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evook··on Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
It's the other way around. Aldi owns Trader Joe's.
evook··on Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released
> While the package control setup is already pretty straightforward, it is still rather confusing for new users that they have to manually install such a 'basic' feature

If that confuses you, why bother trying to code at all?

evook··on Ask HN: What are pros and cons of PostgreSQL and MySQL?
> But getting started with PostgreSQL is easier and it scales better, so it's hard for me to agree with using it in 2017.

Facebook and Youtube use MySQL, YT via Vitess, in 2017. I am just curious if you could exactly point out what part of PSQL scales better.

evook··on PHP the Wrong Way
You don't have to be a security expert in general, but you should aim to be one in the language you use, or do you intend to blame the framework everytime the shit hits the fan?
evook··on Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else
You're right. The US has chosen state backed economical espionage as their method of choice.
evook··on Uber's Move Away from PostgreSQL
> because both of these databases are not really designed for that kind of scale

citation needed, because AFAIK that's not true. Implemented right mysql can scale as far a as you want it to.

evook··on Pokemon Go API
> If that's all so, could the PoGo devs simply enforce some type of device authentication to 'shut down' these APIs, or otherwise take different steps to make unofficial APIs less compatible/more difficult/effectively impossible?

That's impossible. If you try this you'll either have a bunch of false positives or even more likely a patched api around 12 hours later. Never underestimate the dedication of botters. There are multiple headless WoW Apis around for 10 years now and Blizzard isn't able to close them out.

evook··on Ask HN: Our launch is trending on Product Hunt – now what?
Nothing you'll do now matters for the future of your product, not even your appearance on product hunt (which barely is read by your target audience anyway), so just continue with what you were doing before.
evook··on Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession
Going with that, I'd bet a much larger percentage of the population knows about Pokemon than Twitter.
evook··on Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?
Juniper SRX1500 within my private collocation in a friends data centre. Just worth it, although it could use some redundancy.
evook··on Vivaldi 1.2 release
What he calls out as stupid was the mistake of using those technologies for the UI.

Although I defended Vivaldi as the Opera Successor since its Beta, I stopped to support and suggest it because it failed to fix the js/css/HTML sluggishness with Version 1, and even more sadly with Version 1.2. I started using unofficial stable Chromium Builds with Codecs and Sync disabled via ChrLauncher and couldn't be happier.

evook··on Owncloud has been forked into Nextcloud
Based on what I heared from someone involved, it's actually the opposite. They don't want VC money to come in and loose theirs influence in the decision making.
evook··on Changes sshd port every 30 seconds, using Two Factor Auth to login
> as a joke for all of the people who say "Changing your port is security by obscurity"

That's simply not true. Changing the sshd safes you a lot of trouble in risky environments. You prevent services which rely on ssh from failing during automated dos/bf attempts.

evook··on Blisk – a browser for web developers
My two windows workstations (office and home) both have an average uptime of 40 days. Constantly running ~ 20 vm's of various OSs in the background, just because there is no performance gain in shutting them down while they're idling.
evook··on The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (2005)
The neanderthal genocid theory is a bit outdated. Actually they died because of an erruption below the phlegraean fields. Every human born in an area where neanderthals used to live is a far descendant of ybrids. Until today our dna is made of up to two percent of their dna. The mutations resulting in a low melanin levels and blue eyes are thought to be most likely inherited by neanderthals.
evook··on My personal burnout – Lessons learned
Unable to work doesn't mean you're disabled in Germany. Of course it takes 2 to 3 appointments at the doctor to get the insurance prescription, but I don't know any case where that was a problem at all.
evook··on My personal burnout – Lessons learned
If he has an insurance and is officially ill he could sign up for pay compensation. The first year he would receive 100% of his gross and 70% after the first.
evook··on Exploding offers are bullshit
I'd try to hire him again. If possible above the former offered position. I like people able to stand up for their interests.
evook··on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
Which GPU are you using? I have a 2015 Mac Pro with two D500, before I had a mid tear iMac. The mac pro stands directly besides my "beast" a i7 6700, titan x, nvm custom machine.

I can't really describe it, but it's bothering me and I would put my hand in a fire betting that it's somehow measurable. It feels like the input lag of a cheap IPS-Monitor. Every klick, every slide, every window resize has this minimum lag of maybe 10 to 50 ms, worse on linux. That's hardware independent, because that was already bothering me with a MacBook Pro and my old iMac. I haven't booted OSX in years to work production because of that tbh (Every piece of apple hardware I own is booted 99% of the time with Arch or W10E) but did it just now and compared it side to side. It's still there. It's driving me crazy. I know that I am hyper sensitive for lags and stuttering because of my former quake carrier.

evook··on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
Except if you expect a snappy UI.

OS X and Linux with X11 or even Wayland are easily 20 years behind windows in terms of UI responsiveness and snappiness. The constant input lag of unix desktops always drives me back to windows for my workstations, although I am a fullheart windows server hater and despite everything that comes with it. It's stable, extremely fast and when edited/hacked right also privacy aware.

evook··on My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
This attitude works out if your extremely good in your Spezialisation. I had kept track of my own ROI for the companies I worked for, granted them a bit of that and the rest should be for me. It worked because I always had the digits at hand. Basically "I need a raise, I have 3 jobs offers lined up, your making this of me and I demand x% of that otherwise you loose y over the course of z. Deal?"
evook··on When It Comes to Age Bias, Tech Companies Don’t Even Bother to Lie
> I think there is bit more wrong then their age bias, as they lack a moral compass.

Like completely lacking a useful product and halfway down the road grasping that fact? 22 grands ea month for a little SEO and marketing-analytics of the shelf. Is there anybody who wants to work with professionals left today?

evook··on Show HN: Bytejail – an alternative data storage
In Germany 33 non-conformist were also called backwards and conservative. The Web today is Germany 33 and js is the elephant in the room who makes life a little bit worse.
evook··on Why metadata is bad – 3 minute video your Mom will understand
> I want to live in a world where being kind, respectful, understanding, and caring are the highest of virtues.

That's cool and stuff, but the humankind as a huge organism doesn't work like this and will never as long as we don't start genetically modify humans at scale to be engineered that way when hatched. We're still just "animals" or low-power carbon based computers if you prefer that phrasing.

evook··on Why metadata is bad – 3 minute video your Mom will understand
Who cares?
evook··on GitHub contribution graph can be harmful to contributors
I create a fresh github throw away accounts every time I contribute to a project. Is something wrong with me?
evook··on Opera browser built-in ad blocking, now in beta
wait a bit for vivaldi rc1
evook··on Netdata – Linux performance monitoring, done right
Don't you overestimate an evening with strace and tcpdump a little bit as a "quality of service measure"? In my experience the reasons for high request response times are very easy to find, but not necessarily easy to fix. So at best it takes 30 minutes to find the root of the problem and 30 minutes to come up with a fix, at worst it takes 30 minutes to find and half a man-year to fix an entire stack.
evook··on Stack Overflow: The Hardware – 2016 Edition
I thought so, but I liked your phrasing.

What I sadly don't get is the hierarchy of your routers and switches by the pictures and the lack of QSFP+ utilization as well as the amount of copper. What's the reason behind the copper sfp transceivers in the ASR-1001[0]?

[0]https://nickcraver.com/blog/content/SO-Hardware-Network-NewY...

evook··on Stack Overflow: The Hardware – 2016 Edition
You know someone is a real hardware guy when he calls backup, monitoring and logging non essential. Also a bit confused about the 2960Ss and the choice of Cisco in general. I'd never thought Stack Overflow ran on Network Equipment, what I'd describe as consumer hardware in networking.
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