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It's especially misleading because "services" like Amazon RDS and the provisioning systems offered by the big IAAS providers are listed and the self-hosted (+- open source) alterna…

One could write a whole essay on the inability of this $4bn company to fix the most basic bugs in their product. I'd love to see evidence of people actually usefully using the feat…

I work in the BI / analytics space, with a fair amount of what's called "big data". The security of something like cloud IO is typically not too much of a concern on the kind of pr…

And yet reddit is corporate-owned, being hailed ITT as "the mainstream media", and there's plenty of evidence of senior Reddit moderators showing solidarity for the more criminal s…

Indeed. Nice little sleight of hand where the article reference "mainstream media" and then switches to "mainstream blog media" before citing any examples.

Can you recommend any resources for writing performant code for canvas / SVG?

And yet I've met people from Xinjiang and Sichuan who share my feelings about other people and view things through the lens of international solidarity on a personal, human level. …

> I like people in Wisconsin, can't really relate to people in Chengdu, ?? They're just people.

> Essentially, the financial aid programme is the PyCon Outreach program - it's the community holding up the community and making itself accessible at this major event through thes…

Yep, futures can be done easily in Go with a goroutine that sends a single value on a channel, but: 1) you can't dereference the value multiple times in Go, so you have to manage s…

The Arch package maintainers' job mostly boils down to managing the PKGBUILD. If you get comfortable using ABS your experience with Arch will improve dramatically.

It seems weird that large features like dictionary comprehensions and syntax changes like set literals are making it int0 2.7.x, but I'm not complaining - most of my projects are s…

It's remarkable that HN commenters will insist that there is no issue of sexism or racism even after the author has conceded it and apologised.

The language in the original article had two properties that stood out to me: * The dialog was entirely unrealistic- to the point that a 'dialogue' was clearly simply the wrong for…

A well-engineered UNIX-y "pipeline" is not unlike an impure functional program, yes. Well-behaved processes share no state (i.e. they don't contend over the same files), and messag…

> Meanwhile, Go isn't a platform, nor is it trying to be. Its designers (Rob Pike and Ken Thompson) already made the platform, first, a long time ago. It was called Unix. This is g…

I love seeing the source for such elegant single-purpose projects like this. I'm in the middle of writing my own static site generator for Python; it's a bit more feature-rich, but…

So Ryan Tomayko's conversions with his wife are akin in tone and style to a language textbook aimed at tweens?

Anyone care to give a very cursory run-down on why someone would look at Minix in this day and age instead of one of the BSDs? Particularly since those release notes mention bringi…

Agreed. The way I tend to use the repl in clojure is just to code up a script in vim and then %Eval the whole thing. Editor plugins for Go could compile-and-run, and know stuff lik…

Surely by the time you're programmatically generating SQL queries you should be using either an ORM or some other kind of SQL expression language embedded in a more expressive lang…

> Why is there this special function that construct these three random types? I don’t know. It's reasonable for someone to be confused about this; my rationale is that these three …

Athenian Democracy was not a rule of the people, it was the rule of a massive slave and underclass population by a tiny, exclusively male minority who happened to have a certain in…