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I guess the Leadership Princple of "Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit" doesn't apply when dealing with our current POTUS.

There was a previous discussion about the fork here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373327

There are a number of large companies sponsoring MariaDB.org development. I don't think there is any concern about its development going forward at this point. https://mariadb.org/…

Attempting to get a seasonal job, year after year, for just 2-3 months a year would be difficult. My wife is a former school teacher and she spent a considerable amount of time pla…

Wouldn't they still have the same licensing issues then? Maybe this is just a workstation issue and they still allow/support some Windows server OSes.

I have not worked at Facebook but have several acquaintances who have in the past. A frequent complain I've heard is they actually do dogfood their own product. Much of the communi…

You can use a security key or TOTP app instead of providing your phone number.

If you want to get familiar with DevOps basics in a cloud environment I would start with the Cloud Resume Challenge ( https://cloudresumechallenge.dev/ ). It provides a good way to…

A coworker we think has figured it out. Its 365 + leap year days + 31 day month.

I think having shorter cert lifetimes is generally a good thing and with tools like Let's Encrypt its becoming easier and easier. If anyone is aware of how Safari came up with the …

I tried Calibre and it ended up with funky line spacing :(

Meredith Corp | Full-Time | ONSITE | Des Moines, IA | Sr Engineer - DevOps This position is primarily responsible for managing our infrastructure in AWS, provision and configure AW…

Meredith | Des Moines, Iowa | Sr Engineer - Web Operations | ONSITE Meredith Corporation, a publicly held media and marketing services company founded upon serving our customers an…

Meredith | Des Moines, Iowa | Sr Engineer - Web Operations | ONSITE Meredith Corporation, a publicly held media and marketing services company founded upon serving our customers an…

They did the same thing wit KitKat.

Microsoft themselves publish a comparison document of services with AWS: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/guidance/guidance-azu...

I haven't tried it but I think if you do a manual install and format disks as zfs you could have a zfs root filesystem with 16.04.

thanks, I'll give it another try. I have a subscription provided by my employer but it's good to know I'll have access if I ever leave.

After creating a developer account and logging in I still do not have access to the subscriber knowledge base.

I wish there was more input as to why Apache 2.4 isn't suitable. It's been 3 years since its event driven model was released and it is a perfectly acceptable web server even for st…

Its going to be really nice if you are able to snapshot these like EBS volumes. I didn't see any reference in the details on how data recovery would work.