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newcrobuzon commented on Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex theregister.com/2021/02/2... · Posted by u/pjmlp

newcrobuzon · 5 years ago

K8s is amazing piece of tech, but still there is a big cost and complexity inherent in adopting & managing it.

I enjoy using it and playing with it, but so many use cases can be addressed with something simpler - either just Docker / Swarm / AWS ECS etc. alternatives or just going for VMs with well defined CI/CD processes that let you tear down the infrastructure and set it up again easily.

What very interests me are the concepts K8s build on that are not usually recognized - to me K8s seems a lot like a JVM, just that it operates on infrastructural (and not runtime) level.

I enjoy experimenting with these concepts when applied back in the runtime world - it is for instance interesting to run 100s of servers with JVM and let them load/execute new dependencies and code at runtime (JVM is very well suited for that).

This is area that is not yet explored and would probably deserve more attention as it allows for distributed rapid computing that is infrastructure/platform independent (the downside is that it requires (just) JVM and the isolation is not perfect).

newcrobuzon commented on How to Lose Money getrevue.co/profile/andre... · Posted by u/maverik

aphextron · 5 years ago

>The nice thing about options is that there isn’t just one way to lose money. No, you can lose money in many different ways – far more than I can write on this page.

This is the most important lesson of options. It's never just a coin flip. You have an unimaginably huge number of factors riding against your success. It's not even remotely close to a 50/50 win/lose scenario. There are a million ways to lose, and just a few narrow ways to win. You literally have better odds going to the roulette table and placing a bet on red.

newcrobuzon · 5 years ago

Options should be used as intended: as a hedge.

E.g. If I am net long in my portfolio and I fear some headwinds I can buy a put or two for the peace of mind. Now those puts should be always considered as worthless, and it is just the price to pay for the peace of mind.

Similarly you sell options. Trading options on the other hand is just pure gambling. Even if you get the direction right you likely won't get the timing right (or the volatility).

edit: typo

newcrobuzon commented on The Future of Clojure thoughtworks.com/podcasts... · Posted by u/simonpure

puredanger · 5 years ago

I think "needs strict static type systems" is a hypothesis but one with certainly many anecdotal examples to refute it. Most of the studies that have been done (and admittedly these studies are extremely difficult to do well) show lower or similar bug counts in dynamic languages vs static languages.

If you've built large scale system with statically type checked languages that solve all these problems, I assume you never had any bugs right? Never needed to write any unit tests?

newcrobuzon · 5 years ago

Many people don't know this, but you can still commit code that does not compile :D

newcrobuzon commented on The Future of Clojure thoughtworks.com/podcasts... · Posted by u/simonpure

puredanger · 5 years ago

Both devs and jobs exist but they are mismatched in terms of geography and experience expectations. I don't think it's specific to Clojure, it's common to any narrow technology. Certainly things have gotten far better over the last 10 years and there are more companies hiring in Clojure more actively now than I've ever seen. Fixing it requires a feedback cycle that takes a long time to grow into an active market.

When I first started in Java in 1997, there were few companies doing Java and few devs who knew it and it was much the same. Sun spent like a billion dollars marketing Java to create that ecosystem.

newcrobuzon · 5 years ago

> Sun spent like a billion dollars marketing Java

I guess now the question is if Nubank could/will also promote Clojure and to what extent (or if they will support Cognitect enough to do that). I would wonder if they went through that thought process and what RoIs for that are from their perspective.

It might even take much lesser investment than equivalent of $1bil from 90s... The Java/JVM market is huge so it might need just a little nudge :)

Within the JVM ecosystems it seems that basically Kotlin (as nice as it is) has been stealing some market share that might have belonged to Clojure. And all that just by selling some cheap cut syntax sugar on the corner.

There definitely is a huge desire within Java/JVM community to innovate and if approached correctly Clojure could actually shine - there are just few misconceptions and fears that could be put to sleep by some smart marketing strategy. Nubank is great first step in that direction, because it gives an example of a mature large yet innovative company relying on Clojure in production.

newcrobuzon commented on One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study reuters.com/article/healt... · Posted by u/MKais

treeman79 · 5 years ago

Congratulations, you have earned the achievement “chronic condition”.

Your rewards are as follows.

You have max exhaustion at all hours of the day!

Exercise recovery is bumped from next day to 2 weeks!

Your pain level is now on par with dying cancer patients!

Everyone now considers you lazy and incompetent!

Doctors now blame all symptoms on anxiety!

You gain +1 to medical research ability. But -20 to Reputation.

You now get spontaneous and useless medical advise from people that believe in essential oil.

You are now on timer with your job until sympathy runs out!

Disability now can mock you openly as clearly your faking and don’t have a real condition!

You are now a burden to your family!

+10 sneak score; you quickly learn to hide your suffering!

+20 to loneliness!

-20 to persuasion! Asking for help gets little from doctor's.

+10 Planning! Your kids may be orphans soon, make sure they get taken care of. Read fine print on death benefits. ——-

Staying positive when you have a chronic condition is incredibly difficult.

Your not going to get through it without losing your mind now and then.

newcrobuzon · 5 years ago

Cancer survivor of 20 years here. You sir seem to understand exactly how things are. This is how it is, not bad, not good, just the nature of life i guess.