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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Traveling by train across Europe, specially if you are going from one city to the next, is quite nice. On great way to do that is to buy an interrail pass: https://www.interrail.eu/en/interrail-passes/global-pass
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
I've played with Puppet, Ansible and SaltStack (never with Chef however). The fact Ansible is agentless is somewhat of a downside IMHO. We have a fairly large deployment, and our Ansible code is basically a glorified setup shell script
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
For that solution to work, you need to be extra cautious about ownership. If you are the sole contributor, no issue there. But if you start receiving contributions from outside (Pull Requests on Github for example), then part of the code is
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
The level of bloat in term of external calls can also be astonishing. This week-end I was analyzing an app of a classified advertising for buying/renting houses and condos. The app makes quite a fair amount of calls to recover the ads
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
And also, both sides don't exactly follow MAD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credible_minimum_deterrence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_deterrence Basically, it's not "I can
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
On the subject of stealth, I've always wondered if stealth aircraft could not actually be detected fairly easily. True, stealth aircraft have an extremely small radar cross-section. But I'm guessing they also have very specific an
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
I tend to agree, it sounds more like a woman's voice to me. I guess some people will hear a man's voice. It will be like "the dress is blue/yellow". Case and point, this is probably not perceived as "neutral&qu
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Not really, it's something I was confronted to when I was working on military contracts a few years ago. From what I recall, it's very waterfall minded in term of specification workflow, it's also quite document heavy, and th
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Microservices are interesting. Not Technically, as they increase complexity. But they enable something really powerful: continuity of means, continuity of responsibility, that way a small team has full hand of developing AND operating a pie
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Mock doesn't have COW (copy on write), cowbuilder by contrast creates a base chroot, then use copy on write to enrich it per build. This speeds-up things considerably. Also, cowbuilder runs fine with several instance running at the sam
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
I do it several times per day. When you are maintaining a piece of garbage application, completely undersized, absurdly opened in term of filtering and extremely badly designed, it's the only way to manage this mess, not to mention the
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Not necessarily, IIRC, with a stalled airplane the engines can surge, which pretty much look like a plane on fire from the ground. I'm not 100% certain however, if someone can say if I'm wrong or not, he is welcome ^^.
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
The Debian tooling can be really fantastic at time. If the upstream is clean (project with a proper setup.py/Makefile/CMake/Makefile.pl/etc), you only have to declare the meta-data, the build and runtime dependencies and
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Another shameless plug: https://github.com/kakwa/amkecpak It doesn't exactly simplify the Debian packaging in my case as it leaves the packaging mostly exposed. But it provides a lot of far more convenient and eas
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
The point of this grant is not to help software. The point is to help a service gain market shares and displace at least a little Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook, and limit the inpact of having only US companies in that field. Email is a bit overl
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Not having an emergency braking system should not have been a no no in this particular test. It was a prototype with probably many parts not working properly, that's why there was a human to check what was happening and act in case of
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Just yesterday I came across one of his other videos, and I guess Bryan Cantrill still as a bit of grudge against Oracle: Light ranting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm8P4oCIY3g&t=10m10s A bit heavier ranting (with th
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
I'm not talking for the US but for what I experienced in France. In France there is a dedicated system for engineering studies (Classes preparatoires + Grandes Ecoles). You do 2 years of intensive Math and Physics (classe preparatoire)
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Laws already helped to break large monopolies in the past. At one point, the internet giants will probably be broken into several entities as they start to have detrimental effect on society, we are seeing the early stages with Zuckerberg&#
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Yes, Europe has a lot of software engineering. The issue is Europe has very few flag ship companies in Tech. Not sure as to why, part of it may be the fragmented nature of Europe (lot of small/medium sized countries with different lang
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
I used to have Gentoo, specially when I was a student. It was definitely an interesting experience, and the skills I learnt are useful in many other contexts. But when I started working, I switched to Debian, maintaining a Gentoo was a bit
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
On my personal projects, I like writing the documentation. What I specially like is having the documentation live right next to the software, typically in the same repository. That way, you have a clear incentive to update it when doing cha
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
I'm wondering how aurora would behave with queries mixing read and write. For example, with something like "INSERT INTO my_table(field1, field2, field3, ...) SELECT f1, f2, f3... from root_table WHERE ...", I'm wondering
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
I'm wondering if an AI could be trained to recognize the good/mhea/bad tweets from Elon Musk (by looking at the time of tweets, reactions in the press, and Tesla stock price). A "Should Musk have tweeted that" app o
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Just a few months ago I replaced nearly the same laptop (Thinkpad x61 in my case, with SSD and 4GB RAM upgrades). It has served me well for 6 years (I bought it secondhand), but it started to definitely show its age. It started to have diff
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
The Linux Desktop has problems, yes, but that's Ok. We just have to accept that Linux will never be a mainstream desktop environment. A desktop environment needs a well polished experience. And this experience can only be created by ce
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Maybe it would be interesting to look at the past. Was the PowerBook as heavily used as a developer laptop as the MacBook is today? (or Power Mac vs desktop PC as desktops were more common at the time). I was not in the industry at the time
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
It's likely that ARM will find a place in a cloud. But, at, least at first, it will be in some specific parts of a cloud offering. I don't see ARM displacing X86 on VMs offering like EC2 any time soon, an ARM offering will exists
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
It will most likely kill apple laptops as a developer platform. Unless you are deeply disconnected from the hardware, CPU architecture does matter. Most developers using macbooks I know have VMs for either Windows or Linux works. It might b
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
The French hierarchy of UBS got some prison time, but it's 6 to 18 suspended prison sentences, so no real jail time. They were also fined 50000 to 300000 euros personally (they have to pay as private citizens, it's not part of the

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