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Re: Aws Apigateway for Fun and Profit

Donnie Berkholz — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 16:35:53 -0000

If you aren't using stages, I'm curious what your testing process looks like for the integration code?

Re: The Best Noise-Cancelling Headphones

Donnie Berkholz — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 23:31:06 -0000

I don't see how old is a reason to write something off, given the favorable reviews this site continues to give the Sony MDR-7506.

Re: Programming languages ranked by expressiveness

Donnie Berkholz — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:40:25 -0000

I'd recommend rotating in your image editor of choice and re-typing.

Re: Can Ashley Madison Claim Copyright on Its Hacked User Data?

Donnie Berkholz — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:54:14 -0000

The arrangement of data is protected by copyright law. There's case law on this stuff from telephone books.

Re: The breakout of Ansible, and the state of config-management communities

Donnie Berkholz — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:28:50 -0000

One possible reason for the positive spikes is that it's Thanksgiving, and a bunch of open-source types are college students, and they have extra free time that month. CFEngine, by contrast, is probably mostly used in existing long-term deployments whose employees have vacation then. All speculation of course.

Re: Delta Unveils New Private Check-In Lounge at LAX

Donnie Berkholz — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:59:35 -0000

I'm curious whether you can get into this with a premium economy ticket on e.g. Air France.

Re: The breakout of Ansible, and the state of config-management communities

Donnie Berkholz — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:46:19 -0000

While I personally find it abhorrent and flaky, people seem to be doing it. =\

Re: The breakout of Ansible, and the state of config-management communities

Donnie Berkholz — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:17:56 -0000

Just the sole core repository for each of them: cfengine/core, puppetlabs/puppet, chef/chef, saltstack/salt, ansible/ansible, docker/docker. Due to architectural differences no perfect comparison is possible, but that's why we use more than one metric to assess trends and state.

Re: Where Should You Credit Delta Air Lines Flights?

Donnie Berkholz — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:09:56 -0000

Worth noting that Minneapolis isn't as bad of a hub captive as it used to be, thanks to Sun Country. They now fly to probably 90% of the cities I visit, like SF, Vegas, NYC, etc.

Re: What’s in Store for 2015: A Few Predictions

Donnie Berkholz — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:13:41 -0000

My biggest concern with Slack in the non-business context you suggest is its inherently closed nature at present. I'd expect that to greatly impede discoverability and raise the barrier to new participants. That's
fixable of course, but it's unclear whether Slack would make the needed
changes.

Re: Strata 2015: Reaching for the business user

Donnie Berkholz — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:24:59 -0000

Someone else did a little bit of that: blog.treasuredata.com/2015/...

Re: The Miracle of Minneapolis

Donnie Berkholz — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:09:40 -0000

Immigration is what made our country great in the first place. Look to
the Germans around the 1850s-1860s and Nordics in the late 1800s. The
rate of foreign-born residents is identical now to what it was when we
gained our identity as a country.

Re: Strata 2015: Reaching for the business user

Donnie Berkholz — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:28:29 -0000

I'd love to run some text analytics against the talk schedule and compare at some point. Problem is that the tagging/categorization is often pretty manual work, and a lot more grueling with the sheer number talks than <50 emails.

Re: Do Airlines Have to Honor Mistake Fares?

Donnie Berkholz — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 03:50:18 -0000

Pricing often varies by country and currency. It's not at all atypical for people traveling to the Caribbean, for example, to check prices in the island currency vs US dollars and purchase same. Often it is cheaper by $100 or more. This is particularly true for inter-island flights. I'm free to purchase in whatever currency and theoretical sales city I desire, since I'm buying through the internet and not at a ticket counter.

As for sales tax, that only applies if they have a local facility in your state. And if they don't collect, it's on the buyer to submit to the state. It's only illegal if you don't submit it yourself later.

Re: Is FoundersCard Worth It? | The Points Guy

Donnie Berkholz — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 20:43:04 -0000

Silver Elite, fast-track to Gold

Re: Is FoundersCard Worth It? | The Points Guy

Donnie Berkholz — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:52:34 -0000

Yep, just checked.

Re: Is FoundersCard Worth It? | The Points Guy

Donnie Berkholz — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:51:48 -0000

At Starwood, they do. Haven't checked others.

Re: Is FoundersCard Worth It? | The Points Guy

Donnie Berkholz — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:46:44 -0000

I've gotten fantastic value out of the hotel discounts in San Francisco, where rates go insane during conferences. I've stayed at the Four Seasons and the St Regis for around $400-$450/night when every nearby 4-star is $600-$800+ or sold out. Definitely worth it for that alone.

The elite memberships for Hertz and Avis are very handy too. Discounts on Virgin America and Virgin Atlantic seem useful if you live in the right cities.

Re: Revisiting the 2014 Predictions

Donnie Berkholz — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:28:04 -0000

You could make a good argument for Netflix this year given their hire of Andrew Spyker, a highly visible enterprise user at IBM, to do almost exactly what you predicted.

Re: New Delta Arrivals Lounge at London Heathrow

Donnie Berkholz — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:58:51 -0000

How are you supposed to access it if you flew into T4 from MSP? Headed there next month.

Re: Reference architectures belong in code, not pointless PDFs

Donnie Berkholz — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:50:08 -0000

Simpler to convey, sure. But most of those describing reference architectures are interested in people actually implementing them, in which case working code is king.

Re: What are the Most Popular Open Source Licenses Today?

Donnie Berkholz — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:36:41 -0000

For some additional reading, I took a different look at this. I based it on projects created in each year rather than total projects in existence at a point in time. Makes the trend over time really obvious. http://redmonk.com/dberkhol...

Re: GitHub’s vanishing acceleration

Donnie Berkholz — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:28:38 -0000

Two followups: (1) the student developer pack (https://education.github.co..., and (2) this paper on GitHub for collaborative education [pdf]: http://alexeyza.com/pdf/csc...

Re: How to Dispose of Your Expired Chase Sapphire Preferred Card

Donnie Berkholz — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:32:04 -0000

+1 on the tin snips

Re: Go: the emerging language of cloud infrastructure

Donnie Berkholz — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:33:33 -0000

Runscope: http://blog.runscope.com/po...