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While I agree that DevOps needs to be a mindset/culture to be of any benefit beside ticking buzzwords checkboxes - but I really don't see any harm in giving someone a title contain…

Most of us here on hacker news can afford to buy real food such as grass feed beef/lamb, forage egg/chicken, etc Seems like a more natural evolutionary correct way to get our food …

In some places 8 hour workday was achieved by union organized strikes, in other places by law decree and in other places by non-unionized workers and employers as an agreement. The…

I'm a native Swedish citizen, Sweden is perhaps not a banana republic - but the number of pretty serious oversteps done by the Swedish government due to a mixture of incompetence a…

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/1/107.full.pdf+html "A low-glycemic-load diet improves symptoms in acne vulgaris patients: a randomized controlled trial" Cohort size 43 person…

Did you measure ketone levels in any way? Your symptoms is very common during the ketosis adaptation phase which shouldn't last more than two weeks at most. If they persist any lon…

The mycotoxins stuff is yet to be determined, but from what I seen so far there doesn't seem to be a lot of truth in that part. The ketosis and positive effects on the brain thereo…

Hasselblads cameras was used in the Apollo missions. [1] Twelve hasselblad cameras were left behind on the moons surface. It was not that many years ago, around y2k or shortly ther…

According to the statistic available the number of drowning accidents among children and sale of ice-cream is highly correlated, we must take measures to lower sale of ice-cream, p…

Long cold winter nights gives plenty of time for hacking ...

Why not use the existing rsync over ssh and ssh-copy-id? I think newline is valid in filenames in most *nix filesystems, so the possibility to use an alternative RS would be nice.

Even if income could explain the whole difference it would still not be a very agreeable explanation. Even though it's a naive idea, I still think that everyone should be entitled …

I recall the ted talk http://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_abo... , if a black man is found guilty of murdering a white woman in Alabama, he is 400 times more l…

If google makes a mistake when data-mining my e-mail, I may get an inappropriate ad displayed next to my e-mail. It the authorities make a mistake when looking at my data, I may en…

Turing award lecture by Ken Thompson, "Reflections on trusting trust". Recommended if you haven't read it already. https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...

I live in Sweden and right now we are automating the service industry as well. You order fast food from a touch screen, you buy your train tickets from a machine and the supermarke…

Or perhaps it's just the old phrase "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" that is appropriate once again? Veritasium explains it better than me. Please watch https://www.youtube.com/…

I used to ran a production database on top of drdb without any problem, active-passive fail-over HA-setup. The major advantage is that no other specialized components (NAS/SAN/etc)…

As I recall, you numbers are correct, I was also invited to the IPO, but since I'm not an US citizen - the SEC made me jump through many hoops before I was allowed to buy something…

Agree! You don't need to bother with old-school stuff like grsec, iptables, IDS, chrooted applications or any stack-protection technologies. Get a WAF, audit your web-app source-co…

We are all nothing but data-points on a distribution curve. If you end up just a little bit outside of the very narrow band where the majority of people can be found, welcome to th…

That would be because sendgrid is lame. I've recently tried to use their service to send emails, club member newsletters. I've never thought much about bulk e-mails before and I th…

Correct, but if I write the upsert in that way - I actually understand what I'm doing... :) If this is standard upsert query in your app, you should turn it into a procedure and pa…

I prefer to use CTE in postgres to do upserts, this is a non complete example, but you get the general idea: WITH upsert AS ( UPDATE some_table SET attrib = 'foo' WHERE id = 123 RE…

I've helped a few clients to migrate from oracle to postgres or edb. The most common reason would be license costs, at least officially, but in some cases clients have been so feed…