Does Ubuntu not support rolling releases? Being able to configure your fleet such that (say) only 10% of endpoints picks up the charges on the day of release, so you can catch leading edge issues without smashing entirely everything seems to be well understood?

@quinnypig.com Our sec team hires pen testers who (we’re in Azure) literally copy all security dashboard recommendations into their reports, especially when MS Defender has a new capability that shows up there - dudes, it’s advertising! OTOH some teams never find these dashboards by themselves…

If the Salesforce auth is down this would explain Heroku - the Salesforce outage page suggests the problem is with a third-party provider, but it’s not clear who (doesn’t look like the usual suspects)

I guess also it needs a LOT of social capital to work well, especially when all you have is soft influence - you need trust in all directions for the connections to stick, and more when not all glue attempt work 100% first time. And occasionally the line between glue & know-it-all gets a bit thin

To be fair, those sound to me pretty much like AI could do a lot of heavy lifting & automation today, but if it happens without fuss it’s called Machine Learning not AI.

I’m head of software eng at a 5k staff “enterprise”, and we have at least 4 low code tools *that I know of* - only one is used by the SWE team, the rest are used by teams in the business. I’m seeing *a lot* of interest in Cursor (specifically) from those people too.

If I wanted to be thinking about servers in a server-less architecture I’d be using Azure instead (oh, wait…)

Sad face - Avid hired us an Ionic 5 for $55/day last year (in Welly though).

It seems to me that this is a company that doesn’t know how much postdocs get paid (or software engineers outside of SV).

Below the line it’s Linux (whatever the line is), but above the line it’s definitely Excel.

Have you seen the pricing on Visual Studio? Once you’re passed the free tier it gets expensive quickly.

Maybe prevent the model from seeing the test cases once you’re happy that the tests are adequate?

I can’t speak for other places, but everyone in NZ is feeling totally flat at the moment - better weather helps but the chaos is all present, plus school terms etc ending, preparing for offices to shut for a couple of weeks, projects finishing, on top of austerity govt policies smashing job market

I wonder if the subsidy is enterprise seats that are purchased but not used?

I’ve recently seen performance issues where it the not-code part that has caused problems - containerised code (relatively performant), in a micro-service -ish ecosystem with poor performance due to improper scaling, chatty services, no caching, not taking advantage of co-locating containers, etc