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Comment · 1 month ago
Man I miss Slashdot's Beowolf culsters
Comment · 2 years ago
ah, you say that, but with wifi light switches and wifi toilets it's easy to connect those together nowadays!
Comment · 3 years ago
Sounds like pretty basic observation of society, as in people are driven by: 1. What what they can do -- the tools. 2. What others do. 3. Costs / benefits. 4. What hurts -- laws and consequences of not following the law.

I wouldn't be surprised students of sociology would have better models to describe this.

Comment · 3 years ago
String Theory tries to say that.
Comment · 5 years ago
The bad rap was probably due to older versions. I used to program PHP in a professional setting (quite a while ago) and it basically interchangeable as any other system script (bash) executed by a parent http server process.

The language itself at the time was mostly useful because you could execute a script made of HTML (or anything really) with some embedded magic tags interpreted as PHP instead of the opposite where you had to do some sort of template engine.

Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, but they better not get caught. It's a trust based model. It's actually Internet stack developers/packagers (anything from protocols in OS or libraries to browsers and devices) that are trusting Let's Encrypt among other certificate authorities.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Sounds like CoreOS
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
I would assume endianness to be an issue in such code. Where in these structs would the order need to be validated? Or am I wrong in thinking that the byte order matters for x86 targeted c network code?
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm remembering VRML now.
Comment · 11 years ago
From: https://vmware.github.io/photon/

Photon™ is a technology preview of a minimal Linux container host. It is designed to have a small footprint and boot extremely quickly on VMware platforms. Photon™ is intended to invite collaboration around running containerized applications in a virtualized environment.

Optimized for vSphere - Validated on VMware product and provider platforms. Container support - Supports Docker, rkt, and the Pivotal Garden container specifications. Efficient lifecycle management - contains a new, open-source, yum-compatible package manager that will help make the system as small as possible, but preserve the robust yum package management capabilities.

More: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/introducing-photon/

Comment · 12 years ago
A webring! (but seriously, it actually has a ton of other similar projects)
Comment · 12 years ago
Don't listen to him, its just for performance, compatibility and portability. There's many other reasons why you might want to use another language, and some do.
Comment · 12 years ago

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