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This is not a good idea.

Developers already have an incredible amount to learn without making them devops too.

This is the sort of thing than non tech management would love though.

It’s a great slogan.

Essentially the sign of mismanagement dressed up as innovation.

I watched a documentary about ketamine use by party people.

It profiled a young guy who had destroyed his bladder and needed to use a pump and hole in his belly to urinate.

Really disturbing.

That’s not the reason robinhood gave at the time.

Also, robinhood waited till the end of the day to lift its ban, despite other companies had followed robinhood lead lifting their bans hours earlier.

They’ve removed the original blog post that gave their rationale.

If anyone can find it I’d like to read it again.

The original reason was some bullshit about protecting investors from volatility.

That is absolutely not the reason that they publicly stated they stopped allowing purchasing and only allowed selling.

I’d dance on the grave of this company.

So not USA under Trump?

I’ve met many Iranians and I have to say they were without exception exceedingly polite, friendly and welcoming and immaculately mannered and hospitable.

I guess how you see this depends on who you think “the bad guys” are.

If Apple put more memory in these machines there would less thrashing.

Interesting post. This reminded me of what it was like to be a true beginner a very long time ago.

I’d forgotten just how confusing those initial concepts like arrays could be.

The rules of HN are clear ... this is definitely allowed.

The disturbing thing about this report is there’s no fuzzy out of focus shakycam image.

What could it mean?

And short selling.

Plus, companies should pay taxes fair and square.

This was glaringly obvious from day one.

Containers add vast complexity, add another layer of complexity on top.

I quit Facebook the other day. I didn’t like my online persona. I’d rather friends and family knew me in person or not at all.

This is classic anti Microsoft rant I’m surprised the title doesn't include M$

The reason people use typescript is because it’s really great technology, not because bill gates hypnotized developers.

Yes. Slack was a pivot from gaming.

“Excel predecessor”. Harsh description of the invention of spreadsheet software.

I agree with “Start with a niche”, but pretty much all of the examples given aren’t niche products..,, they were some of the most revolutionary products in history. I’m just saying they don’t really illustrate the concept of a “niche start”.

Wise is far less memorable and searchable and identifiable and unique than TransferWise.

“Choose Boring Technology” is an absolute statement. It’s a mantra. A meme. It demands you follow its lead.

It’s an order from the top. A commandment. A clear requirement. A statement of belief for the masses to follow.

It’s an unequivocal statement, a perfectly confident directive telling you precisely what to do without the slightest equivocation.

It’s not “read this powerful headline but then please read the in depth article only to find we don’t actually mean what is said in the headline, we mean something more nuanced and subtle why did you take our headline seriously?”

Perhaps the title should be “err on the side of boring technologies”, although I don’t even agree with that. The right technologies for a project are the ones you deem to be right, given appropriate consideration of many factors. Your project may really need to use all beta release software, cause maybe it just does.

Generalizations like “choose boring technology” are just unhelpful slogans.

Truth is you should choose technology given consideration of its pros and cons, not on the basis of some slogan.

There are very good reasons to use mature technologies and very good reasons to use current technologies and very good reasons to use absolute cutting edge technologies.

When someone comes at your approach wielding a slogan, be skeptical.

I’ve learned that if your colleagues don’t like you, you’re more likely to get fired.

To minimize chance of getting fired, avoid making people dislike you, try to make people like you.

The real problem with C and C++ is you have to be an expert to not make disastrous errors. And you have to always get it right.