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Rectangle (and spectacle before it) is one of those absolutely essential tools for me when working on my mac. I didn't realize how essential it was to my workflow until it was acci…

The history of the relationship between Mesos and Docker is definitely an interesting one. If memory serves right, Mesos was not keen of supporting Docker as a containerizer. The d…

> A prof doesn’t care about athletic admissions (those are undergrads anyways?). This gets into a tangential issue but I wouldn't be so dismissive of the consequences. Where I went…

I have an open source project that moved from using Jira to track issues and changes to Github. Before, when the project made a release, it would fetch info from Jira to create a c…

I had similar feelings when I was hired to write in Go about 3 years ago. Coming from Java where everything (including the kitchen sink) was available for import, it took some time…

If you download a package that supports go mod and try to build it, it'll automatically try to fetch dependencies through proxy.golang.org You can override the proxy, and there are…

It was not the same person. The person in the video was Shilpa Yadla according to ArsTechnica[1]. I would tend to agree that management not getting results could be replaced. It co…

From the outside looking in, it seems like Mixer had other factors that contributed to the decision to close up shop[1]. It seems like Phil Spencer had a meeting with the affected …

Disclaimer: I'm was part of the Apache Aurora PMC before the project went into the attic. Not sure what you mean by declarative infrastructure but eventual reconciliation has been …

Just want to point out that Go can also be used without dealing with DNS servers and repos in a similar way to Java. The big difference is you have to place the code in the $GOPATH…

Oh no worries, no offence taken at all with the comment, configurations files tend to suck in general :). Pystachio was indeed very forward looking and the folks who worked on this…

I'm a former Apache Aurora maintainer. Aurora has been (and continues to be) awesome for us and I'm so happy to hear other folks are still using it and it's working out for them. F…

You know how people are protesting the structural policing systems in the US in part because the systems seem like they're built to protect police instead of holding them accountab…

Nit: Mitchell is their CTO. Dave McJannet is their CEO. (source: https://www.hashicorp.com/about/ )

California did [1]. I was a customer of the NYT online a few months after this law went into effect and I also had to call in during business hours which are Eastern Time centric. …

Really nice to see a fellow Chilean (I was born in Santiago but raised in NY) going for a PhD in CS. I got a PhD from a public university that's probably considered tier-2 in 2018.…

This is one thing I've struggled to understand. Scenario A: RSUs have an expiration date. RSUs you own expire before the company hits a liquidity event. Scenario B: RSUs do not hav…

Really awesome seeing someone talk about skateboarding here on HN as it relates to the subjects covered by Knuth in this article. I grew up skateboarding and I credit the years tho…

Former TA here. I saw this happen several times with foreign students and domestic students. Maybe I could shed a little light on why this is this the case in most universities (mi…

On that note about the N64, there is a project (created by a friend of mine in college) that is looking to go down the cycle accurate route that the Byuu has gone down with higan. …

I hope the CWA treats them better than they treat the SUNY grad students they represent. All State University of New York graduate students are also represented by CWA. [1] Out of …

Link to the post referred to in case anyone else is curious https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9376793