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Feedly is limited with free account. The point I'm making is that NNW should be using its own service to maintain user's "read" states between its desktop and mobile apps.

I'm not a big innoreader fan but their mobile app is decent and their online service is synced together. In this case, I never have to worry about my "read" states getting out of sync.

When it comes to RSS adoption, the read-state needs to be seamless across all platforms.

What is a good use case of such "free" mobile app if the sync feature is behind a third party paid service? Am I expected to always check my feeds only on my mobile? How useful is that?

As much as I would use NNW right away but it isn't really a useful service at this point in time.

Where does it save the data locally?

I use this, works perfectly fine on daily/frequent basis (not dead): https://feedreader.com/online

MCSE was good, back in the days, prior to the proliferation of Internet and virtualization technologies. It taught fundamental networking and bare server under the hood. Not sure what new learners learn these days amid all the virtual abstractions, etc.

Yes. https://feedreader.com/online

Agree. I have once built such a space with people I knew. It was simply via a listserv. The key ingredients you describe, are accurate. I have also been part of such small communities on other platforms built specifically with these ideals. However, the problem is, they cannot sustain themselves with such ideals alone, which ultimately leads them to their demise (irrespective of the number of dedicated people it generates). The onslaught of "social media" is like a blockbuster movie which made bizzilions of dollars rendering the small budge niche movies irrelevant.

By now, the world has moved on. People now a days seem not to care much. They'd rather keep on easily dump general content onto each other via one-click whatsapp sharing, etc.

Yahoo Groups is a mailing list!

I did the same sometimes ago. I had a very large number of messages so I had to break things down into separate mbox according to years and months. I then just loaded the file into the email client. I wanted to sync the mailbox with Gmail (that would be closest to getting it back online) but never had the time. However, I wish there was an exporter for Google Groups but there isn’t any as far as I could tell.

You don't have to install this. I was not aware until fairly recently. The pre-installed Dictionary app is awesome and very handy for all types of research (not just word lookup).

This is very nice and effective. I just wish you had spent time in using the real world examples related to the server configs, instead of using the examples of hello-world, list of a, b, c, etc.

None of the teaching methods for programming has worked for me if I were to look at it from a fresh perspective (I'm in computers but programming is not my day to day work). After learning the basics (easy/easy/lost) of pretty much several languages, I have ultimately realized that learning to program takes consistent discipline and daily practice.

However, it still takes a certain mindset (brain chemistry perhaps) which makes certain people leapfrog others. May be it has something to do with how a brain sees logic and numbers (I see logic and numbers but not necessarily in proficient manner).

My ultimate conclusion is that if programming doesn't come naturally to you, then you are looking at a whole lot of discipline and consistent practice. The chances of you giving up here is very high. But if programming comes naturally to you, then you can become a programmer irrespective of the kind of teaching pedagogy you follow.

Not necessarily exactly like this but Google Sheet does web publishing of sheets.

It's good.

This is how Dr.Racket and Khan Academy pretty much teaches programming. But note that for a brain which is not naturally inclined towards programming (and numbers), the examples increasingly get very complicated and fast. I say this as a non-programmer who has spent a lot of time trying to learn programming on the side. I have eventually concluded that all these "teaching beginners programming efforts" lack the real world middle-ware modules, where one learns to practically program with database etc, for useful applications.

In any case, the methods presented here, are good, but not necessarily pedagogically perfect.

LXD is fine. You can run K8s on it.

I agree. I only want my up-to-date data (which is feeds in this context) to be available in a bare-minimum fashion on my mobile, when I'm away from my desktop. The argument I make above is based on the fact that when it comes to RSS, your data (feeds) is either in a read state, or it is un-read. It should be up to the users to decide where and what he/she wants to read. The equal unavailability of the data/feeds on multi-platform makes it very hard to consume the feeds.

In this day and age, how could people use desktop reader without syncing feeds when they're on their phones? I don't get it.

NetNewsWire on Mac is pretty good looking and fast software. But it is useless without its counterpart on iPhone.

When it comes to RSS feeds, it is an either/or scenario. You either have RSS wherever and whenever you want (and it has to be synced up and up to date), or you don't.

There's really no conversion from VMware to Kubernetes. You need VMs for K8s. Unless you're entirely not going to use VMware for your VMs; you will need virtual machines to run your K8s cluster.

I don't like to downplay such efforts (education in particular) but as a really big organization, who is putting its first foot out of the K8s door, this is a really lackluster approach. You basically have video lectures at this "academy". Not sure if you have noticed the scene out there but one can learn a whole lot more by reading and practicing on site like Katacoda then they would spending the time watching lectures on this site. In any case, VMware is a behemoth when it comes to VMs, and K8s is a match made in heaven for you (no big deal if you came late to the party, you'll be able to catch up better than anyone else - so goes the logic of course).

In my opinion, if you are honestly looking to educate, and it is not just a marketing, then look into delivering the education that is better than anyone else.

More advertisement real estate space. Not that Wordpress.com was already not littered enough!

The heydays of "blogging" was/is all BS.

Good point. I think “Hollywood” got eaten up by globalization (China) and easy route of super hero movies all-the-time. The Disney’s and big studios alike have no patience to make money off of creativity. Why do we even need Toy Story 4 to begin with? And how many super hero movies one need to drive same points again and again?

It depends on the age of the kids, and personal situation of course. But as an app specifically targeted for kids - particularly by a big company - it is the absolute worst possible thing on the Internet.

Do everything possible to make sure they stay away from YouTube, particularly their YT for kids app.

IBM Cloud Private is not as same as IBM Cloud. IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes+ product which is similar to Red Hat's Open Shift.

This is basically the "on-prem/hybrid cloud" business which everyone's after (IBM, Google, AWS, MS). The market seems to be pushing towards this model. The old businesses were naturally not moving to "cloud" so the cloud wants to come to their house (which makes sense).

FF was also behind in using auto update the software without user interaction. That was a big change from user’s perspective (who didn’t much care that a certain service was also always running behind the scenes).

Book is here: http://web.archive.org/web/20050308042540/www.algonet.se/~jo...

telescope.surf been doing this, for a while now (I'm pretty much a daily user of that site when I'm on my phone).

The no-bot and old uncle is a cliche by now.

We were in one of the South Asian country not too long ago (family of four). Bought 2 pairs of glasses each, everything you name it, is included. Cost? <$50 for all. It would have cost us at least $1000 in US. And you cannot tell we wear cheap glasses. They are perfectly fine. Of course they are not original Ray Ban but who cares as long as prescription is right. The eyewear industry in US is totally out of control.

Whatever happened to kids not allowed to sign up until 13? The world moved too fast!