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by markbnj 8y ago
> Does being on Medium really give you that much in the way of foot traffic or networking effect? Don't disagree with your points but as someone who publishes on Medium I think the answer to the above question is yes.
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The statement was made on the AWS blog, which was linked from an earlier post of this item I think. Anyway: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-open-distro-for-elastic... > This is not a fork; we will continue
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by markbnj 8y ago
Worked as a roady for a band in high school. Worked in the holds of ships and in engine rooms and around other very loud equipment as a young adult. Never wore hearing protection nor did anyone ever suggest I wear it. At 58 I now have prett
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Well to be fair they explicitly said it wasn't a fork, and that any work they do on it will be pushed upstream. The cynical view, I guess, is that the commits they push will be providing free features that compete with Elastic's p
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Generally just the company's site, any other stuff they have posted publicly, news stories about them, etc. I rely mostly on my own personal impressions of the team and leadership. I have only worked for one public company and with tha
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I feel like this post is a good illustration of a lesson I learned quite painfully... two or three times before it sank in. When you have a business and you feel like saying a thing, if you can't think of a strong practical benefit to
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This has to be just a money grab right? How can they possibly contend that people using ride sharing services exacerbates road congestion? Neither of their arguments makes any sense.
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I disagree. You seem to prefer a strong docker-centric idea of package management. I think that by drawing the line where they did they made it possible for anyone to use whatever package management scheme made sense for a given application
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> I feel like containers are alright, but Docker is a partial dumpster fire. cgroup isolation is good, the crazy way we deal with packages in container systems is not so good. Can you expand on this? With respect to packages a container
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I'm sure this will trawl up some anti-google opinions, but I've had a good experience with Smartlock. If you're bought into the chrome ecosystem it works very well. I'm aggressive about getting rid of old accounts and pr
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Agreed, that was my experience buying a gazelle laptop a couple of years ago. I still use it daily and have never had an issue with the software. They also make it trivial to reinstall by providing all needed drivers in installable packages
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I'm amazed about once every three years when I hear or read something that reminds me delphi is still around. For nostalgia's sake, here's a link to the pre-release review of Delphi 95 that I wrote for Dr. Dobb's back in
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It looks to me like the default result set has 11k or so documents, which is very small. A couple of years ago I helped build a specialized vertical search engine that provided faceted search over a similarly-sized dataset. We used django o
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by markbnj 8y ago
> If we assume that there are two million of us, each earning on average $200,000 and saving $80,000 At least the last two of those numbers seem very high to me. $200k might be the average if you're just looking at major metro tech
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Creative products like films, games, music, etc. involve significant risk. You can put tens of millions into a thing and find out that the public just didn't like your vision. Boom, money gone. Onto the next thing. Corporations that ge
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> No, they don't. I'm a gamer myself (infrequently these days to be fair). You can have excellent performance with maxed out settings on big ol' 4K displays... on last year's GPUs, which work fine with Nouveau. I don&
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> Is a photo published in a disreputable magazine significantly worse than the information already out so far which already got people thinking about him sexting anyway Yes, unequivocally. I suspect any PR person would agree. You can dou
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I assume you're trolling, and already know that kubernetes is open source, has many key contributors outside of Google, and that we can spin it up on bare hardware if for some unlikely reason we needed to do that.
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We're a GCP customer and I definitely cringed in real life when I read the post. We're building cloud portability into our new deployment tooling and moving as many things as possible to kubernetes, so we can be somewhat prepared.
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Interesting read. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know anything about the charges, but just on the face of it they have the feel of criminalizing something that used to be winked at due to the person involved no longer enjoying the su
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> I visited Seattle for the first time a month ago and was warned someone might throw a bottle at my car for my California plates. This same crap was literally in the air almost 30 years ago when I lived in LA and traveled to Seattle and
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I agree with you generally but it's not just the tiles. They also made a lot of changes around how settings and other features are accessed to make them more touch friendly, and if you're just trying to get in and change a thing i
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Great piece, and a lot of it rings very true, especially the part about managing warring subgroups within enterprise sales prospects. Back in the early 2ks a startup I cofounded to sell to huge banks (enterprise sales on steroids) did a dea
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Yeah exactly why I always commit renames right away and atomically. I mean it's a _relatively_ rare thing and when I have to do it I just want to make and record the change and then move on. Renaming and then modifying a file in the sa
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> Second, it's a bit delusional to say most serious musicians can easily afford 22k Euros on what is essentially an experimental piano. Never said anything of the sort so I am not sure who you are arguing with. I said that it was no
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$22k on an instrument is not an eye-raising amount of money for a "serious" musician. I'm a (not very serious) guitarist and I have a couple k into my '74 Martin D18. You can _easily_ spend $10-20k or more on a high end
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I don't see anything at all unprofessional about that reply. It's critical, but it is not unprofessional imo.
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> For a few hours, builds ran smoothly. As expected, eventually the agent died during a build. Builds sat queued, my frustration grew, and AWS notified my instance needed a doctor. After an hour I gave up hope for the unresponsive server
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This is nothing more than my own opinion, formed over 25 years in software: look forward, not back. If you find yourself venting on a site like glassdoor stop and think it through. Yes ostensibly the point is to help others avoid a similar
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I love this post, and as someone who has worked remotely for a decade or so, and currently works for an all-remote company, I agree strongly with his points. I'd add that remote work offers us an opportunity to spread the economic bene

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