Re:Docker isn't serverless
by cortesoft on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @10:47AM
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I always understood a 'server' to be the process (or machine) that accepts the connection; the client is the process (or machine) that initiates the connection. Sometimes the same machine can be both the client and server. In your BitTorrent example, users are both clients and servers.
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If you try to nail it down to a specific definition, you'll wind up in contradictions. English doesn't work like that; when I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, no more and no less.
Re:Docker isn't serverless
by icebraining on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @11:49AM
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Since the reader has no way of telling what definition you happen to choose for each of those words - as any explanation is itself made using other undecipherable words - communication is impossible.
I have therefore decided to assume you are declaring war on Austria.
Re:Docker isn't serverless
by jackweirdy on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @06:44PM
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And thus, the first world war.
> means just what I choose it to mean
No. Not if both parties don't agree on a common definition, one party can "move the goalposts".
It could mean A one day and then B another. Look at all the trouble with TLAs.
Doubleplusgood, fine sir. Doubleminusgood on the language opressors!