I don’t agree with this. But, I bet you anything that most HN readers do have relatives they could call on if they found themselves without a job and not able to pay rent.
>> Just because something got done eventually at a great cost doesn't make it successful
> Are you arguing that success is in the eye of the stakeholder? Sounded to me like it was a success.
I think a lot of these stories make sense if you replace software re-write with a home construction project gone overbudget, one where the overage comes out of your pocket.
I'd say that something that gets done eventually at a great cost is not successful if the case made for doing the project was an overly rosy story of how easy/inexpensive it would be to do. It really hurts when you pay for it, and that is the perspective to take.
As for success being in the eye of the stakeholder, sort of -- in my analogy, the construction company might consider it a success all the way to the bank. That project owner may consider it a success to save face. The project sponsor would likely not.
Then I think the good criteria to apply here is: what was the goal of the project?
If it was a quick cash-grab then obviously a long and expensive rewrite is deemed unsuccessful. If you go for the long haul and want to bring real value to your customers and the rewrite helped you do that, then it was a success.
Nothing is ever cheap in IT in my opinion. I found that being very upfront with the people with the money landed me more projects than trying to lie about it and reveal the extra expenses one by one over a course of a year.
"No, that's gonna be very far from 50k euros. Be prepared to pay 300k and it's not gonna be a year. Optimisically, two, realistically, two and half to three."
It works surprisingly well with experienced businessmen. They applaud the honesty and we move directly to the next point -- what are the tradeoffs and compromises.
This implicitly claims that your identity isn't even loosely coupled to "izzydata". A quick google shows twitch, youtube, twitter, etc. If these are in fact, you, then it is highly likely you could be identified. If you can be identified, you can be harassed.
Just some kindly intended advice, but you should consider deleting this comment man.
This is just the sort of comment that some might view as an invitation, or as you challenging them. And on a place like HN, you probably have quite a few people and groups around who would be well qualified to "make a point" so to speak.
Anything is possible. I can even see some potential ways to do it. You still shouldn't post things such as your home address or phone number on the internet though.
It's one thing to be aware of the potential risks, but it is another for a 13 year old on Instagram not even realizing there are consequences.
TCP and Kafka are the currently supported Source and Sink types. We are in the process of improving the Kafka support.
Additionally, we are in the design phase for providing APIS in Go and Python to make it easier for Wallaroo users to provide their own sources and sinks.
Can you say X comes at the cost of Y and Z? A and B in the previous example were products. Y and Z in your example are attributes of the products A, B and C. Pedantic, but less confusing.
The ban on incandescent lightbulbs went that route (for Germany): agreed to be the right thing to do but fraught with the possibility of attack by populists decrying the nanny state.
I don't know if I agree with this generalization...