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Re:CouchDB vs. MongoDB on Thursday June 15, 2017 @06:13PM (#14564901)
Specifically for CouchDB, because packages provided for CentOS/RHEL were outdated and now they don't even exist.
Re:Rent a Minority on Thursday June 15, 2017 @06:07PM (#14564852)
The website seems to implicitly say that white men equals bad and any attempt made by white men to improve the situation must be half-hearted and just a PR stunt. Thus all the sarcasm. This view is not unique to this website (if they are even trying to make this claim in some form) but runs through a lot of these initiatives.

Lately, I have even witnessed people complaining that most donations come from white men charities and that this is bad (with some people even suggesting they should refuse those donations to make a point), which seems completely nonsense.

How far does it have to go for these attempts to raise awareness of a problem to turn into racism themselves?

Re:CouchDB vs. MongoDB on Thursday June 15, 2017 @06:02PM (#14564809)
I find MongoDB easier to deploy and maintain because it's easier to build and monitor. CouchDB with Erlang not so much (for our environment, it's totally alien).

EDIT: I made a statement about our preference, for our environment. I did not make broad claims about these DBs for other people. How am I upsetting HN?

Re:Rent a Minority on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:44PM (#14564648)
This adversarial discourse doesn't help anyone.

EDIT: Instead of downvoting, why not provide your view of how this is helping anything?

Maybe a refinement of this approach is to FIRST explain in simple terms to establish basic understanding and SECOND going deeper with technical jargon.
Re:SSH Check – public SSH server testing tool on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:32PM (#14564102)
Very good point!
I was expecting something more along the lines of THX 1138
Re:Snap's share price sinks, trades just above IPO price on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:58PM (#14562716)
Isn't it weird that the stock exchange where you're also runs an article with your smashed logo? I'd expect a more "robotic" reporting from nasdaq.com
Re:Snap's share price sinks, trades just above IPO price on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:56PM (#14562697)
Facebook is way over that kind of instability.
Re:Go and Simplicity Debt on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:04PM (#14561624)
The author was specifically talking about concurrency. You just repeated his point.
Re:SSH Check – public SSH server testing tool on Thursday June 15, 2017 @09:49AM (#14560303)
On one hand, nice way to collect a database of SSH servers without triggering alarms.

On the other, people using this tool are more likely to take steps to secure their servers.

Looks like you invaded someone's little kingdom.

Jokes aside, it's very hard to go from working alone and making all decisions to working in a team.

Re:Go 1.9 Beta 1 release notes on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @09:11PM (#14557222)
Is there anything being discussed about Go 2.x?

I haven't seen anything about it, which I absolutely love (based on fear of a Python 3 situation).

Re:The Old Are Eating the Young on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:41AM (#14551025)
I believe with will need way less people than in the past due to automation and robots.
Re:The Old Are Eating the Young on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:35AM (#14550995)
How can it have a strong social system with minimal taxes?
Re:Ask HN: Which news reader/source do you rely on most? on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @09:38PM (#14550153)
I feel like HN alone is already too much in contributing too information overload. I'm often trimming my news sources.

That being said, I'd just check 2-3 reputable newspapers

Re:React v15.6.0 Released on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @09:36PM (#14550145)
Do they follow semantic versioning? If so, does that mean there have been 15 releases with major breaking changes?
Re:Ask HN: How to get a job when you suck at coding? on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @07:39PM (#14549618)
Contribute to open source projects.
Re:Ask HN: Why US companies want to use cheques? on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @05:46PM (#14548948)
They usually say something about the cost yeah. What is weird is that they also seem to be using cheques for local transactions (or so they tell me, I find it hard to believe).
Re:Ask HN: Why US companies want to use cheques? on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @05:46PM (#14548944)
Is that a cultural thing? Getting a piece of paper, driving to the bank to cash it? Or accepting a cheque from an account with no funds?

If that's the case, then I can let it go. However, it's puzzling that the mecca of capitalism is living on antiquated methods like that.

Re:GitHub adds support for nested organization teams on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @04:46PM (#14548488)
I would like to organize my repositories into folders. Is that coming?

Ask HN: Why US companies want to use cheques?

Often US companies want to pay me with cheques that they will mail to the other side of the world and I'll have a lot of trouble cashing. Why's that? They tell me cheques are super common and they can't understand the trouble I have with them.Where I live all transactions are electronic between banks. I haven't used a paper cheque in 15 years.

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