That was a good read (I wish there was more like it posted to HN).
That was a good read (I wish there was more like it posted to HN). I think there's something to be said though for not adding complexity before it's needed, which isn't really covered in your article. You assume you're writing for an audience that needs to process transactions and events for thousands of servers, but I'd bet that's not the case for most of the people reading your article. That kind of fractal complexity -- complexity added to every single layer of software architecture -- is a real pain in smaller environments where there's just one guy responsible for figuring out what the heck just went pear-shaped in the application. (Although, the real world problem I've had more often, as that guy, is nonexistent logs...) Ideally, I'd like to see both purposes handled -- applications logging semi-structured JSON with a utility that's real-time translating the output to a human readable format, or, preferably, vice-versa, with applications logging unstructured data to a file that's then being munged into JSON (or whatever) for machine consumption. I'm not such a fan of tools that are intended for humans to mine structured logs as though they were text files, because it's too easy to miss important data.
Posted by thaumaturgy on Apr 27, 2015, 7:22 PM
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I left Gnome 3 for Mate early on and I never looked back, but here are the issues I remember.
Yay, I found my people… I switch between Android and iPhone every few cycles, and I really do miss my swipe keyboard on Android.
> LLMs to me are just another tool.
I used to be one of those people that would countdown the hours to Apple's launch events and tune in for the live stream.
> "Over the years it has been clear that we in the “open source” camp (as opposed to the “free software” camp) were wrong all along.
> So you trusted 22-year-old coffee junkies copying and pasting from stack overflow 10 years ago Absolutely yes...
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That was a good read (I wish there was more like it posted to HN).
That was a good read (I wish there was more like it posted to HN). I think there's something to be said though for not adding complexity before it's needed, which isn't really covered in your article. You assume you're writing for an audience that needs to process transactions and events for thousands of servers, but I'd bet that's not the case for most of the people reading your article. That kind of fractal complexity -- complexity added to every single layer of software architecture -- is a real pain in smaller environments where there's just one guy responsible for figuring out what the heck just went pear-shaped in the application. (Although, the real world problem I've had more often, as that guy, is nonexistent logs...) Ideally, I'd like to see both purposes handled -- applications logging semi-structured JSON with a utility that's real-time translating the output to a human readable format, or, preferably, vice-versa, with applications logging unstructured data to a file that's then being munged into JSON (or whatever) for machine consumption. I'm not such a fan of tools that are intended for humans to mine structured logs as though they were text files, because it's too easy to miss important data.
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