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Using Metrics to Measure Individual Developer Performance
Ask HN: How to Spot Committees in your org?
There’s a common notion that decisions by committee should be avoided. Now I doubt that committees identify themselves as committees. I assume that if it was easy to spot committees they would be avoided. So, I would assume that committees are invisible unless you go looking. My question for HN is what are signs that you’ve got a committee on your hands whether you realize it or not?
IBM 6780 Quietwriter
Ruby on Jets: Like Rails but Serverless
Fast DataFrames for Ruby
One can go blue in the face “quoting” terms on Amazon search but they’ll just show whatever they want anyways completely ignoring the exact terms entered. I’d prefer them to say “we couldn’t find any results for you” than to give me pages of useless results instead.
Generate production-ready optimized Dockerfile for Ruby/Rails
Code I like (I): Domain-driven boldness
Ask HN: Make Thunderbolt 3 to 2 target display mode work?
I see posts on HN with very talented people who can deep dive into very low level hardware/software so I'm wondering would it be possible to prevent thousands 2011-2014 27" iMacs from ending up in landfills by making target display mode work with newer USB-C MacBooks [Thunderbolt 3 to thunderbolt 2...
Hjalfi reverse engineers an Alphasmart Dana
Salesforce CEO: We're going to rebuild all of our tech to become Slack-first
I believe the underlying reason for HN's reaction to Mighty has almost nothing to do with any of the above. To the contrary, most of us probably feel that Mighty will be a raging success. But we don't actually like that at all. When I reflect on my own thoughts, the reasons my initial reaction is pessimistic are:
1. If Mighty makes badly designed/architected apps "fast", nobody will fix the underlying issues.
2. The internet will be amazing for the folks that can afford to pay $30-$50/month and all others will have to live with a sub-par experience because of #1
3. Some other company will come along and try to subsidize Mighty for all those that couldn't afford it but they'll monetize by advertising and further personal data collection.
4. Further lack of control over core software on our personal computers.
I fear that one day I'll visit a website with a message saying "This website runs best using Mighty".
There were similar sentiments when RSS blogs started moving to medium. Medium is amazing! but at some point medium needed to introduce a 3 item limit.
More and more of the internet which a lot of us remember as this open thing that no one owns is being siloed into privately owned.
Ask HN: Would you re-align incentives to simplify web development and DevOps
Obviously, it is a subjective opinion that modern web development and associated devops are unnecessarily complicated.The reasons are discussed often right on HN.- The desire to mimic the technical infrastructures of big companies like Google and Facebook whether one’s system needs that level of scale or not.- The desire to replicate software architecture’s of the bigger companies things like...