It’s good practice to run the deployment pipeline on a different server from the application host(s) so that the deployment instances can be kept private, unlike the public app hosts, and therefore can be better protected from external bad actors. It is also good practice because this separation of concerns means the deployment pipeline survives even if the app servers need to be torn down and reprovisioned.

Of course you will need some kind of agent running on the app servers to be able to receive the files, but that might be as simple as an SSH session for file transfer.

Yes, exactly that.

That’s probably okay! =) There’s some level of pragmatism, depending on the sort of project you’re working on.

If it’s a big app with lots of users, you should use automation because it helps reliability.

If there are lots of developers, you should use automation because it helps keep everyone organised and avoids human mistakes.

But if it’s a small thing with a few devs, or especially a personal project, it might be easier to do without :)

Sure, but having a hands-off pipeline for it which runs automatically is where the value is at.

Means that there’s predictability and control in what is being done, and once the pipeline is built it’s as easy as a single button press to release.

How many times when doing it manually have you been like “Oh shit, I just FTPd the WRONG STUFF up to production!” - I know I have. Or even worse you do that and don’t notice you did it.

Automation takes a lot of the risk out.

I’m sure there’s nothing wrong with the program at all =)

Modern webapp deployment approach is typically to have an automated continuous build and deployment pipeline triggered from source control, which deploys into a staging environment for testing, and then promotes the same precise tested artifacts to production. Probably all in the cloud too.

Compared to that, manually FTPing the files up to the server seems ridiculously antiquated, to the extent that newbies in the biz can’t even believe we ever did it that way. But it’s genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago.

Haha yeah, fair enough. Applogies for turning your deserved whinge into a serious question.

Wrangling annoying customers is always the most annoying part of the job isn’t it. How nice it would be to spend more time programming…

Technical requirements are often ambiguous when written as free text, the way someone would speak them, because as you have discovered the free text fails to capture where the linguistic stress would be that disambiguates in speech.

Instead, I suggest using a format that is more suited to text.

I would recommend a table. Email the customer back with your current interpretation of the requirements, with a column for outcome and a column for value. Ask them to check and sign off on the table, or to correct the table where it is wrong.

Example:

There are edge-cases with if outcome can be "Complete or Cncelled

I feel for you, it’s a real situation.

I’m fortunate in that I’ve managed to build up a bit of “fuck you” money. So-called because if my employer did anything awful I could say “fuck you” and walk away, and know I had I few months of buffer.

It definitely makes me feel more able to stand up for myself and others when I don’t fear the consequences of losing my job. I wish everyone could feel that way because it would make society a better place, and UBI would help.

Precisely what they are worried about.

From a capitalist perspective it’s ideal if your workers are on the verge of poverty, living paycheck to paycheck. That’s exactly where you want them.

People in that situation won’t complain. Won’t stand up for themselves or their rights. Will take poor treatment and deal with it. Will work in unethical or even illegal ways and keep quiet because they have no choice.

Even better if you can tie people’s health insurance to their job, then you’ve really got them by the balls.

UBI would put an end to all that, so it’s no wonder business owners would lobby against it.

For those who don’t know, much of the reason WYSIWYG is so fun is because the accepted pronunciation is “whizzy-wig”!

As a term it rarely gets used any longer, because “visual editors” are now the norm, where once they were the rarity.

Before visual editors, you’d have content on a screen like a document which you could only see how it would actually look by physically printing it onto a piece of paper. This is because the printer itself knew about fonts and paper size and all that, and the editor didn’t.

Nowadays even with technically non-WYSIWYG editors like markdown text you can still instantly preview the rendered output on screen, so there isn’t as much need to call it out as a feature.

In matching pairs there is “shlick” also, which mirrors “fap” as a similarly onomatopoetic term.

One of the meanings of ‘bid’ is to attempt to achieve something

e.g. “In a bid to escape, he jumped down the waterfall”

Doesn’t mean money is involved. But I agree it’s a poor choice of phrase for this headline.

And either way, very bad news =(

It IS a big deal though, that’s the whole point.

You had plans for today. You paid money for a service so you could make those plans happen, and then now your plans are toast. You paid money for nothing.

If you paid for a package holiday and then got denied boarding the plane for some garbage reason like “you’ve exceeded your maximum flight hours for today” (WTF?!l) then you’d be MAD and rightfully so.

Sure, this is just a game. It’s less important. But the principle is identical and your reaction should be to feel cheated and robbed,not just shrug and let EA get away with not giving you the service but still taking your money.

Edit: I see you got in at last. I’m happy for you! :)

“From The Article.”

Yeah, I didn’t know either and had to look it up.

A sweeping statement to make when you don’t know why OP is asking this.

Maybe they really enjoy watching the subtle conversational interplay of those therapy segments in shows, same way people might enjoy shows about the legal profession or politics.

Maybe they are writing a book and want to get some inspiration for how to structure their scenes.

Nothing unhinged about any of that.

I had to look a second time. My brain just auto-corrected that.

Not all that time was spent in the same world, but over three different creative worlds and three survival ones, online with friends. I like designing and building, both aesthetic creations and also functional ones. The game to me is all about imagination and so from that perspective it’s just a sandbox that never runs out of content.

As someone who has played Minecraft fairly consistently for the past 12 years or so, I want to ask, what is different about either yourself or the game that made you enjoy it now when you didn’t before?

The low quality of broadcast television really covered up a multitude of sins :)

Closed, to keep the monsters out.