“We can’t possibly afford to do this. It doesn’t make sense! What if we pay for all of this training and they leave?”
“What if you don’t and they stay?”
These companies think they can just reap all of the rewards without any investment, it’s stupid. I definitely agree with you saying that there needs to be a return to these places taking more care and investing in long-term people. Like you said, invest in them and they’ll invest in you.
Man, I sound like a broken record, but... Love that for them.
How many more outages until people start to see that farming out every aspect of their operations maybe, might, could have a big effect on their overall business? What's the breaking point?
Then again, the skills to run this stuff properly are getting more and more rare so we'll probably see more and more big incidents popping up more frequently like this as time goes on.
Unless these sites are your personal pages, oftentimes these decisions to use cloudflare or not are made by the business and money and risk people, not by the operations and other technically-minded employees. They see every other site using cloudflare and ask why they aren't as well.
"No one was fired for buying IBM (or cloudflare)."
Fat chance arguing against the people holding the purse strings.
Oh no, we can’t take a (former) executive to task about what they’ve wrought with their influence!!! That would be wrong.
If anything, he should be the first to be blamed for the greater and greater effect this tech monster has on internet stability, since, you know, his people built it.
Similar to my experience doing low-level systems work, being prodded by a "manager" with a fifth of my experience. No, I'm not going to implement something you heard about from a candidate in an interview, an individual whom we passed on within the first 30 minutes. No, you reading out the AI overview of a google search to me for a problem that I've thought about for days ain't gonna work, nor will it get us closer to a solution. Get the fuck out of the way.
Do these dweebs ever let up on huffing their own farts? I can only hope that the actual measurements of their declining platform influence and use are true and we see FB peter out at some point. Sadly, it'll be replaced by something even more banal, but at least Zuck will fade away, here's hoping Thiel does as well.
Yep. Insufficiently stimulated by normal life, a crisis brings your dopamine levels back up to normal and you hyperfocus. Get tested and medicated, for you and your family
I had nearly the same reaction to the headline, I feel like they’re hitting a wall in terms of the things they can innovate on in house and are flailing and are looking for the next hit, in more ways than one. This is just a suggestion of that.
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