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by mickeyp 7y ago
Most enterprises use Artifactory or something similar -- or should anyway. Once you start enforcing "no internet for CI" you start to see how poor some ecosystems are. I'm looking at you, Javascript ecosystem packages, with y
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by mickeyp 7y ago
I can only imagine how cathartic it must've been for some of those developers to write those messages, even if it ultimately didn't help them much in the end. When people pirate stuff today it's easy to write it off as sticki
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by mickeyp 7y ago
I find it easier to tell people to not focus on learning Emacs's own movement keys to start with. For most, it adds a lot of confusion on top of learning the terminology and idiosyncrasies. Starting out with the arrows keys first and t
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by mickeyp 8y ago
Nope - RHEL 7.x. Various incarnations, too.
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by mickeyp 8y ago
Keep in mind, when this solution was adopted Docker were still wedded to Swarm. Even if they stop caring about it -- as they pretty much have now -- we have a system that works at rest. Two years on, the team(s) that handle the production s
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by mickeyp 8y ago
I made a tradeoff; keep in mind, it's not always the case that the best technology wins. Running <Technology X> is all well and good, but if you cannot keep it running perfectly, or it results in unacceptable downtime due to oper
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by mickeyp 8y ago
That's true. However, consider this environment: - The ops team are in a different country, and are wedded to very old-fashioned views of administration ("Automation? But I like manually running commands from a runbook!") - Y
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by mickeyp 8y ago
A shame, really, but not a huge surprise that products like Swarm fell by the wayside. I feel it could've occupied a nice middleground for teams that didn't need the full capabilities (or overhead of supporting) Kubernetes, even t
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by mickeyp 8y ago
When I worked in commodities trading about 8-9 years ago, everyone used Yahoo Chat. However, it also popped up a message (as I recall) informing the user their conversations were being recorded for regulatory reasons.
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by mickeyp 8y ago
Writing TSRs were the holy grail for me back in the day. I cut my teeth on Turbo C and even to this day I fondly remember hacking around with them. The first thing I did when I got internet access in 1996 was look up information on how how
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by mickeyp 8y ago
Qemm was essential. Not only did it hook CTRL+ALT+DEL to skip the POST BIOS check, making reboots faster, but it made it possible to shunt stuff out of convential memory into extended memory, making it possible to run games whilst having va
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by mickeyp 8y ago
Yes, it is. You will benefit greatly from the tight integration between shells, remote file editing, database support (albeit fairly simple, compared to dedicated tools) and obviously an excellent editing environment in general.
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by mickeyp 8y ago
Ahh, I see. Shame. Nevertheless, it kindled my nostalgia for Amiga!
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by mickeyp 8y ago
Oh, man. That really takes me back. Nothing makes me sadder than the demise of the Amiga :( Impressive effort. I wonder if it's using UAE or another emulation layer cross-compiled to JS?
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by mickeyp 8y ago
Ah, yes, I remember that. I think it was because the modems didn't differentiate between the various layers in the transport stream and took anything resembling low-level modem commands to be gospel.
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by mickeyp 8y ago
This came in as a result of this. I specifically helped users fix this problem back in the day. Remember, this was the 90s.
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by mickeyp 8y ago
Back in the 90s mIRC would download files to the root directory of mIRC itself -- long before the concept of separating user data and code became the norm on Windows -- and if people had "auto accept file transfers" enabled people
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by mickeyp 8y ago
I spent a lot of time on this before I settled on Pandoc and reStructuredText. However, if you have a publisher, they may dictate the medium. I wrote about my experience writing a book on Emacs in Emacs here, and the tooling I used [1] [1]
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by mickeyp 8y ago
Indeed. Apropos batch processing, I wrote about executing shell commands against marked files in Dired. It may tickle your fancy and help you out---assuming you're not familiar with it already of course! https://www.masterin
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by mickeyp 8y ago
Aside from EShell, the shells you use in Emacs (via M-x ansi-term or M-x shell) are whatever you want them to be. I use bash, but I know plenty who use ZSH and Fish. I also do what OP does: I do as much as I can in Emacs to leverage what Em
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by mickeyp 8y ago
The best bash (or any other shell) "trick" is to learn how to use GNU Readline. Once you understand that most shells and other commandline REPLs use it, you can leverage the same, consistent keyboard commands across all of them. C
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by mickeyp 8y ago
Scraping websites like AliExpress and Ebay for trademark and brand infringement. There are many vendors who sell fake tat on the internet, and there are companies out there who track it down on behalf of the brand owners. These companies te
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by mickeyp 9y ago
Thanks! I replied to the OP; but weighing, although critical to our needs, was a small part of a larger problem space we had to solve. I hate introducing new technology unless it's strictly required, but we ran into limitations that fo
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by mickeyp 9y ago
(I did leave out some bits that made it more complicated than I indicated.) Also, this was years ago; I know PG has improved its FTS a lot since then. ES is just a useful tool. If you can express your problem in relational terms then a RDBM
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by mickeyp 9y ago
I disagree. I've had to build complex queries against ElasticSearch and it is specifically designed for things like this. We had custom weightings so when you searched for certain natural keys associated with each item they would rank
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by mickeyp 9y ago
But you can already do this. FROM myregistry.example.com/foo:1.2.3@sha256:<hash> You can call `docker build --network=none` to disable network access during the build step. Why would you make a lock file from a Dockerfile? You ca
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by mickeyp 9y ago
Herman Miller. Not just because it's a good chair, but because it's repairable and you can buy second-hand replacement parts. I bought my chair used and have since then replaced a number of components on it. It's a Frankenmil
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by mickeyp 9y ago
Ahh, memories -- memories of waiting in a queue to download something only to forget to enable "auto-accept DCC send" and have it time out some time around 2 AM! Thanks for inventing XDCC :) IRC and online chat was a lot more fun
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by mickeyp 9y ago
They don't need it - but they sure do make it easier.
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by mickeyp 9y ago
Is it that uncommon? Mac users using a hypervisor? Windows using running Linux in a Virtualbox? That's pretty common in corporate environments... I am talking about rebuilding the Vagrant image every time you change it - as you are won

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