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For future work, I would definitely consider NetBox and Collins as alternative options to GLPI.

GLPI with FusionInventory for IT Asset Management and Knowledge Base.

GitLab for repositories, adhoc documentation via gists and CI/CD.

Nagios for monitoring.

Open to trying other things out if they make sense.

See also Benoit Chesneau's CouchDB vision which he has partly implemented in his own fork:

https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307...

I found Jan Lehnardt's vision for CouchDB very compelling. It allows CouchDB to be the feature-rich core of a large, complex ecosystem, yet retain a ruthless focus on being the best multi-master replicating database available.

The challenge seems to be in finding or creating friendship circles with similar or compatible values/outlook. In a busy fragmented society, you have to work in a deliberate and persistent way at that. I've concluded that a key thing to do is to pursue my passions and find IRL communities that share them.

Seems to me there's a deeper point being made here about deciding what one's purpose in life is and choosing to pursue it wholeheartedly.

HN discussion of the Atlantic's Grant Study synopsis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=605207

There's an app for that! ;-)

Seriously, on my Android device I have an app called Routinely which is one of probably dozens of apps focused on supporting the formation of positive habits. I've set up both a morning meditation activity and an evening meditation activity on it on a daily basis. It does regular scheduled notifications & it does the Seinfeld chain thing when you tick off a completed activity.

I'm following the Natural Stress Relief approach to meditation which is a form of mantra meditation not unrelated to Transcendental or Vedic Meditation. Each session is 18 minutes in length.

I'm not long into my practice, but I find that as a night owl, it helps me sleep more soundly if I do an evening meditation and that the morning meditation dispels the grogginess I usually have on waking. After meditation, I generally find myself refreshed, relaxed, alert and calm and there is a real delta in my state compared with before the session.

Link for Natural Stress Relief http://www.natural-stress-relief.com/

If deletionists had been running the show when Wikipedia got started, it would have failed.

That's 1-2 hrs in meditation per day? What particular type of meditation do you practice? How long have you been practicing?

The cheat sheet: http://data-sorcery.org/2010/12/29/hammock-driven-dev/

Please be sure to submit to HN when you have a new respin ready. Pretty sure there are a lot of potential new SmartOS users on here who'd like to use KVM with AMD. Got my eye on a N40L-based Microserver myself.

Agreed. Been wondering where the fork in the road happened. Was it going OOP instead of FP? Should we be doing domain-driven design & using DSLs everywhere? Should we be using macros to write code that writes code as a routine practice. Was Dylan the way to go instead of Java?

Having made a similar transition a few years ago from a mouseless linux desktop using ruby-wmii on a thinkpad to osx on a macbook, I find ShiftIt works for tiling windows using the keyboard.

Android-wise, I've been using Pubtran London. The new Transit Navigation feature in Google Maps for Android, goes a long way to making Pubtran redundant. Will be interesting to see how the Pubtran author raises his game in response.

Ease of deployment via DotCloud will probably be quite useful for some folks, but other than that, why would you use this over say Webdis (which already has access control)?

http://webd.is/

For those wondering why Veracity, this might make interesting reading: http://www.ericsink.com/articles/vcs_trends.html

I suspect the aim is to build the foundation for an Enterprise-ready DVCS.

EDIT: See also Veracity: the next step in DVCS http://www.ericsink.com/entries/veracity_early.html

Section of Matz's RubyConf X presentation that covers RITE:

http://www.slideshare.net/yukihiro_matz/rubyconf-2010-keynot...

Agreed, not just Samsung and HTC but also the likes of LG and Sony are better positioned to wind up as Android top dog.

Interesting scenario, but what happens to RIM's investment in QNX?

Abandoned like Nokia's investment in Meego?

Nope, he's on bail. As long as he doesn't break the conditions of the bail, he can pretty much do what he wants.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12988646

Could this lead to a massive boost in the use of tools like Tor?

Referring back to the article, setting your own goals and having a gameplan for your career and finances that transcends your current gig and workplace.

I have to say, F# and now F* are about the only languages that could tempt me to give Mono a try.

One of the features of the 4.0 release is Thrust which has recently featured on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2658224

Could be quite useful with Amazon's AWS Cluster GPU instances: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/

Can't load the page, in the meantime you can find the codebase on Github:

https://github.com/indutny/node-spdy

To be more explicit, Chromium has a large, but high quality codebase with a relatively low rate of errors.

Find other people's projects and/or ventures that you genuinely believe in and can honestly contribute and commit to. Then get stuck in. By doing this, you will build up your skills and more importantly build up your work habits.

For those wondering what is meant by Antidesktop in this context: http://freshmeat.net/articles/the-antidesktop

I got pretty far down this path a few years ago with ruby-wmii & a careful selection of keyboard-driven apps including Vimperator for Firefox.

Then someone gave me a Macbook!