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   by ForHackernews 6y ago

   Trump isn't a troll, he has no sense of whimsy and he obviously cares way too much. The whole point of old-school trolling is to wind up the rubes over some trivial nonsense for your own amusement. Incidentally, PHP is a fantastic lang
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   The Ripple Effects of a Space Skirmish(theatlantic.com)

   2 points by ForHackernews 6y ago|0 comments
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   by ForHackernews 6y ago

   Only if you think that prefix-matching implies hierarchy. Are `invoice_2020_10_1.pdf` and `invoice_2020_11_1.pdf` children of their parent in the hierarchy, `invoice_2020_1`?
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   by ForHackernews 6y ago

   Writers who write for The New Yorker are not worried about their livelihoods evaporating because local papers are going bust any more than tenured professors at Harvard are endangered by funding cuts at Directional Statename University. I k
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   by ForHackernews 6y ago

   C'mon, the New Yorker has been unusually good on this topic, even skewering a few sacred cows here and there: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/the-new-activi...
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   by ForHackernews 6y ago

   > I will say that Googlers have a far better understanding ...it's far less scary. I've heard variations on this theme from a lot of Googlers, and it always seems like "just trust us!" but then they can't or won&
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   by ForHackernews 6y ago

   S3 is a flat object store. It has no concept of folders or hierarchy.
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   by ForHackernews 6y ago

   Pivotal Tracker is okay.
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   by ForHackernews 6y ago

   Airflow is really limiting in some non-obvious ways: https://medium.com/the-prefect-blog/why-not-airflow-4cfa4232...
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    You might want to check out Flockport: https://thenewstack.io/flockport-time-to-start-all-over-agai... They're trying to use built-in Linux LXC container features.
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    Same with Slack
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    Sure, but it's not just your own personal risk tolerance. Getting on a plane involves accepting risk for yourself; taking covid risks involves risk to yourself and also imposing risks on others.
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    I haven't personally tried Flockport, but I have to say at a glance, it looks _way_ simpler than Kubernetes. It looks like it's trying to build on standard Linux features, instead of reinventing an entire alternate universe where
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    Flockport: Time to Start All over Again and Return to LXC Containers(thenewstack.io)

    2 points by ForHackernews 6y ago|1 comments
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    > OpenStack, CloudFoundry, DataDog, New Relic, GKE-on-prem and the likes All of these are pretty pricey.
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    Facebook fails civil rights audit(vice.com)

    4 points by ForHackernews 6y ago|1 comments
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    That's interesting because there's also a vocal contingent who believes Google giving away Kubernetes was a punji trap that the rest of the tech world has falling into. Is k8s an amazing force multiplier or an unmanageable white e
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    Have you heard the Good News about the Lightning Network and off-chain transactions?
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    This is an almost comical example given the current US government's relationship with alternative facts. Meanwhile, one EU member state has recently completed its transition to autocracy. The EU with its boxes of expensively-verified d
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    > When the internet first came out people thought it was only for porn and criminals. Look at where it's at now. This is such a bogus analogy, and cryptocurrency stans keep pushing it. Not even counting the internet, ten years after
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    Why does anyone want that? Aren't you describing the supposed proposed assassination market? https://reason.com/2018/07/27/markets-in-assassination-every...
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    I'm all-in on dogecoin, myself. Buy today! We're going to the moon!
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    The world's most expensive tech demo / self-assembling pyramid scheme continues apace. Has anyone found a non-criminal use case for blockchain yet? Preferably one that isn't better addressed by a single Postgres instance?
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    I haven't read it, but on the military theme, I've heard good things about " Turn The Ship Around! A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules" The author was a submarine captain who turned one of the worst-pe
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    Chat is a feature, not a product. RIP Slack: It turns out IRC-but-with-emoji isn't really that compelling.
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    I mean, nobody's stopping you from writing your perfect, beautiful Haskell implementation of Dijkstra's Algorithm. I guess it's simply a different approach, but I'd rather not waste time re-implementing the wheel when I
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    I don't see how that's depressing at all. Another way to phrase what you're saying is "Developers get paid to write software that solves problems people actually need solved.
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    > come for your statue. Joke's on them: Google Maps will just give the angry mob directions to the Amazon HQ instead.
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    What is Deno? A ‘better’ Node.js(infoworld.com)

    2 points by ForHackernews 6y ago|0 comments
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    by ForHackernews 6y ago

    "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act