moret1979's comments

moret1979 | 3 years ago | on: Grid World

Aren't addresses in Manhattan mostly east or west of 5th Ave, each avenue incrementing by 100? Meaning 369W is between 8th and 9th, while 369E between 2nd and 1st?

moret1979 | 3 years ago | on: Don’t teach kids to fear the world

Related to this, deeply focused on the American experience:

The Coddling of the American Mind

> (...) ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people. These three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being and ancient wisdom from many cultures. Embracing these untruths—and the resulting culture of safetyism—interferes with young people’s social, emotional, and intellectual development. It makes it harder for them to become autonomous adults who are able to navigate the bumpy road of life.

> Lukianoff and Haidt investigate the many social trends that have intersected to promote the spread of these untruths. They explore changes in childhood such as the rise of fearful parenting, the decline of unsupervised, child-directed play, and the new world of social media that has engulfed teenagers in the last decade. (...)

https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Gen...

moret1979 | 4 years ago | on: The Brazilianization of the World

And even before diving into all those verbose signs, there was a clear indication of ignoring people advancements in all fronts of life at:

> the global story of the past forty years is one of retrogression

I was raised in Brazil during the eighties. That statement by the author has no connection to our country reality. You could argue on a few aspects that things are worse, but the general trend has been of improvement. And if the graphs about quality of life around the globe are correct, this seems to be a very widespread trend on many nations.

This “we’ve gotten worse all around” and “things have never been worse” stance is also typical of Brazilian shallow intellectual elite.

moret1979 | 4 years ago | on: Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?

I hope it doesn’t come too hard, but you’re part of the problem by what you describe. You took the bait of more money to trade off focused hours with busy hours productivity. This sets expectations to employers and others around you, and wall off a lot of people who can’t - and shouldn’t - take the same deal. Plus, this mode of heavy workload in hours is usually a signal of low return of value for what is produced in this time, meaning deep work to deliver more value is crowded out.

moret1979 | 6 years ago | on: Twitter was down

One possibility on 5) Too many KPIs and quarter goals to be reached, too many corners cut.

moret1979 | 9 years ago | on: Five Months of Kubernetes

> In general, Elastic Beanstalk works fine and has a very gentle learning curve; it didn’t take long for all teams to start using it for their projects.

This is one of the most pressing issues I tend to evaluate on infrastructures. I'm curious to see a few months down the line your opinion on how the dev teams embraced Kubernetes' setups independently or if they kept depending on a dev-ops team to do so.

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