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by bkeroack 11y ago
Think of them as different layers. If you're a front end web dev, it's sort of like SASS vs CSS: the former is a layer on top of the latter that makes it more powerful/convenient/easier to use. At the bottom of the stack
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by bkeroack 11y ago
The major key. Hard work and perseverance can make up for just about any deficit in natural ability, but it doesn't work the other way around.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
DI is an antipattern.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
I would put it differently: OpenStack is how you do IaaS with long-lived, mutable server instances ("pets"). Kubernetes is how you do IaaS with immutable, disposable application instances ("cattle"). I've used both.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Reading a little deeper into the article, they actually are prohibited from distributing any assets to private persons (shareholders, physicians). Yet even the CEO claimed otherwise at one point. As a nonprofit they should have taken their
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Nobody has mentioned jsonb partial updates yet. This is huge and goes further in superseding MongoDB use cases. Previously you would have add your own locking mechanisms (or use SELECT ... FOR UPDATE) so read/modify/update could b
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by bkeroack 11y ago
systemd is basically a self-contained operating system at this point...
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by bkeroack 11y ago
"Key escrow". The FBI/NSA were pushing for it way back in the mid 90s.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
The value-add here is that it compiles to C and therefore the type enforcement is done at compile time. If you are OK with interpreted Python and runtime checking you can use https://github.com/prechelt/typecheck-decora
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by bkeroack 11y ago
There's just no way you can run a facility of that size with three people, sorry. In addition to DC techs you need building engineers, HVAC people, electricians, and probably a lot more that I'm not thinking of.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Be careful what you wish for. You might end up with "Scrum" and a de facto "story point" weekly/daily quota.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
One of the nice things about M:N is it decouples concurrency from parallelism. That is, your application can spawn as many inexpensive green threads as the task requires without worrying about optimizing for core count or capping threads to
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by bkeroack 11y ago
To shave the world, of course.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
We're hiring software engineers at DSC: SDEI (software development engineer in infrastructure), SDET, iOS/Android engineers and platform engineers. Email engineering-careers@dollarshaveclub.com
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Rather than run all network traffic through their single daemon, my feeling is that it's better to abstract your containers into pods and discoverable services like Kubernetes. Increasingly my feeling regarding Docker, Inc is "too
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by bkeroack 11y ago
"You're in an industry reaping disproportionate benefit from loose money policies, leading to a trend-chasing culture of overpaid nerds making web apps." This is how software engineers undervalue themselves and damage their o
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by bkeroack 11y ago
It sounds like proper English.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
I suspect capturing runoff is not nearly as simple as it seems. In SoCal/LA it rarely rains, so when it does rain a few times a year the runoff is a black, horrendously toxic stew of petrochemicals and urban detritus. For a day or two
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by bkeroack 11y ago
I'm not sure how you could call it a consensus algorithm without putting updates through the state machine, since that's essentially all Raft does . "The problem is the heartbeat; you can't have every node talking to ev
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Among other things, an unnecessary VM layer if all you ever run on is x86.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
I would word it slightly differently--in Go you are free to express yourself in exactly one way: the idiomatic Go way. Anything else will be painful (a good clue is if you find yourself using reflection frequently).
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by bkeroack 11y ago
If you mean a certificate for something like *.domain.com, then yes, every modern browser that I'm aware of will validate it properly.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
As icebraining wrote, it's technically possible with X.509, but nobody within the public CA industry will do it for business reasons. You could approach the problem by creating your own root CA for the domain and then issue subordinate
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by bkeroack 11y ago
> That's why in MMA most guys get 20k to 500k. Most MMA guys get a few hundred dollars for local/regional pro fights. UFC undercard fighters typically get a few thousand guaranteed (subtract out taxes and 3+ months of training
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by bkeroack 11y ago
This is basically why Kubernetes exists: for all the plumbing, discovery, etc required on top of bare containers. It still requires work to go from zero to production-quality stack, of course.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Xonsh[1] is even better. 1. http://xonsh.org/
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by bkeroack 11y ago
IDEs become indispensable primarily in giant, overly-OO tarballs where (in the words of Adele Goldberg) "everything happens somewhere else". In more sane languages/codebases you don't need to "jump to symbol definit
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by bkeroack 11y ago
The latency increase for HTTPS actually causes a measurable conversion difference in the e-commerce space. It sucks but it's true. edit: Downvoters--have you ever done measurements? Why do you think Amazon redirects HTTPS to HTTP for p
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Parent post has a good point. "High speed rail" (aka the bullet train) in California is a cruel joke. The current plans have been utterly corrupted by various special interests--for example, the trains being forced to share slow c
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Echelon had been going on for a long time before the PATRIOT Act[1]. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

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