ThatMightBePaul | 6 years ago | on: Isopod: Expressive DSL Framework for Kubernetes Config
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ThatMightBePaul | 6 years ago | on: Effect of High-Dose Vitamin D3 Supplementation on Colorectal Cancer
Your question is still a good one, but hoping the above context makes the "so tea as a blanket category just... works?" less absurd.
ThatMightBePaul | 7 years ago | on: The Shareholder Value Myth (2013)
She's a lawyer and professor in precisely this area. You could read the wikipedia article, and try to confirm your bias. Or, you can read the book, written by an expert, and broaden your perspective.
ThatMightBePaul | 9 years ago | on: How I realised “Free Software” is a better term than “Open Source”
Free Software sounds cheap or trashy. It requires explanation. "Free as in beer, and Free as ..."
Open Source is a marketing term to avoid that stigma.
ThatMightBePaul | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What third-party Docker registry do you use? Why?
For a lighter overview, I think the big features are: team workflow, security, and CI/CD pipeline.
Team workflow is just how easy it is to get going / share with your team. IMO, ECR or GCR will have a natural edge here if you're already on their cloud. Tagging is important too, but I think everyone supports that.
Security is both the details of transport (SSL, etc), and whether your containers are getting scanned. Quay.io and Docker Hub both do security scanning for private repos. Quay has a slight edge in that public repos also get scanned thanks to Clair. I believe GCR and ECR lag behind here.
CI/CD pipeline is important because your registry becomes a big chunk of your build. This is what's going to really take time to investigate and dig into. You want to make sure it's easy to add hooks to git or w/e, and troubleshoot build issues (good logging, auditing, etc).
Full disclosure I work at CoreOS and with the Quay folks. That said, I also think they're constantly probing into cool frontiers. I think Clair changed registry security. The team's also started doing cool stuff for k8s users [1].
Lastly, I'm not totally sure on this last bit, but I think Docker Hub has a slight usability edge if you're on Docker EE (swarm).
Summarizing: I think big cloud vendors will naturally always lag a little behind. They'll make up for it with convenience if you're already on their cloud. Registries whose main purpose is to be a registry (like Quay) will naturally innovate a little faster.
[1] https://coreos.com/blog/quay-application-registry-for-kubern...
ThatMightBePaul | 9 years ago | on: Google Noto Fonts
Otherwise, it's a nice looking font for the editor.
ThatMightBePaul | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Polybit – Build, Deploy, Host Node.js APIs
I've met Keith a few weeks ago at the NodeJS NYC meetup. Great dude, who genuinely wants to make development better. Polybit seems particularly cool for front-end / designers, mobile devs, and anyone else who'd rather build an app than fret over the high availability, scalability, or etc.
What I'm saying is: cool idea + Keith's very approachable if ya wanna pick his brain about the design :)
Hope this goes well for ya dude!
ThatMightBePaul | 9 years ago | on: Atlas – a platform for charts and data
Numbers without context are meaningless.
ThatMightBePaul | 10 years ago | on: Yahoo is officially for sale
Stop using the term "activist investor". It strongly connotes political and social change.
That is not your intent. Find better words.
Sincerely,
ThatMightBePaul | 10 years ago | on: Writing more legible SQL
I fucking love CTE's for breaking apart ugly looking queries. They make everything significantly easy to read.
ThatMightBePaul | 10 years ago | on: Why does programming suck?
I'd argue Math is still slow and error-prone. Ask any math PHD candidate. Computation is fast, but Math itself has more layers, and more branches than ever. Sound familiar?
That said, some smarties are trying to remove unnecessary layers in programming. I feel like rump/Uni-kernels are looking to simplify the stack. [1] The clear linux project is removing some pieces from the stack. [2]
TL;DR Math is about as noisy as programming :/ I don't buy the premise. But, I enjoyed the read!
ThatMightBePaul | 10 years ago | on: Roles and Responsibilities of a Successful Analytics Team
I love it when the Keen peeps put out this type of content. Makes it easy to start a convo in house by passing a link + starting a conversation.
bookmarking <3
ThatMightBePaul | 10 years ago | on: I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA
For instance, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is basically just looking for opportunities to have the biggest possible impact.
I think a lot of your future goals may line up: clean energy, global healthcare, etc.
ThatMightBePaul | 10 years ago | on: Introducing Network Containers
Has it been shared with any of the folks at the open container initiative? opencontainers.org
I'm sure they'd love to collab.
ThatMightBePaul | 10 years ago | on: Data Driven Product Design
Tangential: I wish these online slideshare allowed slide comments or inline annotations. Dying to know what the Brahe + Kepler page was about :)
ThatMightBePaul | 10 years ago | on: Powering CRISPR with AWS Lambda
Can't tell if that ticks your boxes or not. If you're interested we're free to try.
ThatMightBePaul | 10 years ago | on: How Nature Does TDD (Eigen's Paradox)
ThatMightBePaul | 10 years ago | on: The Rising Appeal of Apprenticeship
I'm talking plumbers, electricians, etc. There will always be broken toilets and bad wiring.
I'd be more concerned about apprenticeship in the ship foundry that the article mentions. That seems like a much more specialized market.
ThatMightBePaul | 10 years ago | on: What the Next Generation Needs Is Math, Not Programming
John Carmack's 2012 QuakeCon speech is almost a direct rebuke: https://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2012/08/22/john-carmack-discusses-...
In reality in computer science, just about the only thing that’s really science is when you’re talking about algorithms. And optimization is an engineering. But those don’t actually occupy that much of the total time spent programming. You know, we have a few programmers that spend a lot of time on optimizing and some of the selecting of algorithms on there, but 90% of the programmers are doing programming work to make things happen. And when I start to look at what’s really happening in all of these, there really is no science and engineering and objectivity to most of these tasks. You know, one of the programmers actually says that he does a lot of monkey programming—you know beating on things and making stuff happen. And I, you know we like to think that we can be smart engineers about this, that there are objective ways to make good software, but as I’ve been looking at this more and more, it’s been striking to me how much that really isn’t the case.
Aside from these that we can measure, that we can measure and reproduce, which is the essence of science to be able to measure something, reproduce it, make an estimation and test that, and we get that on optimization and algorithms there, but everything else that we do, really has nothing to do with that. It’s about social interactions between the programmers or even between yourself spread over time.
ThatMightBePaul | 10 years ago | on: QA = Time and Money. How much should you invest?