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Re:Isopod: Expressive DSL Framework for Kubernetes Config on Friday October 04, 2019 @01:17PM (#21159772)
Your username is 'zoidberg'. Hatin' on your fellow crustaceans, eh?
Most people don't realize that most varieties of tea come from the same plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_sinensis

Your question is still a good one, but hoping the above context makes the "so tea as a blanket category just... works?" less absurd.

Re:The Shareholder Value Myth (2013) on Saturday July 14, 2018 @10:52PM (#17533558)
Actually, they are NOT entitled to dividends. That's part of the myth, and is covered in the book. You should give it a read. The author covers some historical cases which are often misinterpreted, and lead to the confusion. In the case of dividends entitlement, the case you're drawing from is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

She's a lawyer and professor in precisely this area. You could read the wikipedia article, and try to confirm your bias. Or, you can read the book, written by an expert, and broaden your perspective.

This.

Free Software sounds cheap or trashy. It requires explanation. "Free as in beer, and Free as ..."

Open Source is a marketing term to avoid that stigma.

Re:Ask HN: What third-party Docker registry do you use? Why? on Saturday April 15, 2017 @09:43PM (#14123899)
Sup Jorge! You named the big ones. There are a bunch of others, as well. IMO, try to get your comparison down to just two. That's a reasonable set to dive deep on.

For a lighter overview, I think the big features are: team workflow, security, and CI/CD pipeline.

Team workflow is just how easy it is to get going / share with your team. IMO, ECR or GCR will have a natural edge here if you're already on their cloud. Tagging is important too, but I think everyone supports that.

Security is both the details of transport (SSL, etc), and whether your containers are getting scanned. Quay.io and Docker Hub both do security scanning for private repos. Quay has a slight edge in that public repos also get scanned thanks to Clair. I believe GCR and ECR lag behind here.

CI/CD pipeline is important because your registry becomes a big chunk of your build. This is what's going to really take time to investigate and dig into. You want to make sure it's easy to add hooks to git or w/e, and troubleshoot build issues (good logging, auditing, etc).

Full disclosure I work at CoreOS and with the Quay folks. That said, I also think they're constantly probing into cool frontiers. I think Clair changed registry security. The team's also started doing cool stuff for k8s users [1].

Lastly, I'm not totally sure on this last bit, but I think Docker Hub has a slight usability edge if you're on Docker EE (swarm).

Summarizing: I think big cloud vendors will naturally always lag a little behind. They'll make up for it with convenience if you're already on their cloud. Registries whose main purpose is to be a registry (like Quay) will naturally innovate a little faster.

[1] https://coreos.com/blog/quay-application-registry-for-kubern...

Re:Google Noto Fonts on Thursday October 06, 2016 @09:46PM (#12657580)
I wanted to try the Noto mono out for programming, but it looks like the `O` is indistinguishable from the `0` :/

Otherwise, it's a nice looking font for the editor.

Re:Show HN: Polybit – Build, Deploy, Host Node.js APIs on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @12:13PM (#12087348)
Congrats Keith :D

I've met Keith a few weeks ago at the NodeJS NYC meetup. Great dude, who genuinely wants to make development better. Polybit seems particularly cool for front-end / designers, mobile devs, and anyone else who'd rather build an app than fret over the high availability, scalability, or etc.

What I'm saying is: cool idea + Keith's very approachable if ya wanna pick his brain about the design :)

Hope this goes well for ya dude!

Re:Atlas – a platform for charts and data on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:28PM (#11677280)
Why is this interesting, when the charts all lack clear data sources?

Numbers without context are meaningless.

Re:Yahoo is officially for sale on Friday February 19, 2016 @02:52PM (#11136105)
Dear Writers,

Stop using the term "activist investor". It strongly connotes political and social change.

That is not your intent. Find better words.

Sincerely,

Re:Writing more legible SQL on Friday January 08, 2016 @04:54PM (#10868602)
Craig mentions this in the piece, but I'll second it:

I fucking love CTE's for breaking apart ugly looking queries. They make everything significantly easy to read.

Re:Why does programming suck? on Thursday December 17, 2015 @01:51PM (#10753513)
"Back in the day math was slow and error-prone and we created the computer. Now, it’s software development that is slow and error-prone."

I'd argue Math is still slow and error-prone. Ask any math PHD candidate. Computation is fast, but Math itself has more layers, and more branches than ever. Sound familiar?

That said, some smarties are trying to remove unnecessary layers in programming. I feel like rump/Uni-kernels are looking to simplify the stack. [1] The clear linux project is removing some pieces from the stack. [2]

TL;DR Math is about as noisy as programming :/ I don't buy the premise. But, I enjoyed the read!

[1] http://rumpkernel.org/ [2] http://clearlinux.org/

Re:Roles and Responsibilities of a Successful Analytics Team on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @02:46PM (#10623103)
Snazzy!

I love it when the Keen peeps put out this type of content. Makes it easy to start a convo in house by passing a link + starting a conversation.

bookmarking <3

Re:I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA on Friday October 09, 2015 @01:41PM (#10361902)
For YCR, have you considered grants from other foundations?

For instance, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is basically just looking for opportunities to have the biggest possible impact.

I think a lot of your future goals may line up: clean energy, global healthcare, etc.

Re:Introducing Network Containers on Friday October 02, 2015 @03:50PM (#10320854)
This is neat!

Has it been shared with any of the folks at the open container initiative? opencontainers.org

I'm sure they'd love to collab.

Re:Data Driven Product Design on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @02:20PM (#10298364)
I dig the One Metric That Matters (OMTM) concept. I've worked on projects with 30 metrics, and figuring out whether things are "going well" quickly turns into a debate.

Tangential: I wish these online slideshare allowed slide comments or inline annotations. Dying to know what the Brahe + Kepler page was about :)

Re:Powering CRISPR with AWS Lambda on Friday September 25, 2015 @05:42PM (#10280882)
I work for a similar service, Iron.io. We're platform agnostic, but closed source.

Can't tell if that ticks your boxes or not. If you're interested we're free to try.

Re:How Nature Does TDD (Eigen's Paradox) on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @01:40PM (#10266552)
Gotcha, I'll move to using the original article title from now on.

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