What a strange world. 621 points on Hacker News but the thing doesnt actually exist. I'm thinking about submitting a new post soon 'Show HN: I am writing An effective micro transaction platform to eliminate ads from the internet.'.
People argue about whether remote work is 'productive' but is 'productive' all we really care about? I understand this is Hacker News so productive is the guiding principle but what about community, friendship? Doesn't working remotely just force us more into our little bubbles? Especially for engineers I think it just reinforces natural tendencies and won't lead to the same sort of growth over time? There is an aspect of getting better socially as you age (hopefully) for example.
I have a script I call brain dump. It is just vim running in a while loop in a terminal. I can switch to at any time with Ctrl+Shift+J. I type some stuff and when I'm done I save as normal and the note is emailed to be behind the scenes. Encrypted with PGP. I can view it from any device and I have great search. And because I happen to run my own email I also completely own this. I don't want to share my musing with another random third-party that will use it somehow to spam me. The next generation of internet products ought to finally be privacy first. Let's make the internet what it is supposed to be.
I have an Alfred workflow that lets me copy any text, press CMD + Shift + X, and emails me the snippet. I then have a simple app that connects to my email account (Gmail) and lets me add tags (labels) to notes. This allows me to take notes quickly (I'll just write something in Sublime) and easily review/categorise them later. This has been really wonderful and I am constantly tweaking the workflow to suit me. It's also really simple and only relies on Alfred (which is a great tool anyway).
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Oh look another article with a provocative (e.g. link-bait) title. I'm sure this will be a well-balanced, nuanced piece on the costs and benefits of TDD, when it makes sense, when it does not make sense, and will leave me with a better understanding of the subject.
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Well I used Docker on top of Mesos so I have quite a bit of experience and the above were all problems I faced. They're not impossible problems obviously but they take time and thought to solve. From your responses, I am not sure you fully appreciate the problem to be honest.
You have to remember that you containers and coming and going all the time, which is one of the biggest challenges. It basically means you have to have everything centralised and that means a lot of additional infrastructure/complexity.
I still love Docker and do think it solves a genuine problem. But yes, where to put your logs, how to manage state, how to schedule containers on machines, how to coordinate processes, how to inspect an app when something goes wrong, how to measure performance, how to manage security, how to keep consistency across your docker containers... are all problems you need to solve from the get go with Docker and they are all non-trivial! Ain't nobody got time for that.
TL;DR It's too damn complicated if you're not Google/Twitter/Netflix. Most people would be fine just deploying OS packages and keeping their stacks as simple as possible.
I would say this traditionally case but I think things are slowly changing even in the Enterprise world, where they too are starting to realise it's not realistic to be good at everything as well as their employees demanding better services.