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by willejs 10y ago
I had not one, but two given to me by a family friend in the mid ninties! I was young and it was epic. I could send faxes via a 14.4k serial modem with a PoqetPC to parallel, parallel to serial adaptor. I could play stunts on it, and write
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by willejs 10y ago
Some of these are fair. But really, never run a manual command if you can ever help it, stage it somewhere. Always use config management, stage it in a VM.
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by willejs 10y ago
Yes, it mounts you HD in /Volumes.
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by willejs 10y ago
Yeah, this is my favourite: screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/tty Oh you can just login as passwordless root to the VM, then you know, access the mounted fs which
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by willejs 10y ago
Docker for mac mounts your whole FS to the VM which is so fucking scary and dangerous. I posted about this somewhere in the github issues, but they just shrugged and carried on. I also asked if they could compile the kernel with btrfs suppo
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by willejs 10y ago
I'm now left wondering what is next and how I can help in creating something even remotely as amazing as what.cd. What and waffles rose quite quickly from the ashes of oink, anyone got any ideas?
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by willejs 10y ago
I'm wearing my what t-shirt in memory of this sad event. This sucks.
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by willejs 10y ago
I really wonder if they have offsite backups and it's possible to resurrect it.
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by willejs 10y ago
Or your making assumptions based on limited knowledge.
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by willejs 10y ago
Saying something like '...they have very poor engineers working for them.' is pretty unfounded, and naive. It's easy to say that having 1700 services is overkill from our point of view, but we don't know the complete arc
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by willejs 10y ago
http://terraform.io
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by willejs 10y ago
Sorry, I was referring to security updates through unattended updates. Its pretty hard to do if your machine is storing state or is running a lot of traffic. Whilst churning your entire estate should be possible, it is not always.
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by willejs 10y ago
This all makes me laugh, and cry at the same time. It makes me laugh because everyone wants to run k8s for no real reason, they havent got scale, traffic or many woes. Please just run some vms, CM, unattended upgrades, capistrano and packe
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by willejs 10y ago
Until its inside your VPC, which im pretty sure it still isn't, its borderline worthless for most use cases.
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by willejs 10y ago
Yeah, deploying an ELK stack in docker in anything other than development is probably not a great idea anyway. Specifically the elasticsearch piece. Elasticsearch uses a lot of memory for the jvm heap and also off heap, it needs a lot of re
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by willejs 10y ago
trello (free) + github (3 free private repos or $9 per user per month for an org) Gitlab works, and is decent, but only in certain circumstances. Pay for SaaS products wherever you can and makes sense. Only build/host your own things t
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by willejs 10y ago
Yeah, I'm a long term cloudformation user and so frustrated with it's many shortcomings, the workarounds you need to make, and the hold on to your seat moment when you apply your changes... It took me a while to get used to terraf
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by willejs 10y ago
This is a pretty good blog post and pretty insightful for people looking to build a simple environment and deploy their code. The only thing I would say would be to use terraform in place of cloudformation and ansible. Terraform is a lot ni
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by willejs 10y ago
I just think that some people are getting excited about reviving the SAN. I don't think everyone realises or is familiar with the pain running NFS on distributed or non distributed infrastructure can cause, when used for the wrong use
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by willejs 10y ago
HAHAHA. YES! So much this. THere are legit use cases for this, but there are many use cases that will cause you much pain.
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by willejs 10y ago
Thats exactly what i was doing with the elasticsearch plugin for logstash, but i still couldent figure out how to auth vanilla http requests to it from kibana or the like... Then i decided id wasted way too much time on this, and would just
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by willejs 10y ago
One of the main issues i had with it was that getting the IAM policies correct on the cluster was an extremely slow process. Each change requires a rolling cluster update, replacing the underlying EC2 instances with the correct roles. Secon
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by willejs 10y ago
There was another HN thread about the S1 filing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11779453 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1447669/000104746916...
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by willejs 10y ago
I use Chef, Ive got a cookbook here that uses policy files to install homebrew and homebrew casks and set up some stuff. It slao tests it in test kitchen, converging an os x system in virtulbox! https://github.com/willejs&#x
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by willejs 10y ago
Ive been using this for a while, it's a really great project! Verifying your infra against the inspec tests is really valuable.
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by willejs 10y ago
Yes, it runs active passive, and its written in a Lisp dialect.
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by willejs 10y ago
Your right, its not hard, but it is on the scale of how easy it is to write bad php.
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by willejs 10y ago
| More often it's the programmer who sucks, not the language. Whilst it is possible to write structured, elegant php, its very hard, and thats the languages fault. The barrier to entry to write bad PHP is very low, thats what makes peo
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by willejs 10y ago
Theres a live announcement now https://bignews.chef.io/
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by willejs 10y ago
This looks really interesting. Im waiting for 8:30PDT for the full announcement though! Im curious about how it works under the hood, it seems to solve 'all the problems' ;) My skepticism comes from some of chefs past product rele

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