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833karma·799submissions·October 29, 2025
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> Big companies are significantly better to work in when you're either (...) You're basically stating that people who are hired to staff projects that are superfluous secondary moonshots …
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> Instead of doing things ways that are easy and straightforward, you instead were incentivized to make your code complicated so you can brag about how complicated it is, (...) I see this as a red …
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It didn't included the JavaScript subset, so that's pretty concise.
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I was wondering what is the community's opinion on the official TypeScript Handbook https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/intro.html …
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> Their moat in the consumer world is the branding and the fact open ai has 'memory' which you can't migrate to another provider. Their 'memory' is mostly unhelpful and get…
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> Kotlin won't replace Java. They do not have the same niche. Claiming Java has a niche is very funny. I guess the niche is programmable computers? Well done.
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> I do deploy things in different languages -- We are a small team of open-minded programmers, and we are on a constant search for better tools and methods. This claim does not pass the smell test.…
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> First of all, Java isn't a platform. You are being facetious. I mean, do you actually believe that the JVM exists in a context where Java does not exist? What does the J in JVM stand for? &g…
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> I think this is because of the gap in its target market -- Rust is firmly positioned to replace C and C++, which have a long history of safety issues. The "long history of safety issues"…
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> There is literally nothing strange or disproportionate. It's incredibly obvious that new languages, that were designed by people who found older languages lacking, are of interest to groups …
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> Right, so Zuul is properly interesting if you're dealing with multi-repo setups and want to test changes across them before they merge; that's the key bit that something like GitLab CI …
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> I mean Crossplane is a pretty popular k8s operator that does exactly that, create cloud infrastructure from K8s objects. If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail. It…
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> Does it really make sense to use Kubernetes in 2026? Especially in the cloud? I can't tell if your comment is a joke or not.
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> I often hear folks use terminology like “push GitOps”. But as far as I understand things, it’s only GitOps if you’re following the four principles described in TFA. Not quite. You hear gatekeepin…
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> The problem with automatically applying whatever crap that is stored in git, means that you cannot reverse anything without a long heavyweight process, clone code, make a branch, create a pr, app…
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> Serious question: How do organizations deal with having git on the critical path for deployment? You mean like storing source code? CICD pipeline definitions? Container image specs? IaC manifests…
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> The whole premise of opengitops is heavily reliant on kubernetes. There's indeed a fair degree of short-sightedness in some GitOps proponents, who conflate their own personal implementation …
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> ArgoCD is the defacto gitops standard now and has the lions share of gitops deployments. That only covers pull-based GitOps. Push-based GitOps doesn't require Kubernetes, let alone magical K…
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> The "what" vs "why" distinction breaks down when your code encodes domain knowledge that readers can't infer from context. Your comment is a poor example because you unwi…
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> That is rubbish. I loathe Trump more than most, but there's no serious claim that he wasn't freely elected in 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_e…
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> I think we can both agree that lawfully and democratically elected leader of country A having a lawfully and democratically elected leader of country B captured is bad, for all the obvious reason…
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> That IP will respond with a 403 error if they try to connect to it. So Azure is indirectly training people that 403 potentially IS a "network issue"... You are not describing a network …
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> Great post. This should be the default configuration, community can make discussions, contributors can make issues. I'm not so sure. I think this sort of discussion mostly falls within the r…
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> For most applications 1 location is probably good enough. If your usecase doesn't require redundancy or high-availability, why would you be using something like Cloudflare to start with?
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> But do you need 300 pops to benefit from the edge model? Or would 10 pops in your primary territory be enough. I don't think that the number of PoPs is the key factor. The key factor is bein…
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> Anyway if the "DX" is a kind of runtime, in which actual contexts is it better than the incumbents, e.g. Node, or the newer ones e.g. Deno or Zig or even more broadly WASI? I'm not…
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> What if we hosted the cloud... on our own computers? The value proposition of function-as-a-service offerings is not "cloud" buzzwords, but providing an event-handling framework where d…
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> Actually it does. Electric car sales were so anemic during that time claiming the title made it trivial to be supported by 2% of the population. What are you talking about? The Nissan Leaf was th…
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> Huh? You think starlink is funding space-x? In the last year alone, around 2/3 of space X's revenue was directly tied to starlink launches. > If they lost all government and private …
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