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by alrs 12y ago
I'm making no criticism of Finland. The parent was looking for a technologically advanced country to step up and be to networking gear as Switzerland (was) to banking. I pointed out that Finland is in a more precarious position than p
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by alrs 12y ago
Finland is a young country. It didn't exist before 1917. Though not technically behind the iron curtain, Finland was largely a Soviet client from the end of WWII. http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=
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by alrs 12y ago
I went to the three before HK. Don't trust anything you hear from on stage, especially the enterprise "success stories." These are largely coming from an alternate universe. The engineering planning sessions are excellent.
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by alrs 12y ago
As someone who spent 18 months of his life deploying Openstack at scale, I'm confident in pointing out that devstack is, like most of Openstack, half-broken.
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by alrs 13y ago
Debian was the keeper of the flame for non-X86 forever. I don't think Android could have happened if it wasn't for the Debian volunteers keeping Linux portable for 15 years. Yeah, the kernel devs wrote the kernel, but Debian ran t
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Debian Drops the SPARC Architecture(lwn.net)
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by alrs 13y ago
The easiest heuristic is "Are they changing ticketing systems twice per year?" I've never seen a competent team spend any amount of time chasing after ticketing system nirvana.
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by alrs 13y ago
Is ORM the correct term? I understand RethinkDB to be a non-relational database.
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by alrs 13y ago
We lost USENET, and it has been replaced by a website owned by Conde Nast. We had an open and decentralized discussion system that was globally replicated. We had scores of NNTP clients to choose from. Now it is 2014 and I am lamenting wha
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by alrs 13y ago
I'm glad someone is coming at this problem from a different angle. Maybe the subtext to this submission is "OpenSSL totally sucks so bad you need to evacuate NOW NOW NOW!!!!" If so, I'd point out that now is the time to
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by alrs 13y ago
Manual work is being brought back so as to help develop experts.
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by alrs 13y ago
The future of software is the aggregate of teenagers the world over messing around with Linux, Arduino, etc. Without entry-level jobs they're just going to be distro-hoppers who never get a foot in to industry.
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by alrs 13y ago
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:v794NTc...
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by alrs 13y ago
Microsoft would have to be asleep at the wheel if they hadn't at some point had a few engineers get a BSD libc and userland running on the NT kernel. Just because Microsoft won't sell you the NT kernel without a GUI on top doesn&#
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by alrs 13y ago
??? Most people in a commercial setting aren't modifying the MongoDB source code. AGPL does not require that any software that communicates with AGPL software be AGPL'd. But yes, if you're using MongoDB in a commercial endea
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by alrs 13y ago
No, I'm not tired or easily winded. My health has improved.
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by alrs 13y ago
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by alrs 13y ago
I've lost 50 pounds since October by following a ketogenic diet. I start each day with coffee mixed with butter and MCT oil. I eat meat for lunch. I eat meat for dinner. I feel better than I have for years. http://reddit.c
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by alrs 13y ago
The Imagewriter ][ was a stellar dot matrix printer. I wish I had an excuse to have one set up.
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by alrs 13y ago
Down for me. Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:E-3prdt...
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by alrs 13y ago
This only makes sense if you are going to prod with openbsd. For everyone else, do your development in a VM that matches prod. Use distro packaged Ruby.
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by alrs 13y ago
Apple and Google are totally allowed to use OSM data, they just can't close it up, DRM it, and stick it in an app store. Mozilla is going "above and beyond" to build a dataset of wifi ap mac addresses and cell towers on top o
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by alrs 13y ago
No. I really don't care to help Google or Apple, and I would prefer it if their proprietary mapping solutions failed. I don't want OSM data in their products.
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by alrs 13y ago
NSA/FBI have an ongoing rivalry with the CIA. There is no incongruity in attacking CIA while protecting NSA.
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by alrs 13y ago
The tradition was there, and it sucked. Hunting the Internet to track down random dependencies, watching freshmeat.net every day for new releases, and fighting with all of the different build systems was what I did every day ca. 1997.
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by alrs 13y ago
Gross. The moment that their new editor provides some piece of Github functionality that isn't exposed to an open API is the moment that we need to bail, en masse. We've already killed Freshmeat and Sourceforge for turning lame, t
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by alrs 13y ago
Ruby is quickly dying in the ops space. I wouldn't use either Chef or Puppet today for a greenfield project.
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by alrs 13y ago
apt-cache search mbox | wc -l 82 Ouch. How disconnected from the real world can academics get?
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by alrs 13y ago
Yes. Giving away designs for x86 racks and servers hurts Dell, HP, and IBM.
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by alrs 13y ago
This counts as a wanton act of hostility toward every server vendor in the x86 space. Is this payback for all of the PC players adopting Chromebook and Android, or is this the tipping point where MS has decided not to care about selling Win

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