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Re:How Australia is stubbing out smoking on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @04:34AM (#13539519)
Too bad they don't do that with alcohol... There's advertising for alcohol everywhere, often associated with sports club which is especially bad for young people. People drink everywhere even at the beach. There's a real alcohol problem here and it's a shame they don't spend as much energy fighting it because in the grand scheme of things, it's even worse than tobacco.
Re:Netflix Infinite Runner on Friday January 06, 2017 @03:57PM (#13340122)
Recent html5 multi-player games have used .io e.g. slither.io
There's an iPad version of ReBirth now: https://www.propellerheads.se/rebirth
Getting 503 error on hyperdev.com.

> {"status":"Error","statusCode":503,"statusDetail":"Waiting To Serve for cosmic-panther: No service found running on port"}

Nice sense of humour at least ;)

Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round on Thursday May 26, 2016 @06:03PM (#11782045)
I remember hearing exactly the same about Facebook and even ... Google. Can't find the link anymore but there was a famous article from the NYT (IIRC) saying Google problem was finding a business model. Time will tell for snapchat.
Their orchestration product is Docker Universal Control Plane [1]

[1]: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-universal-control-pla...

I'd guess go version doesn't matter, you should install the binary which is statically linked, no?
Re:January 28th Incident Report on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @05:16PM (#11030286)
> Given the dependency in question is Redis, such a solution is probably exasperated by the fact Redis hasn't really had a decent HA solution.

Redis sentinel[0] is the HA solution for redis for quite some time.

[0]http://redis.io/topics/sentinel

Re:Soon You'll Hate Group Chat as Much as You Hate E-mail on Saturday January 30, 2016 @04:02PM (#11003729)
At least you can't get spammed by external companies on group chat which is one of the reasons people hate emails now.
Re:CoreOS Overview, Part One on Saturday January 30, 2016 @05:35AM (#11001399)
There's a packer manager in alpine. Maybe not as complete as ubuntu but pretty decent imho.
Re:NayuOS – Chromebooks without Google on Friday January 29, 2016 @08:24PM (#11000002)
Nice idea. No idea if it's even remotely realistic but if you can add Docker then you can run pretty much everything. There are some ways of adding Docker to Chromebooks but then you lose all security benefits at the moment.
True except there is not really short term pleasure with cigarettes smoking, just a temporary relief of craving.
Re:Neon: Node plus Rust on Thursday December 24, 2015 @05:25PM (#10789756)
Because rust isn't web yet: http://arewewebyet.com.
Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say on Friday November 13, 2015 @10:48PM (#10564349)
The period after the French Revolution that threw down monarchy and more or less brought democracy to Europe was called the Terror [1] as well and tens of thousands of people were guillotined or executed (that was quite a lot of people at the time). Unfortunately, when oppressed people overcome the power in place, bad things happen as the results of the change in the balance of powers. IMHO this is similar to what happened when Bolsheviks took over the tsars and Communist Chinese put down the Emperor. I am of course not condoning violence (I am French and still in shock with what just happened) but I think these examples are sometimes more a sign of the people getting rid of hundreds (thousands) years of oppression than a particular political alignment. Unfortunately history is rich of mass killings in the name of politics, religions and other ideologies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say on Friday November 13, 2015 @09:54PM (#10564202)
I found it valuable to know that my friends and family in Paris are safe, so I'm grateful to FB for doing that. OTH It saddens me and make me wonder what kind of world we live in for FB to release such a feature.
Re:Introducing AWS WAF on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:33AM (#10344503)
Isn't it for ELBs as well?
Re:Surprises in GopherJS Performance on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @04:16PM (#10299284)
What I find the most surprising here is how optimised the v8 engine is. Javascript code running on v8 is as performant as native go code or as optimised C code. Obviously it's just a use case but still, mind blowing.

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