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Just found this provocative post on HN (the other HN). The interesting part is that it comes from a Java programmer. When I was writing Java and using big IDEs myself, I was too advocating for longer lines. And now? Now I'm all Vim for 3 years, and 80 char limitation never made more sense than now! Being able to split your screen whichever way you want and still read the code is precious.

Right. That's pretty much why I'm asking. From the engineering standpoint it just doesn't make sense to have all these organization, they're just adding a huge overhead to the system. However, I agree that it is how it is for a reason, just trying to understand the driving forces that form the current taxation system.

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Where does it store the data? Can I connect it to my existing DB or will I have to create an etl pipeline first?

And yes, 'your' is important in this case. I definitely didn't want it to sound like another Docker-blaming article.

Hmm. I didn't notice that 'your' is not in the HN title. So, is it a filtering or I just forgot to type it?

Hmm. I'm definitely not an expert in hypervisor implementations but I would guess that it should not proxy any calls to the host kernel...

The point was not to complain about how bad the Docker is but rather to highlight that a lot of unexpected things may come from the fact that the kernel is shared. "Logging too much" was just a reason for the posix_fadvise being called too often but this becomes a problem ONLY when the kernel is shared. In case of virtualization, everyone gets its own version of fadvise (the kernel) and the conflict doesn't happen.

Right. And the sad part is that they can afford their support being this terrible - they simply don't care about a few hundred customers fleeing them. But on the user end - I and my wife were so frustrated by their support today so that you can see, I've even started this topic :D

P.S. the support question was not even about using their product but about buying

Not really. My point was that there's a lot of space between MS Paint and Photoshop (iMovie and Premiere), etc, and there seem to be enough people, willing to pay half price for the half of features. I'm not saying I want it for free, all I'm saying is that $500/year (creative suite price) is way too much for occasional picture/video editing.

Right, but what about those "indie" content creators, popping up everywhere these days: YouTubers, Instagrammers, independent musicians and clip-makers, poor startup founders, needing to create a 1-minute marketing video twice a year... All those, I think, would spare $50-$100 for a good piece of software but not more than that. And if someone would analyze how they use professional products, I'm sure, it would converge to some stable ~30% subset of features big products offer

Final Cut is like $300 - a price of a new GoPro. Btw, I think that GoPro could be a great company to compete in the video-editing market. They already have a wide audience, and they just have to make their Quick editor more feature rich, while keeping it simple enough for average user. They also have money and are in desperate need of settling on a software market...

those are too basic, there's a lot of space in between Photoshop and Instagram...

So, let's take Pixelmator as an example. They easily bought me with their promise of a streamlined design and simple to use tools. Their demos looked so cool, that I've easily paid $40 (I think it was $40). Then, when I started using it, I realized it's missing some super-simple features (that people request on their forum) + it's not so stable, it freezes and crashes sometimes. (Also, can't remember the exact features that I was missing) So, now, even though I have a paid for Pixelmator, I still have to ask my wife to do simple edits in her Photoshop occasionally, which I hate using.

So, what I'm saying is that selling to me was not a problem at all, if only they could deliver a good product. I also used Sketch as an example of a product that works great: it's cheap, it probably misses tons of Corel Draw features, but it's simple, cheap, and perfectly serves needs of those, dealing with web/mobile design.

So, should there be a similar product for raster graphics and video? Also, NI on the audio production market feels to me as up for disruption.

The website says $50/month == full creative suite price. It's probably a very reasonable price for a professional, who uses the tool every day and makes money on it, but for my needs, it's way overpriced...

Right, I would even narrow down my question to "why nobody competes Viably in a non-professional market". Both Avid and Final Cut are overkills for a ski-trip video editing, while simple things like iMovie and friends are waaay to stripped down.

I would even be okay with Adobe buying a company, which serves an entry-level market and offering its products separately from their old behemoths. Kind of like Atlassian sells JIRA, but for those, who don't like it - they bought Trello.

P.S. Macromedia Flash was so cool in 2006 :)

Wow, Affinity looks pretty capable, I think worth trying out. Still, no real alternative for video editing...

That's the thing, we use k8s in production and I just used docker-compose for testing in my device environment for the sake of simplicity. Though over time it became not so simple to maintain two parallel config as the system grown up.

Wow! Did Docker give up swarm? I thought there was a time when Docker didn't like the existence of k8s all that much.

Anyways, I envision this being very useful for development, may even replace my docker-compose based test setup.

Assuming that AI tries to mimic the way humans learn and evolve, those methods haven't changed for hundreds of thousands of years and brute-force trial and error is just one of them. It's kind of fundamental...

Love how this Wikipedia link appeared in "new" before the official news article.

Consider how many other of such "gray" patches could already be in the kernel ;)

It gives all the required context, much needed for an "average" engineer to understand it. Without that, most of the people, except the microchip engineers, would have to read about the related topics first anyways. I personally was surprised at how understandably everything was explained.

Sounds like a really horrible idea. The thing I want the least is installing another messaging app in addition to FB messenger (which sucks, btw), Skype, Viber, WhatsApp , Google Hangouts, Slack and telegram. Believe me or not, I have a few conversations going on in every one of them.

Or we could make all the bitcoin/blockchain craze solve at least one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_...

Can we build such a blockchain, where instead of spending energy on calculating useless crypto hashes, miners actually solve parts of some gigantic distributed optimization problem? Let’s say fitting a NN to extract high-level concepts from all the internet data (and conquer the world).

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I agree Bluetooth is convenient, no doubts. But I think the adoption of wireless should be driving the ditching of wired interfaces, not the vice versa. Otherwise, a lot of people feel being forced to use something, that is just supposed to be better.