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Yes, the devops movement is silly. In the 90s when I started, every SA knew, and used, Perl and C in their daily jobs.

Then dotcom happened and every kid with a Linux box in their bedroom put themselves about as a SA. And in the 10s people think SAs who code is an amazing new invention.

And back in the 60s, IBM had "systems programmers"... Same thing.
Got you beat[0] just barely, with only the addition of a dwarf star. The speed multiplier is certainly the key. It also seems your initial planet placement is random, so it's getting something that allows use of the dwarf star.

[0] - http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2974678
There's no reason to avoid caffeine. It's a very stress protective substance. Coffee with a little bit of sugar is a great way to sustain concentration far longer than you otherwise could. If one is adapted to it, it does not make one jittery.

Another lesser known chemical trick is aspirin. Aspirin boosts energy, mood, and concentration. Some days I down nearly three grams. I find it works synergistically with coffee.
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Decades ago, Time had enough credibility that their awarding "Man of the Year" was seen as an influential act. I don't know if it was Khomeni, economics, or what, but Time has driven their brand into the ground far enough that they are now awarding it to "gosh I hope so" recipients like the pope, similar to Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.
Make sure you read the article and interview this was quoted from: http://www.fastcompany.com/3028156/united-states-of-innovati...
Could you weave those nanotubes together, to go from nanotubes less than 1 meter, to something the required length?
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It's quite likely there are companies providing the type of thing Im talking about already - I haven't really looked.

My point was more that this is the type of thing people/companies should be looking for in a Linux support contract, rather than another "services" company rolling it's own Linux distro so they can lock customers in with incompatibility.
This is not an article I would go to NYTimes to read.
I've been interested in doing a similar thing with the TI MSP430 microcontroller. You can get 16MHz MSP430s for about $1.00USD/ea in bulk (and one particular 8MHz version at $0.10USD, IIRC), and it takes only a resister, a capacitor, and a power source to run them after they have been flashed. The GPIO has a number of useful features built-in, including a number of serial communication protocols. They are very small, even for a DIP package. They require very little power (I ran one actively polling two ultrasonic sensors and twiddling two RGB LEDs for two days straight on 3 AA batteries). And they are very easy to program.
Surely you do not install X on a server.... I don't get your comment
DevOps, at least imo, is not about technology. It is about culture, and applying practices to speed up the various loops across organizational groups (marketing, sales, developers, ops). Of course there will always be trade-offs, if you don't have the budget to hire both an expert in the technologies that, say for example, speed up configuration management, and prevent snowflake servers AND someone to develop the code for the product, the person you do hire, will have to either pull double duty, or the org will have to plan for the fact that it is probably going to be doing "stuff" slower.
Looks interesting, but many Trello users have tons of loyalty to Trello. Getting them to switch is going to be difficult. There are plenty of Trello clones, and you don't offer any screenshots or examples.
Do you realize your opinions _appear_ to be based on something that is 2 years old?

It's not really logical to judge whether or not something has improved over the last 2 years if you're willfully avoiding most of the changes made in the last 2 years.
Google Space Elevator: the first modern elevator in history not to have phone support.
For the curious, because it doesn't affect a fundamental constitutional right, the equal protection challenge will get evaluated by the rational basis test.
As long as it is rationally related to a legitimate government interest, it will be upheld.
We are in private beta. We let people in step by step, but on the linked page you can try it out without an account. You can sign up if you want a free beta account.
The second statement _absolutely_ does not follow from the first.

You very obviously have not been following any of the backlash to the backlash. Read any of the "witch hunt" articles to see plenty of people whose position is that Brendan did nothing wrong, but the people who condemned him did.
Most people (85%) don't mind subordinate roles as long as they're generally treated decently. They don't have ambitious career goals or strong opinions on what they should be doing with their time.

I'm not saying that such people should be "owned". That's pretty reprehensible. I'm saying that they don't require an amount of autonomy incompatible with the standard employment context.
It's interesting to see how the term devops is stretched to mean anything you want. This term should die because it confuses many.
We use Google Drive to collaborate on our content. It's simple but it's free. Why should we switch?
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Agree, and going Nordic skiing is better exercise than using a Nordic Ski machine. One of the massive benefits of living 60 deg. North, where it's winter 9 months of the year.
well, in many places DevOps is implemented as "developers on PagerDuty". When I (the developer) have to be on-call for 7 day rotations, phone by bedside, paged at all hours, then I'm most definitely acting as operations - probably NOT what I signed up for.

And, contrary to the stated intentions, I've directly observed developers making crappy, band-aid fixes to ongoing production problems in the interest of "making the pages stop". This is the mindset when you are on call be being paged at all hours.

In theory, DevOps is supposed to put those that can best fix things closest to the problems, but in reality a slight separation from the firestorm of ops actually produces better, more thoughtful solutions in the long run.

The best balance is to have a first tier Ops on-call, 2nd tier engineering on-call, and any alerting issues get attention within 24 hours, moving to the front of the work-queue. But, indiscriminately assigning everyone "pager-duty" rotations leads to lower quality solutions in the end.
I personally think DevOps is terribly misunderstood. I think the best way to describe DevOps to that it broke down the traditional Ops/QA/Developer roles into different roles, namely SRE, Platform Engineer, and Developer.

Developers take on the new responsibilities of being able to independently deploy their code, instrument and monitor stability and own test/QA.

Platform Engineering is about building a robust infrastructure and the tooling needed for Developers to handle the new responsibilities. This includes packaging, monitoring, deployment, AB testing, etc.

Site Reliability Engineering is about dealing with fires outside of the codebase. Hardware failures, network connectivity issues, etc.

I don't think any of these roles becomes a "Jack of all trades, master at none" situation. It does, however, cut out some of the more typical engineering roles. While developers just took on additional responsibilities, QA engineers and traditional Ops are forced to repurpose their skill set.
wow the ui is really nice - i built my own tool exactly like this but the ui didnt end up as beautiful. i know other tools have some accessibility problems and built my ui similar to yours to solve them. this looks really cool.

i couldnt figure out how to monetize my app - i have to say the plugin store is a good idea. gj!
well hey... I thought the ignition/starting thing was funny. I like the idea of green too. I don't see tesla as green. the tech isn't there yet. and if you've been on this planet as long as I have... you know there is NOTHING revolutionary about induction motors (circa 1889) or lithium batteries(circa 1979)... I don't like the idea of highly subsidized innovation. If products can't stand on their own... forcing them down the consumers throat doesn't make them better.
We're not okay with it. We just have to put up with it because the entire system is ridiculous. Seems like ridesharing services are one of the ways we've attempted to deal with it. I can envision in the future private weekend shuttles that ferry partygoers from S.F. to other places, so people don't have to deal with the terrible parking situation in the city, and the fact that BART and Caltrain stop far too early.
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Thanks for advice! I'll surely add more videos to main page, some featuring the product itself, some featuring extensions.
I didn't know that Texans were on the move. I thought that there was an influx of Californian/New Yorker exiles moving to Texas and the rest of the southwest.
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Hey do you recon http://www.BlackHatWorld.com will be bought out next? I hope not as they're have a conference this year which is going to be epic! So Freelancer back off from our beloved BlackHat World! But i wish you all the best with your new venture.
The truth is, the ability to work remotely is a skill, and a lot of people are really bad at it.
AptDeco (YC W14) is hiring Customer Experience Managers in NY
The joke is that what web guys call "full stack" is actually a small niche of software development.
So, the article said they need a material 100x stronger than steel. I'm not strong on materials science, so can anyone tell me: why not use 100 steel cables?

I was imagining assembling the cables into a rope-like structure. After all, rope is an excellent example of how you take relatively weak fibres and assemble them into something much stronger.
The problem is there's as many ideas of what "devops" means as there are people saying "devops". The concept of devops as you just described it makes absolutely no sense to me for example. Operations has always been about automation. CFengine has been around for a long time. So to me, your version of devops just seems like a fad buzzword applied to the same old same old.
We've answered most of your question in our blog, take a look at https://blog.prismic.io

It is very hard to talk technical specificities on the homepage while staying understandable for everyone. There is a big room for improvement for sure (and that's what we're targeting), so thanks for your feedback.

Also we'll keep working on our API and development kits documentation, any help is appreciated.

Our API has a cache forever semantics explained here https://blog.prismic.io/UzQYNwEAAGIjZ3UZ/immutable-documents...

It is a Restful API, that's why there is a single entry point, all follows programatically from there.
Just include a UUID at the end of every comment. 0445BD22-4DB2-4238-AB12-38E8766E8FBF
Yeah, I remember that fiasco. What a joke.
Apparently they had a lot of scientists and engineers look at their stuff and it never passed muster.
My anecdote is from a city that doesn't have a property tax increase limit. Housing prices doubled in the span of 5 years, but the cities total budget only went up by 30% or so. The mill rate actually decreased.
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For me it's pretty simple.

1. No distractions or interruptions. That includes a clean desk, no interruptions (closed door is preferable).

2. Comfortable chair and desk. You'll need something that you can sit in for extended periods of time.

3. Big container of water. I don't chug this, I sip. Your brain needs hydration, but I don't too much at one time as that forces bathroom breaks.

To preface all this, I usually always make sure I start as early as I can, have some coffee, and food. Before kids, I would usually do 6a-10a straight. Now, I can do an hour or so straight before I'm interrupted.

And, of course, stay away from HN and other news sites.
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It really depends on what you're trying to do, as one is a product and the other is a service.

In terms of jumping in and getting started, AWS can be daunting, but it's not really that difficult to spin up an instance. OpenStack requires you to provision hardware and install a lot of different services, and architect how you want those services to be configured. It's not all that easy to get going (even with Juju, RDO, devstack, etc.). Both have a confusing array of names, so it's not always clear what part is what (ec2 vs nova, iam vs keystone, s3 vs swift/glance, ebs vs cinder, etc.), and not everything is fleshed out yet with OpenStack. I guess you could call it a work in progress. Actually, you could probably say the same with AWS, but it's much more mature.

OpenStack's biggest selling points at this point are that it's ultimately cheaper (in terms of opex) running your own cloud if you're at any kind of scale, but AWS saves you a lot up front (in terms of capex). OpenStack doesn't lock you in to a particular vendor and you can swap out parts like the hypervisor if you decide you want ESX or Xen over KVM. Unless you're using spot instances on EC2, AWS can be a lot more expensive (it would take only a few months to pay off a server if you're paying On Demand prices).
It would weigh 100x as much. The key limitation is not collapsing under its own weight.
Exactly what's holding me back. I'd love to try them out, but this is the same thing that was sold to some people last spring. There's no way it won't be replaced soon.
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In the US the are more or less the only game in town and they probably have bigger fish to fry at the moment.
I've tended towards Ubuntu over Debian because I've found Ubuntu historically to be more likely to run a recent version of the packages I use (Python, PIL, python-mysql etc). Might not be so true these days now that Python 2.x development has more or less finished.
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I work on digital microscope scanners and I have always thought that 1um was the general value for a 10x objective (because that is always what it is on scanners.), 0.5um for 20x, etc. I realize that many factors contribute to effective magnification (and resolution), but your statement makes me want to look more closely at standard microscopes.
Your 2013 calculations are wrong. Really wrong. You said I am due a refund of about $50, but in reality I owe over $500 in taxes on short term gains.

0/10, would not use again.
The problem with DevOps is that it's a meaningless term. Look at all the comments here, all starting off with what "DevOps is," or "Devops isn't." Instances of people arguing past each other based on different interpretations.

You can't have a fruitful discussion when everybody uses it differently.
DevOps is a rather overloaded term at the moment. I've seen it refer to any of the following:

- Encouraging collaboration between your Dev, Ops, and QA teams, with some cross-training so they can work together better

- Merging those teams under the same manager to try to improve that collaboration

- Making your developers responsible for all those roles, and never hiring a dedicated sysadmin or QA engineer

I personally think any of those is fine. Startups will err toward having fewer people and all of them be developers, while in a larger company it probably makes sense to specialize more and make "DevOps" mean close collaboration between those teams.

Of course, I've also seen "DevOps" as a job title for what would have previously been a "system administrator" or "site reliability engineer", and I have much less patience for that. :) Occasionally I see a job posting for a role that is actually dev + ops, but most often a "DevOps" posting means "we need a sysadmin, but we don't think sysadmins are cool enough to work here."
I have a version of that on cartridge for my TI-99/4A!
Sounds like somebody in the hierarchy doesn't quite "get it".
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Nature abhors a vacuum.

Internet abhors a claim contradicting Wikipedia.
Weight. 100 steel cables weigh 100 times as much as one 100x stronger steel cable (requiring 1000 steel cables to hold up, etc). One of the primary challenges with the elevator is holding the cable up.
At least in my world view this is a much better definition of DevOps. Folks who make the world run, and through automation can keep a larger portion of the world spinning. It requires someone who can analyze failures, figure out how to predict and mitigate them, and then code automation to do so.

Oddly this is much more like the 'developers' of old. If you sat down at a workstation you needed to know how to be your own system administrator, and you needed to write code.

Automation has enabled a fairly new class of engineer which I think of as someone who has no idea how the pieces all fit together but they can assemble them with the help of a framework and a toolkit into useful products. They become experts at debugging the toolkit and framework but have little knowledge of how everything else actually works.

The problem with this new type of coder is that they can write syntactically correct impossible programs. I didn't understand that until I taught myself VHDL (a hardware description language). VHDL was the first "language" that I knew where you could write syntactically correct "code" which could not be synthesized into hardware. The language expressiveness exceeded the hardware's capabilities (and sometimes you would need to have a time machine). Imagine a computer language where 1/0 was a legitimate statement, not caught by the compiler, but always blew up in your executable.

So we have folks who can write code that is grossly inefficient or broken on "real" systems.

Google had started a program when I was there to have developers spend time in SRE (their DevOps organization) and it was to invest in them the understanding of what went on in the whole stack so they could write better products. The famous 'times every programmer should know' by Jeff Dean was another such tool. You cannot get too far away from the systems that are going to run your code if you want to write performant code.
My first impression is: That will add an even bigger chilling effect than we already have w/ Prop13. More people would stay put (or just avoid selling.)

Also it's not like values are an eternally increasing step function. Suppose I bought in '95, saw my paper net worth rise thru the boom, then I need to sell at a depressed price in 2001. Without this lien waiting for me, I can take comfort knowing that I'm selling at a depressed price but also buying again at a depressed price. But when you take tens of thousands off the table to pay back taxes, my down payment has eroded significantly, increasing my borrowing cost.

Of course outside of California most people are used to periodic reassessment. It's just part of life. But I think tinkering w/ Prop13 in the ways you describe are possibly worse than just eliminating it and replacing it with an expanded homestead exemption of some kind.
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>I don't think most developers have the capability to be sysadmins or QA.

No, but they tend to think they can.
No I wouldn't say that. Other problems included: too broad a definition of communist, guilt by association, the demand for loyalty oaths, and an unwillingness to take into account ideological changes over time.

However, I strongly disagree with the notion that there was no problem at all with people working for the State Department, the Army, or even in major media outlets, who actively supported, and were working towards, the violent overthrow of the US government in favor of a dictatorship of the proletariat.

If we look at the Eich situation, there were few concerns about accuracy, no guilt by association, and Eich had ample opportunity to disclaim his prior views/actions but declined to do so. So we are left with only the core question of whether or not there is something wrong with keeping avowed communists or bigots out of public positions.
The ability to take tests.
I really hate this kind of comments. It wouldn't hurt to be a little constructive while criticising someone's work.
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It seems as though a big part of google x is waiting for academies to do a lot of the hard lifting and then when something has all of the part's completed and researched, putting them all together.
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"DevOps" here, by which I mean an IT Ops Manager/Linux Admin/Network Admin doing this for more than a decade.

Nothing you described is outside of the realm of what your typical linux admin does. I don't have to be a senior python dev to do my job, and I've managed 5500+ virtual machines by myself (puppet/chef, bash, some python, persistent data/object storage).

Agree with the author; just shoving more hats onto less people.
I put 11 Earths in a row in very similar orbits. For some strange reason, some of them went out after ~100 years and made new, stable orbits. http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2980198
As someone who wants to learn to build Node.js apps in his free time, I love boilerplate apps like this! Thanks for sharing.
It wasn't really that clear-cut. I started in Ops in the '90s, too, in SV, and there were plenty of SAs I knew who were proud of the fact that they weren't coders. Yes, they knew the shell, and maybe they knew a tiny bit of Perl. But as a guy who was an SA and a coder (Perl, C) I was a rarity.

I still am, but the "DevOps Movement" is here to point out that this artificial dichotomy is considered harmful.
I've been in the beta trial of this, and it works pretty well.

A few thoughts:
1) It would be really great if I could schedule when the pagesnaps were taken
2) It'd be nice to be able to take snaps of only one div
3) Would be very cool if there was a URL that always had the most recent snap
>The bottom 60% ... left the industry

I wish. They are still here and still copy+pasting commands they don't understand. The entire linux world is still dominated by these people. The whole "howto" culture is still very much alive and kicking.
> How do we now it isn’t some government plot designed to snare activists or criminals? A couple of ways, actually. One of the Snowden leaks show the NSA complaining about Tails in a Power Point Slide; if it’s bad for the NSA, it’s safe to say it’s good for privacy. And all of the Tails code is open source, so it can be inspected by anyone worried about foul play.

It does not follow that either, or both, of these points (Open source, an NSA complaint slide) make this "snare proof". I'm not saying that it isn't, but there is no logic in the Wired article's assertions.
You're leaving out the other 80% of the industry – yes, IBM shops had systems programmers but every single one of them also had operators who were following a big run-book of canned procedures and diagnostic trees which sometimes ended with “Call <sysprog>”. Most Unix shops I've seen had a few decent developers and a bunch of people who used tools written by the first group.

The big difference I see in devops is that people started taking system management seriously enough to do first-class development rather than an afterthought.
What's the advantages/disadvantages when compared with CoreOS? They seem to be direct competitors.
Has someone created a mirror of the site yet which works? It's not opening up for me as usual, the HN effect.
I'd love for them, you know -- to design radical new ways of visualizing and accessing the wealth of human knowledge, rather than spend their time with geeky pet projects that will never see the light of day.

Google search interface has been fundamentally unchanged since it launched in the 90's.

But you know, glass and self-driving cars and all that shit.