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Ah, I'm confusing its availability with Shenandoah and zgc.

Unfortunately, the last time I used IntelliiJ it came with its own JDK8. Is that still the case, I wonder?

The new breed of garbage collectors may change this significantly for the better. They need to be explicitly enabled, but there is a GC (G1) that may be better suited for desktop applications (low latency pauses, relinquishes memory to the OS more frequently while idle, etc.) available in Java 11.

Scala was the only language that I gave up and used an IDE for several years ago due to the nature of implicits.

The language server protocol has been a game-changer, though. Now I'm back to 100% terminal and couldn't be happier.

I know you're taking some flack for making it about age, but I do think there's some merit there. I'm 34. I feel like I'm in the middle in terms of software developer / sysadmin age. Lots of bright minds came before me and there are lots of bright minds out there right now in their early 20s.

A key difference is I can remember a time when network connectivity was flaky. When it was hardly a given. Even when it was available, the download times alone could often constitute a large part of the overall build time.

I think that we have all become complacent with regard to internet connectivity and service availability, but I think the younger you are the more complacent you are likely to be. If github.com goes down entirely, let's be honest - there are a lot of Jenkins builds that are going to be in the red.

> which attempts to hide the implementation of distributed networking

To be fair, this is precisely what Akka doesn't do, often citing A Note on Distributed Computing (1994) which explains why that approach is problematic.

What makes you say use1-az6 is the culprit? I only ask because none of our workloads in az6 have experienced any issues. ....yet. We run critical workloads across 3 AZs thankfully, but still.

Sounds like that should apply to Dropbox, as well.

I always tell people that ADHD is not an inability to pay attention, it's an inability to direct and focus one's attention at-will.

Whatever is most stimulating gets my attention.

Not sure what meaww.com is, but Daily Mail is the original source and is not generally considered to be reliable, for what it's worth.

Oh my god, the captcha at the end is so good. Is it even possible to get through?

Apparently it took over a year for the coffee to kick in! I just always shrugged and thought it was a cutesy name for a company that did something boring like dig tunnels. I cannot believe that pun escaped me for so long. :)

Oh my god.

I literally just now got the joke: the boring company.

Because they bore tunnels.

DNS is also inherently distributed. This should make it resilient to all of the most common outage scenarios, and is likely why AWS offers a 100% uptime SLA for Route 53.

I'll be interested in the post-mortem from Azure on this one.

I know this is 100% anecdotal, but a good friend of mine who was a brilliant programmer discovered cannabis in his late 20s after moving to the bay area for a well earned high-paying gig. Prior, to my knowledge, he didn't even drink alcohol. After about a year of extremely high dosages, something in him snapped. He just lost his mind. He became convinced the internet was sentient and was speaking through him and all kinds of other nonsense. He's been under psychiatric supervision near his family home back on the east coast ever since.

Again, it's anecdotal, and there could be a myriad of contributing factors - I know he had also begun drinking during that time period. But, until this happened, the idea of anyone going mad from cannabis was laughable to me. Now, I think about him sometimes when I'm visiting legal states and indulge myself in some quality edibles.

If someone robbed you would you contact their place of employment? No, you'd contact the police. Sexual harassment is a crime and crimes should be reported to the police.

I'm not sure, but they don't produce CFC-11. That is what is being measured, and its effects on the ozone are well-established.

I rest my palms. No issues.

Smaller touchpads have always been more uncomfortable and harder to use for me.

The Apple touchpad is by far the best trackpad I've ever used on any laptop. By such a wide margin it's ridiculous. I never accidentally press it with my palm or have any other issues with it.

I agree fully that the keyboards are hot garbage, though. I can type well on them, they're just painful over time due to the harshness you mention.

> Are interruptions really worse for programmers than for other knowledge workers?

Who cares? It's not a competition. The fact is that it sucks for programmers and we want to avoid them.

Do you have a NYC number? Or is this happening across the US? I've been getting them for a couple of months now and there was just a post on the NYC subreddit the other day talking about it. I thought I was the only one, and since I don't speak Mandarin, I assumed someone just accidentally gave my number to a Chinese business of some sort.

I think your arguments are well-reasoned, but I also think that you, along with others here making analogies to libraries/filing cabinets/etc. are too eager to equate physical access to internet access.

In the physical world, one can accidentally walk into a room they shouldn't have, perhaps mistaking it for the bathroom, and then leave without having committed any transgression. Entering a room you shouldn't be in doesn't mean you've automatically taken the contents of the room. On the internet, however, visiting a URL means just that. There's no "oh, it looks like I shouldn't be here" opportunity.

URLs are not doors. They aren't rooms. The same reasoning can't be applied to them, as they behave in fundamentally different ways.

Welcome to the Internet of Dicks.

> They don't actually compete with each other, I don't even understand the comparison. Kubernetes uses docker.

Kubernetes is scheduling and orchestration. It does compete with Docker, the company - it's a direct competitor of Swarm.

Docker, the container technology, is the de facto standard container at this time. That may not always be the case. Kubernetes is not Docker-specific, thus his mentioning of the open container initiative.

They are absolutely competitors.

Does anyone know what they are using to detect Wordpress?

Unfortunately some sites that I am responsible for running in production are WP and we try our best to hide this fact and block all admin functionality to the public due to WP's less-than-stellar history of security vulnerabilities. This is the first tool I've seen that has detected it and now I'm stumped.

This was so painful to read. I mean.. just.. ouch! I really hope you find a way to get it back. Some lessons in life are really valuable even when they sting. This one is just kind of cruel, ha.

Understanding other people's code (for better or worse) makes you a better developer.

Yeah, I'm getting to be the same. I'll happily talk to you about various algorithms with as much technical depth as I can muster given the algorithm of choice, but I've no interest in coding on your whiteboard. If you can't glean my level of understanding from a conversation, that's your problem. If you want to know if I can code, that's what my github is for.

That was my first thought, as well, followed by the fact that it may also be because we (or at least, I) know very little about those civilizations. When I go to Rome I am imagining what Roman life was like based on my knowledge of it. My pre-existing knowledge makes the sites come alive in my imagination, and thus makes them more intriguing to me.

I'm not sure arbitrary is the best word here. I agree, this is a huge country in terms of geography and there are countless things to see that are incredibly beautiful or downright interesting, but the three sites you mention (Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and Yellowstone) are the cream of the crop in terms of uniquness and impressiveness.

It's not called the "Common Canyon" for a reason. Where else are you going to see something like that in the States? Something of that magnitude?

And Yellowstone? It's a Super Volcano for christ's sake!

Yellowstone and Yosemite both offer incredibly unique and beautiful sites.

This isn't meant to take away from your larger point - that we have hundreds (if not thousands) of other locations in the US that are both amazingly beautiful and where your experience will be more your own rather than shared with the denizens of tourists, but to call the major attractions "arbitrary" seems to undermine how incredible they actually are.

Are you a developer? Advocate for pair programming.

It could be that this guy is bright and your boss is blinded by potential/flashes of greatness, but dude just isn't able to sustain it. Common in this field. Maybe I'm your co-worker.

If you code, pair-programming may actually make the two of you more productive as a unit than you could be individually. I never would have believed it until my current job.

If nothing else, at least you can force him to actually do some work.