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https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-org-aws-root-access-ev... discusses that a precipitating event was Andre asking for a copy of the http access logs to monetize them.

I think this is confirmed by Mike Perham's comment in https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1o2bxol/comment/ninn6...

> In this case I have first hand knowledge since he pitched me on the idea: would Sidekiq, being a big sponsor of Ruby Central in the past, be interested if rubygems could somehow use the remote IP to identify the companies downloading the sidekiq gem so I could use that to upsell those companies

Git came along with great merge support and the entire world loved it.

Frink (https://frinklang.org/) has been around for ages, and is rooted in physical unit conversions

Calca (http://calca.io/) has come up a handful of times. It looks pretty reasonable

R, if that's your flavor

Anything with a REPL. Though the OP suggests these are cumbersome, I'd counter argue that anything you know well is usually more efficient than learning something new.

A very long list of commercial tools: Matlab, Mathematica, WolframAlpha, STS, SAS, etc

https://www.kolide.com/company/jobs/4134612004

We're a small startup building device management tools. We believe strongly in https://honest.security and are trying to bring these principles to how companies think of security and their employee computers.

We're looking for software engineers to work on our endpoint agent. It is entirely open source and written in go.

Better would be to think about what the general initial usability of these services are. How easy is it to spin up the compute load? Create reasonable IAM policies? Debug problems?

My own experience (and bias) is that while AWS has vastly more features, GCP is much more usable. The latter feels like a coherent setup with projects and IAM. AWS always has a surprisingly amount of work around org accounts and IAM setups.

So maybe it's faster to get AWS credits, but it's much harder to make use of them.

Implements two dialects. An original one compatible with the inspiration, and used in some of our earlier product. And the replacement (syllables above) which is alphabetically sortable.

For syllables, I use: syllables: %w[ ba be bi bo bu ca ce ci co cu da de di do du fa fe fi fo fu ga ge gi go gu ha he hi ho hu ja je ji jo ju ka ke ki ko ku la le li lo lu ma me mi mo mu na ne ni no nu pa pe pi po pu ra re ri ro ru sa se si so su ta te ti to tu va ve vi vo vu wa we wi wo wu xa xe xi xo xu ya ye yi yo yu za ze zi zo zu ],

I can dump an implementation somewhere if people are really curious

It seems to have a bit of a cleaner presentation in the error stack -- Its an array, which feels nicer than a string.

So while postgres makes for a pretty awesome database, and a pretty good queueing system, some folks may be seriously impacted by the max number of connections

At that point, people usually start looking at the connection pooling tools. Depending on how much work you need from the DB, connections pools can be a win. Anyone know how connection pooling works with listeners?

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I was at one place through much of the boom, eventually they folded. I was the last employee, part of my job was winding down and archiving the assets. After that, jobs were a bit scarce.

I didn't mind the break, though it was a bit demoralizing. Much like today, if you can create a name for yourself, it's easier to get hired.

I'm not really sure we should be touting the sexism in bust size as bug or feature here. It's mostly just sickening.

Deep Blue making a random move doesn't sound like a bug to me. Certainly not in the usual sense. It seems like a fairly reasonable choice, if no better one is presented.