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by mdekkers 9y ago
But not the software engineere! Because he/she is doing 'mind work'. This is bullshit. Can you qualify your "this is bullshit" statement? Other than just ranting about it? There is a significant difference between
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Not having a US number can also work against you That is solvable in literally 30 minutes, for $10
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by mdekkers 9y ago
I'm still waiting for anyone who downvoted to tell me what better alternatives to Deis Workflow exist The kind of people that prefer to downvote you because you said something they didn´t agree with are by definition not the kind of
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by mdekkers 9y ago
machine learning is all the rage these days, but actually turning it into a viable business on your own seems incredibly hard - both getting data to work on, doing something genuinely useful/valuable with it AND somehow monetizing tha
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Those concepts are extremely important, as long as they don´t interfere with profits.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
"None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to finalize any rule by the Consumer Product Safety Commission relating to blade-contact injuries on table saws," the rider on the budget bill reads. What the actual fuck.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
I spent 30 seconds looking at this, and have no idea what they are selling. The first "usable" content was something about taking down blue towers. If you have to sell me on the basis of a stretched LOTR reference, I am going to a
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by mdekkers 9y ago
barbarity? I´m glad the article brings it up: Genghis Khan is simply Mongolia’s greatest hero. The West recalls only what he conquered, but Mongolians remember what he created. His empire connected East and West, allowing the Silk Road to
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Really, HN? Parent might not be a _popular_ opinion, but the parent stated the opinion in a mature, non-inflammatory manner. Communities go downhill quickly when a certain "critical mass" of users get downvote rights, and downvoti
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by mdekkers 9y ago
He does not have a winning chance, simply because his memo was divisive and just insanely bad for moral there That is not how law works
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Does everything need to be about politics? If you bring >1 people together in some way, shape, or form, you will have politics.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
wow, chocolatey.org looks awesome. Thanks for the link!
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by mdekkers 9y ago
I had the pleasure of camping on the shores of the Ob sea several times, not far from the mentioned village. It is an amazingly beautiful place.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
FTA: Entangling a target in accusations of theft. One way is using the “drop” ruse, where an agent walking ahead of a target drops a wallet or bag, and when the target returns it, he is accused of stealing from it This is a well-known gen
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by mdekkers 9y ago
I was once given a "modified" MB test for a CTO position at $international_firm and had to show up at a "specialist consulting firm" to take the test (husband/wife team working from their living room) - They were ni
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by mdekkers 9y ago
* they seldom contribute to making the overall firm work more harmoniously* Ultimately, the point of hiring people is to make the firm work more profitably. Banks are not well known for their commitment to a harmonious workplace.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
K8 already won the orchestration battle. There is a battle? There is only room for a "single" orchestration platform? What about users with needs that differ from the mainstream? I find that such a limiting worldview on deployin
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by mdekkers 9y ago
The UK's speed cameras are brightly coloured Not everywhere. When was the last time you were on the M25? They are brightly coloured in places where they actively want you to reduce speed (residential areas and the like), and at infam
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Oh god, I despair of this country. After a decade of conservative I have never been so disillusioned. I feel like I am stuck in a rut or like, I don't belong here. It is a horrible feeling. Deep down I know that the government is stuc
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by mdekkers 9y ago
The times I have been over the safe driving limit in the UK, I have always climbed on the backseats to sleep, so that there could be no confusion about intent. I was once woken up by a policeman, told him I felt I was over the limit and dec
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by mdekkers 9y ago
NoOps means that application developers will never have to speak with an operations professional again. Unless is is the middle of the night and your site is down. Then you really want to be able to talk to an operations professions. Id
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Again, didn't we have this clickbait yesterday as well?
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by mdekkers 9y ago
minimega looks neat, but I don't want to sacrifice all the other libvirt-based tooling that's out there Great! So libvirt is a good fit for you, awesome. Maybe other people have other needs or wants, and now they have an alterna
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by mdekkers 9y ago
My guess is that minimega just grew out of your bespoke internal tools, and you never seriously tried to get rid of those tools and replace them with a more standard tool, like libvirt. It's disappointing I must have missed the toolc
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Mostly Drupal, some WP, some other custom stuff
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Indeed, it is guaranteed HA and autoscaling, no hassles on peak traffic, and dedicated maintenance work. It isn't cheap as such, but it is very price competitive.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Yes, and i'm not cheap. I have 2 HA clusters with 2 different providers, with sync and failover between the 2 sites. I also have DO as an emergency fallback / overflow. I manage and maintain everything for our clients. My cost is
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by mdekkers 9y ago
That is indeed what happened. Unfortunately, HN has become so fucking dour, and mindless downvoting is quickly replacing interesting discourse. This is no longer a place for some occasional lighthearted discourse.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold - some of the books are great, some not so much, and one is like a Harlequin novel in space - not what I was aiming for. Finishing them for completeness, but after 10 or 11 or so, they become boring
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by mdekkers 9y ago
It will kill my fiber to the home network box that my telco installed, and provides DHCP. It isn't a load issue, it is a "the DHCP server died" issue

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