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Re:Computer History Museum 2018 Fellow: Guido van Rossum on Thursday February 22, 2018 @07:37AM (#16437113)
<HN> hold my beer!

Just wait a few minutes. I can already see one.

Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook on Friday February 02, 2018 @08:59PM (#16295707)
> How many of the core devs don't work for Google? How much of the overall project direction is decided by people who have nothing to do with Google?

This is why some developers are starting to hate open source. There's no technical excitement, it's all about community and governance and who has power and corporations and codes of conduct, etc... If not, you're going to fail. You get an army of experts scrutinizing your project and it's unexciting.

Ask HN: Books/courses for self-taught programmer

As a self-taught programmer, I realize I've many blind spots. I would like to get better well rounded when discussing software engineering topics.Things like data structures but also modern software engineering practices.Any books, courses or other resources I should focus on?

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Ask HN: DevOps engineer taking programming sabbatical

I've 10 years of experience with infrastructure, lately focusing on cloud and Kubernetes.I'm doing well with all the configuration management knowledge but my programming skills aren't fluent enough for a SRE role, a-la Google. I discovered that in recent interview.I can reduce my work week from 5 to 3 days, leaving me with 2 days plus weekends to focus exclusively on programming tasks. For one...

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Thanks for explaining it in more detail. This is very interesting (and if it doesn't pan out, you got the hottest skills in the market right now). All the best.
I don't get it. The technology looks super interesting but the end result maybe is more targeted at teenagers?

> AI needs data that informs it whether its decisions are right

Well, aren't the emojis all out there for you to analyze? Isn't there a lot of videos with real faces for you to analyze?

> VR characters that look like you in the gameworld

XBox does this today, doesn't it?

> personalized advertising that has your face in it the way you like

I couldn't care less about advertising. Maybe you're pitching to investors?

> Everyone asks us why after starting a big “serious" company, we decided to work with emoji, and this is the reason.

What's the reason? It's not clear.

As an user of this, it looks like a gimmick (like Tom The Talking Cat).

Re:We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:21PM (#15916731)
You're complaining that a company is framing a certain situation in a given way and yet that's exactly what you're doing here, framing it in a different way trying to convince us of your point. I don't see the difference.
Re:Show HN: Work at a Startup – Find a Job at a YC Company on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:18PM (#15916703)
I'm assuming this is US-centric. What's the approach to visas?
It's the first time I read this blog post (thanks for sharing) but it's not surprising to me.

I always cringe when I see people quoting Bryan because that's exactly my experience interacting with him on mailing lists or watching him give talks.

At this point I don't have the energy to deal with people like him. I just accept him as a natural occurrence in our field. I certainly praise does who do have the energy for fighting that.

Re:Why we never thank open source maintainers on Thursday November 23, 2017 @12:07PM (#15766375)
Let's not forget companies that provide free services to open source projects.
Re:Brilliant Jerks in Engineering on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:23PM (#15689321)
I think Brendan must have worked with quite a lot of brilliant jerks in the ZFS appliance days at Sun/Oracle. The Fishworks team was excellent but some of the top heads were quite toxic.

Ask HN: Is Skype enforcing latest version requirement?

I was running Skype for Linux 5.5.0.1 (pinned version) because I didn like the new one (8.x) but it seems that, since yesterday, Skype won't let me login anymore.I had to update to version 8.10.0.4 to be able to login.Anyone seeing this too?EDIT: The accessibility is terrible. I can't find a way to change other people's colors (it seems to be using the color gradient they chose).

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Re:ACME Support in Apache HTTP Server Project on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @04:03PM (#15494384)
> mod_md builds are not yet available for all platforms.

Do you have reason to believe they won't be? Are you betting your business on the failure of Apache to do basic release engineering?

> Where did I say it was the "single advantage"?

That's fair. Because you listed it then I think that's the "major" advantage. Is that right?

> ou forgot "by default" -- and probably never, not on Apache's main release tree. Or at least not for a long time.

Why? Let's Encrypt and HTTPS by default being something that a lot of people want, why do you think Apache will ignore that and not include mod_md in Apache "for a long time"?

Competition is good. I don't have major reasons to be afraid but I would like Caddy/Traefik and others to succeed. From the very basic mistakes they're making in coming up with a business plan, I don't think they will. And no, being open source alone is not reason enough to ensure project survival.

If you re-read your own comment, I think you're the one spreading FUD about those other projects (and their implied inability to outpace Caddy).

Re:ACME Support in Apache HTTP Server Project on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:51PM (#15494270)
They are absolutely comparable and the advantages each one have don't exclude the others from attaining the same features.

Traefik cross-platform? All others are. Highly dynamic. What does that even mean? All are "dynamic".

Apache has widespread use and market saturation... how's that the single advantage it has? It's been evolving a lot.

Caddy is the only server to have fully automatic HTTPS? How much longer mod_md get that?

I think you've missed all of my single point and kind of confirm my fears.

The link which I posted has everything to do with this discussion. It's about Caddy thinking a bad business plan will work because "caddy is the only server to have fully automatic HTTPS by default".

Last question, is Caddy thinking of hiring a CEO or sales person? I think it should.

Re:ACME Support in Apache HTTP Server Project on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:37PM (#15493513)
This is why I think projects like caddy/traefik shouldn't get too comfortable thinking Let's Encrypt / HTTPS support by default alone is going to differentiate them too much. They're one PR away from having their major selling point becoming irrelevant in the face of the competition.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15433463

Re:Adding Kubernetes support to the Docker platform on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @08:47AM (#15490445)
"which is a lot of Swarm"

I think that's an overstatement. I talk to a lot of professionals in this area and never seen Swarm deployed to production (from small to big corps). Anecdata warnings apply.

Could you share some numbers?

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