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Re: Scripting News: New feature: Blog post sub-text!

Rams — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 03:06:01 -0000

Sub-text is the new link. :-)

Re: Left brain, Right brain, and the other half of the story

Rams — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:34:29 -0000

The link in "This is where I link in to yesterday's post on Risk and Opportunity. " starts with "ttp" instead of "http"

Re: Placeholder for Bad Hair Day #4

Rams — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:40:25 -0000

It looks ok now - 10.36MB, previously it was downloading about 736kb or so. Not sure what happened. Thanks.

Re: Placeholder for Bad Hair Day #4

Rams — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:14:02 -0000

mp3 file size incorrect - can you please fix it ?

Re: The Java Wars, continued (Scripting News)

Rams — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:24:53 -0000

Xmarks has gotten intrusive of late. On a page of google search results it inserts an icon against a specific link recommending it - It's very irritating. Like someone pointed out delicious solved this problem if you are ok with hosted bookmarks. The way you are pushing Xmarks is a bit contrived . Is Mitch Kapor a friend of yours ?

Re: Patchwork

Rams — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:54:15 -0000

The availability of high quality open source software has made this problem severe. Of the three startups I have worked for in the last six years, I can't act think of too many instances where anything that really made the end user's life easier was attempted. It was always 'Let's do it, because we can" and the primary factor that almost always enabled such thinking was the availability of free/open source software. Slapping an UI on pieces of open source held together with duct tape is not software development. Assembling gives a false sense of achievement without creating value.

Re: If you don't like the news... (Scripting News)

Rams — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:57:22 -0000

"I said the sources would take over the news. Not enough reporters covering the courtroom? The judge will report, as will the jurors, the attorneys, the plaintiff, the defendent. "

Dave, that summarizes well what you have actually been trying to say all these years. It actually solves the problem of the lack of domain expertise that most journalism suffers from. Beautiful. It's so simple.

Re: Golden Image or Foil Ball?

Rams — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:40:13 -0000

rPath has tried to address the problem in a very serious way, including a Python-based DSL for recipes and so on. But the learning curve is very steep - it requires an ops person with a programmer mentality, which is more of wishful thinking than reality. Secondly even though conary works on other OSs rPath itself seems to base all their work on foresight linux (iirc that's the name). In a real data-center or IT dept, you very rarely have a choice of OS or OS flavour - you got to work with what you have got. Plus the license fee, There are quite a few start-ups that are trying to address this issue. Puppet seems to be light weight and pragmatic approach.

Thanks for addressing this issue, which actually leads us to the next one. Are Ops people equipped to meet the new challenges. Are they ever going to automate using at-least using semi-programmatic methods. I heard someone mentioning the term 'Devops' recently in a podcast.