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TLDR: Docker is an open-source engine which automates the deployment of applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers.

Version 0.4 introduces a remote HTTP api, a new Build functionality, and an experimental Openstack integration.

Would be nice if every post had a TLDR;

Maybe someone should hack a tool, point an URL and get a TLDR; version

I think that if post has so trivial amount of information that it can be shortened to TLDR, there is never any need to actually read it

A TL;DR is just a summary, it doesn't need to contain all the information in the original text to be useful.

You're saying that anything that can be summarised must have originally contained a trivial amount of information?

That's actually how newspapers work though: a big headline to draw your attention, summary to draw your interest and then the body of the article.

Isn't that what http://tldr.io/ does?

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