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by sjellis 10y ago
Yes, I'm hugely impressed by how much the teams at Microsoft have accomplished in the time, and how they have managed to change the direction of the platform without making a big mess. .NET Core could never be feature-complete on versi
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Good points, particularly about industrial uses (I've seen impressive things for agriculture, and can see the use cases in institutions and other large buildings like hotels). I guess that I look at the current consumer products, and t
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There's also the "Star Trek factor" (I just made us this term). Tech people grow up watching or reading science fiction and then try to build the stuff for real, because it would be cool. We'll have to see if ordinary pe
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I wondered why Samsung seems to be going hard into not just IoT, but also into cloud (by buying Joyent). IoT is going to be the new "convergence", isn't it? Technical and business people get really excited, lots of effort is
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Homebrew is a killer app for MacOS right now. I could switch back to Linux on the desktop (and spent quite a bit time investigating the possibility), but it could actually be harder to keep my Open Source tools up to date. Linuxbrew exists
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I wish that Ubuntu wasn't the default desktop Linux - they have a development process that means that they don't necessarily ship stable software, they use their own graphical interface stack that nobody else works on, and they do
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Fedora folks have been thinking about this problem for a while, and in the long-term we may see the distribution get restructured to address it: https://blog.fishsoup.net/2016/08/24/summer-talks-purpleegg&#x2F
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That is exactly the problem. Linux containerisation is done by building tooling that uses kernel-level features. You don't need a start-up with millions in VC funding to implement the basic feature-set. At the other end of the complexi
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There are concerns at every level about the decisions coming from Docker, Inc. and there have been consistent issues for a long time. Swarm is just the latest issue, and the arguably the worst, since none of the key decisions are defensible
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Urgh, double-post and no edit or delete options - thanks, HN.
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Were you using Linux developer machines? Docker, Inc. provide ready-made installers for Windows and Mac - the Docker ToolBox makes setting up on those OSes very easy these days. I haven't tried the new products that replace ToolBox yet
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The actual package management system for PowerShell modules is PowerShellGet. AIUI, PackageManagement really is just a convenience for providing a consistent set of PowerShell commands for driving arbitrary package management systems, and h
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AIUI, PackageManagement really is literally just a convenience API for providing a consistent set of calls for driving arbitrary package management systems, and has no package management capabilities at all itself. It's actually not Wi
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This was really good advice. I've taken the liberty of posting a key quote from Linus separately. The SFC do a lot of important work and are currently struggling for funding. They really don't need or deserve this kind of press.
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After more discussion, Linus says: "Heh. Sounds like we do indeed end up agreeing here, there was nothing I disagreed with in this email for example. Maybe I read more into Bradley's saying than I should have, but it _really_ rubb
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by sjellis 10y ago
It's probably worth clarifying that you have a business account with multiple users, and FastMail have recently implemented a new setup that changes how their business accounts work. I've used FastMail for my personal mail for abo
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PowerShell itself now has a packaging system and public repository for modules: http://www.powershellgallery.com/ PowerShell for Windows got this earlier in the year, and it's part of PowerShell Core. So with PS Core,
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I don't think that you are being completely illogical. One thing about the Docker stack, though, is that it is supported by every major vendor, and you may well be getting your server installations through a vendor (Red Hat, AWS etc.),
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What annoys me about it is that it requires everyone else to lose for Docker Inc. to win. It's rather like if Linus invented Git, then formed a VC-backed company on the back of it, and then tried to figure out how to extract enough mon
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It's amazing (and not in a good way) that this stuff is being shipped in a point release.
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I really do wonder what it would take to get the ecosystem to get behind rkt or something else. The present situation feels to me like it's held together by a shared desire to keep the Docker brand going, and that conflicts between Doc
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I would say that the worst problem is the vendor changing the product in some incompatible way as part of a monetization strategy, so that Product X still exists, but the install-base splits. Docker Inc. themselves make a big play of the fa
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To be fair, you really have to roll your own containers for applications, and it's not hard at all, if you already know how the applications are hosted are on a Linux server. I've found the single-service Docker containers from th
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The problem is that they literally can't do that - Docker Inc. took a huge pile of VC money, and containerization is a commodity feature. To succeed they have to build higher-level products and services, which put them in direct compet
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The Linux command-line experience is mostly composed of esoterica, and less vs. more is actually one of the least bad of a thousand paper cuts. I just couldn't resist taking a dig at the pun. One thing that this thread has really broug
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The fact that PowerShell needs modules to fully work with something is definitely an issue - we'll have to see whether people start writing the modules to make PowerShell fully functional on *NIX. You can call existing command-line to
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My first brushes with PowerShell were deeply frustrating, because I kept trying to write things the way that I expected them to work (from Bash). After a while I gave in and sat through a tutorial, and found that once I did things the way P
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After using Xonsh and PowerShell, I'd be pretty happy if a Linux distribution did break from the pack and ship a radical alternative as the default, with a legacy bash installation as you describe. Incremental changes probably won&#x27
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The ecosystem creates problems that don't exist with PowerShell, which is more like a cross-platform programming language that sits above the OS than the traditional *NIX arrangement of an OS-specific collection of a shell (with some b
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Well, once you know that PowerShell uses the verb "Get" for fetching data, and the noun "Content" for file contents then those are reusable bits of knowledge that slot together with other verbs and nouns. It's easy

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