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I suspect that, if an organization, especially one with its own hardware, tries to move to Kubernetes in a cargo cultish way and without understanding the nature of the undertaking, this could easily lead to disaster and people getting fired.

That's another way Kubernetes can take away jobs :).

What I got from mingling with the Perl community: The single most repeated advice (indeed Larry Wall himself has said it repeatedly), is that one should use whatever tool will allow one to carry out the task at hand and generally get things done.

In that sense, Perl never had you because Perl probably isn't interested in "having" anyone. Maybe helping out people carry out their work, but not having them. It is about getting things done, without trying to be the next big thing in CS. At least that's what I'd like to believe.

If Python helps you carry out your work better, you should most assuredly and definitely use Python. Ditto with PHP, Go, and all the rest. And Perl.

Wow, the "chocolate fetish" case really kicks it out of the park.

Half-serious question, did all those replies come from actual human beings?

Reading the original blog post of this story and other comments here, including yours, I get a vague feeling that the communications on google's part are being done either by some kind of a machine, or by humans that can act like a machine, albeit of rather limited capabilities.

Isn't it a bit harsh to say that the company that practically shaped the very form of modern computers doesn't have any significant influence?

This will come out as pure whining and probably off-topic, but how on Earth can they can have so much money (in cash no less) and at the same time can't sell some of their flagship products worldwide?

We're halfway through 2019, I'm sitting in a small eurozone country and still can't give them my money and order a Google Pixel properly from their site. Using this example because I consider a phone to be a relatively expensive device that probably generates a good profit over its lifetime. Other non-hardware products which produce smaller profits, such as activating a magazine subscription on the Google News application probably don't even register on their radar.

Apple, with all its failings, is always there and never misses the opportunity to ring the cash register. Sometimes they move slowly, but always make it eventually. Won't even go to non-hardware players like Netflix.

Come to think of it, maybe having so much cash is a mixed blessing for Alphabet, because it could be the actual cause if the above mentioned behaviour.

The battery on my 13" MBPr, which I bought on 2015, recently begun to swell. Apple support said that a swollen battery is very dangerous, then proceeded to confirm out that its warranty was expired and there was no replacement program for the 13", contrary to the 15" MBPr from 2015. Battery replacement 300€, which is frankly preposterous.

I shortly contemplated getting a new MBPr, but with all the stories circulating about the butterfly keyboards and the touch bar, went with an ifixit battery replacement kit, about 100€.

I'm generally very reluctant to carry out these types of sensitive repairs myself, but opted to do it with help from a friend. If, instead of buying a new one, the customer prefers to keep a 2015 MBPr and is even willing to run the gauntlet of carrying out a difficult repair themselves, something's seriously wrong. And Apple should take notice.

A similar thing is described in Cixin Liu's "The Three Body Problem", where soldiers holding flags emulate the circuitry of a computer.

Came here to post that link! Amazingly, WP for DOS still receives love from various users!

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/#reason

WordPerfect for DOS, in the opinion of many knowledgeable users, is still the greatest program ever written. Some of its features have not been matched even by the latest Windows software, and its interface remains unequaled for efficiency and elegance. Its support for multiple font formats has not been equaled by any other program or operating system, and its support for multiple alphabets, languages, and symbol sets has only been equaled by twenty-first-century versions of Windows, Linux, and the Mac OS.

That's what I mean, thank you. Phrasing it like "what we're saying doesn't line up with what we're doing" is a better way to express it.

Even as we are headed for a monoculture where the only existing browser will be for all intents and purposes controlled by one or more very big companies, one can read various complaints on HN regarding Firefox battery usage, font rendering, development facilities, etc.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, and of course people have the right to complain about whatever they wish.

But, can we please all of us stop pretending that we care about freedom, privacy, etc? Because if we did care, we'd put our proverbial money where our mouths are and try to cope with these defects, just to make sure that a higher purpose is served.

(Genuinely don't want to offend anyone nor do I dismiss anyone's problems with Firefox, especially on macosx)

What conversation?

Been using apache2 for like 20+ years now. It is doable to switch to something else, but would probably require effort with various details, etc. It works well for our moderate loads, so not really urgent to change it.

typedef enum { false, true, file_not_found } bool;

Many thanks!

What about setup and maintenance of the infrastructure that hosts either VMs or containers?

Given a mediocre number of physical machines (say, 40), which is easier, install, setup and maintain a VMWare cluster or a Kubernetes cluster?

If someone has any insight, preferably backed by actual experience, it'll be most appreciated.

An equally important piece of news is hidden near the end. They announced Windows Terminal, a new console application that will be able to host cmd, powershell and wsl sessions.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-windo...

Not really, no.

Also, Perl does not exist and is actually an urban legend from the '90s.

I'm sure a lot of people around here won't be able to hear you over the sound of how Firefox somehow doesn't feel quite right on their macs.

Perl6 too.

Extremely glad to see a large project written in Perl pick up steam again.

Perhaps, but at least they don't require you to signup just to view a stupid image.

Thank you. Anecdotal reports from counter-intuitive court rulings are subject to heavy survivor bias.

I.e. there might be a million cases where justice (correctly) deemed absurd to prosecute a parent for letting the kids play outside. But they'll never make the news.

whoosh

Without directly disagreeing with your post, I think there is a slight OS lock-in, in the fact that the MS alternative is a horrible piece of burning wreckage. Anybody that had to put up with the autoupdate experience in Windows 10 (oh, you were doing something important? Never mind, I'll just hog your network in random intervals for like an hour without you having a way to stop me and then I'll take 2 hours to apply the patches before the reboot), can understand that Apple was playing without serious competition for some years now.

May add, if you mmap(2) a memory segment (even a very large one, say 1Tb), nothing happens with regard to page mapping. It is not uncommon to see java tomcat processes allocating north of 80 Gb. But only a small percentage of these is actually used.

This. Thank you very much for pointing that out!

We don't know which percentage of said individuals' success was due to sheer luck and which due to outright competence. For all we know, the former may very well be beyond 99%.

P2715Q user here. One of the best monitors currently available, excellent color reproduction, top of the line quality. The 4K resolution however is a major problem when you are using Windows 7. Some applications will not play correctly when you try to scale up and at the end you get a mess. Windows 10 is better, but not perfect.

Here's a long but interesting read:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-risk-of-nu...

The answer you are referring to is explicitly mentioned.

Next proposal will be about the new C++ logo, which will be, yes, a camel!

excellent news!!!!