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by dozzie 9y ago
> Unlike most package systems, most people that develop in docker containers are writing the equivalent of a package manifest (Dockerfile) Dockerfile is a set of build rules. You need to have build rules for RPMs and DEBs (unless you use
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by dozzie 9y ago
Dude, you come to a discussion without knowing the basic concepts. What exactly did you expect?
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Do you realize that " that stuff" is merely a binary packages system?
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This is very much not what distributed consensus is. You don't "work on the same hard math problem" and you don't get "a reward to encourage further problem solving". Consensus is agreeing on a value among (alm
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by dozzie 9y ago
> * Distributed consensus schemes are not useful only for monetary applications. OK, but blockchain is not a distributed consensus protocol. It's a document timestamping protocol.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Wow, David Howells put a lot of work into his April fools joke.
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by dozzie 9y ago
I don't know a thing about poker, so I'll take it at a face value, but the spam prevention idea is bullshit. It's not new, it wasn't new even twenty years ago, from what I remember. It wouldn't fly back then, and no
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by dozzie 9y ago
> There are many uses for blockchain other than as a cryptocurrency. Well, yes, but most of them (my pet peeve being voting) are as bullshit as cryptocurrency. Do you have an example that is not a bullshit?
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Magnetic tapes? They were proven to last a few decades.
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> Think a little more deviously: you block someone but your personal data, slanderous fakes, etc. is still out there. They can’t message you directly but can send it to everyone you interact with. Also known as "please don't pu
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Please stop with this advertisement. And I am advertising what exactly? > [...] whether its 150 users or 1500, it's not you who is going to decide if he needs one or not. Indeed, it's not me who decides, it's the real
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by dozzie 9y ago
Congratulations, you have reached the point of realization that adding a dependency has a cost . From now on you just need to evaluate if a library or module gives you enough to justify the cost of including it.
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For 150 users you need a sysadmin. Go and hire one.
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Postfix with Dovecot or Cyrus IMAP, along with a good sysadmin.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Two xterms. Stop asking those boring, artificial questions about uninteresting trivia. There is enough traffic on HN without them.
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No, very much not. There is no such thing as consensus in blockchain. Can you (you in particular) even define the term "consensus"? Can you explain how does your definition relate to what is commonly used in computer science and h
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by dozzie 9y ago
> PoW is just one of available consensus algorithms. No, because blockchain is not a consensus protocol .
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I think the fundamental assumption is that "Satoshi invented a useful solution to decentralized consensus". And this very assumption is so untrue. What Satoshi invented is document timestamping protocol, not consensus protoco
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by dozzie 9y ago
> So, preemptive green-threads? This seems like a counter-productive and highly complicated re-implementation of what the OS thread model does, but inside the Go runtime. It would be indeed a reimplementation of what OS does, but note th
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Windows is often the only vendor-supported choice for interfacing your computer applications to PLCs and such things. Which is not a problem by itself, since PLC, being an industrial equipment, should operate independently from a non-i
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> [...] not all settings were applied until you opened the UI provided by the vendor. [...] the NICs would reboot, just long enough to kill TCP connections. The UI part suggests that it was Windows, and if it was, it's not quite the
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Best programming language for rapid development? > [...] assuming a person has no prior programming background [...] Then learn programming first. If you have no prior experience, the development will be anything but rapid, no matte
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> at least he's willing to be held accountable Not really. He refused to testify before UK Parliament. I guess he didn't feel that he has any real choice in the case of his own country of origin.
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And that's how one should hire people for less popular languages (for the popular ones too, probably).
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There is this curious divergence between what people writing in Haskell consider elegant and what virtually everybody else considers elegant. I can't make heads or tails of your example, even though I'm versed enough in functional
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Ownership transfer contracts are one such example. We assume here that the signatures under a contract cannot be forged and the contract itself cannot be modified without the consent of the involved parties, but digital signatures used in (
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by dozzie 9y ago
Note that storing health records is a very dumb try of using blockchain. No wonder that you have trouble seeing how blockchain would be of any help, though probably for reasons different than the proper ones. Blockchain is a service that ad
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This one reason is somewhat OK, but note that these "nice stack traces" are not really that useful in functional languages (Erlang being a prominent example). It's a self-inflicted thing that full stack traces are that useful
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> Which people do this? The ones that don't use man pages themselves, obviously. > Why do they do this? They couldn't fathom that there are people who are working mainly in terminal and don't want to leave it for readin
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by dozzie 9y ago
> To me it seems that every alleged application of blockchain technology can be done by having a trusted organization maintaining a reliable database. Congratulations, you have just discovered that every application of a decentralized

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