mattadams

There is something to be said about wired peripherals... their dependability, ease of use and lack of wasteful batteries that just end up in a landfill.

I have to second this. I am a long-time Linux user, having run Debian since the late 90s and Slackware since 1993 but systemd put me over the edge. Things that worked and were easy to figure out in the previous init system just stopped working under systemd. It is a brutally complicated init that didn't add anything to my experience and pushed me out of Debian and into FreeBSD where things still have sane defaults. I like to get my work done instead of messing around with an init system that refuses to let me do even the most basic things.

Not all new things are great and I think Debian made a mistake not supporting a traditional init system alongside systemd or at least until the kinks could be worked out.

I feel badly for this guy but drinking on a public street is a no-no in most places in North America. There is something to be said for understanding the local rules, regardless of how stupid they may be.

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I'm aware that there are unmanned stations -- not only oil platforms but regular leases. I live in oil & natural gas country (Northern Alberta). What you don't see are the thousands and thousands of guys running around keeping it all ticking.

There are some things that you can automate -- but a lot of things in the oil & gas industry cannot be automated. Specifically, the leg work required to get things started & keep them maintained. Automating those sorts of things requires a pretty advanced AI and I don't see that coming around the corner anytime soon.

Yeah, that is probably never going to happen or if it does it's so far out that it's not worth speculating on.

Quickbooks, absolutely. If you're doing anything serious you need to use an industry standard (not necessarily Quickbooks) for this kind of application. Your accountant will hate you for using anything else.

I think my biggest gripe is that these things are only possible by using one of the many libraries or rolling your own solution. The rather disorganized state of the node.js libraries is far too confusing for most of us who don't do Node 24x7.

How about "please don't use stuff that makes rendering horrifically slow on relatively modern hardware?"

Please see my reply below, thanks!

I know that Jason will reply to this later today but I figured I would do it now.

The company is based in Ontario. Jason lives in Oakville so anything in the GTA would be good.

Data tables (jQuery addon) does a pretty good job with HTML tables.

Is this just a subvertisement for Mongo?