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by zapita 8y ago
> It consists of a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter written in ~5,000 LOC of simple C and a Nyacc-based C compiler written in Scheme. I’m trying to understand how important this part is. Is there a fundamental reason this needed
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by zapita 8y ago
I have a feeling that Muslim concentration camps is not on top of the list of issues that Trump or Bolsonaro are worried about...
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by zapita 8y ago
I’m an avid user of both docker compose and kubernetes/helm, and have been very frustrated by the lack of interoperability between them. This looks like it might get us there, which makes me very happy. Nice work Microsoft and Docker.
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by zapita 8y ago
First you said that if I don’t like my org, I should change it. Now you’re saying that if I don’t like my org, I should quit. Which is it? Perhaps you should just stop trying to give me unsolicited career advice, and actually address the co
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by zapita 8y ago
What makes you think Azure and Google aren’t doing the same thing?
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by zapita 8y ago
So, based on your public profile, it appears that you work at Apple, which is not at all representative of the experience of the vast majority of software engineers. You also seem pretty young, so you’re unlikely to have a lot of experience
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by zapita 8y ago
You seem like the ideal customer.
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by zapita 8y ago
In larger organizations it can be very difficult for team managers to measure business outcomes of their work directly. Talking to customers is a difficult process, if at all allowed. Information from customers percolates through many layer
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by zapita 8y ago
You avoid paying more by buying products and services that emit less carbon and therefore are less taxed. This economic incentive is how the tax helps curb carbon emissions (and hopefully other forms of pollution also, why stop at carbon wh
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by zapita 8y ago
There is a possible middle-ground between central and local AI: federated learning. Its goal is to provide the best of both worlds. Here's a recent paper: https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-c
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by zapita 8y ago
Holberton is not a bootcamp, it’s a 2-year engineering school. I’ve worked with alumni and they were excellent entry-level developers, they learn fast and work great in teams. Bottom line, it’s a solid school and I recommend it. I wouldn’t
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by zapita 8y ago
I agree, wasm is a notable step forward. But it's not magical either. For example you still need to expose system functionality to the application. That means either exposing existing OS APIs (which gives you compatibility at the cost
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by zapita 8y ago
Of course a language-specific sandbox with a highly restricted domain-specific API will be faster than an OS container or VM. The tradeoff is that it can run less applications unmodified, so less people can use it. I think Cloudflare worker
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by zapita 8y ago
There’s a lot to like here. 1. Focusing on compatibility is smart because it’s the weak point of IncludeOS and other unikernel projects. 2. Musl is an incredibly underrated project and I hope one day it becomes the new standard libc. This i
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by zapita 8y ago
Yes this is of course all speculation. I’m just pattern-matching based on my experience and superficial observation of the facts. If you’ve met them a few times, it looks like you are too, no? Objectively, this is a pretty great outcome. So
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by zapita 8y ago
I would be surprised if Heptio made more than $5M in revenue. As far as I can tell, their business model was to first spend a lot of money upfront building a high-profile team of upstream contributors, and developing lots of cool open-sourc
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by zapita 8y ago
To give you a sense of how far Plan9 took the idea... To open a tcp connection, you create a special “control file” at `/net/tcp/ctl` or some similar path, then write newline-terminated text commands to the file descriptor. T
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by zapita 8y ago
Is zerovm still active? I loved the concept, but the startup behind it is gone, and it’s built on Nacl which is being deprecated by wasm... I would live to see it portes to wasm and expanded behind the original “python compute embedded in o
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by zapita 8y ago
You are 100% correct. “Everything is a file” was more of an early design insight, which was gradually abandoned as new features were added. There is a movement of “Unix purists” who lament this deviation from founding principles, and advoca
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by zapita 8y ago
Yes Vmware does a lot more sales than Red Hat. However Pivotal CloudFoundry is not their best-seller... I doubt it’s even in the top 5. Vmware’s empire is built on Vsphere/esx (their core business) and, more recently Vsan (storage) and
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Yes that is pretty accurate. The difference is that Vmware is further along in revenue, and has already leveraged their position in compute to diversify into adjacent markets (storage and networking). Red Hat has failed to do that. And of
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by zapita 8y ago
Well, Canonical was never a successful business in the first place. Red Hat on the other hand has revenue in the billions... which is huge! It’s just not growing fast enough to keep up with the competition from cloud providers and others. C
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by zapita 8y ago
I don’t understand your question, sorry. Can you explain what you mean?
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This was to be expected. Red Hat had no future as an independent company. Their flagship product RHEL still dominates their revenue 20 years later... But they have already saturated the enterprise Linux server market, and that market is in
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by zapita 8y ago
I think most ICO participants expect something in return other than “lots of cool research that won’t be immediately practical, but might indirectly advance society in 20 years”. They expect either financial gain through speculation, or a s
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These ICO-funded research projects are turning into the next Xerox Parc, IBM Research etc. I doubt they will ever ship something practical directly, or that the investing public will ever get their money back, but they are spending the mone
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If you were the victim, would you also feel that it's "respectable" of Google to reward your agressor with a massive golden parachute?
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by zapita 8y ago
I am very happy about this trend of project-oriented, deferred-tuition programming trade schools. So far I know of: - 42 (France and Bay Area) - Lambda School (online) - Holberton (Bay Area) - There is also Epitech (France) which is the &qu
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by zapita 8y ago
> I still don't really understand why this happened Reagan and his failed economic policy. > or how the resulting issues haven't been addressed. The ongoing personality cult around Reagan and his failed economic policy.
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Priyanka Chopra Is a Tech Investor, Too(nytimes.com)
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