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>> Imagine if you were running a business, and deployed CentOS 8 based on the 10 year lifespan promise. You're totally screwed now, and Red Hat knows it.

The hypothetical you posed is the actual situation, I am now learning, I have apparently forced on my team. We've ramped up labor 3x revenue preparing product launch in 90 - 180 days. We created an image containing centos 8 , Java , postgres and tomcat a year ago and that what is deployed to beta clients and what we've been testing.

What's ironic is that I sort of went out on a limb with my team by forcing us to go with Linux over Windows and the way I allayed concerns was to ask them to just "wait and see" in hopes that the performance differential would make it a moot point.

edit: after a little thought it seems that moving to RHEL might cost us the least amount of money and downtime. Still sucks and not what we need to be working on right now.
It's demand and supply. You can't control demand, but you do control supply. Restricting supply keeps prices high.

Building high density homes increases supply and thus lowers prices.

> "Also Palo Alto is a richer zip code than the rest of Bay Area. If it becomes affordable, then it’s not Palo Alto anymore."

You used to be able to buy here without having to pay $4M for a nice place, being exclusionary and rich doesn't have to be the town's defining characteristic (or at least it's not what I like about it). I like that it's close to work, there's good schools, and no commute. I'm not searching for a high status zipcode.

I am actually lucky enough to be able to buy a cheaper place here, but it's frustrating to have all my wealth tied up in housing just to live in a kind of crappy house. People who've been here for a while and bought in at 300k don't really seem to understand that. People that bought in at $4M have sunk costs and strong incentives to not let prices fall.

On the property tax issue, the reason I said variants of 'pay no property tax' is because of the relative value. If a new neighbor pays more tax in one year than you paid cumulatively in 30yrs then effectively your community contribution is negligible.

I get the strong incentives and why someone in your position would push the policy you do, it's just harmful to new people that want to live here.

Other states without prop13 also do not have tax locked to the sale price. They bear some burden for restricting supply and need to pay for that. At a minimum they're charged the tax on house sale that they haven't been paying while living there (so they pay in the end, but don't get kicked out because of it).
Kafka is a very nice communication channel. You can dump the results into a database and query it if you need a database.
Now that Etsy is dominated by mass produced crap, Wall Street loves it! Finally, a business model they can understand.
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>Boeing has made some fantastic planes. Their entire history shouldn’t be marginalized because of events in the past few years.

Yes it should. This is airworthiness; this stuff has to work.

You don't give someone a pass on safety-critical stuff because "they usually do a good job". The company's past processes are irrelevant because it's their current corpus of airworthiness procedures that affects the continued airworthiness of their products that are still flying today. The company has demonstrated a serious problem and until it has demonstrated sufficient corrective actions taken to correct the problems observed then everything the company touches should be considered suspect. The fact that Boeing also made B-29s 70 years ago means exactly nothing except for PR purposes or to fanboys.

Boeing has no doubt made some changes, but I'll reserve judgment as to whether or not those changes are sufficient because I don't work for a Regulator and don't have the complete picture.
Thank you for writing this so that I don't have to. :)

This would probably be a good time to mention https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr.
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How is "everything a little after" the same as "some things prior, other things after"?
very glad to have someone put this down on paper.

i sometimes put little rants onto social media about how micromanaged work is, & especially how jealously developers time is guarded- work on the ticket, one ticket, nothing else! this is a much better reasoned foothold.

i have felt very alone for feeling the wrongness of this completely accepted seemingly 100% universally deployed new "agile" process. i miss the old days, of having big tasks, and freedom to work widely on them, figure out where the good opportunities lie. hearing someone else, anyone else, speak out that they think other ways may have value, it's relieving to hear. just a little bit de-alienating.
But the embedded google map (especially when zoomed in or slowly panning across multiple map tiles) provides an approximate location to google regardless. Maybe that's irrelevant, but something to consider. Avoiding this might be tricky without hosting your own tiles and adding explicit obfuscation when requesting tiles.