Worked in an enterprise project where they use a BPMN engine for all business logic (designed by non-technical people).
Each process can either have predefined fields (take time to implement) or key-string value store (yes, they chose this).
Either the BPMN logic or some JSs (some, as not all people can code) in PBMN nodes or some Java hooks (a lot, wrote under those other people requests) edit those values.
So when something's wrong, we swam in the sea of key-value, search all the code for who update this field, and why it's value is not JSON nor null nor boolean but a string "Not used, waiting for policy 1234".
After that project, I'm happy every time I can use a DB to store data, more so if it can run in local, much more so if it's relational.
We westerns do the know much about the Socrates from the eastern side of the world. I can only imagine people from there know who al-Ghazali was just like we know who Sartre was.
So, im gonna try and read something by al-Ghazali.
When this happened, people started making assumptions. A few of them:
1. I’m irrational
2. I’m angry
3. I’m greedy
They came to one of these conclusions, based on how they see themselves in the same position.
I can be of course one of these three in some other situations, but in the left pad incident, I done all purely with my heart, to stick to my values and principles which was behind my motivation to do open source for such a long time.
Ghazali is the best source I’m aware of about how to put heart in the driver seat of life, and without fighting but using logic, greed, anger etc as tools.
If my reference made curious about him, I couldn’t be more happy. Here’s a great lecture about his book, The Alchemy of Happiness: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zBwWc0DflRQ
Hey - thank you for your interesting post today. It set me off on a personal journey which, in my mind, involved the discovery of many secret trails and camping spots, metaphorically ..
One thing I have learned about al-Ghazali today, thanks to your efforts, is that philosophers aren't always right, faith and logic can work together, and doubting everything can lead to truth.
But, most importantly, live ones faith honestly - and this is especially true for those of us who detest imperialist/corporate interference in spiritual activities, such as publishing packages to the npm ecosystem intended to make ones fellow human beings lives' more rewarding, in spite of the lack of personal rewards to be gained in doing so.. that the value in seeing this is lost on a lot of HN responses in this thread so far, is no big surprise - but it is surely disappointing.
I hope you will consider adding Aquinus and Augustine of Hippo to your references, also. Sometimes it helps to see how the universality of true philosophy crosses cultural divides.
When our team moved to Office 365, we wanted something declarative, and the only option was [Microsoft365DSC](https://microsoft365dsc.com/).
We of course tried it, but the experience is subpar, went through hoops to set it up on Windows (no Linux, Mac support) and the output was a mix of imperative code and declarative specs, with GUI tool to help you manage.
Seriously hope some Microsoft expert will create a Terraform provider for Microsoft 365. currently we have to use the Office 365 sluggish admin dashboards.
Each process can either have predefined fields (take time to implement) or key-string value store (yes, they chose this).
Either the BPMN logic or some JSs (some, as not all people can code) in PBMN nodes or some Java hooks (a lot, wrote under those other people requests) edit those values.
So when something's wrong, we swam in the sea of key-value, search all the code for who update this field, and why it's value is not JSON nor null nor boolean but a string "Not used, waiting for policy 1234".
After that project, I'm happy every time I can use a DB to store data, more so if it can run in local, much more so if it's relational.