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Would you expect all sysadmins to become programmers?

you forgot virtualization =)

2011 @ Microsoft: "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches"

2019 @ Microsoft: "We are all in on open source"

How about customer satisfaction?

Not occupy but surely controls import/export into Gaza?

Good article on this subject (the example is Tulum, Mexico)

https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/who-killed-tulum.html

I can't believe they don't charge to enter Venice. 10 EUR minimum would be a start

Mac is losing the HN audience?

Reminds me of Avicii, who wanted to stop touring but his peers reminded him how much we would lose, and how irresponsible he was to turn down ”unique opportunities”. So much for his mental health

Many people had to die for us to learn the safety aspects of flight (learning by failing)

Truecaller is a spam blocking service that may help

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Remember: Reviews are written by the kind of people who write reviews

And being difficult to work on means dependencies with other teams, making changes slow. This slows down innovation speed and enables competitors to launch competing services faster. So there's the business need of microservices :)

Agree.. Very narrowed niche towards crm

So much CRM and marketing

Mainframe still rules many companies. Especially banks and insurance

Related book recommendation: A geography of time

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

Neil Young - My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)

Still not fair just to look at the population. Sweden is twice the size of UK

Yup. Going open source requires a shift in mindset when handling support issues. Coming from a paralyzed, complaining-to-vendor position, into taking responsibility and fixing the problems yourself.

Larry's first day with the board: "Let's introduce audits to catch drivers tuning their cars!"

Requiring you to be a developer to do automation is not a sustainable strategy. Ansible is a better fit for non-developers to do automation, which helps drive adoption

And since it's agentless you can automate almost anything... As mentioned above - the playbooks created by the community avoids you from reinventing the wheel. Companies like Cisco are writing playbook to automate their switches

But man is that train loud...

Compare it to the cloud. Each company used to have their own DC, now they can use public cloud / service providers. Less and less companies have their own DC, and more and more pay "rent". Is this bad? Perhaps the rent frees up capital that can be spent on other things.

It's always profit first, in any given public company.

It absolutely is.

https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/10-countries-with-most-in...

Nowadays teenagers hanging out sit with their phones up their faces. Constantly texting/sending photos on Snapchat, instagram, fb, whatsapp and then picking up the phone every 2 minutes for any updates.

And we thought Generation Y was going to be difficult to manage...

And less physical visits are required for daily life

Especially when you suck at lying..

"The enemy has been neutralized"