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by tribaal 10y ago
No. On-site, in Zurich. They have arrangements with authorities to get work permits more easily (it made a lot of debate in the press). They "import" qualified workers, paid Swiss salaries. If price was the only matter, that would
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by tribaal 10y ago
That's very much untrue. EDIT: I stand corrected - this misses the point. Sure, wages are lower than elsewhere (especially Switzerland), but the quality of engineers in eastern europe is very high. Case in point: Google Switzerland emp
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by tribaal 10y ago
As a developer in Switzerland, I'm unfortunately not surprised. Maybe Swiss firms have a real arrogance problem (not all, but many). If it makes you feel any "better", your country of origin is not the reason (I get comments
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by tribaal 11y ago
While you are right, I feel compelled to point out that mechanical luxury watches are expensive not because of IP (they expired long ago, as you point out), but because they are: 1. Assembled by hand (in Switzerland, for the most famous bra
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by tribaal 11y ago
I'm surprised and a little saddened that this is not higher up. The root cause of the problem is that there are too many people wanting to move to San Fransisco because that's where the (tech) jobs are. Spread out the jobs to spre
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by tribaal 11y ago
I laughed way too hard at this :) Well played.
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by tribaal 11y ago
This and the number of apologists seems a little suspicious indeed.
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by tribaal 11y ago
Maybe slack gets enough momentum to overtake IRC. Right now it looks a lot like Google Wave to me.
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by tribaal 11y ago
Your experience of IRC clients seems like a bad one, I'm sorry about that. Have you heard of irccloud.com? You should check it out. My mum could use it (I'm not affiliated with them in any way besides being a happy customer).
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by tribaal 11y ago
Oh, TIL. So I can point my run-off-the-mill IRC client to a slack server and partake in cat pictures exchanging and almost-NSFW-but-not-quite with my fellow coworkers, yes? Otherwise whatever it uses inside its walled garden is completely i
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by tribaal 11y ago
If only there was a well supported, standard, open and interoperable text messaging protocol (with multiple implementations) that companies could host themselves... Oh wait, IRC.
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Mounting your home directory inside a LXD container(tribaal.io)
5 points by tribaal 11y ago|0 comments
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by tribaal 11y ago
Thanks, but that's still not saying what was flaky. In fact it doesn't point out any problems with LXC at all except a general hand-wavy statement about stability (which sounds a lot like NIH-justification). I was looking for actu
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by tribaal 11y ago
> However, if you are using it as a server of sorts, you really shouldn't use either of those distros. You are saying around 60% of sysadmins using Amazon instances are wrong. The odds are not in your favour :)
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by tribaal 11y ago
I'm going to ask you for your source here. Not because I don't take your argument at face value, but because I'm interested to know what exactly they consider flaky.
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by tribaal 11y ago
I'd say your choice of OS is very relevant, on the contrary: A big part of that wave (namely LXC and LXD) is a Canonical project. That's what docker used for a long time (until, in my humble opinion, they decided they needed to di
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by tribaal 11y ago
That would be because Mint is pretty much Ubuntu (it uses the Ubuntu archives and packages). There is added UI customisation on top, but that's irrelevant to it working better or not as a VMware guest.
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by tribaal 11y ago
And don't get me started on Hollywood's love for barely covered propaganda movies.
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by tribaal 11y ago
Only if you ignore the thousands of games on Steam (of which many AAA titles). But maybe it's just more fun to spread FUD?
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by tribaal 11y ago
Thanks, that's a good point. Fixed. I intend to write a follow-up article on how to keep you system up-to-date since that is a little different than linux, too. EDIT: Actually, I can reach www and non-www for both http and https and i
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Switching a static blog to OpenBSD's new httpd server(tribaal.io)
11 points by tribaal 11y ago|3 comments
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by tribaal 11y ago
I like the one solving a sudoku puzzle, too. Impressive!
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by tribaal 11y ago
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the insight, I now understand why my comment was misguided.
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by tribaal 11y ago
So maybe my comment stems from ignorance. Are you saying that two Golang projects sharing the same (large, for the sake of the argument) dependency would not take (size of the dependency * 2) on i.e. the Ubuntu live CD (as was the example i
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by tribaal 11y ago
That's pretty much the only reason I cringe every time somebody writes a piece of client code in golang. While I really like the language itself, statically linking everything is creating exactly what this article describes. Burn karma
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by tribaal 11y ago
Thanks for the context, I really didn't understand why that showed up on the front page :)
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by tribaal 11y ago
JHB is much further away from Europe than Kenya, though. JHB means usually going to Cape Town first, then up the west coast of the continent, wheras Mombassa uses SeaCom, going around the east of the continent. That saves a lot of time from
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by tribaal 11y ago
That is suprising to me. I lived in Tanzania for a year, and while the internet connection there was not perfect by any stretch of immagination, I had way less ping than this (100 ms to London, where my company's servers are, 120-150 t
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by tribaal 11y ago
> The LXC team are trying to move the needle with LXD. It uses unprivileged containers by default (non root users can run containers, this is not capabilities drop) multi host management with a REST api so you can query the LXD daemon fo
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by tribaal 12y ago
> I think a lot of this is a result of what I like to call the "Kumbaya approach to project/team management" I'm totally stealing this :)

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