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How does support for some function services translate to "making .Net relevant again"? In all of the talk I've seen regarding recent changes of .Net Core/Standard, serveless has never come up. Most people are not in the .Net space because of what it can do without the frameworks they are use to using if they re-write their code.

Takes a bit more then that to make a 200m2 plot thrive. My experience has been that it would roughly equate to 3-4 days of 4-6hrs. That is assuming you are keeping on top of all of the tasks and not using any serious tooling. If you do that and have good conditions/knowledge, you'll see a density that is enough to provide for 4 and generate a small surplus.

Those Azure gains only exist within a small space. Once you step outside the C# ASP.net sphere, their picture is no where near as rosy. Much of their offerings are minimal products for checkbox comparison sake.

When the answer to your tech problem is not ASP.net/SQL Server, you are going to find their services much more difficult to put up with compared to the competition.

Before someone jumps in with ".Net is huge in the X space" thing: There has been double digit growth of close to a decade now of platforms that don't run .Net. That ecosphere was a giant. Now it isn't.

Would also add that much of the Dark Age myth originated from the renaissance humanists.

I've always found it funny that so much of the movement was examining original sources instead of what someone wrote about them, yet so many people read the renaissance works and don't look back to the original sources just before them.

Was only true of the Galaxy Nexus purchased directly through Verizon and one of the reasons Google immediately changed how the Nexus line was handled in the subsequent releases.

Did your gang violence increase? Just curious.

Nomad is definitely shaping up to be a nice alternative if k8s and mesos are overkill for your use case and you don't want to be vendor locked to a simplified option like ECS.

Not to mention that they constantly break the Docker api and interactions. Knowing the commands today is not helpful in the future. Once you get past "docker run <image>" so much has changed the last couple of years that it is pointless to hold that up as a virtue.

Sadly, this is what "DevOps" was supposed to be about when the discussions started back in 2010ish. Getting all of the people required across the entire business working together so that road blocks could be removed as close to the problem source as possible.

The fact that we even see DevOps teams tells you how horribly the point was missed. Instead of changing the way they do business, folks seem content to sprinkle in some automation and call it a day. I work in a company that put together a DevOps team despite trying to explain that to them. Now we have the same problems as before. They are just somewhat automated now.

If you check out the first post, you'll see that C# is fairly low in the overall listing for languages. It has been over taken by Go for example. Even if all of the C# jobs were MVC, it wouldn't be enough to compete with any of the JS frameworks.

This analysis isn't that far off of some of the other trends you'll see from resources such as Gartner. Windows and .Net have taken a beating recently due to the growth in the cloud sector of IT.

Would second the XPS13. If you don't want to shell out for a high-end Thinkpad, it is a great option. Mine was the first "developer edition" and it is still running great. There is plenty of support for it on distros aside from Ubuntu. I have run Fedora on mine for years now.

The desktop experience of Linux in general is still a bit off, but if you are like me and spend 99% of your time in the terminal or a web browser it certainly gets the job done. You can always supplement with a VM if you have to run "that program".

Would really love to hear what makes Azure "largely better". My own experience is far from that. I have yet to meet anyone not relying heavily on moving over a MS stack or that has gone beyond the "hit a template to deploy a test" use case that really likes it. When I get folks down to the brass tacks, it tends to boil down to "I don't have to pay the overhead of the Windows license anymore" or "I like having MS services as a PaaS".

On the other hand there are a lot of inconsistencies and odd limitations on the services.

Remember reading years ago somewhere that it was Oracle ERP, but can't find a reference. That might have changed as they got closer to completing their cloud migration.

Better technical implementation != greater adoption. If it did, PHP wouldn't be where it is today (everywhere).

Timing has more to do with adoption then the technical implementation. Being the first thing that is "good enough" for wide spread use is key. The last 20 years are riddled with examples such as Docker.

If updating the main body of the article was too much trouble after the DO statement update, do you really think they are going to bother digging any further? The wrote the story they wanted to get the clicks.

Typical federal student debt payment is ~$300/mon assuming 6% interest, 10 year repayment, and >$30k of debt. With less than $35k income, that payment drops.

You have to make some really poor decisions about where you live to be spending every dollar on rent and student loans assuming you have a job that does not pay minimum wage.

Making investing a priority can be hard, but it is far from impossible at that age. Even a small amount early on will far out weigh a much larger amount invested later. It is important to communicate that instead of telling people they probably can't do it.

This is just a personal view, but my first instinct when I read about product "CoolApp" and "CoolApp Core" would be to assume core is a subset of the first. Not a new and re-engineered product line.

I could see why others might see .Net Core as a parallel product as opposed to a new one.

MS shuttered the studio in 2009. You are going to be waiting a long time.

I interviewed at Rackspace a few years back on the ops engineering side. It was part of a bigger recruiting push they were doing across the metroplex area I live in.

It involved a similar schedule of interviews across multiple teams in one day. Only 11 people apparently passed the tech pre-screening to get to that point out of the whole area. Interview process went great. It included a number of different fields at varying depths, yet didn't feel over the top at all. It was a very fair and positive experience. There seemed to be real interest from several of the interview teams.

Then the offer came. They wanted me to relocate for a swing shift chat support position at half my current pay even after shift bonuses. I don't know how you go from discussing Openstack production implementations (back in the Essex/Folsom days when you couldn't find anyone that knew that stuff) to basic Linux chat support.

That hasn't been my experience from the folks that actually grasp the concepts. As an ops person myself, I spend the bulk of my time writing code. It just isn't product code. It is code for an internal customer, the devs. Sometimes I do small commits to the product codebase, but not often.

I think you see devs make this comment cause they think they are doing "ops work" instead seeing it as consuming the ops team's work. It isn't about everyone doing equal code commits. It is about speeding up things across the whole business. Every ops person you hire is money you don't have for a dev. It is more efficient to enable the devs than it is to hire ops people to do a small portion for their job.

Same goes for QA. The groups that have really got the message are including QA teams that handle much of the testing via automation. A good QA team writes code. There is plenty of development going around. It just might not be on product code itself.

TSMC isn't supposed to hit 20nm wide production until later in 2014 last I heard. Haven't seen anything about Apple using those chips, but that could be the case. Expect most of the performance gain to be from increased memory instead of actual CPU.

But it isn't just a matter of raw size. The performance you are getting out of it at a given size is an issue too.

ARM may take the world of smartphones by storm, but it really hasn't made significant inroads into areas where performance matters.

Much in the same way that mobile/social gaming didn't displace "hardcore" gaming, ARM hasn't displaced Intel. It just found another audience with different priorities.

Actually ARM SOC faces some serious issues about increasing performance. Especially with memory on chip. None of the ARM fabs are able to produce at the size needed to get further speed increases easily. Intel on the other hand is still driving their size down.

Most of the performance increases in ARM recently have been from multiple cores. That ship has sailed. The low hanging fruit has been gathered. Anyone expecting performance increases similar to what Intel managed on the x86 over time is going to be disappointed.

Intel will probably get isn't offerings down to compete with ARM before ARM is able to boost performance to compete with Intel.

While the article certainly lacks hard proof, the "he didn't pick the right kids" argument is even worse. The ratio of successful college grads to non-grads may not show causality, but at least it is some sort of metric. Until someone can quantify "the right kids", it beats the alternative.

You might be surprised what an intelligence agency can tell you about your country based off of those "larger" indicators. Especially when tied to other data points. Knowing what another state is capable of is by far the most important part of intelligence gathering.

The DIA has models to determine food supplies in China based off of the number of farm tractors and price fluctuations of dog food in the USA. It amazing how accurate they are considering the data points.

Really isn't a question of whether the information is a security risk or not. It is a question of freedom vs security.

You couldn't have setup a worse strawman. Congrats for making the jump straight from employee/employer relations to Nazis.

Governments throwing you in jail, intimidating you, or out right killing you all disrupt your right to free speech.

An employer exercising his free speech by firing you in no way prohibits your free speech. You can still tell everyone you want that you should form a union. No one is interfering to keep you from doing so.

Please tell me you don't actually equate those two scenarios.

consequences != interferences

That is pretty much the definition of freedom of speech universally applied. You are free to say what you want and your employer is free to say things like "you're fired."

Freedom of speech != speech without consequence.

I find it funny when developers don't make Android counter parts or do so in a half effort fashion and then complain that no one spends money on Android apps.

If I could get the same apps on Android as iOS, my Android app spending would easily triple if not more. It isn't a lack of funds that keeps me from buying more. If a dev didn't bother to make it for Android, then he can't complain that no one bought it.

The Google Play store is full of shovel ware right now. The fact that Android users spend less only reflects that. That isn't going to change until the offering changes.

There are instances of Android sales producing higher margins then iOS. I'm surprised more folks don't notice that too.

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Many people like to have justice in their legal system, but it doesn't make so just because you called it that.

Laws and morality are not mutually exclusive, but the presence of one doesn't require the other. Justice is where laws and morality meet. Did we apply the laws and was the outcome morally fitting? But if you don't have both, you can't have justice.

News flash: Laws are not about morality. They are about behavior.

Being a "person of conscience" only means he was doing what he thought was right. Doesn't have anything to do with legal behavior. Many violent people are "people of conscience".

If you don't want people to legislate morality, then don't be surprised when there is no morality in your legislation.

Maybe it would be a good idea to provide the reason why things are done differently. He seems happy to accept the Debian standards despite disagreeing with them. Help the guy (and the rest of us who has asked the same question) out.