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The question here is what motivates individual developers to write big projects and then release them as open source. I think vague dreams of million-dollar deals are part of this …

Maybe there's already a way to do this, but it seems to me that it would be useful to be able to refer to the answer on a previous line, like the Ans key on a TI calculator. So: 2 …

Out of curiosity, would you be concerned with giving a managed service vendor all the passwords to everything in your infrastructure?

Even if your playbooks run everything as sudo, that doesn't mean you have to grant AWX/Tower users the ability to create arbitrary playbooks or run anything else as sudo. You certa…

You are absolutely correct that these factors should be carefully considered prior to any deployment of AWX or Tower. You are granting Tower a lot of authority to your networks and…

Yes - you can either use your own tooling to distribute your playbooks to the hosts and then run ansible-playbook using the 'local' connection method, or you can use ansible-pull, …

Don't you have to give Jenkins the same credentials and attack surface that you would have had to give to AWX/Tower? With the Jenkins model, can't someone just add a job that dumps…

I would like to object to the following statement from the article: > While lifeguards are taught all the possible signs of a person who is drowning, pilots don’t receive elaborate…

"Each agency may promulgate regulations, pursuant to notice and receipt of public comment, providing for the aggregation of certain requests by the same requestor, or by a group of…

They want to be able to take large donations from wealthy contributors, without (a) having to pay tax on them as income, or (b) having to follow the normal reporting requirements f…

I agree that the Mac packaging system is wonderful for installing programs, but I think this is because it does not even attempt to solve the problem of uninstalling programs. Argu…

Just as a point of order, Windows has dynamic library versioning and multiple loading at least as good as sonames. This was first introduced in Windows 2000, 13 years ago.

In some jurisdictions, the owner of the truck can sue you for damages if the structure was constructed with the intent and purpose of damaging the truck.

Unless you're trying to hire geeks who can fit in to a standard office environment without weird platform demands. In which case, insist on .docx.

Ok, so here's the problem. None of the recommendations in this are actually actionable. Consider: - Be Interesting Well, the company either is or it isn't. If you're an auto parts …

Well, with both Chrome and Firefox on rapid mandatory release schedules, all I can say is: Get comfortable supporting IE for large enterprise customers forever.

This is correct and is the way it should be. So how come the programmers are always politically gunning for the keys to the production server cabinet, where you do have to be afrai…

They also lost more money in years prior. I think they're in the black since inception, but not by much.

The overall division really did lose $4 billion that year. In 2011 they made $1.3 billion. Overall, I think they're about at break-even for the program since inception.

But he wasn't, or anything close to it, when he wrote this letter.

People do understand that the certificate expiring does not affect security or encryption in any way, right? All it means is that some registrar wants to be paid now?

Okay, I'll admit it. I don't actually know what devops is. I know what developers do and what sysadmins do. Is devops just a buzzword for one person who can do both? Or does it mea…