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by alrs 13y ago
I would love to hear how many Pivotal people have resigned over this.
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by alrs 13y ago
http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/files/2013/05/clockwork_... This is Kubrick.
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by alrs 13y ago
"Devops" can be considered a philosophy, a methodology, or a movement. It doesn't mean "ops monkey smart enough to code." Referring to a human as a "devop" is equivalent to calling someone an "agile&
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Protestors disrupt Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer at Dreamforce '13(zdnet.com)
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Management: A Rant(mdzlog.alcor.net)
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by alrs 13y ago
"not dead set against .. no" is awfully hard to parse.
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by alrs 13y ago
Scoff scoff scoff. Microsoft has been caught planting shills in online communities for 20 years. http://web.archive.org/web/19980112192836/http://www.pjprime...
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by alrs 13y ago
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=cargo+...
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by alrs 13y ago
It's a great speech. Having never seen this before is perfectly reasonable if you're new.
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by alrs 13y ago
That this story can thrive on HN every few months is a strong indicator that a nontrivial chunk of the userbase is 16.
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by alrs 13y ago
Remember what it was like back in the 80s before there were chairs?
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by alrs 13y ago
1970s-style PR. This mirrors the oil company messaging: "pay no attention to the oil spills and CIA-sponsored coups de etat, we're the swell people that make the petrochemicals in that ziploc baggie in your little girl's lun
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by alrs 13y ago
Google isn't a shining beacon of hope, but I do delight in seeing hurt put on closed ecosystems. The Apple app store is a flat-out threat to human freedom. I do not want to live in a world where the only software available is the soft
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by alrs 13y ago
Hemingway said that one goes broke "gradually, then suddenly." I hope the same thing is happening to Windows marketshare. I hope the same thing is happening to iOS. edit: Note that I said "marketshare." I'm not wis
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by alrs 13y ago
You fix your code so that it runs against distro-packaged Ruby.
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by alrs 13y ago
I want to be sure that we're on the same page. No. 3pt14159 said that he used to use distro-packaged Ruby, but stopped because his distro used a compile-time option that didn't play well with his vendor's hardware. 3pt14159&#
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by alrs 13y ago
It absolutely would. You change the compile-time option and build the package with that change.
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by alrs 13y ago
Addressed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6505227 I don't work in a Ruby shop anymore, but I'd look at Bundler if I was looking to manage multiple gemsets on the same installation. As I point out in the abo
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by alrs 13y ago
"Solves" in the same vein of "There, I Fixed It." http://thereifixedit.blogspot.com/
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by alrs 13y ago
If the divide is ruby 1.8 and 1.9, Debian packages both, and they can be installed simultaneously. If it's more arcane than that, it sounds like kvm or lxc is the answer. If you really really need to run two pieces of software with
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by alrs 13y ago
No, I don't deploy with Vagrant. Nor would I. Use Vagrant to spin up Linux VMs locally so that you can have a dev environment that matches production.
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by alrs 13y ago
As for rvm in production: Superior package management is the reason that small teams of ops people can manage huge deployments. In the bad old days of early Linux or traditional UNIX one had to hand-build and deploy those dozens of librarie
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by alrs 13y ago
The best example of why the rvm model fails on the dev side is nokogiri. Yeah, sure, you can have multiple versions of Ruby and the Nokogiri gem on the same box. libxml2, borrowed from the GNOME project, is the C library that is doing all
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by alrs 13y ago
I'm confused. Simple and normal, to me, means "use packaged Ruby." Chasing the bleeding edge and compiling the interpreter at every release is exactly the sort of practice that introduces edge-case heisenbugs. If you need a
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by alrs 13y ago
As always, it bears repeating: rvm/rbenv don't belong in production. They exist to allow developers on Macbooks to sync their version of Ruby with whatever is packaged in the Linux distro or BSD variant that runs in production. I
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by alrs 13y ago
Because Windows is going away. Python experience is portable. Your tools have a chance of having some use after your last Windows box is turned off.
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by alrs 13y ago
Despise it.
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by alrs 13y ago
"Developer Productivity" that leads to "ops people refuse to work here" isn't a stellar strategy.
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by alrs 13y ago
Engineering was six before the unpopular e-commerce pivot. Two left soon after pivot, one left a bit after. Three remaining stuck around through the period where the CEO was shopping the company hoping that they could keep working together
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by alrs 13y ago
I have some knowledge of the startup that angled for the $75M exit. Transparency is why the engineers stuck around as long as they did. Options for the engineers were 0.05%, but the CEO managed to get them doubled to 0.10%, a tenth of a pe

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