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by ajdecon 12y ago
DevOps is a rather overloaded term at the moment. I've seen it refer to any of the following: - Encouraging collaboration between your Dev, Ops, and QA teams, with some cross-training so they can work together better - Merging those te
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“Duke Collective” grad students collectivize their wages(slate.com)
7 points by ajdecon 13y ago|3 comments
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Conduct unbecoming of a hacker(sealedabstract.com)
8 points by ajdecon 13y ago|1 comments
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Email delivery headaches(daemonology.net)
5 points by ajdecon 13y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 13y ago
Ha, I missed that this existed. Thank you!
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by ajdecon 13y ago
I got stuck on level3 over the weekend and then had to put it down due to life stuff. But it was still a ton of fun, and I learned a lot. If anyone from Stripe is here, do you plan to post the original problem statements and repos for the p
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by ajdecon 13y ago
Without presuming to speak for Evan -- Julia's target audience is technical computing, and a large fraction of software in this space is built to solve a particular problem that only might matter for 6 months or a year. You might be tr
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by ajdecon 13y ago
> Why is the valley crowd treating distributed systems engineering like it's a new fad? There's certainly been a lot more interest lately in building distributed systems, and in certain models mostly related to databases. I thi
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Why I promote conda(technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com)
3 points by ajdecon 13y ago|0 comments
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Interview: Hacker OPSEC with The Grugq | Blogs of War(blogsofwar.com)
1 points by ajdecon 13y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 13y ago
I don't see many "I quit!" or "don't go!" essays from science, but you do see scientists expressing concerns about continuing to accept so many PhD students who won't have a clear career path. This seems e
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by ajdecon 13y ago
The processor is Apple's own design and its performance is a distinguishing feature. RAM is commodity tech, and Apple will never pick a number that makes everyone happy. I agree that it'd be nice to get that number, but I can also
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by ajdecon 13y ago
I contributed fairly regularly during the early days of the site, but these days I contribute rarely -- mostly to make minor factual corrections or add sources. I haven't run into much of the site's famed editorial bureaucracy but
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by ajdecon 13y ago
I don't particularly like homebrew compared to the Linux distro package managers, but I have found it convenient for messing around on my Macbook due to the large existing library. A couple of other interesting projects in the Linux so
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by ajdecon 13y ago
Can you provide some examples of where you think homebrew has a better UI than apt-get? I can't think of anything in homebrew which feels significantly easier than apt-get or yum.
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by ajdecon 13y ago
Since you mention kexec and TFTP+NFS, are you currently using Perceus? Or is there another system out there with that combo?
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by ajdecon 13y ago
As two examples: Partial trust means you trust a key for different purposes, or for different levels of validity. Different purposes: "Do I trust that this key correctly identifies this person?" is a separate question from "D
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by ajdecon 13y ago
> I think it is reasonable to observe that the current PGP WoT is designed to try to unambiguously and unimpeachably map public keys to entities (if not necessarily literal human beings). I don't really think the PGP WoT can "u
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by ajdecon 13y ago
It is, in fact, possible to make a process immune to the OOM killer: echo -17 > /proc/$PID/oom_adj where $PID is the process ID you want to protect. oom_adj can be tuned with other values to make a process more or less lik
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by ajdecon 13y ago
A simple line I've used before: "Please feel free to CC your technical team so we can make sure we're all on the same page regarding [technical requirements X, Y, and Z]." Or something to that effect. If the purchasing a
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by ajdecon 13y ago
...Did you read the article, or just the title? This article is about giving money directly to Kenyan villagers, and in a different program to families in Mexico; and about how they've used the money on productive improvements like rep
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by ajdecon 13y ago
Windows at work, Mac OS X on personal laptop. But both of them are basically just SSH clients. CentOS/RHEL on servers.
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Learn AWS With New Self-Paced Labs(aws.typepad.com)
2 points by ajdecon 13y ago|0 comments
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Dear Package Maintainers: Stop Being Clever(standalone-sysadmin.com)
92 points by ajdecon 13y ago|42 comments
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The Cost of Open Science(ivory.idyll.org)
2 points by ajdecon 13y ago|0 comments
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Programming without Text Files(pointersgonewild.wordpress.com)
3 points by ajdecon 13y ago|0 comments
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The Recomputation Manifesto(software.ac.uk)
110 points by ajdecon 13y ago|59 comments
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by ajdecon 13y ago
Ironically, the "we can work you harder" one was the one that I actually saw the email for. :) The others, I admit, may have been paraphrased.
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by ajdecon 13y ago
> And the worst part is, it's surely conscious on nobody's part. There have even been studies showing this effect. There are studies showing that the unconscious effect exists. But it's definitely conscious at times. I kno
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by ajdecon 13y ago
* Lois Bujold * Connie Willis * Vernor Vinge * Kim Stanley Robinson * Neal Stephenson * Larry Niven * Hell, even John Scalzi If it weren't for the "alive" requirement, I'd include Iain M. Banks. :-( Regardless, I highly

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