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I mean they are doing something right if people are willingly buying their products while fully knowing they are deficient in features.

Can I ask what kind of apps and functionality you use on it. I have a BB Passport in my drawer and occasionally turn it on.

For the same reason why Canada regulates a whole array of things you might find mundane. To ideally benefit society.

For example, in Canada it is illegal to sell unenriched flour. Flour sold in Canada has to fortified with things like folic acid, riboflavin, and thiamine. Why? Because this helps contribute to Canada having one of the lowest birth defect and infant mortality rates in the world. This kind of thinking extends to regulations around food prep in restaurants, car safety, pharmaceuticals, etc...

Given the single payer health insurance that is pervasive in Canada, the government(s) are incentivized to ensure proper delivery of services and care as efficiently as possible.

Canada is far from nor will it ever be some libertarian hellhole.

Egalitarian PC Revolution? What are you smoking? PCs were only available to the very wealthy and only the fortunate and privileged could hope to break into that industry. The entire space also quickly became a copyright and patent minefield. If you look at the USA, given it was the centre of the PC and Internet revolutions, access to a PC for the average household had really slow uptake. We in the West have a horrible habit of only looking at the upper echelons of our society to see how we are doing while ignoring that the average household is poor as hell.

I am surprised this wasn't available earlier, I guess I just took it for granted. The way Microsoft had reorganized itself has obviously made the whole corp much more agile but at the same time I feel like they've lost their vertically integrated product vision internally with all these disjoint teams.

Having their flagship code editor available for their OS regardless of platform from day one seems like a no brainer, but yet here we are.

You can run kafka on a single node no problem.

Give this a try: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...

In my experience, the reason it is more work is because you end up with something much more well defined and robust.

Each service having well scoped and defined RBAC or AuthZ for its focused set of features makes the whole architecture as a whole much easier to reason about from a security standpoint. I've done successful pen testing and auditing of some monoliths in my time where the critical security issues arose out of untested and unexpected execution paths that were only possible because the surface area is so large.

Maybe in theory a "well written" monolith would be superior but I'm only going but what I have seen in practice. I think the extra work is worth the trade off.

Because it too collects telemetry data.

You do realize Java has maintained it's backwards compatibility making choosing your deployment runtime significantly easier.

Good luck when you need to deploy to a system with a different version of libc.

Except you need to make sure you built against the correct version of libc because you cannot statically link that.

I remember when docker first came out and people were losing their minds about how they will be able to deploy their applications with all their dependencies in a single shippable bundle, kind of like an uber jar.

You are the first person in the thread to bring up the fact that they are Chinese.

Didn't the UK last year rip into Huawei after reviewing the networking software, finding something like 18 different versions of OpenSSL inside of it with various vulnerabilities. At some point, continuing a trend of stupidity should be considered malice.

How can you say it was going to be a shadow of its original goals if was unable to scope creep.

This is such a fantastically American point of view.

The capabilities of Docker and similar technologies all stem from LXC which depends on the capabilities of the Linux kernel.

Iteration is what originally gave the Soviets the advantage in the space race.

Nothing wrong with preflight checks. What’s wrong is that a SPA will make 100 calls to a web server for data that isn’t even that complex.

So much poor API design out there that most would be better off with server side rendering.

The difference between X and Wayland is way more than needing window-manager integration. You are forgetting that keyboard and mouse inputs run through Xorg so the problem goes way deeper.

Not with the Directors of those system administrators though. Nobody got fired for buying Intel is a thing. I had to fight to get our recent server purchases to be AMD.

> And I'm saying "Eventually" is actually a month.

I was the technical lead on a project where I warned the product owner that implementing a certain feature the way they wanted in AWS would have astronomical costs. I was told "let me worry about the money".

A month later we were told to scale down our ECS and EMR usage as the bill was astronomical.

> there's no reason to accept Google as the standard bearer

This is pretty much it. Google is fundamentally an advertisement company and that scares me.

I walked away from taking a job there after I had a "peer lunch" with the team I would be working and found out it was mostly vacant due to firings and departures for "performance reasons".

Any place that can lay off a significant majority of a team has issues.

I was a workshop at the google office in Toronto a while back, and people asked when Google sheets would be able to perform big data analysis.

The presenter looked confused, and then the group asking the question clarified that their big data workflow involves loading millions and millions of records into excel and they would have trouble migrating to google cloud until google sheets could match excel in performance.

Somewhat unrelated story, but it shows how well loved some software is, and how some users will take it to use cases you never imagined.

Her name is Xiaoning Sui, she had $400,000 in cash to wire around, the whole thing was setup through a translator, and her alleged primary residence is in Surrey, BC.

Rest assured, this person is a mainlander washing money in Canada.

Can someone explain to me what the big draw was for Hortonworks or Cloudera?

Working as a lead in a small team that deals with a colossal amount of data (human genomics), it was always easier for us to hand roll deployments with terraform/ansible in either baremetal or OpenStack environments.

In the public clouds like AWS we are using the managed services like EMR.

The whole sales pitch I've always got from either hortonworks or Cloudera always seemed more aimed at nontechnical stakeholders than the technical ones. Am I wrong? Have I missed out on some cool stuff?

The performance of gcj would have to be equal or worse than the jvm almost by definition as it would lack the ability to do optimization at runtime in the way the HotSpot VM does.

That discussion doesn't mention that when people commonly refer to Toronto from abroad they refer to the GTA which is a population 6,300,000 or the broader Golden Horseshoe urban area which can include the other tech hub (Waterloo) which brings the number to over 9,200,000.

This just makes it all the more confusing.

Startup time was definitely faster than Insomnia on my Linux laptop. Also no issues with scrolling either.

The internal structure of an atom is vastly different from the impression that most science books give you with their illustrations to the point that the question of us being able to clearly seeing an atom is almost nonsensical/doesn't make sense.

Atoms are much more nebulous than the concept of small indivisible balls of matter.