tomgruner

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We are working on T160K https://t160k.org/ which is crowdfunding sustainable and meaningful development in Africa by focussing on arts and culture. Another goal of the project is to promote a positive and vibrant image of African culture through our campaigns and messaging. One of our projects that initially got me excited about the idea is the Timbuktu Libraries in Exile https://t160k.org/campaign/libraries-in-exile/

Hey thanks for that well thought out review! We will be discussing all the feedback here in the coming days.

It could also be just part of our zeitgeist and the link you are making is coincidental and not influenced or paid for by shark tank's investors. I think to prove that there is a shark tank connection, you need to research the author's bio a bit more, article history, and prove that this author repeatedly writes pseudo articles that are marketing pieces... and you have not done any of that research.

Docker, CoreOS, and the entire ecosystem are moving really fast, it is a bit hard for me as a developer to keep up. For some projects we are creating containers with Docker and will need to get some things into production as soon as Docker 1.0 is declared stable.

At the same time I want to switch to CoreOS, I also want to wait just a little while for blogs, tutorials, and tools to catch up to where CoreOS and Docker are at, and be usable in production by people who are not professional devops.

The most exciting thing for me in this post is CoreOS CloudInit. It seems to be one of those tools that a small shop could use. It looks a bit like the yaml for fig, but is something that could be used in production as well. At the moment, I have been trying to solve everything a bit on my own with Makefiles, which include Makefiles for custom variables and Makefiles for commands that can be run against each container. It is working great for dev, but I could never really see how to run the containers in prod. The Makefiles didn't really seem like a prod solution, but CoreOS CloudInit looks like it could work.

We also skipped boot2docker and use vagrant with ssh, so seeing that there is a Vagrant box which will run just like an EC2 box is pretty exciting. I would be excited if Digital Ocean would start supporting CoreOS too.

[edit] Quite a few people would like CoreOS on Digital Ocean - http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...

just when I thought I was being original! I probably just needed to rant a bit

You will save so much time developing node if you install Ubuntu with virtual box and vagrant. All are free, and then you can really participate in the os world without having to hack everything to work on windows.

I've started using Make to build and run docker containers in the dev environment. It's not the perfect tool, and neither are my skills that great with Make, but it sure gets the job done and enables docker commands to be shared between devs. For example this Makefile (still under development) for PostgreSQL https://github.com/GlobAllomeTree/docker-postgresql/blob/mas...

Also, airbnb's synapse looks pretty amazing for linking and service discovery as mentioned in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443803

I have been enjoying some of the tutorials on the Century Link Labs blog: http://www.centurylinklabs.com/category/docker-posts/

To be clear - I think FreeBSD is an awesome project and the jails look solid, but it is really the Docker community and exploding Docker ecosystem that makes Docker appealing to me. For example, Red Hat embracing Docker means that I can build Docker containers for enterprises that embrace CentOS and Red Hat. None of the corporations or organizations I have worked with use or support FreeBSD, but they all support CentOS. Reference: http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-virtualization/red-ha...

Why not implement a simple algorithm:

If your past 5 comments have not gotten more than 3 cumulative upvotes from ranking users then your commenting is throttled to 1 comment per day

If your past 5 comments have a cumulative negative score your commenting is limited to 1 comment per week

There is no pending comments list, only a message telling you: sorry, try to post higher quality content to be able to comment more often. You will be able to post another comment tomorrow / next week

New users are limited to one comment per day until they get at least 3 cumulative upvotes in the last 5 comments

What is that username, something from reddit? I really have no interest in FreeBSD.

I am still finding good solutions for those too, and trying to add some concepts to my toolbox like orchestration, service discovery, proxies, data containers, ambassador containers, and so on. It's hard for me to wrap my head around the different recommended ways to use docker compared to my initial expectations.

This is a great point. The initial Docker examples make everything seem easy, but we blew way past our estimated time in integrating docker into our workflow because of the points you mention. I am still happy with the choice to use docker though and our team will be better at server administration in the future.

One thing about this getting started guide is that it recommends the Phusion base image which boots init. That seems to go against the best practices outlined in a recent article by Michael Crosby - http://crosbymichael.com/dockerfile-best-practices-take-2.ht...

I think its important to realize that is can take years to reach a goal, maybe 10, maybe 15. Many people work to change or better the world for their entire lives while only viewing change in the smallest ways. It's not a realistic expectation that you will generate something world changing in the span of a year, or even two. So to be happier you need to learn how to enjoy yourself while you work and learn, whatever it takes.

Learning how to manage yourself and your life is one of the greatest keys to completing a project. If you are successful in your world changing idea, but you have not learned to manage yourself, how are you going to manage other people? Start out by training yourself as a manager with your first employee - yourself. You would not want a boss that worked you night and day with unrealistic expectations. So - don't be that boss. You can be hard, but reward yourself too. And give yourself the time it takes to really learn.

Personally happiness for me includes going to the gym daily, sleeping well, eating well, and seeing family. And I'm getting closer to some of my goals than ever before. When I worked myself late into the night and didn't eat well, I actually saw my goals slipping away since I was no longer managing myself in a direction that would actually bring about the goals I had set. Maybe I was chasing after short term deadlines, but not really striving toward life goals. Now after 14 years of programming I am coming back to some of my original ideas with a totally different perspective that actually holds a lot more real world value.

Also hemp hearts - available from some costco stores and most whole foods are an excellent source of omega 3s. They are good in smoothies too.

Alternative in short - some people here are actually hackers

The benefits of me that docker brings is the ability to share containers with my team and to deploy those same containers to the server. The reason that I started thinking of it in terms of programming, like OOP, was to help me get my head around how to correctly use docker on a server. As I start to understand docker, finding the correct place for configuration, data, crons, debugging, and execution are all important and the closest paradigm that I can easily apply to it is OOP, even though it is not a perfect match. OOP can also help visualize how one image can inherit from another image and override both methods and configuration of that image so that instances will behave in a different manner.

Docker is a container for running processes, or a process. Containers should be disposable and transient. I have begun to think of it in terms similar to OOP. Images are your Classes. Containers are your class Instances. When you are done with an instance, you discard it and make a new instance. So don't go shoving all kinds of crap into the instance like crons and sshd that don't belong there. Most devs don't expect to have their code be free of memory leaks when it comes to interpreted languages. And docker containers don't need to worry about child processes being stopped - they should just be disposed of and you make a new container from your image. Keeping containers around would be like trying to pickle a python class instance perpetually that has references to who knows what... Just make a new instance when you need it. And just make a new container when you need one. I use named containers and a Makefile that stops and deletes existing containers with the same name before starting a new one.

Fasting occasionally under supervision may have benefits, but it is nothing compared to maintaining a healthy balanced diet combined with exercise. If you really want to take care of yourself, do it every day - don't just save it for a fitness binge like this. Check out something like the anticancer book by the late Dr. David Servan-Schreiber or try out any diet high in veggies and low in processed foods, focussing on occasional high quality meats, eggs and fish. You will be a better hacker for it.

I actually use and enjoy this app... I use the breaks every 25 minutes to do some jumping jacks and stretching - trying to avoid the detrimental health impact of the "sitting is the new smoking" issue that happens when you sit down to long. Or I will change from standing to sitting postures for each pomodoro. "Scared straight out of your chair? Good. Because the remedy is as simple as standing up and taking activity breaks. Stuart McGill, Ph.D., director of the Spine Biomechanics Laboratory at the University of Waterloo says that interrupting your sedentary time as often as possible and making frequent posture changes is important. "Even breaks as short as one minute can improve your health," he says." - http://www.runnersworld.com/health/sitting-is-the-new-smokin... Nice app!

Facebook marketing is great for some things and horrible for others. It is good for building up a brand that has a cool image. Here is an easy test, would the thing you are advertising interest somebody at a party, or would you promote it to your friends as something interesting or valuable without receiving any payment in return? Is it something that has intrinsic social value, or is it just a product that you are trying to spam people with? I have seen real results in FB advertising for building up artists and musicians and growing their own fan base. But, for selling products it has not worked out for me to be a good ROI.

I don't have any good links or books unfortunately. There are a few people close to me that have a really great ability to empathize with others. They instantly understand social situations that will take me forever to get the dynamic. They respond to the needs of others much more quickly. I've tried to learn as much from them as possible - and often remember them when making decisions that have an impact others. But, I still have a long way to go.

EDIT: I realized you are probably looking for that study. I don't think there is a free online version but you can purchase or read the abstract here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811912...

I am not trying to shame anyone, and yes, I am involved in researching solutions for a project that aims to help people in poverty empower themselves through providing data processing services. I also accept lower wages to be able to work on projects that are beneficial socially and have rejected offers to work in industries like high frequency trading that were very lucrative. I have spent hundreds of hours volunteering in my life teaching reading, ged, and esl in low income and even volunteered to teach ged material in a jail. We can all help in many ways, but the main point is having good regulation and rules is beneficial to capitalism. The best solution would be proper regulation of mturk to make sure that all businesses are on a level playing ground, whether they use mturk or another solution that at the moment may be more expensive in order to ensure minimum wage. But until that regulation happens, or mturk ensures minimum wage, I won't use mturk for any project.

It is a good idea for a service, if possible please consider something like https://www.mobileworks.com/ as vincvinc mentioned below that tries to be socially responsible for crowd sourcing instead of mturk.

According to the same 2010 study I mentioned in another comment, about 7% use it 30 hours per week plus. That's not a huge number but I imagine that those of the 7% would consider it full time work. http://sites.uci.edu/andrewzaldivar/files/2012/05/SocialCode...

FYI I am also a programmer and lack of empathy in my own life and relationships has caused me serious problems.

Hi Justin, that is a good point. According to this study in 2010 on page 4 http://sites.uci.edu/andrewzaldivar/files/2012/05/SocialCode... about 82% of the survey responders answered that the income was not essential, but the other 18% responded that the income was either important or essential to make ends meet.

Doing some turking to buy extra things while someone else pays your bills isn't exploitive in my opinion. But, for the 18% who are using is to make ends meet I do think it has a very real possibility to be exploitive. That's where regulation could help, in ensuring for those people who really need it have the safeguards in place to prevent the exploitation. I am far from an expert on Mechanical turk, and if it could guarantee that minimum wage was being met then I would not be against it.

Rob, as a software engineer at google, I would not expect you to to be able to relate to those without opportunities. In fact, there is some evidence that utilizing your brain to solve technical problems can restrict its ability to empathize. Of course amazon has no gun, but that does not mean that poverty in itself is not violent. As you like science and data, here is a read for you: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121030161416.ht...