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For future work, I would definitely consider NetBox and Collins as alternative options to GLPI.

GLPI with FusionInventory for IT Asset Management and Knowledge Base. GitLab for repositories, adhoc documentation via gists and CI/CD. Nagios for monitoring. Open to trying other …

See also Benoit Chesneau's CouchDB vision which he has partly implemented in his own fork: https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307...

I found Jan Lehnardt's vision for CouchDB very compelling. It allows CouchDB to be the feature-rich core of a large, complex ecosystem, yet retain a ruthless focus on being the bes…

The challenge seems to be in finding or creating friendship circles with similar or compatible values/outlook. In a busy fragmented society, you have to work in a deliberate and pe…

Seems to me there's a deeper point being made here about deciding what one's purpose in life is and choosing to pursue it wholeheartedly.

HN discussion of the Atlantic's Grant Study synopsis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=605207

There's an app for that! ;-) Seriously, on my Android device I have an app called Routinely which is one of probably dozens of apps focused on supporting the formation of positive …

If deletionists had been running the show when Wikipedia got started, it would have failed.

That's 1-2 hrs in meditation per day? What particular type of meditation do you practice? How long have you been practicing?

The cheat sheet: http://data-sorcery.org/2010/12/29/hammock-driven-dev/

Please be sure to submit to HN when you have a new respin ready. Pretty sure there are a lot of potential new SmartOS users on here who'd like to use KVM with AMD. Got my eye on a …

Agreed. Been wondering where the fork in the road happened. Was it going OOP instead of FP? Should we be doing domain-driven design & using DSLs everywhere? Should we be using macr…

Having made a similar transition a few years ago from a mouseless linux desktop using ruby-wmii on a thinkpad to osx on a macbook, I find ShiftIt works for tiling windows using the…

Android-wise, I've been using Pubtran London. The new Transit Navigation feature in Google Maps for Android, goes a long way to making Pubtran redundant. Will be interesting to see…

Ease of deployment via DotCloud will probably be quite useful for some folks, but other than that, why would you use this over say Webdis (which already has access control)? http:/…