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Best container and configuration management solution for Windows?
I'm currently looking to engineer development, QA, and staging environments from scratch. Two reasons: better PCI compliance and improved developer experience
I want to use a configuration management-slash-containerized/cloud approach so that developers can stand up our entire platform on their local machine (or in the cloud...without the help of IT) and the same process can be used to configure and deploy to QA, prod--on premise or in the cloud.
There are a lot of technologies in use that claim to accomplish some of these goals. I would like to put together a solution that would accomplish all of this with fairly mature/stable technologies.
I have been looking at:
Vagrant
Consul
Docker
Chef/Puppet/Pallet
Ansible
Powershell/Azure
I want to build configurations for VMs or containers that are created during the application's build process that change based on environment. I would like to be able to create a script that can deploy all of these to a single machine, or just a few machines (VMs) if necessary, so that developers can run a script and have a clean version of our entire platform for local development/deployment/testing. Another aim is to have a script stand up our entire environment for disaster recovery purposes as well.
This is a Windows .NET shop that is not tied to legacy versions.
Any suggestions/case studies/opinions are appreciated.
If this gets any traction, I might consider giving BHO a C+ grade for his administration.
Do you guys actually know designers and illustrators? Seriously.
NCA's used to be largely nonenforceable in IL. The advice I've received is that was changed by court precedent in recent years.
> (this includes the small things, such as responding to the Brightness function key)

The sad part — that seems to play yet again — is that there's a standard just for that: DDC/CI. But none of the GPU vendors nor display vendors care enough to make it work reliably, if at all (apparently it's mostly used for automated display calibration, so if you fall out of that use case, tough luck).

I effectively hacked quite a lot of things around it, and ended up frying a couple gfx cards, because you can easily shoot yourself in the foot, write to the wrong part, and end up with a PCI card as useful as a waffle, only inedible. In the end I managed to pass some commands in very specific scenarios, but behaviours ended up highly dependent on the GPU, display, and combinations thereof I had available (from nothing, to glitchy screen, to aforementioned waffle, but it did work in one specific case \o/).
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Sketch Factor[1] is that you?

[1]: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-to-do-when-y...
That's a nice thing you've built there, congratulations. Very impressive!
We operate almost exactly like Etsy or Ebay in this regard, we just don't expose the marketplace to the front end because we offer only a single product type (photo to painting) at the moment. Many of our sellers are listed on Ebay or Etsy too (at higher prices).
For what it's worth, I think "What's your typical day look like?" would be a great question to add to your standard question battery.

(Also, I cannot overemphasized how much I like Indiehackers. It's become my new must-read newsletter.)
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Magenta's goal is to make tools for artists. Sure, regular people can use them, but only a good artist will be creating incredible results.
How much customer support (for either artists or buyers) did you have to do as this grew before you managed to automate everything?

How long did it take to define/implement/automate these processes?
When the 2048 game came out, I quickly hacked
up a 2 player version and placed it under the
Instapainting.com domain for SEO purposes.

Does this really work? Does Google think you are a better site for ordering paintings because you host a game? I tend to think Google is smarter by now. In fact, I would expect that Google almost exclusively relies on real user behaviour these days.
-> They stagnated basically because there was little to no fighting.

A fair assessment, but now I realize that another way to say this is -

They stagnated because there was little to drive innovation.

Stated this way, it at least makes us consider that there might be an alternative to constant warfare as a driver of progress. Maybe recognition of this is some kind of societal turning point as well?
Many people are offering to paint a picture from a photo, initially he could have just gone to someone like that and get the product. If you resell a service that is reliably available it is ok in my mind. There was no real risk of the product being impossible to deliver, only of him loosing even more money on it.
That quote really makes me want to punch someone.
And there's farmland in Maryland 20 miles from the White House, despite the DC metro area having 6 million people. Although, in some directions the suburban sprawl does extend much further (30-35 miles in Virginia, and twice that if you draw a line through to the far side of Baltimore).
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Why isn't he spending money in Maine? Come on dude, throw away some of your money here too. I love this state - a whopping 79k has been spent in opposition so far. A guy like him could really make a difference. Come November, we'd have legal weed and some extra money in our economy.
I think their point was that for SVP type positions, especially at Google, if they want you you don't go through multiday interviews. They make a pitch and give you an offer. But even then that is unlikely.

I think what might be happening is some of the titles don't match between banks and tech. At a bank there are 1000s of "VPs" and so your friend may be at that level but really in Google and most tech companies that could be anything from a Senior Engineer/Team Lead/Director level. In tech, SVP is way way up there. An example is Marissa Mayer who only attained VP and never SVP before moving on to Yahoo.
I don't know about NYC specifically, but that is generally the case across the country (I'm a paramedic and ham radio operator).
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It's not like there is one artist who is doing all the work and is in the dark about how much their talents are worth. Painting is a skill, but it's not a super valuable one unless you're one in a million and create original pieces. Making a photo into a painting is valuable, but only to the person who has memories wrapped up in the photo.
Why are they a monopoly then? That was decided early on for most areas. The whole setup is designed to profit a few.
Sure, but I was talking about market ownership, i.e., the most market share for users looking to achieve this type of effect, not IP ownership.
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The value proposition is the responsive touch-screen.

The closest responsive touch screen you can buy today is a 27" Wacom Cintiq, which is $2,299 without a computer, and both lower-resolution (2560x1440 vs 4500x3000) and smaller (27" vs 28") than the Surface Studio.

So if you assume that about $2,300 of the device's costs go to the display and touch screen, you're paying ~$700 for the actual machine driving that display, which isn't a great value, but isn't bad at all.

A terrible value for people who aren't interested in the display, but not bad for people who are.
> This man has the ear and direct number of every national republican politician who matters.

The national Republicans have been completely tarnished by their association with Trump. They are going to get absolutely trounced. NV is going to go blue. It's going to be the Dem's world for a long time now, especially once the Matriarch takes power.

>He also bought a newspaper to push his agenda

Jeff buying Washington Post, that was a smart powerful move. The Las Vegas purchase was a public debacle for him and now everyone knows its just his mouthpiece. Nobody of influence cares about that rag.

Billionaires throwing cash around is just like startup marketing, that is, throwing cash and seeing what sticks. Again, he's just playing at running the world, trying to throw his weight around like it matters. Legalization is going to happen and he's going to look like the asinine old fool he is.
I have a question about the concept of hiring artists and sourcing from factories in China.

What does Instapainting do—in terms of due diligence—to ensure safe working conditions and fair labor practices for workers in the factories that make the product?
Opinionated? I've been mixing it with jquery and other libraries just fine. Its really relatively small piece of code (if you rule out the polyfills).
My daughter missed a high school physics problem that seemed obvious to me until I understood her reasoning. The question was does playing the radio in a car reduce fuel efficiency, true or false? She didn't realize that the electricity to run the radio came from a rechargeable battery plus generator system. She had seen me replace a car battery and assumed that it was like an ordinary flashlight battery that provided electricity until used up.

The generator in a car doesn't run for free. It is powered by the engine and it's operation while charging is felt as a braking effect on the main engine. This additional drag is produced by a phenomena known as back electromagnetic force (back emf) that causes the generator to resist turning while generating current to power electrical devices in the car or recharge batteries.

Another way to realize that using electricity in a car isn't free is to consider why it wouldn't work to add a number of these generators and then use them to power electrical motors to propel the car. There is no free lunch.

On the other hand (and not really related to the points I'm making above), stopping a moving vehicle reduces the overall energy of the system because the kinetic energy is proportional to the square of the vehicle's velocity. Due to conservation of energy this energy has to go somewhere. Conventionally, this stopping energy is dissipated through heat (and to some extent breaking down a bit of the the brake pads). Some vehicles, like a Tesla, are able to capture a portion of this kinetic energy during braking, but its complicated, see [1].

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/magic-tesla-roadster-regenerative...
No he doesn't. "JSON, the good parts" is just JSON. The problems the post is describing have to do with RFC 7159 allowed extensions.
where are all these goodies you boast about then ?
Usually I like xkcd, but that one is wrong at the end. The data actually matches the "best case scenario" surprisingly well. I was really amazed at how that model has performed when I first saw it, it is really interesting.
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The latest update to the OS, Windows 10 Anniversary (I think?), includes the WSL. It doesn't have some of the latest features that you'll find in the insider preview, such as file watchers or launching Windows programs, but it's personally got everything that I need to build JS apps.
You essentially said the same thing that the comment above you, just in a less succinct way.

A regulation-free system is not a stable equilibrium, so the conclusion will not be regulation-free.
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I'm fairly certain it worked. It's more like the page gets lots of link, thus lots of clout, and I link to Instapainting from that page, which means I transfer some of that clout.

And Google can't classify Instapainting.com as a "photo to painting" site. It just knows it's a site that contains some content. Since Yahoo.com would get better rankings even with disparate topics under the domain.
Why isn’t this a part of React Native? It could at least be available as an import for RN. Actually, I’m a bit surprised that RN is not even mentioned here.
But "real users" went to their website. That gives them more value in Google's eyes than websites that no one ever visits.
He funds Wapo which targets Trump.
Yes, thank you, it was the one by 'programmingisterrible' and the linked paper by Patterson, Sassaman, and Bratus.
Is it a Wacom or nTrig?

I haven't really spent much time with nTrig based Surface models, but the Wacom in my Surface Pro 1 really sucks at the edges.
I imagine we will see many clones when Google open sources their implementation too (as mentioned in the article, along with others mentioned in this thread as well). I wasn't aware of DeepArt. I'll check it out.
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I know. It's largely the literalists that go off the really deep end.
Actually Lightroom works well with hybrid drives. You're using going to be building 1:1 previews anyway on a fast scratch drive and RAWs on a cheap storage option. Any RAWs you're working with will be in ram anyway.
Look at the HSPA map on page 5. Look at how little of the country you need to cover to hit 99.6% of the population.
The missile, officially called the RS-28 Sarmat (pictured left), has been nicknamed Satan 2 and it serves as a replacement for the RS-36M, which was often called “Satan” by NATO.

...

The new missile is believed to be mostly an upgrade in electronic systems, with little or no changes to the ICBM’s range or power according to Robert Kelley, a former nuclear weapons expert from the U.S, Dept of Energy. Its important to note, however, that only one of these missiles is powerful enough to destroy huge landmasses – it is estimated that one could destroy an area as large as Texas or France, with each warhead capable of carrying 10 tons of nukes.

Absolutely ridiculous. If this is an upgrade to the R-36 family that doesn't upgrade the warheads, then we can look at the the 10-warhead variants of R-36 ("RS-36M" must be a typo; there is no such commonly used missile designation): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-36_(missile)

Observe that the R-36 configuration with 10 warheads delivers at most 1 megaton per warhead. That's enough to ruin any nation-state's day, but it falls woefully short of destroying the Texan/French landmass. The widest-ranging immediate effect of large nuclear explosions is burns from radiant energy; for a 1 megaton airburst you can expect third degree burns from radiant energy out to a 12.6 km radius (497 km^2 area). With 10 warheads you can inflict that level of destruction across 4970 km^2, or about 0.7%/0.8% of the total area of Texas/France. No doubt it could kill a much larger fraction of the population in either location, because humans are very concentrated in urban areas, but there's another twist: the R-36M2 Voevoda (SS-18 Mod 5) that this new missile will replace is designed for hard target kills, e.g. attacking underground bunkers or missile silos with surface bursts. That's why the new missile will have accuracy upgrades: it's easy to destroy a city via ICBM even with sloppy guidance, but hardened targets need a relatively close hit to ensure destruction. This hard target attack role means that the lethal-to-humans radius is going to be smaller and that the targets are going to be missile silos out in the middle of nowhere rather than e.g. Houston or San Antonio.

You can play with Nukemap here to see the effects: http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

All in all this was an impressively high level of stupid exaggeration for a topic that needs no exaggeration at all to be sobering.
Your view on this situation is a bit narrow.

This is a telling sentence. "Shortly after the launch I was contacted by many artists, mostly from China (they already saturate other marketplaces like eBay, Alibaba, and Etsy)."

He opened a new market with new demand supplying the artists in China with more work.
Men tend to make more money than women. Seven dollars a month may not be a big deal to you, but it is for some people. And my criticism is more like saying that insurance companies would pay for your gas if you were male but not if you were female.
Thank you! Hopefully I'll be receiving a few requests in the mail soon so I can send out my first responses!
Reach more investors with your pitch deck
what environment doesn't have that available?

Autocad LISP is the one I ran into. At least it didn't 4 years ago. I'm sure there are other niche cases.

Although I'll admit I punted and wrote a trivial 'parser' that was only able to read and write the particular JSON I was dealing with in that project.
What makes you certain?

I am fairly certain that the world's best search engine is not falling for that. How can we decide who is right?
They (Uber) already had trials in Pittsburgh. Presumably after the closed-track trials. This sound like a careful progression of testing and trials to me.

And every "Technology Demo" is of course a publicity stunt by definition.
I heard the term Gestalt Laws, from a German loan word, used to describe this. I don't the relation of this to your notion.

http://www.dict.cc/?s=gestalt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology
Legalization has already been successfully delayed in CA and FL (this was definitely due to Adelson; I'm not sure about CA) and this disgusting person can help ruin a bunch more lives in the meantime. I think you're being somewhat dismissive of the negative impact he's had.
"Majority of traffic is coming from SEO"

What are your primary keywords?
A stock portfolio that I've built through consulting profits is my main passive income source. Anything else is not really "passive."

This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but in my view the average developer is much better off simply selling their time at the maximum rate and funneling the profits into a well-managed portfolio. The median outcome for this is much better than the story on most passive-income businesses.
I don't understand what this has to do with refuting the original claim:

> Ultimately I think Linus's contributions to Software are pantheon, but he should not be looked to for imitation or lessons. His lessons for success are detrimental to the vast majority of software engineers.

You're not supplying any examples others can learn from or benefit from imitating, you're just asserting they must exist.
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I have a card game business that's aimed towards women, PoCs & the lgbtq community - groups who aren't traditionally served.

Every couple of weeks I ship product to an Amazon warehouse and do a bit of advertising on Facebook. It brings in around $40k/mo and 3-4x during the holiday season.
Interestingly it's probably not actually stress that is killing you, it's how you handle stress. There was a really popular TED talk about it-- people who were stressed but didn't view it as a bad thing were still fine health wise. It was people who were stressed and also believed that was a bad thing that suffered.

How to make stress your friend | Kelly McGonigal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcGyVTAoXEU
A fair number of low wage jobs use noncompetes, notionally to protect trade secrets that line staff need access to in order to execute job duties. It's probably most often pretextual in such jobs, but that's a good reason for policy to particularly disfavor the use of noncompetes there.
> Microsoft developer relations pushed C# as the defacto way to write apps targeting the platform, something that doesn't scale when you also need to support Android and iOS.

Actually, our company has an Android and iOS App written in C# with a 80-90% shared Codebase using Xamarin. It has been pretty awesome so far.
Go towards the end. You won't regret it for sure.
> For me, the 3:2 aspect ratio is so more reasonable for computers than 16:9

I love the 1400*1050 screen on my old T61 and I wish there would be still notebooks with this aspect ratio.
You seem to have some VERY backwards ideas of ethics...
That dial is bizarre. I have two hands, why would I replace one amazing hand with a heavy, large screen obscuring piece of machined aluminum to do something that my hand could already do?
I know I am in minority here, but I believe cannabis is not good for society and for individuals using it. I've seen in my own family how chronic cannabis use stupefied and lowered once smart, energetic and bright individuals, who now have short term memory issues, constant cough, and reek like skunks.
Is that net or gross?
75% of people probably don't understand domain names/servers; in his position, I would have assumed it was a secure, govt server. Plus, the past secretary of state did the same, and the Bush administration deleted millions of emails (not just a few thousand)
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I just tripped down the rabbit hole of skimming said comments back a few years, you're not kidding.
maybe. but, imagine where we'd be now had science driven the rise of civilization. imagine if all the money squandered on war were invested in science.
Sorry this comment does not have a ton of content but I cant find a posting date on the video, are these new?
Source please? And does this mean all those people bending their neck over their smartphone are OK? I always thought (because of the internet I guess, and because it makes most snese to me) looking down nor up is the best, but just straight forward. I.e. computer screen centered to the eyes vertically.
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To me it looks different than the standard "grey text on white background with lots of whitespace and a few basic and/or muted colors" style that you see on the vast majority of websites these days, and I think it's great!

That's the thing about design -- there is no one right answer, rather it's about reinforcing the overall vibe or message of a particular site... in this case I think the color choice conveys a sense of fun and whimsy.
What I mean by thinking of context is this:

Lil Wayne has a wonderful line in his song 6'7', "real G's move in silence like lasagna". Unbelievable.

Let's extrapolate that pattern:

"Real H's move in silence like phonebooks".

Not really the same ring to it, huh? It's not just pulling out a silent letter to emphasize the silence, but there's the context of Lil Wayne being a rapper and self-proclaimed G (gangster.)

Is our extrapolation "new"? Sure, in that no one has (likely) ever said that. But while it mimics Weezy's style, it doesn't understand it's context. Similarly, if Katy Perry sang the same line as Lil Wayne, the context doesn't make sense (Katy Perry is no gangster...)

EDIT

A better example, specific to art, would be Warhol. He explicitly copied real-world objects as art, to create something new. But the newness wasn't that he made a clear copy, it was that his copies reflected the shift in materialism that came with mass-production. Warhol mass-producing "art" was a social comment that resonated _at that time_.

His art was more than the process, it was the context in which it was made and what that said more broadly about society. That's why it resonated.
A better word than "happiness" should be satisfaction. Happiness can be for me instant joy or a good cup of hot chocolate. Satisfaction is more long-term and being satisfied with what you what, instead of joining the rat race.

And satisfaction is obviously linked to health outcomes.
That's awesome.

Would you be willing to email me and talk at me about how this came about?
Literalists would be more likely to want to act as good stewards of creation.
That's almost as ridiculous as parents asking their kids for a lifelong non-compete in the same field as them.
What keywords / search terms did you optimize for?