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541.
by hapless 13y ago
Specifically, much gem metadata is stored as a ruby script. To get some information about a gem, I have to execute the ruby code. Python libraries that use setuptools are the same way.
542.
by hapless 13y ago
Yes, freezing particular OS configurations into golden images on a virt platform can make a source-based approach repeatable. Unfortunately, this just moves the problem: I now have to maintain the golden images. Relying on virtualization fo
543.
by hapless 13y ago
puppet, facter, rake, mongrel use 'sed' to edit the code on the fly at install time, to set shebang lines etc There are surely many others, these are just the ones I have at hand as examples.
544.
by hapless 13y ago
"bundle package" still just bundles the source packages. Installing all of the gems then packaging the resulting directory is an example of an artifact-based approach. I prefer to do it gem-by-gem using 'fpm' in order
545.
by hapless 13y ago
There are two easy/sane ways to solve your problem. 1. RHEL / CentOS solve this problem with "software collections," aka "scl." Using scl gets you the advantages of ye olde retargetable RPMs but without all the
546.
by hapless 13y ago
This guy doesn't seem to understand the real differences between java/clojure packaging, and scripting language packaging. Ruby's "gems" are source packages. When a gem is installed, arbitrary code is executed, C
547.
by hapless 13y ago
I, personally, would consider you a bad person for crossing a picket line. You, or some other person, might feel differently. Whether you accept my assumptions, or the picketers' assumptions, doesn't determine how you will be judg
548.
by hapless 13y ago
If you cross a picket line, you have publicly cast your lot with a particular class. Whether you are a bad person is in the eye of the beholder.
549.
by hapless 13y ago
If your pizza delivery driver crossed a picket line, yes, he is scabbing.
550.
by hapless 13y ago
In this case, the airport is their work site. If a Wendy's employee attempted to cross a McD's picket line to work at the McDs, things would not go very well.
551.
by hapless 13y ago
Not being a member of the union and working during a strike is the definition of scabbing.
552.
by hapless 13y ago
In this case, they ARE scabs.
553.
by hapless 13y ago
This is one of the reasons that people don't cross picket lines. Good people won't cross them out of principle. The unprincipled among us may encounter other obstacles. It is very likely this driver got his just deserts.
554.
by hapless 13y ago
This won't stop firmware attacks.
555.
by hapless 13y ago
It's about time. Facebook's ad inventory has historically been worthless. It doesn't matter how precisely you target the ads if you don't have the attention of the audience. Facebook had none of the "intent-harves
556.
by hapless 13y ago
Hotel laws were implemented to prevent exactly the sort of services AirBnB offers. The change in context is only that in the modern age, it is easier to advertise illegal services and get away with it. AirBnB could ban all the illegal posti
557.
by hapless 13y ago
lots and lots of historic districts there are crippling height restrictions all over the place, and you have to buy un-used "air rights" from your neighbors to build anything taller than what already exists in the neighborhood env
558.
by hapless 13y ago
Subleasing is legally protected in New York. Operating an illegal hotel is not.
559.
by hapless 13y ago
That is the consumer surplus for his customers. The criminal vendor and his customers are always individually better off, or else no transaction would take place. Society suffers from the externalities of a criminal business.
560.
by hapless 13y ago
The good compromise already exists: * Sub-leasing is legal in NYC, for medium-term rentals. You are free to sub-lease your place during your month in europe, you are not free to sub-lease it nightly to transients. * Owner-occupied Bed-and-
561.
by hapless 13y ago
Manhattan could re-zone to permit a great deal more construction, but it is unlikely to happen. First, residents strongly oppose it. Second, much of the transport system is maxed out. Building more housing or office space would only over
562.
by hapless 13y ago
Hotel law was absolutely created to regulate people renting out their places. The early working-class hotels were owner-occupied tenements with short leases. Hotel regulation was written with that picture in mind. And I simply cannot beli
563.
by hapless 13y ago
if a 15% hotel tax is what steers you away from one of the world's preeminent tourist destinations, I'm not sure that you were going to add much to the local economy. (To be a little less snarky, the microeconomics of the situatio
564.
by hapless 13y ago
* He is defrauding his landlords. They rented him property on the understanding that it was a legal and low-risk engagement. * He is hurting the neighbors to the properties he re-rents. They arranged to live in residential neighborhoods a
565.
by hapless 13y ago
He's not very different from AirBnB. He breaks the law directly. AirBnB merely induces its customers to break the law. In both cases, they're bad actors.
566.
by hapless 13y ago
He's a criminal. Of course his business is zero sum. His profits and the consumer surpluses of his customers are balanced against the losses to society.
567.
by hapless 13y ago
I approve of the law as it stands. Hotel taxes and hotel regulation improve my quality of life. He breaks the law for money. As a result, I would like to see him punished. (As a secondary matter, he is loathsome for defrauding his landlord
568.
by hapless 13y ago
He knows that neighbors despise what he's doing, but he doesn't see any reason for us to have hotel regulations. That might stop him from making money. Color me surprised that he's a Rand disciple.
569.
by hapless 13y ago
This article proposes that we close the barn door after the horse is left. If my employer offered me a pension I'd laugh in his face. In 2013, a pension benefit's market value is $0. Who actually believes the money will be there w
570.
by hapless 13y ago
That already happened. There hasn't been meaningful competition in years.

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