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craneca0 | 6 months ago | on: Data engineering and software engineering are converging

agreed on the presence and stickiness of no-code tooling. but in a future where we want to enable LLMs and agents to do as much of that work as possible, a code-first approach seems far more likely to make that effective. not just because agents are better are writing code than clicking through interfaces (maybe that will change as agents evolve?), but because the SDLC is valuable for agents for the same reasons it's valuable for human developers - collaboration, testing, auditing, versioning, etc.

craneca0 | 9 years ago | on: Robert M. Pirsig has died

“You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.”

craneca0 | 9 years ago | on: Astronomers capture best view ever of disintegrating comet

Image caption: "The comet debris consists of a cluster of building-size chunks near the center of the image. They form a 3,000-mile-long trail, larger than the width of the continental U.S."

What am I not getting here? If the cluster in that image is 3K+ miles wide, then those are city sized dots, not building sized. I'm guessing the long tail is not actually in the image?

craneca0 | 10 years ago | on: Docker: Not Even a Linker

Very interesting. I'm not convinced this captures the core value of containers though. Or at least not the only core value. Calling containers an evolution of configuration management tools seems like an oversimplification just to make a point. This may be one aspect of building a micro-service driven architecture that containers make easier, but there are other very important ones. Portability comes to mind. It's not just that you can build your stack once and save it, but that you can then run that stack anywhere, and it becomes much easier to share/borrow bits and pieces of other people's stacks.

craneca0 | 10 years ago | on: University Students Made a Working Model Hyperloop

The conclusion of that article actually doesn't seem to be that the Hyperloop is technically infeasible - only that the original spec does have issues, and it glossed over those issues.

"I’m not saying that the problems with Hyperloop can’t be solved. Money, time, and talent can solve any problem that doesn’t involve breaking physical laws, but I wouldn’t put my money, time, or talent in the hands of someone who takes me for a fool."

craneca0 | 10 years ago | on: RunC – A lightweight universal runtime container, by the Open Container Project

"To be clear though, the point of the OCP is not to standardize Docker, but rather to standardize the baseline for containers. Polvi explained that with an open standard, there can be multiple implementations of the standard. So for CoreOS, it means the company will continue to work on its Rocket container technology, while Docker will continue to work on the Docker container technology."

http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/docker-rivals-join-toge...

craneca0 | 11 years ago | on: We Just Thought, 'This Is How You Start a Company in America'

"Three days into joining YC, we decided to pivot. We’d been working on the dating site for six months at that point, and we knew it wasn’t working... Also, I’d read a study that said happy employees are twice as productive as unhappy employees. That was the beginning of AnyPerk."

After all the flak the word 'pivot' has gotten I'm surprised to see it used this way here. This does not seem like a pivot, but rather you just deciding to work on a completely new business. Were the two ideas related in any way? Did anything in the original dating business inform this new idea?

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