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kongin commented on My first industry job: lies, deceptions, and layoffs jeremyaboyd.com/post/my-f... · Posted by u/azhenley

giantg2 · 4 years ago

It seems like nowhere will just give you a raise because it's the right thing, valuation-wise. You basically have to threaten to leave or something. My inflation adjusted increase over 10 years with one promotion (10%) and a masters degree (9%) has been 22%.

kongin · 4 years ago

You don't have to threaten to leave, you do leave.

kongin commented on Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance innovationaus.com/austral... · Posted by u/tac0_

_kbh_ · 4 years ago

The reason we have such low deaths is because of the measures in place. They are slowly changing as vaccination targets are met and life should be back to normalish by December.

kongin · 4 years ago

And yet we heard the same thing last December.

Things aren't going back to normal, when Australia opens up regardless of vaccination status thousands of people will die if they are lucky and tens of thousands if they are not.

The vaccines have been a huge disappointment with constant goal post moving the only way to keep people from noticing.

kongin commented on Open Source Tractor opensourceecology.dozuki.... · Posted by u/vincent_s

beckman466 · 4 years ago

> This demonstrates the power of open source. These engineers are to be commended.

if you haven't seen the famous Open Source Ecology pitch by Marcin Jakubowski, you're in for a treat!

Open-sourced blueprints for civilization | Marcin Jakubowski, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEMkvT0DEk

kongin · 4 years ago

Way back when I reached out to them for getting the actual blueprints for a light industry coop - modular open source welders? Sign me up!

Got a reply along the lines of "we are working with our sponsors and will not be releasing any blueprints".

10 years later you still can't get blueprints from their site: https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/

They seem like the solar roadways of open source hardware.

kongin commented on Localstack – Local AWS Emulator github.com/localstack/loc... · Posted by u/emersonrsantos

whummer · 4 years ago

Agreed, that's really stunning - seen the analogy of cloud as the "modern mainframe" come up more and more recently.

I guess the (business) reason is that the centralized computing model enables enormous economies of scale. (Makes perfect sense from an operations point of view.)

What it seems to miss in the current incarnation/iteration, though, is the "power of distribution" - leveraging the fact that local compute capabilities (especially during development/integration) can help reduce the cognitive load, increase the efficiency, and thereby reduce overall costs.

There seems to be a tendency to focus mostly on the operational aspects, rather than the overall end-to-end developer journey. What remains to be seen is whether future iterations of "the cloud" will do a better job of embracing the power of distributed and/or hybrid.

kongin · 4 years ago

The reason why AWS got popular everywhere I worked was that you didn't need to get buying new hardware past ops. You just spun up your own, then when it was supporting half the business you pointed at it and said "Gee wouldn't it be nice if we had a box in our own data center to run it?" then there'd be a fire lit under the ass of ops and you'd get your computers in a week instead of next financial year.

Now it's exactly the same thing in AWS. My next guess is that you're going to be running production code on fleets of devs computers because you don't have to get extra budget for AWS next financial year to afford spinning up another instance.