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Agreed. Also in general the amount of bugs in Nix packages that go unfixed for months at a time is tough as well.

It goes beyond "programming" though. If the issue was that there's not a lot of programmers in general in Senegal you would have a point. However the article specifically talks abo…

I think you misunderstood. A dialect of lisp is a fairly trivial exercise. We were able to do it in a single lecture back in college. Now that dialect had trivial and essentially u…

As far as security is concerned a unikernel with lower attack surface will beat out a general kernel. A unikernel for AppX will have a completely different attack surface from AppY…

There are chairs that tall they're often referred to as "office stools."

Did it actually have much of a "realistic simulation" though? One of the main reasons I didn't buy the game is because people tore it to shreds for utilizing the same exact algorit…

The problem is the consumer has expectations. If you tell them they're getting X and you give them Y and Y is demonstrably of lesser value than X they're going to be pissed off. He…

I met one guy who was essentially a audiophile zealot. He had a ton of money, very little knowledge but it was like a game to him. He spend something close to a quarter million dol…

The quality of Uber/Lyft drivers and the service in general has plummeted so much lately that I've just switched back to local car services. I just had a nice conversation with a c…

Agreed. I was told to lead a team in all but title, but without the title I was consistently told that I didn't have the seniority nor have I proved myself. Maybe it's different at…

Personally a fan of Ansible, but I've also been pretty impressed by SaltStack as well. Either is much simpler and easier to use than the older generations of configuration manageme…

I disagree. To be honest Aereo's service was about as reliable as your average antenna is (read: not reliable.) To me it felt like I was renting a really large extension cord for a…

Currently there is no evidence for any relation between his methods and his death. The cause of death either hasn't been determined yet or is currently private. It's already appare…

There are companies out there where there is that isolation. Especially in the financial sector. I worked as a vendor to several big banks and credit card companies. Devs were expe…

I agree it has its uses but I feel like MongoDB (the company) sometimes puts forth use cases for MongoDB (the database) that are untenable. For example the pre-aggregated reports u…

Tooling is still difficult. I've used Puppet, Chef and Ansible all in production environments and though I like Ansible the best I just think none of them are all that great yet. C…

For too long Operations and Development have had an adversarial relationship that bordered on belligerent. At a lot of large organizations I've had a working relationship with deve…

DevOps means different things to different people it seems. I've spoken with dozens of companies and each one seems to have a different definition. Some view it as an SA with a bra…

I disagree with the central thesis of his argument that being generalized is a detriment and that operations and other factors should remain siloed at your average large company. I…

I think this approach is a breath of fresh air given the track record of so many other companies that say "no comment." In the end they're protecting their brand. For as long as th…

If there's alternatives then why do so many pieces of software (nginx, Apache, etc.) use OpenSSL as opposed one of these alternatives?

I disagree that there is a disproportionate number of crazy ultra-libertarian members of the Bitcoin community and it seems more likely that the more fringe members of the communit…

There are valid criticisms and parody of libertarianism. There are valid criticisms and parody of Bitcoins. This article doesn't provide any of that. It's just a big straw man.

Exactly. My girlfriend worked for Megaupload for a few years and said the whole copyright infringement stuff is just the tip of the iceberg. His big business was laundering money f…

False equivalence. Microsoft doesn't snoop every single email hoping to protect their property. This was a very controlled situation.