wayouteast's comments

Reddit hard blocks you on some subreddits from the default mobile page. You have to go to the app or go to <subdomain>.reddit.com to bypass the block.

Super super super super stupid. Like why block /r/popular from the web and force it to use the app?

In production it is pretty good without Kubernetes (i.e. using it on elastic beanstalk).

One of the biggest reasons for me is that the base instance's only dependency is docker. Without docker you have to install binaries on the main system and hope that virtual environments or something similar exists for the binaries. With Docker I can test the exact code that will run on production and guarantee that with an image hash.

when I put an image on elasticbeanstalk, all I have to do is specify the image and the commit hash (built with travis) I want to deploy. If I want to roll back to a previous release by changing the hash. All the instance has to do is pull in docker layers and go. I dont have to worry if package managers are going to fail or a plethora of other things that can go wrong.

I think kubernetes is overkill TBH but docker is worth it just to standardize environments between local and prod.

When my company sent me to South America to work, it was pretty revealing how American company culture is toxic.

People from the home office in NY were literally complaining about South Americans getting too many vacation days, 1 hour lunches, and a lot of other perks that are guaranteed by law. All of this despite the south american employees making 30% of the NY salary. The head of HR complained about guaranteed 1 hour lunches for the employees because "she ate lunch at her desk working everyday". They were jealous because it was only a 10 minute walk to a gorgeous beach from the SA office.

I was involved in a lot of discussions with HQ about the office and it became abundantly clear, that all the HR and execs wanted to keep the salaries of South American's low or else they would have "too good of a life" and "live like kings" if they paid them the NY salary, despite things like computers and cars costing like 2x the cost of USA. and while rent was cheaper, the difference in rent was only like 24k a year (1k for an apartment vs 3k). I was still living on my NY salary, and would get constant criticism from the home office that I was living too well, despite all the benefits (access to the beach, nice weather, etc) were free.

It seemed like the entire office thought everything in south america was pennies on the dollar. In reality to lead an equivalent life as the USA (modern apartment, nice neighborhood, eat at nice restaurants, have a nice car), its not really that much cheaper, like 20-30% cheaper. Not 66% cheaper.

Anyways, what really opened my eyes was that was south america. I think we think of South America as being underdeveloped, but my life was very nice there, and it was very very difficult to justify going back to the USA.

And it really opened my eyes, how blatantly envious American HR employees can get when they see the more relaxed lifestyles of other countries and instead of improving themselves, they seek to tear others down.