Goladus

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by Goladus 13y ago
Perhaps I should've been clearer. It's also incredibly disrespectful. Posting "and?" requires zero effort from you and contributes nothing. If I want to continue the discussion I have go over my comment and guess wha
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by Goladus 13y ago
Why not just use linux packages + scripts? I asked myself this same question several years ago. The basic advantages chef and puppet (and salt, etc.) offer over client-side python alone are: A thin abstraction layer for basic system/p
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by Goladus 13y ago
The last web company I worked for had an app that required a little extra care and feeding to deploy, and we just didn't use configuration management for that. There were plenty of other uses for config management (changes to rewrites
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by Goladus 13y ago
I would not say that is a reason why all configuration managers suck. The feature you'd like to see would represent a significant increase in overhead, complexity, and potential drawbacks that not everyone needs yet. Meanwhile, a disc
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by Goladus 13y ago
The difference betwen deploying an instance of a stored environment and generating that environment from some prior state is the generative process, which can fail or change in unexpected ways due to network conditions and other factors.
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by Goladus 13y ago
Thanks, it may even be that a salt master is lightweight worth configuring. But I should note there's a difference between "can run" and "intended to run." It's as much a semantic thing as a technical thing.
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by Goladus 13y ago
Indeed. The reason I am currently using chef instead of puppet doesn't have much to do with relative technical merits.
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by Goladus 13y ago
This is the stupidest response to a comment I have ever received on Hacker News.
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by Goladus 13y ago
One doesn't need much ruby to get going with puppet. You need to learn the declarative puppet DSL, which is arguably an even bigger barrier. Automatic list expansion, for example, is a nice feature. But you can't have independe
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by Goladus 13y ago
I'm still looking for a configuration management system that doesn't assume that the first step towards managing servers is to add a new "master" server. From the thread, ansible looks promising. In the meantime I'
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by Goladus 13y ago
If bcfg2 was a complete system, it never caught on because the documentation was entirely missing. Every time I looked at it, I blocked on actually getting anything done because I couldn't find an equivalent to these reference manuals
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by Goladus 13y ago
The main question I have with this theory is the risk that the car would lose control and crash into a nearby house instead of a tree in the median.
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by Goladus 13y ago
Several days after a car accident just happens to incinerate a controversial journalist, it's extremely unfair to label questions about potentially suspicious circumstances as a "conspiracy theory." Suggesting that it's
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by Goladus 13y ago
I thought the primary problem with Swartz's case was an overzealous US attorney pursuing prosecution far beyond any legitimate state interest.
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by Goladus 13y ago
The main reason I don't and never used flash is because the entire stack is mostly proprietary. Developing for it required tools from Macromedia/Adobe (At least, I never found a decent open variant). Flash applications also tende
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by Goladus 13y ago
a special administrative region of the people's republic of china is actually more free than the USA. There's really nothing like Hong Kong in the US-- a New York-sized city with a dramatically different cultural, governmental,
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by Goladus 13y ago
Why is this Congressman pushing the blame on Obama solely? He's a republican, and Obama set himself up for this by defending the NSA.
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by Goladus 13y ago
However, it proves nothing. That would be for others to judge. He won't get the data. He doesn't want the data. He wants to make a point about the importance of privacy. He wants to appear as if he is standing up for his con
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by Goladus 13y ago
You won't, because there does not appear to be a related chronic misunderstanding with that one.
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by Goladus 13y ago
In other words they took a system targeted especially at people who needed on-demand computing and as it got popular, adapted it to the needs of the 24/7/365 web-hosting by offering an alternate pricing model , point-and-click user interf
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by Goladus 13y ago
Agreed. And of course, the second letter stands for compute . If you find yourself using words like traffic instead of computation and discussing the finer points of the per-hour billing feature instead of how many CPU-hours of jobs
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by Goladus 13y ago
I have found, however, that my Facebook experience has greatly improved once I started hiding posts from people i don't care about as much from my news feed. Oddly, I've found the opposite to be true. Apart from clearing out app-request
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by Goladus 13y ago
Next time you are asked Why should I pay for your SaaS every month. Consider what they are thinking, how they’ve multiplied your monthly cost to arrive at the total cost. And what they are comparing your offering against. You may just find
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by Goladus 13y ago
It's not meant to be taken literally. It's just part of the narrative. It's blatantly obvious that the author can't actually know how much his readers have actually paid for their tuition. In fact the audience for this article is probabl
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by Goladus 13y ago
It is a subsidy, but it's a subsidy within the organization. The original version of my comment explained this but I removed it for brevity. But yes you are right. From what I understand the money flow, especially at elite institutions,
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by Goladus 13y ago
But they're not making a specific claim. They're making a generalized claim to tell the story. Any one individual student should be able to compare their financial situation to the generalizations in the article. The final sentence of the
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by Goladus 13y ago
The only problem with the article is overly emphasizing the "you are being scammed" angle. The article actually covers it from two angles, and the "net sticker price" is only the right metric for one of them (an individual student evaluati
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by Goladus 13y ago
Reputation can be used to discourage rude, uncivil behavior. But it can also be used to crowd out unpopular ideas. Hacker News is probably the online forum on the net that I wouldn't mind having my real name visible.
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by Goladus 13y ago
Most of the science you need to reach the same conclusions as Kurtz79 is high school biology and some basic physics and thermodynamics. Calories are a measure of work (Force x mass). To burn Calories your body has to be doing work of some
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by Goladus 13y ago
> Also since when is exercise effective for losing substantial amounts of body fat/weight? You burn very few calories when you exercise, at least very few relative to your BMR. Is this a joke? I just ran the numbers for my BMR and what

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