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by Annatar 8y ago
What exactly are the arguments for that statement?
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by Annatar 8y ago
As a demo scene coder, I have to disagree vehemently: assembler is a joy to write, at least on MC68000 and 6502 (Amiga and C=64). The only reason why I don’t write code in assembler but in C on UNIX is becuase of portability. To me, C is no
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by Annatar 8y ago
I don’t understand what the hoopla is about: in assembler we deal with arrays by having to know the size of each field without giving it a second thought. The solution is to learn assembler first, then move on to C. And AWK, as the next gen
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by Annatar 8y ago
Lots of bla bla bla and only one image! Now I feel cheated, that was clickbait!
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by Annatar 8y ago
Even two good full stack, experienced system engineers are enough, and their combined salaries won’t come anywhere close to 750 grand a year. Hell we could engineer you high performing, high availability infrastructure around it for just se
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by Annatar 8y ago
I have both, two Amigas and an ATARI Falcon 030. Do you know of any good hardware reference manuals for the ST?
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by Annatar 8y ago
The Rust Evangelism Strike Force has nothing on the remnants of the once-mighty civilization from the Lost Continent of Amiga. And that is good so, for it means that there are still hidden places on this world where the chaos and evil tha
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by Annatar 8y ago
Sure, but that’s a small salary, even for Germany.
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by Annatar 8y ago
The article says that in the end, “Lidl” decided to ditch “SAP” and continue developing their own, internal solution. From my own experience: good on them; it’ll certainly cost them an order of magnitude less, on the order of five million,
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by Annatar 8y ago
It’s slow. All those layers of abstraction exact their toll on latency, even on today’s monster systems. Reading the essay, my heart goes out to the author: he missed all those wonderful years in the ‘80’s and the early ‘90’s cracking prote
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by Annatar 8y ago
Watched the entire video; still failed to understand why I would pick a JVM interpreted, impure functional programming language over ANSI common LISP which I can compile into machine code? Which feature(s) is(are) there in Scala which trump
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by Annatar 8y ago
The mnemonics of RISC V are terribly thought out when compared to OpenSPARC or the legendary MC68000. Particullarly galling is the choice of dst, src rather than src, dst (although that could be solved by using UNIX®️ version of as(1)). Ter
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by Annatar 8y ago
If you had understood them, you wouldn’t have made the statements you made. The delineation between /opt, /var/opt and /etc/opt is intentional: when the content in /opt and /etc/opt is packaged, only
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by Annatar 8y ago
You might have read it, but you didn’t understand it, and the reason you didn’t understand it is because you don’t understand the concepts behind UNIX. No matter; here is your next stop: “The art of UNIX programming” ...punch that into a se
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by Annatar 8y ago
"still spreads an application's files all over the tree" No, only three directories: /opt for application, /etc/opt for configuration, and /var/opt for applications' data. Please read the specifi
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by Annatar 8y ago
"Containers have much greater flexibility than OS packaging: use different libc library easily," If you have to use a different libc, that's a kernel engineering problem. On a real UNIX, libc is an integral part of the entire
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by Annatar 8y ago
"Case in point: the prevalence of using containers to run software without having to deal with conflicts created by trying to intermingle everyone's dependencies," That's a problem on GNU/Linux; it's not a prob
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by Annatar 8y ago
I don’t need to break my head with such things because I’ve mastered OS packaging on several operating systems.
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by Annatar 8y ago
No. That’s so very wrong on so many levels. And UNIX systems have no “folders”, only directories. One can tell you’ve grown up on Windows.
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OS packaging is the simplest of them all and ideal for large scale configuration management. As another person mentioned, that is the proven technology that has consistently provided the best results over the last 40 years. That’s why I’m c
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by Annatar 8y ago
“Container builds simply automate the process of installing and configuring an application in a container that you would do manually. It is a set of instructions to install and configure the application.“ I’m constantly amazed by the lenght
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by Annatar 8y ago
“The fact you can't conceive of how this goes wrong is actually _illustrative_ of how Sun got screwed.“ I can very well concieve of it, as I’ve been preaching this to the Linux crowd for decades and they just don’t get it. By the way I
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by Annatar 8y ago
“This is also the kind of stuff that you C programmers write bugs with all the time, by mistaking = with ==; to the point where most C compilers these days would just flag something like if(a=1) as a warning with default settings.” No it is
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by Annatar 8y ago
Welcome to Python, where proponents will proudly claim that the language is easy to read and intuitive. I was reading the discussion above, where they argue whether a statement like if (foo := check_foo()): do_foo() is readab
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by Annatar 8y ago
https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/zfs-end-to-end-data-integri... working with the said technology and understanding it goes a long way.
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by Annatar 8y ago
What is there to discuss? 20 years into development and there is still no working fsync(2) which does what fsync(2) in a real UNIX has been reliably doing since 1985. One cannot build a robust infrastructure on an operating system where cor
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by Annatar 8y ago
“Ultimately the Operating System doesn't (and can't) know whether the storage is actually going to retain data you've written to it.” illumos and ZFS do know about it, especially since ZFS will checksum every block and will p
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"According to the “shoot the messenger” principle, PostgreSQL has been heavily criticized for fsyncgate. Indeed, PostgreSQL suffers from this problem more than other databases as it doesn't offer direct IO." Not a problem on
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by Annatar 8y ago
1. rpmbuild; 2. upload to the software deployment server; 3. deploy; 4. test the hell out of the software; 5. upload to the peer review tool; 6. passing review, commit. I oversimplify, but everything starts with writing a .spec file for a f
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by Annatar 8y ago
Nope, since Mozilla doesn’t support illumos-based operating systems, I‘m boycotting Firefox.

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