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At Userify ( https://userify.com ), we offer a free tier for SSH key and user management for up to 20 servers free (billing doesn't begin until 21 servers) with our SaaS offering (…

> for some established language, like Rust. Working on a "young" language, you just miss the chance of contributing to an ecosystem that's already been in development for quite som…

Nim is an amazing language. The syntax is cleaner (IMO) and easier-to-read than Go and approaches Python in its readability, which is impressive for a statically typed, compiled la…

You don't really 'introduce non-determinism'. That's like saying, "why did you introduce entropy?" It's there. It happens, and it's difficult to get rid of in any complex system. h…

> .. this quickly gets into grey areas and situations where the right amount of suppression of ideas gets tricky. "Suppression of ideas" is a grey area ? I have no words.

>> But, who is we in this case? And what specifically are some things and how narrowly are they defined? > We is you, me, and society at large. But that is not who would be passing…

> There will always be some probability of error but we needn’t be afraid to declare some things dangerous and wrong. But, who is we in this case? And what specifically are some th…

Although this is all possible and perhaps even more plausible than the alternative, it's still more fun and conspiratorial to view Google as the new Evil Empire, so I'll just keep …

> even if people would abuse it, you kicking them is a few clicks away We take a pretty liberal approach to this :) there are a few companies on the platform now who just create a …

We do something similar to this at Userify / ssh key management (disclaimer: I'm the founder/CEO): We give away 20 servers for free -- no invoice, no credit card needed, nothing. O…

Here's mine. I just use vim for this in a single file. Everything is designed to be rapidly searchable and make navigation just a few keystrokes. https://github.com/jamiesonbecker/…

>Sherlock and Batman Sounds awesome.

Tragic and ironic that we need a libre Firefox.

@moderators should probably be marked [2013]

The most interesting (and tragic) part of this, to me, is not that ZFS is being rebased from Illumos (open source Solaris) to ZFS on Linux: ... it's that Solaris is effectively fin…