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by gatestone 5y ago
Immutable means "something that can not be changed" and is used somewhat strangely here. Better be more concrete: Yes, we want to have declarative configurations and idempotent "terraform apply". Yes we want to have cont
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by gatestone 5y ago
For geeking this is great. For getting my existing containers running I would use Google Kubernetes service GKE with Terraform and be done with it in minutes.
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by gatestone 5y ago
If you use the Amazon Kubernetes service or similar at Google or Azure (EKS, GKE, AKS) you can pretty much let them manage your VMs. With Terraform it’s a breeze, start with the defaults and try different setups.
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by gatestone 5y ago
“Programs = data structures + algorithms” If you have more than one program, they need shared data and access procedures, like the “user” and “the hardware”. Who manages them: The OS? Maybe you want to share a bit more like some common high
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by gatestone 5y ago
You may be an exceptional character: very dumb or smart; maybe too sensitive of too unemphatic; on some strange neurodiversity spectrum; maybe you was raised by a bit too personal parents; maybe you adopted radical or odd ideologies etc., a
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by gatestone 5y ago
The conflict between the external world and your inner self (psychology, neurology,nurture) is a situational problem, not so much medical. You don’t have to seek blame, not from outside or inside in your self. But you can look for a solutio
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by gatestone 5y ago
The best quote: ”The concept of property is fundamental to our society, probably to any workable society. Operationally, it is understood by every child above the age of three. Intellectually, it is understood by almost no one.”
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by gatestone 5y ago
The book is not juridically or economically naive. Externalities are considered. The book is also not about moral philosophy and a priori concepts of property and freedom. Friedman is utilitarian, trying to figure the "machinery"
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by gatestone 5y ago
This is my Bible.
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by gatestone 5y ago
I have Dropbox Plus. Image search only works on Professional? I am pretty happy with iPhone/iCloud image search. I sync to Dropbox and Google Photos as a backup. But my older photos are only in Dropbox. I am considering copying it all
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by gatestone 5y ago
I experienced my worst emotionally stressfull events at age of 39 and 55. The latter was harder, and the trauma is not really healed after three years. Everything that you can say shortly about feelings and age is going to be badly oversimp
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by gatestone 5y ago
I also want to point out this classic, to better understand Unicode in general. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
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by gatestone 6y ago
There is a lot of Wirth influence in Go, like “goroutines”, and Oberon style type embedding. Google Go team including Rob Pike are fans of Wirth, and Robert Griesemer actually comes from ETH.
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by gatestone 6y ago
Another win for Go.
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by gatestone 6y ago
Another cruel tip is to put all your procrastination prone Web accounts behind complex login controls (passwords behind 2 factor authentication Lastpass with paranoid settings), and purge your cookies often.
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by gatestone 6y ago
What has somewhat worked for me is Focusmate. You make a video call to a stranger, and you both commit to 50 minutes of work. I guess you could do that with a workmate or a friend, if you dare be honest in needing that kind of basic childli
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by gatestone 6y ago
Yes, it is not mentioned enough. The demoscene in Finland (or the people there) pretty much created a 2 G$ dollar game industry from scratch.
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by gatestone 6y ago
Who would have thought, that if you let your software to remember your password and use it automatically, it must store it somewhere? The criticism of not using the Windows API for storing secrets is valid, though, but it still does not hel
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by gatestone 7y ago
I think the magazine actually apologized later. They said they were wrong about Iraq. But many others too, including me, genuinely believed that Saddam Hussein was going to continue using poison gas, and was trying to create a nuclear weapo
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by gatestone 7y ago
Cognitive techniques to fight procrastination and to get control of your life and work are important. But if your problems are deeply emotional or spiritual or physical, the will-power will only get you so far. My therapist says that will-p
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by gatestone 7y ago
IP level multicast routing turned out to be too difficult in large scale. There are a several somewhat subtle reasons and mis-incentives, perhaps the most pressing being scheduling and time and bandwith synchronization between receivers. TC
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by gatestone 7y ago
Michael Chrichton wrote about this syndrome. When the economist writes about my job, IT, it is usually pretty good. When it writes about my country, Finland, it is sometimes a bit shallow, but the facts are still right. https://w
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by gatestone 7y ago
Small special wikis are very different fron Wikipedia.
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by gatestone 7y ago
So what is the state of art? Is there a decent software available, that actually works? An app that a small company could use easily, say, for employee expense reports with reliable data parsing and automatic expense/tax calculations?
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by gatestone 7y ago
Keep this pinned on top of Hacker news, please.
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by gatestone 7y ago
Here is a beautiful example. Using "screen" to switch every 5 minutes or so... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG-UaBJXZ80
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by gatestone 7y ago
As credited there on the page, this was the orginal: https://http2.golang.org/gophertiles
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by gatestone 7y ago
What's wrong with NNTP? At least as a starting point?
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by gatestone 7y ago
By "learning" you mean "reading Hacker News"? ;-)
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by gatestone 7y ago
It's very hard for a non-expert in the field to estimate the correlation vs. causality fallacies in a study like this.

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