David Sobon

ex-Perth, AU

[doubleunplussed @doubleunplussed]

Europeans don't have AC, but Australians don't even have proper heating. When it's cold we use our air conditioners to cool the outside of our houses, and survive on what little waste heat this produces inside. Must be super inefficient but it's all we've got.

[David Sobon @bk__]

@OwenGregorian This also happened to me, 29 years ago.

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Google will fix this as soon as @justjake escalates to the proper support channel, which for Google remains "the front page of Hacker News."

[Computer Science @CompSciFact]

Software architects are fond of saying “You can’t build a skyscraper the same way you’d build a dog house.”

But I’ve yet to hear one say “It would be wasteful to build a dog house the way you’d build a skyscraper.”

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

Just in: Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO of Apple. I wish Trump would also step down.

Of course, I’m comparing apples to oranges.

[🇨🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿InLucysHead🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇭© @InsideLucysHead]

An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day...

"In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive.

However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative."

A sarcastic voice from the back of the room said, "Yeah, right."

[Iran In Hyderabad @IraninHyderabad]

The Strait of Hormuz isn’t social media. If someone blocks you, you can’t just block them back.

[Branko @brankopetric00]

Kubernetes is not hard because the technology is complex.

Kubernetes is hard because it forces you to solve problems most teams do not have yet.

[Vivo @vivoplt]

Unspoken Corporate Rules :

1. Your salary is based on how hard you are to replace, not how hard you work.

2. The meeting after the meeting is where the real decisions happen.

3. Never be the first to leave or the last to arrive. Optics matter more than the output

4. Your boss's problems become your own problems. But your problems, they stay yours.

5. The person who asks the fewest questions in the meetings is usually the most secure in their position.

6. Face time with the executives is worth more overtime with your direct reports

[Branko @brankopetric00]

the senior engineer who says "we don't need k8s for this" is more valuable than the one who installs it

[Branko @brankopetric00]

no deploy on friday is not a rule but a trauma response.

[Wise @trikcode]

The tech stack of most startups:

- Frontend: React (because everyone uses React)
- Backend: Whatever the CTO knew from his last job
- Database: Postgres (or Mongo if someone watched a YouTube tutorial)
- Auth: Copied from a blog post
- Payments: Stripe (obviously)
- Deployment: "It works on my machine"
- Documentation: LOL
- Tests: "We'll add those later"

Valued at $10 million.

[Ayaan 🐧 @twtayaan]

My journey through the CNCF landscape:

[Ayaan 🐧 @twtayaan]

DevOps engineers turning a simple app into a Kubernetes cluster.

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

🔥 How Devops Looks Like In Real Life

[Branko @brankopetric00]

The AWS bill is the only document in your company that gets more executive attention than the product roadmap.

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

funny lesson from my time at Uber is that:

- Building a new project within your own team is easy
- Building it between two teams is possible but hard
- Building projects that require three or more teams is impossible

(Big company problems, I know…)

[Javarevisited @javarevisited]

Software engineering might be the only field where
your ability to do the job and your ability to pass the interview are two completely different skill sets

[Chad Slime ® @ChadSlimeBased]

Job interviews are just two people lying to each other

[𝐑.𝐎.𝐊 👑 @r0ktech]

The longer you spend in tech, the stronger the urge to buy a farm and never touch a computer in your life again.