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That's the plan! The incumbent SaaS providers are effectively charging a premium over the underlying storage. Their business is really reselling storage. Removing that premium via …

Just to answer the question about what metrics are included, you can write and read any kind of custom metrics and log data from your applications, and have to build useful dashboa…

Yeah, anytime I hear "on-prem" deployment I think of my previous experience with getting a product deployed across a lot of different K8s environments. At the surface there are ost…

Hi, this is Nick Parker from the Opstrace team. I personally have my own on-prem arm64/amd64 K3s cluster, including a basic 4-node Minio deployment, so I’m very interested in getti…

Ragel supports Go output. There's been some recent fixes according to the mailing list, so you may need to get a recent version straight from git: http://www.complang.org/pipermail…

So, I rarely see eg Java code that actually handles the exceptions it receives. Usually its just "Oh, I got an exception, so I'll print an error (or silently fail) and blindly keep…

I would not be surprised if the patent office itself used this method for filing patent information in various DBs.

An investor is best served by keeping things as simple as possible. The most they should be concerned with is the simple ratio of stocks/bonds/cash that meets their risk tolerance …

I dunno, you can buy 5 $35 raspberry pis for the price of one $200 pandaboard. $200 approaches the territory of being plausibly enough to build or purchase a full PC.

I love my TI-89, which I got ~7 years ago for college physics/astro classes, and still use fairly often when the need arises, typically once or twice a month. I find the interface …

The result is a dramatically increased page load performance that only works between Chrome (as it includes SPDY support) and Google’s servers (which supports the features for Goog…

You'll be much better off if you're well-practiced in ignoring those people. I think choosing your tools solely out of trends and peer pressure would also send a message, but it wo…

Contrary to what the echo chamber may sometimes indicate, not everyone is solely a web programmer. (cpp w/ boost here)

As far as I can tell the author's reasons for deciding to use C# can be summed up as "I'm used to it from previous work, and some useful libraries related to my project are availab…

This hasn't been my experience at all in my own work. While I don't subscribe to the extreme 'unit test every single function' mindset, I definitely find unit testing to be useful …

Whenever I get one of those discount cards from a pharmacy/grocery store (CVS, Price Chopper, Safeway, etc), I hand out the duplicates to random people just to stick it to the man.…

FWIW the author claims this in the FAQ: This is cool and all, but you aren’t the owner of any of these logos. Aren’t you going to be in deep trouble? Trademarks need to be renewed …

These look great, though I'm not sure I can justify $25 each on tshirts.. Also, I think this is the first time I've seen a .biz that wasn't spam-related (or is it?!?!)

They're not seeking to modify the code for everyone, only to get a special exemption for themselves.

I think the degree of special treatment Twitter is seeking from SF is disproportionate to the number of jobs they actually provide.

Machined brass? That's gonna be heavy, and wouldn't any scratches through the finish eventually develop tarnish? When seeing the headline, I was hoping for something more like "Joh…

These days it's just a label which allows them to largely avoid the SEC.

Yet they still manage to under-perform year after year.

Yes, due to the problems of health care here in the US, you're forced to choose one or the other.

So if you want something disposable, pay a couple hundred extra for a Mac. Right.