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> someone saying Docker brings nothing new to the table except for a propietary API and you could just as well use LCX or whatever Probably the same people who

by eloff 7y ago

> someone saying Docker brings nothing new to the table except for a propietary API and you could just as well use LCX or whatever Probably the same people who said Dropbox brings nothing new over rsync. Making something easier and bringing it to more people (two halves of the same thing) is a BIG value add. Often the majority of the value.

ci5er 7y ago
:-) Not quite! I wrote my own rsync-like-toolset before rsync itself was released (far too late, when you think of it!), and I immediately loved DropBox. Maybe because I am dev, AND I am ops, or maybe because (unlike DropBox) I am not sharing folders with my mother, but more likely, because I'm an idiot (everyone tells me "Catcher in the Rye" is great - and after having read it every 3rd year for nigh on 30 years, I still don't get it), but I don't really understand the appeal of docker. Sure, I can use it, because you kind of have to these days, and I don't really find it objectionable, but it seems like there is a whole lot of "something there" that I'm missing. At this point, I'll probably never understand the benefit of. It won't be the last tech ritual I will have to endure before I die...
- mplanchard 7y ago
  Not OT for the thread, but you’re not alone with Catcher in the Rye. I first read it in my 20s and just did not like it at all. I’ve got friends who say that it helps to have read it as a teenager, because it’s easier to identify with Holden, but man, reading it now I just get so tired of his whining. I’m going to keep trying, probably, because so far it’s one of the only big classics I haven’t liked. Anyway, maybe we’re both idiots!
  - ci5er 7y ago
    Ha! I started in my mid-teens. I was told: "It changed my life!". I've read it every three years or so (even for the decade-plus that I've lived out of the US, once in Japanese!), and ... I just don't get it. I probably don't get Moby Dick either, but I find it to be remarkably funny, and not a whiney teenager, so I'm going to give it a pass. Thanks for the comment. I have a bit of a hang-up about how much I don't get "The Great American Novel" (as a born-and-bred rural American, I should get those, you know? :-) )

by eloff 7y ago

ci5er 7y ago

:-) Not quite! I wrote my own rsync-like-toolset before rsync itself was released (far too late, when you think of it!), and I immediately loved DropBox. Maybe because I am dev, AND I am ops, or maybe because (unlike DropBox) I am not sharing folders with my mother, but more likely, because I'm an idiot (everyone tells me "Catcher in the Rye" is great - and after having read it every 3rd year for nigh on 30 years, I still don't get it), but I don't really understand the appeal of docker. Sure, I can use it, because you kind of have to these days, and I don't really find it objectionable, but it seems like there is a whole lot of "something there" that I'm missing. At this point, I'll probably never understand the benefit of. It won't be the last tech ritual I will have to endure before I die...

mplanchard 7y ago
Not OT for the thread, but you’re not alone with Catcher in the Rye. I first read it in my 20s and just did not like it at all. I’ve got friends who say that it helps to have read it as a teenager, because it’s easier to identify with Holden, but man, reading it now I just get so tired of his whining. I’m going to keep trying, probably, because so far it’s one of the only big classics I haven’t liked. Anyway, maybe we’re both idiots!
- ci5er 7y ago
  Ha! I started in my mid-teens. I was told: "It changed my life!". I've read it every three years or so (even for the decade-plus that I've lived out of the US, once in Japanese!), and ... I just don't get it. I probably don't get Moby Dick either, but I find it to be remarkably funny, and not a whiney teenager, so I'm going to give it a pass. Thanks for the comment. I have a bit of a hang-up about how much I don't get "The Great American Novel" (as a born-and-bred rural American, I should get those, you know? :-) )