this is going to ruin my productivity tomorrow

That's how you do it!

Poor guy. You are supposed to learn in your off time while taking home a cushy corporate paycheck, then quit and take over the world!

"Salt’s approach was far simpler."

Funny, that's how I feel about Ansible compared to everything else including Salt.

Funny, that's how I feel about salt compared to ansible.

It's a first-world problem that can take a lot of time. I'd much rather go to a single site and send out all of my invites than navigate to four individual sites and muck about in the settings to send an invite.

I can't see how inviting users to a handful of services could take longer than 5-10 minutes? Is that really a "lot of time"?

We have 100s of developers using Github, HipChat. This service would be quite useful. Especially the offboarding.

Another thing that would be awesome if your could get even finer grained control of some of the services. Like having the ability to maintain some additional Github permissions. A big pain point for us right now is you need to have admin to manage teams, webhooks, etc. Have some levels between admin and write would be great (and I don't blame GH for having these. It's a more enterprise need.)

Per user. If, like my company, you hired 10 devs last year, that's over an hour of savings.

Ack! Sorry about that! I guess I wasn't paying enough attention.

Distributed user permissions management is roughly as small an opportunity as Active Directory.

Since when were first world problems not startup opportunities? It certainly doesn't sound like the next Google, but it could be a good side project that pays for his next vacation.

A lot of really large tech startups are not even solving "first world problems".

Companies routinely fail to disable access to users who no longer need it, creating security risks and increasing costs.

This seems very valuable to large teams, and like a small convenience to large teams.

I've been involved at a few startups that over a year later my accounts still are not disabled. At one I logged in six months later and disabled myself.

err... "a small convenience to small teams."

Don't forget the iAds with your flashlight app.

yea, exactly; it's all obviously BS

tl;dr: I'm going back to school.

You left out the most important part - "why" - which merits representation in this tl;dr.

The author claims tomorrow's problems cannot be self-taught (listing the physics of hard drives, wearable computing). I'm honestly not sure if I agree with this. What about Coursera, Udacity, edX? The courses on these platforms are maturing at an alarming rate.

Disclosure: I'm a full-time student.

Yeah, he's wrong about "cannot be self-taught".

He's right about the prestige-whoring of large corporations. You won't get a fair shake at most of them without a PhD. However, he's also wrong about where The Future is coming from. Most likely, it'll be small elite consultancies that work for larger companies. Right now, these are the guys (and gals) supporting the top open source projects.