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Here's one easy (and cheap) way to do it.

Server 1 is based on the the free tier on OpenShift.

Server 2 is based on the free tier on Google App Engine (or Amazon EC2).

On server 1 you install Apache, WordPress, Varnish and a file sync solution like syncthing.

On server 2 you setup the DNS settings for your site plus the sync client.

On server 1, you have WordPress use the Varnish plugin to automatically populate the Varnish cache with all pages on your site. Syncthing (or something similar, if syncthing doesn't work with GAE or EC2) looks at the Varnish cache folders and pushes all changes to Server 2.

That's about all you need to do. It basically gives you a fast and hack-resistant WordPress website, and you only pay for the site domain name.
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I use spectacle for simple arrangements (most of the time full screen or half screen) and tmux with preconfigured workspaces for all the rest.
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I've been wanting something like this for a long time: a private network for those you trust and truly care about, offering actual privacy but without requiring my less-than-technically-inclined friends and family an easy way to opt in. I have hundreds of "friends" on Facebook, many I don't really know but think of as potentially useful contacts to have. It's like a more casual LinkedIn to me, you could say.

Funny note: "kloak" means "sewer" in Swedish. An apt name for most social feeds, to be honest.
This Microsoft Research's approach, that romped to first place in the recent ImageNet challenge [0].

What's neat is that the technique is an almost comically simple way to add extra layers to a network. It's commonly accepted that deeper networks can learn better, but they get very unwieldy/difficult to train as they get deeper.

Roughly speaking (and please correct me if I'm off-base), the paper's technique is to slot in additional layers that that are initially 'identity+', where the new layer then gets trained to hone in on the differences from 'identity'. This training on residuals alone is more stable, since answers near each '~0' starting point are simply as good as the original network - any improvement is a pure win.

So... their winning network has a breathtaking 152 layers (and then ensembles a few of them together).

[0] http://image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2015/
Just put your passwords in a separate `.environment` file and source it in your main file. Make sure the `.environment` file is in `.gitignore` (although there should be no reason to put it in your repo to begin with).

source $HOME/.environment

Done.
> It's just that seems to be stuck in 2001, while others finally managed to sort their crap out.

Those others do not include Apple as anyone who's been indefinitely waiting for "installing" OSX updates can confirm - and the OSX fixes needed have the same weird incantation like qualities as the fixes for Windows updates (i.e. remove update, then restart, then run again, then panic, redo-sequence). No particular hate meant for Apple or MS.. but seriously, learn how to write a basic update mechanism that do not include random-fail-over.
There have been free ssl options for a long time. Now there is letsencrypt so there is really no excuse.
I'm guessing you're probably not writing unit test or use code coverage plugins or running static code analysis to provide feedback incrementally and quickly?
I use this everyday at work; no idea how I survived without it before!
Chris Lattner compares Swift dynamic/static features to other languages
When we are talking about PHP I'd tend towards "no".
The only thing I trust them to do reliably is "fuck stuff up and get things wrong". They've proven very capable at that over the years and I don't see anything changing that.
There has definitely been a trade off. I recently had to install Win 8 on a Surface, and had all but forgotten the days of a fresh install needing 100+ updates, which require multiple download/install/reboot/repeat cycles. Win 10 has less flexibility for deciding how the update happens, but I also almost never reboot anymore. I can probably count the number of times I've had to reboot for Win 10 on one hand, whereas it was a given for nearly every update pre-Win 10.
Having said that, your point about needing a reboot at all is well taken.
If I were her boss, as long as things were reasonable under control, and communication channels were relatively open (say a quick weekly catch-up [considering her seniority]) I'd promote the 12 week'er. What people value most is important.

This might be difficult in a tiny company, but this is Yahoo. I don't care if they're in trouble. They have the resources to cope with this like it was child's play.

She isn't bigger than Yahoo. No CEO is.

Is there no leadership team in place at Yahoo? That is part of their role. To cover when one of them is out of action.

Cannot believe the comments I've read here.
>These are moments that no amount of money will ever be able to buy her back

Sounds like life to me.
I think the title is potentially misleading. This is really about a limited comparison: how dynamic/static dispatch play out in major languages. It is a comparison, but if you want the seeds of a flamewar, this isn't it (and that's good!).
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Earlier this year I was looking for a good way to sensibly manage my dotfiles across multiple machines (with different setups). The closest project I could find that supported something like this was https://github.com/EvanPurkhiser/dots which had a fairly robust way of extending/overriding configs, but I ended up getting a bit hung up (either with deploying or auto-updating, I forget which). Is there anything else out there that deals well w/ multiple machines/types (and across OS X and Linux ideally?)
Not bashing. Just frustration, the province is a fraction of what it was destined to be, derailed by a bunch of terrorist lunatics in the 70s. The same regionalism plays out across the country, but their "leaders" just have the benefit of a language barrier to maintain their position and fables.
Don't misunderstand me, I agree with you- I think it's a bit oppressive that laws like this exist.

But I can't understand why, now that it exists and these producers are making so much more money from it, they'd want to dismantle it.

Edit a moment later: in regard to "who wouldn't like giving away 12%/pound for the privilege of someone doing price fixing for you.".

A: Someone who gets 13% (or 113%) more because of the price fixing.
So Kernighan uses the sam editor, classic.
This was my effort (in python) to solve this problem https://github.com/jdowner/cdhistory
You'd think someone who is set for life financially may be able to have time to reflect a little on this aspect of life and act accordingly.
I've managed a ton of Macs and can't say I've ever come across the need to remove an update, or really any issue with updates failing, but maybe I'm lucky?
Somehow "mathematics" seems much broader than "theoretical physicist."

But here's a simple starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Mathematics
The seasonal production volume of maple syrup is very sensitive to temperature patterns. One year you have a huge production and the next few years almost nothing, and it's not about efficiency, only about freezing/defreezing patterns. In such a "market", where the production side is practically random, it will cycle from boom to bust forever. I don't see other solutions than a cartel to solve this. What they do is accumulate surplus during "boom" years, and release it during "bust" years, the offer becomes a smoother curve. Without such a mechanism, no rational investor will invest beyond a "hobby" scale production.

An investigation on how industries subject to "random like" production variations can solve the price unpredicability problem would make a more interesting article. Presenting it as an "evil cartel" story, is more sensationalist and involves much less research for the journalist.
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I agree it's a massive priority. That's why shifting back to work early is a strong signal of dedication to work - it suggests work is probably a higher for you than for a "neurotypical human".

Similarly, a person who spends 2 hours/day at the gym to the detriment of other activities is probably more dedicated to fitness than one who doesn't. Is this a remotely controversial claim?

I understand that you don't like the consequences of this, namely rewarding people who are not neurotypical, but that doesn't mean the reasoning is false.
Dopamine as the mediator molecule foe comparison of actual vs expected experiences, very interesting indeed.

Seems to add a tiny sliver more evidence to my strong suspicion that the brain contains "emulators", the output from which arrives milliseconds before perception arrives from The Real World, allowing for pseudo-Bayesian updating of the emulator(s), and of the whole-brain representation of the world, it's effect on us, and our effect on it.

I come to this from a neuromusculoskeletal perspective, which is where I first started reading about emulators. But I suspect they're a brain-wide phenomenon, accounting for all sorts of oddness, including apparent "lag" in consciousness.

More in my previous comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9931041
This is how Octopress/Jekyll/Ghost/other platforms work.

You have a backend which when you create a post just regenerates static HTML files, and then you just serve the static HTML Files.

There are obvious drawbacks like you mention.

Now that Wordpress is moving to node there is probably more opportunity for these types of security optimizations.
So maybe we need a few constitutional amendments to resolve the issue.
The concept of "Fachkräftemangel", and how the Association of German Employers warns that until 2020 we’ll need almost 2 million more immigrants to fill all the jobs is known to you?
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a bit surprised by the move to digital ocean as a magic silver bullet that solve all the problems

no, you just moved the problem "away" to "oh it's a virtual instance, so if anything goes wrong I can restore from backup"

I don't see how this protect from being hacked ?

if you run a server, not maintaining it is what make it hackable.

so yeah reading the digital ocean tutorials can be a good start, like reading the ubuntu server guide https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/ , but it will never replace the time you invest in your server, eg. doing sysadmin.

It does not have to be hard it just have to be done and on a regular basis.

It's like a car, motorcycle, bicycle, etc. you need to spend the time to change the oil, check the tire pressure, and all those little things that are simple but necessary ... otherwise it get rotten with time.
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In principle your dotfiles shouldn't contain any sensitive data. It's not burying the lede, it's just that you read the article and decided that some important warning was so important that it was the purpose of the whole piece.

The reasons they offer might not be the most convincing, but they're something, which is better than nothing. Suppose you have a bunch of configuration that you're sure contains no sensitive information and you've decided to sync it between machines somehow. Why not use github, assuming you're already a github user.
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I know you are trying to be funny, but exactly, she's basically on "probation".
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I would love to see Twitter adopt this. Any tweet with an external link - you must pay 1/3 cent. Let's see which tweets you really deem important to tweet!
Even though I dnot use windows anymore, I have done this many many times with Windows Vista and Windows 7. It never took more than few hours. Even though few hours pretty freaking long. Taking couple of days doesn't sound like normal.
There is tooling: take a look at roots.cx It has a workflow for using WordPress as a backend to manage a static site (generated by roots): https://github.com/carrot/roots-wordpress

In addition, it's not that hard to come up with a home-grown workflow using WordPress's REST API (now a plugin but soon to become part of the core application). Middleman has native support for generated static pages from a JSON API (dynamic "proxy pages") and it's not hard to make a Jekyll plugin to do the same.
Salt or Puppet could work, if you don't mind templating out your dotfiles.
Looks cool! I am going to draw out some diagrams using this next week.
At one time, all of world's problems summed up to food availability.

Our existence is Haber Bosch's hack.
If we assume a generous leave policy for both? The one rushing back after 2 weeks either has a screw loose or is so bad at their job that they can't take their hand off the wheel for 5 minutes. I wouldn't necessarily consider them better at the job even if I were a sociopath who didn't care about families.
This is the fallacy that hurts men and women. I care a lot about my job. But I care more about my family. Any culture that translate that as a negative (you care less about your job than someone else who is willing to sacrifice family time for the job) is an unhealthy culture, to put it mildly, and one that forgoes long-term thinking for short-term.
Employees who are physically and emotionally healthy (which includes your relationships with your family and friends) are more productive and happier. That is the important part.
Indeed.

The German issue has been going from several million jobs to almost being solved in the past 10 years.

At the same time the amount of first-generation university students (people whose parents never graduated) went up, and the amount of female students in engineering rose to almost exactly 50%. Also, many universities which had required tuition went back to tuition-free teaching in 2011.

Obviously, this doesn’t solve all issues yet (and there are still many jobs that don’t require education, and can’t be automated, like nurses), and it doesn’t even solve all high-requirement jobs (as the birth rate is still too low), but it helps.
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When an organization is improving processes, they usually look to the most costly inputs first. This is often people or physical equipment but is energy in many industrial processes.

If energy becomes "free" there is no economic reason to improve or optimize that input. In fact, there's a good motivation to use more of it - even inefficiently - because it's all multiplied by zero.

Therefore, we might end up with systems with great inefficiencies and negative external consequences that are not included in the "free" part.. which leads us exactly back to where we are.
A formal QA process, which goes along with a formal release process and release schedule, certainly does slow things down. I think for large-scale projects with a large feature/requirement count that's ok, because there's a lot of little details to keep track of and the formal process helps with that. But you also need a fast-track for fixing small things quickly, and for that Dev, QA, and Ops need to work together to quickly diagnose, fix, test, and release changes.

My experience with the formal process I've been talking about was in a company whose product is a large-scale web application that interacted with a complex custom back end search engine and a proprietary content database. The QA and Dev teams had a friendly adversarial relationship, but ultimately we all felt we were on the same team with the same goals: to produce the best software we could. It was a fantastic place to work.
Could this be mitigated w an Android patch that disables 2G entirely? There can be a switch in Settings to reenable (eg when travelling to a country w an old network) but by default your phone should not be so vulnerable.
So tar does "implement decompression" (and compression, by delegating the work to libarchive) and it can work even "if you don't have xz installed".
This kind of tool was sorely needed. I've used countless online diagraming tools with support for AWS icons and every one takes an unnecessarily long amount of time to get working. I ultimately settled on making my own diagrams in PowerPoint using the AWS PPT template. This tool is much easier to use and makes things look great without much effort.
Not too many people have more than one kid a year, though :)
Uh huh,
Quebec is enjoying it's 'culture' and nice laid back lifestyle at the expense of the uncultured Anglaise as the highest recipient of equalization payments:
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We assume that we'll be able to replicate human level intelligence because we'll eventually be able to replicate the physical characteristics of the brain (though neuroscientists seem to think we're not going to be able to do this for a very long time). Superhuman intelligence, though - that's making the assumption that there exists a much more efficient structure for intelligence and that we (or human intelligence level AIs) will be able to figure it out.

So returning to your Wright brothers example, it's more like saying: "It took birds 3.5B years to fly, but the Wright brothers engineered another way. It seems likely that we'll soon be able to manufacture even more efficient wings small enough to wear on our clothes that will enable us to glide for hundreds of feet with only a running start."
Thanks! I think by focusing solely on AWS instead of trying to create a generic diagram drawing tool it's possible to create a much better experience.
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We are on a thread about maple syrup and you're speaking about language laws and corruption in the construction industry. I can't see how you would not consider that bashing.

> derailed by a bunch of terrorist lunatics in the 70s.

Do you mean the FLQ?

> The same regionalism plays out across the country, but their "leaders" just have the benefit of a language barrier to maintain their position and fables.

What do you mean by that?
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Corruption is highly correlated with poverty. If you play the "no true Scotsman" fallacy with capitalism, where only the least corrupt countries are capitalistic, then by definition they will be wealthier as well.
Finally someone using a tiling window manager! I don't know how the stacking folk survive, look at the insane amount of windows just floating around.
Caveat: I don't have full context. I am defaulting to a low level of effectiveness/trust/dynamicism in the managerial structure of your current workplace.

"About to open up" is hinting at a promise not a firm counter-offer. A firm counter offer would be an actual position/raise/role etc. Based on your description it does not sound like a counter offer, it sounds like ordinary management. It's attractiveness is that it is comfortable and pushes challenge down the road.

Your description suggests [I could be entirely wrong] a current workplace where roles are more static and increases in responsibility slow to come rather than dynamic. Evidence for this is that the company's response to your potential departure is undecisive.

Again, all this is radical inference from limited specific information. Your current employer may be great and about to promote you.

Good luck.
Do you even know of the equalization payments are calculated? Also, back 20 years ago and before, it was Québec that was paying the equalization payments to Alberta and the western provinces.
Am I the only one who thinks that adding a CloudFormation export (json) to this tool would be awesome?
Ansible (http://www.ansible.com) works. As long as your workstation has ssh access to the machine you want to set up, you're good.
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It's on the roadmap :)
https://trello.com/b/mv14mX1U/cloudcraft-roadmap
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> Every time someone suggests we have proper requirements or decent testing or put some thought into design or rewrite something that's causing endless trouble, we're told there's no time for it.

I should point out that as professionals not only do we have the option of saying no to bad requests, I think we also have the obligation to do so.

I know there's this culture in software development of "just do whatever the bosses say", but as far as I can tell it's not a law. I've told executives no on many occasions and so far I've never been fired for it. At first their startled, but if you keep saying no to the bad requests and help them understand what they're supposed to do, they eventually come around. And if not, this is an excellent time to find another software development job.

> It's like there's a mental gap, some kind of inability to see the cause and effect right in front of their faces.

Yes, that definitely happens. Until people experience it the other way, they often think that's just how software development has to be.
> It's like a car, motorcycle, bicycle, etc. you need to spend the time to change the oil, check the tire pressure, and all those little things that are simple but necessary ... otherwise it get rotten with time.

Agreed. Or else pay significantly more for a managed WordPress server, but even those aren't immune to security issues, as we saw recently with WP Engine.

The most secure option by far if you don't serve dynamic content (that would require a login, for example) is to use a static site generator and serve it via Github, S3, or Netlify. Or even your own Nginx (only slightly less secure as long as you understand Nginx and SSH and how to mitigate any potential security issues).
I don't get it. With or without a golden parachute, she is likely already in the class of people who have enough wealth to never have to work a day in their lives ever again if they don't want to. Her children will probably not ever have to work a day in their lives either. Why choose not to take time with them? They're only babies once.
CloudFormation import would be great as well!
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Great! cloudcraft looks way better than CF Designer..

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/details/#designer
As far as I know, the way the rest of the agriculture producers solve this is with futures.

Cartels have some advantages, but they are often unstable, and so they have to be enforced with threats of jail, as in this story, and which helps the characterization as "evil".
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In the company I used to work for, the CTO and VP of Product Management were equals, both reporting to the CEO. The CTO's reports included the QA director, Dev director, and Project Management director.

On any given project, we had a Product Manager who set the business requirements, a Project Manager who ran the project, a Dev lead in charge of the development team, and a QA lead in charge of QA. None of these people could override the others because of the reporting arrangement, so we had to collaborate instead to make sure we all met our goals.

Early on this arrangement worked really well. But it started falling apart when ownership of the company changed and politics became a factor as people who cared more about moving up through the organization than about the success of the company and quality of the products were hired and promoted. My take is that bad management will destroy any approach you might take to producing good software. That's why I eventually left.
A word of warning, the UI doesn't work too well on mobile devices yet, it's sized for desktops. I hope to fix this in the near future.

Here's an actual screenshot kindly posted by Jeff Barr of what the UI looks like https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/674357220847443968
It does, and should have since at least 10.6 (I can find references to 10.6's tar being built on libarchive and that's one of libarchive's headline features; 10.5 predates libarchive so it may not have supported that)