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Mad thank-yous to Google for this!

This is spot on.

What if I am not running into any significant Unicode issues for the past 6 years?? (insignificant == stuff I can fix in 10 minutes). What if async/await has been achieved through other libraries (e.g. GEvent, threadpools, whatever)... What is the incentive to switch a large (working) codebase?

> 1. Business model / strategy is as important as the > technology. Way too many people believe that all they need > to do is build a great product (by all accounts it seems > RethinkDB did) and the rest will take care of itself. > Enterprise software is a very difficult business and at the > moment going through tremendous change and while there is > good opportunity it takes much more than good tech.

Amen to this!

When I was CTO of my previous company, I always thought of the "product" as the technology we were building.

As CEO of my current one, the "product" is really the business model we are nurturing/shaping. Even when we are creating amazing technology, the business model is the thing that requires the most care and the main driver of whether we succeed or fail - the real product.

Huh... and here I was thinking that Burning Man was ruined when they decided to run their infrastructure on Oracle and Salesforce

The folks at Tucows are going to get pissed off ;) https://who.is/whois/localhost.com

Can't say enough great things about Leaflet. I have been using it for years as a lightweight replacement of OpenLayers.

oh wow. That sounds horrible. I am sorry man!

What is crazy to me is that Lenovo is usually the brand that people recommend for Linux laptops. They are shooting themselves in the foot here. They may think that the number of people on Linux is too small, but I bet it is bigger than they think. It is just that there is no easy way to accurately census the amount of Linux users on their HW.

I dont use Swyft, so definitely have no interest in running it bare metal... but the name is brilliant. It made me click on the link. Just had to tell you that!

For me, it was finding a purpose to exercise.

Initially, it was _weight control_ (I ended up dropping 30+ lbs. This process was not just exercise - it had to be paired with proper diet (otherwise, you don't see any lasting results or you end up flattening out in your weight loss graph).

After I got to my target weight, it started getting kind of boring. But then, the thing that really did it for me, was getting into surfing. I love surfing, and do it multiple times every week. This is not exercise - it is just pure fun. However, you end up getting tired after paddling for sometime. The purpose of the gym changed for me. It was about improving my surfing. Squads, cardio, push-ups, lifting weights become just a way for me to improve my pop-ups, paddling endurance, etc.

As a nice side-effect, I sleep better than ever before. Would definitely recommend it :)

I am not sure why everyone feels like they need to do a comparison with a pre-existing product. How about "Find your Car"

Wow, did not know that. Is there something in the TOS that prohibits importing Name, location, profile photo for that use case?

First, let me say something I would not have said a few years ago... a new social network to meet people interested in the other things I do... awesome!

I get why there is not a web version at first. Unlike most people, I dont see that as a deal breaker.

I downloaded the app and tried it out.

The good: I like the idea of limiting yourself to five personas. It made me sit down and think what I wanted out of this. See, FB has a big chunk of my social graph and meetup gives me access to events that are interesting to me. Reddit and HNs filter content that I find interesting. Nevertheless, as an engineer and startup founder, those mediums keep bombarding me with Startup/C++/Django/etc meetups/news and articles about scaling startups. All topics I like to read about.

But there are other things I like that get overshadowed by this content.

I like surfing and consider myself a curious foodie for example. That content does show up in those other mediums, but gets really overshadowed by the strength of my network around the other topics (be it my FB graph or meetups I keep an eye out for). Another network - concentrated on meeting other people that share these distinctly different personas is an interesting proposition. So I tried!

The bad: It is empty once the setup was done. I dont see anything except the ability to add a photo for a persona. not sure that you can get away with this.

Also, you made me type information that was available somewhere else. Why??? Think of it this way, even if Gitlab is competing with GitHub, they let you log in with your GitHub account. Do this. Import the information from FB, G+, or whatever other place that already has this info...

Anyway, I'll keep an eye out to see how this plays out.

Update: I see content now. It has an Instagramish feel

"Reward" doesn't always equal money. Yes, of course, receiving money for what one does allows comfortable living, but there are plenty of professions and things people do that are not centered around accumulating money.

Think AR applications. Anything that requires accuracy that is not a "Pokemon Go" game would need that.

Thank you. We have been using glusterfs since we found those tutorials sometime back. I wish the default "getting started with docker" tutorial included this :-/

I am not debating whether you should or should not store files on S3. I can see use cases for both using S3 (or some alternate storage).

My point is that - even in the case for django configured with S3 in this docker tutorial, there is absolutely no mention of this. The "dockerized Django" example in the documentation destroys your uploaded files every time you restart the container. Most of the "Dockerizing <whatever you want>" that I have read so far miss the maintaining state part. To me, that is overlooking an important point.

Glad to see more articles like this. I find tons of writings about stateless containers, but hardly any about best practices for stateful containers. Just yesterday I was going over the Django tutorial in the official Docker docs. Everything there made sense except that it completely ignores how to handle "media" folders (i.e. the Django folder that, among other things, contains user uploads). Yes, the database is in a volume so I am glad that survives creating/destroying the postgres container, but I kind of need the other files, too.

I was going to try it out after many months... and it is down :( https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/755878196634087424

YES

> At some point in every negotiation you need to tell your attorney that you understand the risks and you're willing to accept those risks or nothing would ever get signed.

Amen to that!

this. Thank you!

The nightmare comes when you mix it with proprietary datasets that you license from somebody else. Many companies right now are doing that and it is dubious grounds to stand on.

Clearly this is super cool. It is also a legal licensing nightmare since it takes "derived product" to a new level...

Those pull requests are funny

Because he is trying to make a point of how expensive it is.

This is very cool... but also, kind of a bit late. The market already adopted git and the momentum is there. Unless there is a trivial way to switch back and forth from git or there is something that is orders of magnitude better, this is a decade too late.

Put a database behind it with complicated enough requests, and you'll run out of connections to the db regardless if you have async io. You'll have to add a connection pooler or multiple master/slave dbs - and even then you will run into problems with enough traffic. Not everything is sending back some json from something that is readily available.

Thank you for the links!

That was the best and easiest-to-follow overview I have seen of a quantum computing architecture. You clearly have a talent to explain complex concepts in a way that anybody with a CS undergrad background could understand. Thank you!

Do you any other videos on this topic you would recommend watching?