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by benley 10y ago
There's also something to be said for having a build system that can correctly do incremental rebuilds and caching of outputs, which could massively ease the SSD write load.
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by benley 10y ago
Fermilab was not shut down in 2011. I believe the tevatron was shutdown in 2011, but research on site continues, and the "Proton Improvement Plan", which involves upgrading the accelerators, started in 2011 and is ongoing.
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by benley 10y ago
Not exactly ... but you can certainly use Nix to build docker images, which is very convenient.
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by benley 10y ago
Can I just point out that pretty much all of these options, including guix, are things that were invented well _after_ nix was established as its own thing? (aside from Haskell and Scheme themselves, of course)
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by benley 10y ago
Is Clojure close enough? Or perhaps LFE (Lisp-flavored Erlang)?
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by benley 10y ago
The point being that Samsung give a shit about contributing to open-source projects at all.
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by benley 10y ago
I've been able to replace _most_ of what I wanted from homebrew with Nix. I still keep brew around for a few things that haven't been packaged (or packaged properly) for Darwin in nix, like bazel and aptly. Works out pretty well
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by benley 10y ago
There's a new commandline tool in the works that will improve all those interfaces; I'm not sure how far along it is, though. Here's the discussion: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/779
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by benley 10y ago
The big difference is that nothing about Dockerfiles implies that the processes they perform to build an image are deterministic or repeatable. Will a build step that runs `curl https://github.com/something/whatever`
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by benley 10y ago
Trying it out before committing to reinstalling your laptop with it?
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by benley 10y ago
You can already side-load Android apps on ChromeOS, as well as with Chrome on other platforms. All you need is the ArcWelder chrome extension, which I'm pretty sure is provided by google themselves, to package up an apk into a chrome
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by benley 10y ago
I appreciate your library, that's pretty cool. I just want to point out that some (most?) regex libraries support a whitespace-insensitive mode, which allows you to write out the raw regex in a way that's considerably easier for
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by benley 10y ago
Stop paying them? I imagine most lawyers tend to go away pretty quickly if you stop giving them money.
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by benley 10y ago
cool - I'm interested in hearing how it works out for you. We're running mesos (not DCOS, but still mesos) with a couple of other frameworks, but I haven't had any time to try running kubernetes on it.
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by benley 10y ago
Do you know of any sites actually running kerbernetes-on-mesos? I've been using that as a talking point for a while too, but have yet to hear of it actually being used anywhere. Not trolling here, I just don't know.
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by benley 10y ago
So ... has anybody actually checked to see if Apple has patched the vulnerability in git without bumping the version number, like pretty much every linux distribution does for their stable releases?
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by benley 10y ago
Generally if you want to use only debian packages, the answer is "stop wanting that". But, you can get a little closer if you run debian Stable and also include apt sources from testing and/or unstable, and do some clever thi
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by benley 10y ago
oh god, LOGSTASH >_<
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by benley 10y ago
My suggestion, in general, is to use a static language like jsonnet to write config files. It's rather hard for them to break, because the language just isn't capable of talking to the network or various other things that config
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by benley 10y ago
This paper also pretty interesting: http://www.masella.name/~andre/2015-srecon-andre_masella.pdf
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by benley 10y ago
Jsonnet is a really excellent one, imo: http://jsonnet.org/ There is also Flabbergast, which is comparable but a little less intuitive for those accustomed to Python-like languages: http://flabbergast.org/
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by benley 10y ago
Honestly, I don't think JSON config files are a big problem. What's shitty is when humans are expected to manually create and edit plain JSON, but what's stopping us from using whatever tools we want to generate those JSON c
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by benley 10y ago
different hardware isn't really part of the equation - it's more that most of google's internal systems aren't _on_ gce, but _adjacent to_ gce. There's a cloud beneath that cloud, so to speak.
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by benley 11y ago
And by "Stable" the headline actually means "Canary" at this point. It will be a while before it reaches the stable version, but it's coming. This is good news.
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by benley 11y ago
They actually don't completely statically link everything - there is a small set of base libraries (glibc and I forget what else), and generally all compiled dependencies other than those from the base runtime are linked into a binary.
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by benley 11y ago
I'm pretty sure I have a copy of MAE on cd around somewhere - possibly multiple versions. If you really want it let me know and I'll see if I can dig it up.
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by benley 11y ago
Anyone else find it somewhat baffling that it's taken until now for a NAT service to arrive on AWS? I'm happy to have it available of course, definitely not going to complain. I've just long wondered why it wasn't a thi
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by benley 11y ago
I've been meaning to take a closer look at http://concourse.ci/ at some point. It looks like it could be a viable alternative to Jenkins for many things.
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by benley 11y ago
Yes. The key is that you can control exactly what combination of your own VMs land on each physical machine.
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by benley 11y ago
The Chromebook Pixel 2 has a fantastic screen: 2560x1700 (about 239dpi), excellent contrast and color, great brightness range, and it even does multitouch if you care about that. Also the aspect ratio is 3:2 rather than 16:9 aspect ratio,

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