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> That is unnecessarily harsh.

So do you agree that it runs "virtually anywhere" is bullshit or not. I say it is. Is Windows antiquated too? What about Mac OS X?

It is harsh vis-a-vis the claim it makes. If it makes revolutionary claims, it better hold up to harsh criticism.

> Docker legitimately represents a new idea, and some claim,

I agree with that. So "Investigating container models for application deployment" title?
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You probably know this already..if you hack up the build.gradle file you can get full android gradle builds in Eclipse, even testing and yes both ways..using regular android TDD with new espresso and Robolectric/Robotium.

Yeah some blog posts are coming soon
No, no it isn't, there are recognised damages from that sort of pattern of drinking. Look up alcohol kindling for a start. That pattern in particular may be more harmful than having constant levels in your system.

You can rant and rave all you like, when the studies come in your (and my) favourite drug really is more harmful and more addictive than many/most others.

(--edit-- had the term kindling wrong, now right)
How do you scale with Docker? I get the idea of how containers work. I get the idea of how it shares resources between like containers. That's all very cool. My question is how do I scale a docker container? It's not well covered in the tutorial. Do I just add more containers? What happens when I want to scale on separate servers? I don't see any configurability of the items inside the containers.
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how are you going reach the blogs?
I agree. Everything was good until the guy who wanted to show off his After Effects skills got to it. But even that wasn't enough to prevent me from enjoying the movie.
haha.. well I guess I have nowhere to go but up then.
Or a well funded terrorist group that believes death will bring with it an eternity of pleasure. Plenty of people strap on suicide vests, and it wouldn't take that many more true believers to develop a suicide virus.
You can export Google spreadsheets in multiple formats (Microsoft Excel, OpenDocument format and so on)
Real hackers use sc or ethercalc anyway =]
No need to be captious, snarky, or just plain obnoxious. If you don't agree, fine - move on or comment in a polite way. Don't over-analyze with a lot of biased assumptions.
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$500 graphics cards can run a dictionary against a md5 hash at the rate of 700,000,000 per second. That is 0.7 billion per second.
verge has it now too in english

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/11/5200050/mandela-memorial-...
Apple could choose to support LXC. FreeBSD systems have jails, so another way forward was if Apple support that, Docker could wrap a generic API on top of that. Much like libvirt is doing with various VM hosting solutions.
So, we all like what we're used to.

To the OP, insisting that apps running in browsers will never match native apps in terms of UX, that's a very audacious claim.

There are many powerful, competent, and well-funded entities with a vested interest in improving the web app experience (including Google). I wouldn't claim they're doomed from the start. This could be just another example of a disruptive technology, that's initially lacking in certain conventional metrics, but has a lot of room for improvement above and beyond the entrenched competition.
Who else is doing the same :)? Competitors?
Presumably. Besides if all we do is sit around taking a happy drug, we'd stop reproducing. We wouldn't need the Hoover Dam or a new virus to wipe us out.
There's a lot of crazy out there. Maybe the "bad guys" have a plan to stay isolated and conquer the ruins or maybe they are just actual bad guys. Look at most public mass shootings for examples of indiscriminate killing. All it might take is one researcher in the right time/right place to decide that they want to release this thing into the wild (for whatever irrational reason).
As a power-excel user I agree with you that Sheets isn't quite there yet. Trying to use the same shortcut keys that I'm used to often makes me want to bang my head against a wall, either because they don't work at all or because even if they do, it's not as responsive.

However, the pace of improvement is one that I think you should definitely consider before saying "never." Excel hasn't fundamentally changed for me since 2003 (outside of being able to more easily handle larger datasets from 65K+), so it seems like a fixed target while sheets continues to move closer (still with large gaps ahead!).

If I need to do financial modeling, I'll likely continue to use excel. However, for many low-touch projects, I've almost completely switched over to sheets, which wasn't the case even a year ago.
We still have consoles, which get much better performance for the given hardware. True they can't compete with desktops even with the inefficiencies built in, but that is not relevant.

The web faces fundamental limitations as long as it is built on the current architecture of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. Windows, being a general purpose OS like Linux, has far less restrictions.
No selecting individual tracks? I'll show those jerks at Spotify with my ten thousand single song playlists. Thanks for adding search filtering on mobile too.
Are you asking why we never found a small number of Earth rocks scattered over the entire surface of the Moon during a period of only a few hours total of lunar exploration? The answer should be obvious.
I did think "Hmm, Google going into Bed, Bath, & Beyond? Or maybe a flexible display you sleep under?" But no such luck[1] :-)

I agree with you that 'naming' is not a strong suit here.

[1] I'm sure one segment of the Internet could find a use for a bed sheet that was also a display :-)
I can imagine that happening but it's seems silly to base policy on some imaginary scenario where a new industry starts up that that needs literally millions of lower skilled employees to function.

When was the last time that happened? Every current industry is shedding employees. New industries are either small or require a high skill set.
"A few systems that support LXC", that's actually most modern Linux systems now. Anything with a 3.8 kernel is game.
Are there reasonable precautions that can be taken at an individual level to prepare for a pandemic type event?
Yes, UPS (the courier) are thieves when it comes to outrageous "brokerage" fees. Unfortunately a lot of places won't ship USPS (the post office) because they can't get a signature as proof of delivery.
No, the point being that without language extensions, a C++ AOT compiler is in the same ballpark as a Java AOT native compiler.

You need an external Assembler or OS APIs to provide the required functionality. The same way that a Java runtime library can provide bindings to Assembly or OS APIs.

There are commercial AOT native compilers for Java targeting systems programming, like the ones from Atego.
They (Google Apps, and Office) are different. People who cannot take the time to adapt to different will always find the 'other' system inferior to the one they know.
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The ecosystem was poor. It's pretty good now. In fact Nokia HERE is a killer that wipes the floor with all other platforms.

Who the hell needs 100,000 iOS fart apps anyway.
>A great manager (who may also play a part as an individual contributor) can channel & amplify an organization's creativity and innovation. S/he will also ensure there is an alignment b/w the organization's high level strategies and the individual contributions being made.

in non-MBA speak it is called "foreman".
I don't know if this is either a cynical or optimistic idea, but I don't know if those groups truly believe that throughout the ranks. That is why you often hear about payments to the family of suicide bombers. They aren't simply doing it for their religious beliefs, but also to help out their family. The same family that would have a 50% chance of death if the particular example virus from the article was released.

Or another way to put it, why is the pope-mobile bulletproof?
What are Linux containers and how did they come about?
I am curious: are documents in Google Sheet scanned by Google's software bots to determine stuff about me? I can't seem to find a Privacy Policy document specific to documents in Google docs. How about if I pay for the service (can I pay for the service)?
Many food industry quality control practices are effectively determined by consumer demand rather than the FDA/USDA. It's often that, as a manufacturer, your customer audit will be more intensive than the government one. The feds just don't have enough auditors to really keep a close look on anything but the most "at risk" plants, so the food industry is basically watching itself in a circular manner. Retail food establishments are auditing their suppliers, who are auditing their suppliers, and so on.
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They don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk. Typesafe (the company founded by Martin Odersky) offers Typesafe Console as a part of their Reactive Platform.

There you can see lots of data related to an application using Akka, including its performance and possible bottlenecks.

You can use it easily from the web browser, the only downside is the large amount of RAM used.
As far as we know this is currently the only B2C approach built on top of an API that can place orders on ecommerce websites.
Is it important that the information you consume is the information approved by Facebook?
No. The government has to certify the system before it can be used on government networks.

This is so companies can sell compliant RHEL7-based solutions to military and other government organizations.
Sounds about right. I gave it a try because of their Beatles catalogue, but went back to Spotify after a few sessions.
> It won't last forever. Software development and deployment is becoming easier and easier every day. Between open source, infrastructure in the cloud, PaaS & SaaS, and the plethora of new tools/libraries/frameworks/languages that debut to address specific problems with lightning focus, it has become trivial for an individual to pull off what was impossible for a team 15 years ago. This doesn't even consider the explosion of packaged software targeting business needs directly. I don't think we're so far away from a world where software developers can only realistically find work at software companies as demand for software developers is displaced by... software.

Couldn't you have said the same thing 15 years ago? I don't think anything significant has changed since then.

Another problem with this thinking is software is never done, it just evolves and changes. It also needs some serious maintenance. Even if the job of software developers will be done by software, someone still needs to maintain and improve that software (unless we get self-writing software, which I don't see any time soon).

Another thing that keeps changing is hardware. Switching from computers to phones and tablets and the web created completely new markets for phone and web apps (written in Java/JavaScript) which weren't there a few years ago. Who's to say there aren't going to be new markets a few years from now? (For example, we'll need developers to write Google Glass apps).

In addition, even after all this evolution, current frameworks and languages are still horrendous. The most popular languages right now are C++, Java, JavaScript and PHP, all of them horrible to program in (more or less). I think there's still plenty of work to do in this direction.
The unemployment rate did not drop to 0. It dropped to 7.0 percent. That means 10.9 million people in the US are still looking for work and can't find it.

What is your point again?
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On mobile, you can listen to artists, albums and playlists in shuffle mode. Or choose a ready-made playlist to suit your mood.

Even though I have a Spotify premium subscription, this is what I do 99% of the time. Thanks, I will be cancelling my premium subscription today.
Whenever this topic comes up, I point out that addiction is merely an undesirable side effect. A drug can be extremely enjoyable, but not cause a compulsion to take it again and again. And conversely, a drug can be neutral happiness-wise, but cause an addiction. We all know examples of similar things in real life: a creative flow state is very enjoyable but hard to get into, and Pringles are kind of disgusting but you don't want to stop until you've finished the pack.

My term for this is "the want-like distinction", and the best reference is Yvain's "Are Wireheads Happy"? http://lesswrong.com/lw/1lb/are_wireheads_happy/
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Apocryphally, most people are only a couple of paychecks ahead of their bills, and would have to default on something when faced with 15% less income.
> "The question I always think of when people raise fears like this about bio-weapons is what what motivations are there for 'bad guys' to release indeterminate killers like a bio-engineered virus?"

I'd imagine the threat of release would make for a pretty compelling bargaining chip. Potentially, you could gain a lot of leverage without having the backing of a sophisticated military-industrial complex (unlike nukes).

It's kind of like a DIY WMD for the millennial, "maker"-terrorist generation.
Clever! Reminds me of Million Dollar Homepage: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com
"new idea" is a huge stretch. More accurate: "new idea to the mass hacker nerd HN market."

Solaris has had—for years—container based virtualization with local virtual network and de-duplicating file system snapshots you can tar up and send across machines.

It's new in that they made a nice abstraction on top of the Linux clone of Solaris containers then marketed the crap out of it so everybody became aware of non-VM compartmentalization and fine grained resource allocation.

In short: still awesome, but not "they invented it" new.
Food companies are usually following a more-strict standard set by their customers.
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Isn't that just another point in his favor? It's easy to say "you're doing it wrong, just learn how to use these other technologies so Office works correctly", but most users would obviously prefer a product where "doing it right" is the default behavior. I'm speaking of course only with respect to the feature being discussed here (collaborative editing); I don't have much of an opinion on Office vs Drive overall.
Can't you put a sticker on so you won't get marketing material? In Germany you can sue parties who still put it into your mailbox.
What if they made the door-to-door delivery a premium subscription that one could opt-in? That could provide some revenue to offset the losses they are posting. If you decided not to get it, your mail goes to the community mailbox.
Double-parking quick delivery trucks remind me of nothing but the 2000 bubble. Here's one way too big for the parking spot about to block a fire hydrant in the Upper Haight just last night: http://imgur.com/61lAhjW
Personally, my experience shipping with Canada Post, UPS, FedEx and Purolator to and from urban and rural areas in Canada has been overwhelmingly positive over the years.
This is where nanobots come into play. These nanobots carry the hormone past the blood-brain barrier, and deposit it directly in the receptors. Now the key is to have the bots only put the hormone in some of the receptors, keep track of which ones were used, then rotate through them so they have time to recover.
Nice - looks great!
Or Docker could gracefully degrade to using chroot on OS X (providing a different type of isolation.) This is a plan.

One of the things Docker needs to get better at expressing is that A Docker container != Linux Containers. It may currently Build/Provision/Execute inside of a Linux Container (provided by LXC) but that is an (albeit important) implementation detail.
Very nice hack with the OnDemand VPN, would have never guessed something like that exists in iOS. Also like the idea of amber.io, impressive number of retailers already on board! Would love to hear from people using the API about their experience.

Keep on hacking!
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I don't know yet what will happen for Windows, but an upcoming version of Docker will run on OS X. (I say "upcoming" because I know some core maintainers have OS X support in their local branches, so it's just a matter of time before it hits master.)

It doesn't has the same isolation guarantees (yet) but it lets you use the same workflow.

Windows is different, but I can't imagine a scenario where you have to run your app on Windows. I.e. if it's your local machine, you can spin up a VM; if it's in your datacenter, you can use Linux. If your local policies are "we only run Windows on our servers, screw Linux!" chances are that you wouldn't run Docker anyway, even if it ran natively on Windows :-)
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> But drug cartels will still be part of the picture

Er, why? Its not like the similar organized crime operations that were involved in the alcohol trade during Prohibition remained "part of the picture" as "alcohol cartels" once Prohibition was lifted.

They still existed, in some cases, continuing the other organized crime they had been engaged in. So, to the extent that drug cartels are involved in other for-profit criminal activity, you can expect that with drugs legalized and that market taken over by pharmaceutical companies -- who exist, have lots of money, and existing connections with regulators -- some of the cartels would try to pivot to focus on their other lines of business. But they wouldn't still exist as drug cartels.
We'd need to find a way to continually power the robots.

Mass solar power, maybe?

Or perhaps, if everyone were perpetually swept away into the wonderland of the perfect happiness drug, the human body itself could be appropriated as a battery, leading to a deliberately created Matrix. </humor>
Dockerfiles are basically Docker's way of doing config management. Pros: docker caches every step of your Dockerfile, so iteration is fast. Cons: Dockerfiles are basically glorified shell scripts. At Clever we basically have a single Dockerfile that calls our existing Salt setup, and so far it's worked decently well.
This is interesting primarily because we know a decent amount about the nature of the Chicxulub impact event, so we can model it. And in doing so we've found that it should be possible for microbial life deep inside Earth rocks to end up in heliocentric orbits and to be protected from space radiation long enough to have a reasonable chance of surviving until the rock they are in hits another planetary body in our Solar System.

What this actually means, though, is that likely many other impact events in Earth's history could have done the same thing. Even going back billions of years. Which means that the probability of Earth life having landed on Mars, Venus, or Europa in a way which might have seeded locations favorable to life is very much non zero.

This sort of thing has been speculated about before but never modelled so rigorously using real-world impacts as examples.
How likely is it for these organisms to survive ejection in the first place? I thought asteroid impacts were incredibly hot and violent.
> When the state has access to nukes and the populace doesn't, how can this statement not technically be true? It seems like the ability literally wipe cities off the face of the earth means that you have the permanent upper hand, in terms of power.

Because that's not a credible threat. Nuclear weapons are antithetical to the goals of a government in conflict with it's own people.
How about phasing it out immediately for vegetables and fruits?

Because learning about that has freaked me out for weeks now.
>Also consider that such a thing would totally devastate the local community and surrounding areas in numerous ways

How so?
Given the history of weaponization it would be illogical to worry about 'bad guys' instead we should be worried about the US Government.
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I'm skeptical of the claim that it's more powerful. Running a simple performance test, 10,000 formulas of the form:
B1=MOD(A1+32,1000)
re-evaluation takes about a second, which is slightly slower than the old version. For reference, Excel can do 1,000,000 of these formulas, significantly faster.
not necessarily. since he had to rekey the card... someone just showed up with any for of ID, or not even that, on the front desk and claimed that another random card they acquired by any other means (i collect those when i stay) wasn't opening the door. easy as that.
I came across an interesting tidbit of information the other day.

It turns out that "mud daubers" (wasps that make houses from mud) are responsible for at least 2 major airline crashes in the last 33 years killing at least 223 people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber#Involvement_in_Flori...

One in 1980, and one in 1996... that we know of.

Apparently these mud daubers love living in long cylinders. If they find one, say on a plane's uncovered instruments, they'll set up shop.

If you look at it under the right light, mud daubers are approximately 1/20th as powerful and threatening as the world's terrorists of the last 33 years.

This URL has some numbers of terrorist caused deaths over a similar timeframe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_of_Global_Terrorism
I just bought a $150 item, of which $20 was shipping and then had to pay $60 COD to UPS at the door, of which $40 was a brokerage fee to UPS (the rest was duty and tax).

Outrageous is an understatement.
I'd say RHEL 5 is fairly outdated and that Windows is irrelevant for a non negligible portion of development shops as a development platform and as a deployment platform.

I don't agree with that it would run "virtually anywhere" but it should at least run on every platform that has binary compatibility with the platform that a container was built for? Getting docker to work on Windows might take a while but Mac could work.

I actually do think Docker or at least the container model will change a lot, i'm considering staying with Linux as my development platform instead of Mac and that's a thought i'd have laughed at two years ago and the sole reason is Docker.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's US-only due to music licensing agreements. (Getting rights in different countries often requires negotiating with different labels...)