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Could you clarify what you mean by the difference between colo vs on-prem?

We run their on-prem in our colo, and it works great for us.

What I do not understand is how has AOL Messenger, MSN Messenger, Skype, ICQ, and Google Chat all managed to be displaced by Whatsapp? I guess it is loss of 'business focus', but the idea of a "messenging app" is incredibly simple, so one would think it would be simple enough to do.

>> So not so bad for the other carriers.. and unless Amazon opens it up to other companies to use, they aren't going to rival UPS or even FedEx in revenue.

I think it is a given that Amazon will open up to other companies to use their delivery service. Opening up their distribution, IT, and supply chains is part of their general business plan. Eg AWS; Amazon Warehouse fulfillment; Listing your products on Amazon's site, but doing fulfillment yourself, Amazon Connect.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/why-amazon-is-eating-the-w...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340035

Don't want dogs or cats in the office. Especially cats with all this stuff coming out about toxoplasmosis.

Uhm, why the downvote?

Just because someone took a formal course in something does not give them the right to say that I have nothing further to learn in a subject.

I'm sorry, but self taught or otherwise, learning is always an 'ongoing process.' Learning is never complete, cartography, coding, or anything else.

The release cadence for Fedora is much higher. It uses newer everything than the Redhat releases. Fedora is buggier.

>> I won't pay for redhat style software at all.

Will you pay for software? Or do you write and build all of your software yourself? If I ran my business on Centos, I would consider buying Redhat subscriptions once I got to a certain scale. Depending on your business, you might need to have vendor warrantied and supported software for compliance with your insurance and industry regulations, for example.

Open source and free software is all fine and well when you are tinkering with in your bedroom, or at a small startup, or indeed when doing proof of concept or small projects, but when your operations start to scale up and you are looking at resource allocation and want to make the best use of your own resources, having support contracts often makes loads of sense.

A friend of mine work in the Aerospace industry and they where running to some weird bugs with their Java application when they upgraded their Redhat servers. It ended up being some weird kernel thing and Redhat sorted it within a few days. It sure beat them hiring their own kernel dev.

I think some similar things have happened with popular plugins for Firefox, Chrome, Atom and VScode. And also for some apps for Android and iPhone.

This reminds me of the adage: "When the product is free, you are the product".

Andrew Godwin who wrote South, then the built-in Django migrations library did a very successful kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-mig...

Firstly, Paint.Net is an awesome program. Thank you.

I don't have a problem with the author wanting to charge for it as it is his software afterall, but I really wish more software vendors would follow Redhat's model of charging for the stable and supported version of their software, and giving away the bleeding edge 'Fedora' version for free.

As a techie, I love getting my hands on the new and most innovative stuff; I'm okay with breakage.

As an IT manager, I just want the stuff to work and be stable, with well planned upgrades.

I'm not sure where software authors got the idea that charging for their newest and buggiest features was a good idea. When I'm buying software, I am buying robustness and stability. I just want it work.

When we were reviewing which stack to consolidate our development on we considered Ruby/RoR/Chef/Puppet, but all the weirdness of RVM and 32/64bit trouble, plus Python seemed to have better support on Windows, so we went with Python/Django/Ansible.

We love Ruby too, but being on one platform has been hugely helpful for us.

tl;dr: >> Meg Fosque, an organizer at Make the Road New York who testified before New York City Council in 2015, described the laundry industry as one plagued by rampant violations of labor law and exploitation of the largely immigrant workforce by “unscrupulous employers.” Fosque concluded, “the industry as a whole has a disturbing track record and is in need of oversight.”

I tend to type Ctrl-C then a command. Ctrl-C clears the line for you, so you can be sure that you are starting on a fresh line.

>> It seems only last week it was called Ethereal and only last month when there was nothing really available to do packet capture and analysis that didn't cost a kidney.

Ethereal was released in 1998, and changed the name to wireshark in 2006 or 2007. Doesn't feel like last week to me, but then again different people, so different perceptions.

Just because someone is from the UK doesn't make them a monarchist, nor does it make them a 'republican' (repubicanist?!) if they are from a country with a president as is its head of state.

We've standardised on Python and we're migrating all of our systems to Python / Django / Postgres from PHP / Drupal / WordPress / MySQL. We started out with one senior Dev on the Python stack, and simply found that the productivity on Python/Django just too compelling to stay on PHP. The (senior) Dev on Python had a couple of highly successful projects which resulted with him getting some junior Dev support. Then the other Devs started to notice and saw/felt that they were missing out on better and more advanced tooling. They then started to push to move their main environments to Python/Django. This has further been pushed by the business stakeholders who have seen the Python/Django projects move much faster than PHP projects.

So for us, that is now 6 Devs on Python/Django plus some consultancy support. So we've move from 2 python Devs to 6 Python devs within the last year.

I think you meant:

It is now safe to burn.

Any word on Étoilé? That seemed to be interesting project built using GNUstep. Doesn't seem to be any activity in the repo since Dec 2016.

http://etoileos.com/etoile/ http://etoileos.com/

Linus has a very successful project, he put in a lot of hard graft to get his project where it is, he continues to put a lot of hard graft, and he has a very limited amount of time. We can ask him to sugar coat his communications, so had not to ruffle too many feathers, or we can ask him to churn out as much techinical work as possible. I think we're asking him to churn out as much technical work as possible, so therefore he is optimising against that and his communications with humans are going to be terse. Maybe we need intermediaries to assist him in managing his communications, but then we loose direct access, so ultimately there has to be compromise.

There is always compromise. We can ask Linus to compromise, or we can. Are his inputs better put in at a technical level or at a human touchy-feelie level? What do you think is the best use of Linus' time?

It is incredibly easy to offer criticism, but very much more difficult to offer real and implementable solutions.

Leasehold, freehold, and feudal tenure are all separate things. You can have leaseholds in Scotland, but it is not that common. Leaseholds are much more common in England.

Leasehold is something that has been in the news lately. Leasehold is a legal apparatus that makes some types of property management work, somewhat akin to stratifying a property in American and Canadian terms.

Freeholders owns the underlying land, with the leaseholder owning a right of access of sorts. Freeholders generally charge the leaseholders service charges, but like anything, this can and has been abused. Like the current controversy with Leaseholds being sold to unsuspecting home buyers.

They did, in London. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/03/biggest-jewel-heis...

Was it? Apple bought NeXT for their OS which eventually became OS X. Copeland was a dismal failure, and that is why Apple bought NeXT. Jobs' became the interim CEO, did the initial iMac, and iPod and the rest is history.

Does that make it a good time to buy?

We've found the Postgres json store works just fine for our purposes, thank you very much.

And also, please can we refer to computers as hard drives. Especially desktops.

Uhg, ibtimes is one of those annoying sites that autoplays video.

There is chrome plugin that blocks autoplay for video and audio, but you then have to give it rights to access all data on webpages. How does this square with with online purchases where you put your credit card in?

I turned off Windows Update the correct way. I installed Linux.

Chocolatey is like apt for Windows. It is worth the install.

I think you nailed my point. Linux (according to Distrowatch) has 288 distros, and there are only 3 large scale commercially supported distros (for linux), so my question is in the world can illumos support more than one? What open source lets competing organisations do is collaborate on shared projects.

I concur with this. You might be best coder/analyst/techie in the universe, but it is impossible to work with you, then you are useless.

Your interface with the machine is only a part of the equation, and your interface with the team is so important.