Man, a while ago I thought: "It happens often, alright, but every 2 weeks? Sounds like a slight exaggeration." But it really is every 2 weeks, isn't it? If I imagine in a previous job anything production being down every 2 weeks ... phew, would have had to have a few hard talks and course corrections.
i once fixed a site going down several times a year with two t1.micro instances in the same region as the majority of traffic. Instantly solved the problem for what, $20/month?
Another site was constantly getting DDoS by Russians who were made we took down their scams on forums, that had to go through verisign back then, not sure who they're using now. They may have enough aggregate pipe it doesn't matter at this point
For many profs the goal is to spend as little as possible time with students, so that they can spend more time with their research career, than lectures for students or hours after the lectures. For that they employ students, who have passed the exams. Teaching is merely a necessary annoyance to them.
Very laudable, though this is probably also part of the issue: If the client doesn't need any migration work, the dev doesn't get more money, which in turn might be phrased: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -- by someone other than me.
I have worked at employer, where one could have done the frontend easily in a traditional server side templating language since most of the pages where static information anyway and very little interactive. But instead of doing that and have 1 person do that, making an easily accessible and standard-conforming frontend, they decided to go with nextjs and required 3 people fulltime to maintain this, including all the usual churn and burn of updating dependencies and changing the "router" and stuff. Porting a menu from one instance of the frontend to another frontend took 3 weeks. Fixing a menu display bug after I reported it took 2 or 3 months.
The website of earendil definitely still takes time, as it is right now only a gray area with white on gray labels in the corners, not displaying anything in the content area. The labels don't work like links either. The background image doesn't load, until one clicks some subitem of the "about" label and then "closes" the content that is shown. The theme toggle (?) at the bottom right does nothing, website stays gray, no content shown.
This website does not resonate with the message I got earlier from the article. It does not give the impression of someone taking appropriate time to make it.
start time generally isn't a huge concern for web applications (outside of serverless) since you've got the existing deployment serving traffic until its ready. if you're utilizing kubernetes, the time to create the new pods, do your typical blue-green promotion w/analysis tests etc. is already a decent chunk of time regardless of the underlying application. if you get through it in 90 seconds instead of 60, does that really matter?
When I read the heading, I thought: "This must surely be about Windows volume control." But I didn't take into account, that this is a UX design website, so it mostly deals with UX and not with what happens after setting a specific numeric value for the volume.
What is it with the dropouts and unethical businesses? It is almost as if dropping out makes them do things, and without credentials, those things are the things others will not do.
"Sideload", "unverified"!!! Woaa, careful now, we can't guarantee for anything!! Danger, danger!
How much can you twist words and language to engage in fear mongering? The headline could just as well have been "install", and "free choice" and "Google gatekeeps".
They simply have way too much incentive to train on anything they can get their hands on. They are driving businesses, that are billions in losses so far. Someone somewhere is probably being told to feed the monster anything they can get, and not to document it, threatened with an NDA and personal financial ruin, if the proof of it ever came out. Opaque processes acting as a shield, like they do in so many other businesses.
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