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I think this is more likely a move to prevent Cornell funding from getting tied up with dictations about what gets published. But in all likelihood someone was
by elif 1y ago
I think this is more likely a move to prevent Cornell funding from getting tied up with dictations about what gets published.
But in all likelihood someone was probably just like "we're tired of doing ops on 2 decades old stacks"
- johann8384 1y agoIt sounds like they are just using GCP. It doesn't really change that.
- elif 1y agoYea but GCP was state of the art 20 years ago, php+perl was already crufty
- ordersofmag 1y agoSo state of the art it wasn't even available yet (preview launch was in 2008).
- elif 1y agoSounds about right. I remember hearing about it first in a talk being given by Doug Crockford at my university around that time. It blew my mind. I thought it was like gcc for the Internet. It's kind of wild that in the interim we have experienced the complete rise and fall of mongodb, node.js, even today the react paradigm are all expressions of this tiny little functional scripting language..
- whatever1 1y agoGoogle cloud can easily move the the instance to a region that is not science/free speech hostile