacy in conveying whole gamut of emotions, concepts in our day to day communication etc,) doesn't come out that well in the movie.
Can you be specific about what kind of Cancer incidences is related to the latitude ? In general I don't think there is a good correlation between Cancer incidences and latitude, for example India gets plenty of sunshine year around, but Cancer incidences are no less.
Agree that "Programming Rust" is a good book. It is thorough and provides good explanation about many trickier aspects of the language. However my biggest peeve about the book is lack of good complete working examples and exercises. I worked through the book and learnt much about Rust, but midway into the book I wasn't sure how good I am in writing code in Rust to solve a programming problem. IMO a side project, or some rust exercises that cover the topic one is reading in the book is a good way to work through this book.
Didn't also raise of Linux sped Sun's demise. In early 2000's the private compute farm of the org I was working had a mix of Solaris and Linux machines, with Solaris hosts outnumbering Linux hosts. Within couple of years with aim of uniformization all hosts were standardized to Linux.
Had to disagree that there aren't high quality posts on perl. For example the articles from perl by MJD https://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/ are top notch. Similarly the articles from Randall Schwartz are quite good. But all these articles were written long ago. Since perl has fallen out of favour these days, probably there are less posts covering Perl and consequently fewer high quality articles that are recent.