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Interesting. As someone who has written a fair amount of evals to test and benchmark my skills and tools, I am curious what observability solutions you might be referring to? /me heads off to ddg…

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2 maanden geledendiscuss

100% agree. 95% of the AI comments I see are redundant, misleading or both. Commonly they feel like the reasoning process leaking into code.

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6 maanden geledendiscuss

I can’t count how many times I benefitted from seeing the files Claude was reading, to understand how I could interrupt and give it a little more context… saving thousands of tokens and sparing the context window. I must be in the minority of users who preferred seeing the actual files. I love claude code, but some of the recent updates seem like they’re making it harder for me to see what’s happening.. I agree with the author that verbose mode isn’t the answer. Seems to me this should be configurable

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5 jaar geledendiscuss

When I was taking calculus classes, and struggling, a tutor helped me immensely in the exact same way; explaining both practical applications and often the historical context around the method he was teaching me.

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8 jaar geledendiscuss

  Having some proprietary code doesn't prevent companies from also making substantial contributions to open source in other areas.

... yes, but patents are not "proprietary code", in which case granting copyright is enough. If a private company contributes code I think it could even grant the copyright to an open organization, but still decide later to sue if the method/feature/function/etc is patented by them.

Not that I'd foresee IBM or any of the real players in the IT space attempting that anymore, I think most realize that alienating the F/OSS community isn't a viable strategy for a software services company in the long term.

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9 jaar geledendiscuss

For a lot of applications: no, it's very similar, and if you have a language that can be easily statically compiled to a binary which is free of external dependencies and independently testable, and you've setup a build-test-deployment pipeline relying on that, then perhaps in your case containers are a solution in search of a problem :-)

But there are more benefits like Jessie touches upon in her blog post, wrt flexibility and patterns you can use with multiple containers sharing some namespaces, etc. And from the perspective of languages that do not compile to a native binary the containers offer a uniform way to package and deploy an application.

When I was at QuizUp and we decided to switch our deployment units to docker containers we had been deploying using custom-baked VM's (AMI's). When we first started doing that it was due to our immutable infrastructure philosophy, but soon it became a relied-upon and necessary abstraction to homogeneously deploy services whether they were written in python, java, scala, go, or c++.

Using docker containers allowed us to keep that level of abstraction while reducing overheads significantly, and due to the dockers being easy to start and run anywhere we became more infrastructure agnostic at the same time.

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9 jaar geledendiscuss

Compelling arguments for why next generation wireless networks should be standardised by a more open and inclusive body?

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9 jaar geledendiscuss

Absolutely.

I imagine they had a very strong bargaining position willing to commit this much, for this long. Even if Snapchat wasn't a valuable brand for Google to brag about, this amounts to ~10% of the yearly earnings [1] of Google's cloud business (SaaS and IaaS, of which I suspect SaaS like Apps for Work is the lion's share)

I'm sure they're getting a good deal, and can focus on features and getting their platform profitable, as you said.

1. "..at that pace, Google’s cloud could generate $4.1 billion in revenue in 2016" http://www.networkworld.com/article/3029164/cloud-computing/...

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10 jaar geledendiscuss

I'm having similar feelings. I wish Jet was better documented. I hope the Codeship team writes some concise documentation for it, but I wonder if it's against their best interest because it will enable tech savvier customers to run the same CI infrastructure locally, as they are charging for in their service?

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11 jaar geledendiscuss

It's funny how Amazon isn't mentioned in the article as one of the tech companies that should by vying for top position.

Although I suppose in raw numbers most of their staff are not engineers, so maybe it wouldn't be a fair comparison.

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11 jaar geledendiscuss

Well said. My blood boils thinking back to all the times I've heard "Yeah, but that's not REST." as a response to a perfectly reasonable and sane idea/suggestion.

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11 jaar geledendiscuss

I remember this being all over the local (Icelandic) news media a couple of years ago. Pretty interesting story: http://www.mbl.is/frettir/erlent/2013/02/28/hefur_thu_sed_ly...

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11 jaar geledendiscuss

Yeah, being able to compile and link a binary is pretty far from having a nice SDK :-)

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11 jaar geledendiscuss

I quite like this service, used it a couple of months ago (http://steinn.org/post/brute-force-still-going-strong/) although I would love it if I could change my terminal dimensions (char width/height) after recording. That way I could make the terminal window fit the surrounding container on my blog.

But A+ for usability :-)

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11 jaar geledendiscuss

I can identify with that, we built a custom nginx based load balancing / routing solution at QuizUp while I was there :-)

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11 jaar geledendiscuss

Good thought, I even think the article mentions kong as a future replacement for nginx :-)

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11 jaar geledendiscuss

You would be happy to have a person who mixes tabs and spaces as your PM? ... mixes tabs and spaces. Argh.

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11 jaar geledendiscuss

Yeah I'm curious too. I however looked up how many employees they had in 2014 (http://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-tim...), and their quarterly reports for 2014 (https://www.google.com/finance?fstype=ii&q=NASDAQ:GOOG), and got that they profited in the ballpark of 13-14 billion, and had 47,756 employees, so their profits would be somewhere between 270 and 290 thousand USD per employee.

I'm not good enough at reading these quarterly reports to be surer than this :-)

.. and on that note, having the age data of 823 employees from payscale.com seems a rather small sample set for a company of ~50k employees. I also wonder what kind of bias the source introduces, ie. whether your interest in your salary is different based on your age (I don't know).

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11 jaar geledendiscuss

What he said ^

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11 jaar geledendiscuss

They are wonderful and honest people yes, but with more support and subsequently power the risk of corruption and/or ulterior motives grow.

Thankfully the pirate party advocates extreme transparency which should make "casual corruption" more difficult.

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