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by dozzie 9y ago
What is modern about it? How does it compare to SCons that is more than a decade old?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> To me, that's not the same as the forgiving parsers of HTML and PDF. Oh, of course it's not the same. The point is, in both cases users want strictness, but don't know that they want. Users want web pages that are easy f
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Developers may prefer to strictly parse HTML and any non-compliance results in a "page error". But the websurfers want that page data [...] Note that similar thing was happening with SSL/TLS connections for a long time
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Whenever anything cryptocurrency or blockchain is posted, nearly all the comments label it as a "scam" fueled by "greed". When it's another blockchain-as-a-cloud-serverless-service, it's usually made by cr
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by dozzie 9y ago
Not in C, in C#. It's a vast difference.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Being productive in a corporate environment doesn't take much time at the right level of the stack. Exactly the same could be said about electric engineers, except that they are regulated and need to be certified.
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by dozzie 9y ago
With ZFS I hear it's "pick one, and you cannot pick `low memory'".
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by dozzie 9y ago
The correct emphasis: dozens of industries dying because they can't adapt to millennials' preferences.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Not fun at all. Boring trivia, that's all.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Because it sounds like "start with tests, design and plan never". Too often tests-first is a substitute for a thought-out architecture and data flow.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> * aria2: no reference that it is a command line program > * Deluge: no reference that it is a command line program which requires quite a bit of configuring to get a web gui working $ apt-cache show aria2 | grep Tag Tag: imple
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by dozzie 9y ago
I CANNOT HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF HOW FAST IT IS!
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by dozzie 9y ago
Sysadmin-related subjects. Otherwise we wouldn't have badly reimplemented from scratch binary and source packages or static linking and fragile software deployed in the most stupid ways possible.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Splunk.
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by dozzie 9y ago
RFC 2616?
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by dozzie 9y ago
It's not really "fighting corruption". It's elbowing in to the trough.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> In an industry rife with corruption that often resorts to bully tactics [...] So you like him for fighting corruption with more corruption and ignoring laws left and right?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> It doesn't add things, it takes them away, notably exceptions, inheritance, generics. s/exceptions/error handling/ What Go proposes is awful for a modern language.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> The conflation between 'strong' and 'static', and 'weak' and 'dynamic', is probably terminal at this point, Type system of C is weak and static. Type system of JavaScript is weak and dynamic. Typ
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by dozzie 9y ago
First, this annoyance does not come from static typing , it comes from C#'s type system. There are statically typed languages where you just construct the value and assign it to a variable, and compiler infers variable's type f
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by dozzie 9y ago
Except that it's not clean environment. Make it a properly built DEB or RPM package, and then we're starting (but just starting) to talk about clean. Note also that binary packages help with repeatable deployment that uses Doc
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by dozzie 9y ago
Funny how doing anything non-standard with Windows OS requires to "team up with Microsoft": first Docker, now Terraform. I read it as a quite a lot of deep changes in Windows to make it fit.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Congratulations, now you see why software external to your chosen distribution you should always host from your own repository. Retention policy does matter.
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by dozzie 9y ago
This API is free, though somewhat incomplete: int publish(const char *document, size_t doc_size, const char *type); int obtain(char **document, size_t *doc_size, const char *doc_id); HTH.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Talk with other people in your field (real people, not cherry-picked histories that could be made up or at least heavily colorized), and not only the ones that talk at conferences. You'll realize that your peers know much less and
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by dozzie 9y ago
Contentless marketing piece. BTW, you do realize that nobody trendy uses Nagios anymore, so you're late to the party by half a decade?
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by dozzie 9y ago
No, it's not really like that. It's more like preparing an instruction on how to execute some complicated process, say, cook a fancy meal, for somebody who is very dumb (but will follow the instruction precisely).
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by dozzie 9y ago
> What are your methods of unsubscribing? My favourite is not to subscribe in the first place. My second favourite is to add a position to sieve filter.
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by dozzie 9y ago
You mean, something like App::RecordStream?
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by dozzie 9y ago
Actually the opposite, I know quite well why I need something else instead of Ansible. Some of the top reasons are that Ansible has the architecture that mistmatches what's needed for configuration management (push instead of pull that

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