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I suspect he is simply omitting a step titled "go to court, win right to modify contract" in between "remove protections" and "further modify contract". I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing ends up in court several times. Contracts that prevent use of the legal system are very often frowned on by the legal system.
 
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ddrueding said:
I suspect he is simply omitting a step titled "go to court, win right to modify contract" in between "remove protections" and "further modify contract". I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing ends up in court several times. Contracts that prevent use of the legal system are very often frowned on by the legal system.
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We have a meeting tonight to vote to amend the bylaws for the first phase. Soon after there will be one for the 2nd phase of amending the bylaws again to remove the developer friendly anti-lawsuit crap so we can then file suit.

The whole thing is going to be a big mess. There's actually a bunch of additional legal action occurring outside of the scope I mentioned. What I detailed is only a small subcomponent of the larger whole. I'm sure it will be years before it's all sorted out.
 
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This is exactly why I hate homeowners associations. I'm glad they largely don't exist in NYC. I've heard in some places you actually have to get permission from the homeowner's association to do something like paint your home anything but the original color scheme, or to maybe have shrubs where there is now grass.
 
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Yup. I've had exactly one HOA, and they had my car towed from in front of my house twice, cited me for installing a hot tub in my backyard, and prevented me from installing double-pane windows to replace the ancient aluminum ones.
 
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So, basically the lawyer said in so many words, "We're going to change the bylaws anyway without the consent of the developer and they can come after us down the road over it if they really want."
 
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jtr1962 said:
This is exactly why I hate homeowners associations. I'm glad they largely don't exist in NYC. I've heard in some places you actually have to get permission from the homeowner's association to do something like paint your home anything but the original color scheme, or to maybe have shrubs where there is now grass.
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That's probably the rule in most HOA, at least the ones I have been involved in. Unfortunately, developers, and counties love HOAs and have convinced the general public that they are good for property values.
 
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Stereodude said:
So, basically the lawyer said in so many words, "We're going to change the bylaws anyway without the consent of the developer and they can come after us down the road over it if they really want."
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This is why they wanted to break it into two sections, so they can be argued independently in court.
 
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ddrueding said:
This is why they wanted to break it into two sections, so they can be argued independently in court.
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Yes, if lets them take a more aggressive negotiating position now, and counter action by the developer would be later after the first thing is already done and they don't care anymore.
 
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Are you able to say what has happened in your housing area that you and/or your HOA want to file a law suit?
 
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Handruin said:
Are you able to say what has happened in your housing area that you and/or your HOA want to file a law suit?
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Sure, it's a new subdivision, they were building it out through the great recession and it took longer to complete than anyone expected. In new construction they usually only put the first of two layers of asphalt down and make any minor repairs to the first layer and put down the 2nd when the build out is done. Because the build out took so long the first layer is basically destroyed and the city wants the developer to tear it out / make extensive fixes to the first layer before putting the 2nd down. The developer doesn't want to do that because it will be expensive. The City is now suing the developer, the builders, and the HOA in court collectively as a group of defendants to get a court order to force the group to fix / finish the roads to the city's standards. The HOA wants to countersue at least the developer, perhaps the builders, to make them take full responsibility or bear the majority of the costs so we don't end up with a ~$5k per home assessment.
 
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I wrote this blog post at work, I doubt anyone other than maybe Doug or Chewy is interested in the content, but I was happy with how it turned out.
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I was just talking with my dad about a similar architecture he's implementing for a machine control system (biotech). Keeping the code as light and as close to the hardware as possible allows them to iterate individual components without having to recertify the whole thing. The recent crazy advances in compute speeds and prices makes this feasible even when all the services are running on an embedded platform.
 
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CaU.



Wait. What?!?! WTF!!!!

Your shoe when flying out the window two weeks ago and you are getting it back now? Someone mailed it to you or you picked it up?
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Now she asked if I wanted it back. :rofl:
 
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timwhit said:
I wrote this blog post at work, I doubt anyone other than maybe Doug or Chewy is interested in the content, but I was happy with how it turned out.
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Finally got some time to read it and I'm not sure what your proposed architecture offers over discreet microservices? (eg as time savings? reduced maintenance? etc. Any hard numbers)? In some ways, I'm not too sure what you are trying to solve?
 
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You didn't get rains like in the southland?
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An inch in 30 minutes probably counts as "getting rain". Looks like another inch at least today. The storm was bad enough that it snapped two power poles in half at the country club; one across the parking lot and the other (transformer and all) onto the roof of the cart barn. Had to wire in a generator to keep the freezer running. The power company (PG&E) had new poles in place with new wires and transformers up and power back on within 8 hours of the phone call, on a Sunday. Very impressed.
 
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I've been to a lesbian wedding.
I'm not sure how much I can enlighten you with regard to the experience because that's actually the only sort of wedding I've ever been to.
 
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Chewy509 said:
Finally got some time to read it and I'm not sure what your proposed architecture offers over discreet microservices? (eg as time savings? reduced maintenance? etc. Any hard numbers)? In some ways, I'm not too sure what you are trying to solve?
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I'd say a lot of the benefits are operational. Many of the organizations I've worked with have an extremely hard time deploying software to production. Without any kind of automation in place taking a single deployable unit of code and multiplying it by the number of microservices necessary is going to make production deployments n times more difficult, error prone, and time consuming. Additionally, microservice monitoring is much more complicated (trace monitoring).

There are also efficiencies to be gained at development as well. Developing microservices requires extensive inter-dependency mocking, which is not cheap or easy to create. With the lego monolith architecture only the edges need to be mocked, since everything else is running together. Testing is also simpler since the entire unit can be deployed and tested as a single piece.

I'm trying to introduce a pattern that is part way to the microservices architecture for organizations that cannot yet meet the infrastructure, process, and team requirements that microservice architectures demand to be successful. It's a stepping stone and path to get to an end goal over time while not boxing your architecture into a corner.
 
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I started at a new client in Portland today and they gave me a 13" MacBook Pro. This is the first time I've actually used a Mac for a significant amount of time. I'm coming from using Linux machines exclusively for 5+ years, so it's a bit of a departure for me. I'm struggling most with keyboard shortcuts and missing keys. I use keys like, home, end, page up, and page down quite a bit and this keyboard has none of them. I've had to adapt to using two or three key combos to replicate what a normal keyboard does with a single keypress.

I installed homebrew and cask, which is fairly similar to a *nix package manager and seems to work well enough.

After using this for a few days it will probably be awful to go back to one of my Xubuntu machines.
 
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I started at a new client in Portland today and they gave me a 13" MacBook Pro. This is the first time I've actually used a Mac for a significant amount of time. I'm coming from using Linux machines exclusively for 5+ years, so it's a bit of a departure for me. I'm struggling most with keyboard shortcuts and missing keys. I use keys like, home, end, page up, and page down quite a bit and this keyboard has none of them. I've had to adapt to using two or three key combos to replicate what a normal keyboard does with a single keypress.

I installed homebrew and cask, which is fairly similar to a *nix package manager and seems to work well enough.

After using this for a few days it will probably be awful to go back to one of my Xubuntu machines.
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I've bitched several times in other threads for exactly the same reasons. The keyboard combinations really suck on Apple laptops (and probably other devices). I've compensated for it by using my own keyboard because I missed the home, end, page up, etc. I've also had to complement the keyboard with a couple software utilities to remap the home and end keys because they're inconsistent in different applications where I would normally use them under Windows and Linux just fine. I don't remember their names but if you're interested I'll look it up in a few and post them. I've also replaced the crappy magic mouse with my own Logitech and also had to add software to get the UI to behave better along with making use of the thumb button on the mouse and window drag and snap which I missed from Windows 7+.

I also installed homebrew and it worked fine but I haven't tried cask. I honestly try to do as little as possible on the Mac because it's proprietary and annoying to use. To me it's a glorified ssh terminal. I feel as though I'm at least 10-15% less efficient using their product because I have to mentally remap my fingers all the time and I constantly mess up operations because of this. The other day I was copying and pasting into a windows VM and constantly fucked up the apple + C to ctrl + v combination.

When I get home from work and use my personal desktop I'm finding myself pressing the stupid windows button on accident. It's the salt in the wound.
 
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I added Better Touch Tool for window snapping and mouse management. I ended up paying $5 for it after they moved from the free model to paid.
https://www.boastr.net/

I use Karabiner for managing the keyboard options for home, end, etc.
https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/

I also stopped using the built-in SSH terminal and added iTerm2. I missed having the terminal automatically copy text when I highlighted it and this utility does that among many other nicer things.
https://www.iterm2.com/

Aside from that I have minimal amounts of tools. I have Intellij and Pycharm for IDEs. I also added Microsoft Remote Desktop app and VirtualBox.
 
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@SD, this is why we should all be very proud of sed.

@Handy, timwhit: I'd rather use a roll-up membrane keyboard than any native Apple model. It's not just the lack of standard keys. It's also the lack of key travel. I don't feel like I'm actually typing when I hit the keys. For a company that's supposed to be good at ergonomics, they're very, very wrong about their input devices in general. Or maybe input in general, given the random placement of navigation elements in iOS.

Random comment: I'd also just like to say that I found 3400x1800 binocular Oculus Rift formatted porn today. As usual, porn is the leader in tech adoption.
 
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Handruin said:
I added Better Touch Tool for window snapping and mouse management. I ended up paying $5 for it after they moved from the free model to paid.
https://www.boastr.net/

I use Karabiner for managing the keyboard options for home, end, etc.
https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/

I also stopped using the built-in SSH terminal and added iTerm2. I missed having the terminal automatically copy text when I highlighted it and this utility does that among many other nicer things.
https://www.iterm2.com/

Aside from that I have minimal amounts of tools. I have Intellij and Pycharm for IDEs. I also added Microsoft Remote Desktop app and VirtualBox.
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I'd rather not spend any money on apps for a laptop that I'll only have possession of for a short time.

I can't really use a full keyboard because I have to use the laptop in a variety of places (client site, my company's office, airplanes, home).

I installed iTerm2 immediately after receiving the laptop.
 
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