migrantgeek

Is Hacker News becoming Angie's List? What's going on here?

Man you got took. It happens. My father once bought a TV on the street in the Bronx and the box just had a couple of bricks. He didn't go around asking strangers to help get his money back.

You gave money to a child for a watch you never saw. You got the watch and didn't like the long wait or the quality of the watch. I don't think that's fraud.

It's very immoral to benefit from the utilities, roads, emergency services, etc provided for by tax money and work very hard to not contribute.

Think starting a business is hard? Try starting a business without any infrastructure.

What's worse is that companies like Walmart get cities and towns to build infra to new Walmart locations and funnel lots of the money away from the areas that provide the infra.

I like the idea. I solved the same problem with Jenkins. We already had it setup for CI and CD.

We then added a view and jobs for scheduled tasks. Removing crons from servers is huge.

Now I can see what's failing, what's working and share that easily with a non-technical person via web browser.

Stop working for an hour and go for a walk.

Repeat 2-3 times a week and you'll get some color + light exercise.

>>> PS: Title feels very "sensational"...

They all seem so sensational. The TLDR version of this post is "I don't like Twitter so much anymore so it's kind of dead to me"

wc has that at 62 chars. Enough for a Tweet :)

up-voted just to ease the pain

Why not setup a local lab that mimics the environment as closely as possible and abstract all work with Fabric, Salt or something similar?

Then you just ship the code you wrote and have then run through the command(s) you've prepared.

Configure an SFTP server on your end so they can drop log data if needed.

I'm sure it was initially created for that purpose however as soon as demand tapers off they'll being to seek new customers.

There's a lot of questioning about why someone would do this.

Why can't someone just write for fun? Does everything now have to be "disruptive" and commercially viable?

"Why do we convince our selves that these types of drastic measures are worth the capital we expend to make them happen."

My cynical guess? Wealthy people with liberal guilt. As for the companies, more eyeballs == more money.

I agree with you. It's hard to force this. If the underlying infrastructure is lacking (clean water, food, medicine, clothing, safety) then the internet isn't going to take hold.

If the core infra is already in place, they're likely already working on bringing the net in.

I'm not sure it's marketing but being in the bubble like was previously mentioned.

Apple has nearly 100% market share with fellow engineers at work.

Sometimes I forget PCs exist until I'm forced to use one (internet cafe, friends home, etc)

I think that's the point. If you only expect to make 500K* from album sales, it makes sense to sell a single copy for 500K to a wealthy fan and let the content leak out to other fans.

Same pay, less work and more happy fans.

* - I don't really know what the numbers are. 500K is just an example.

Corporate policy :(

I really wanted to try this out but I'm stuck on 10.8