workinthehead's comments

On: Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard

[workinthehead]

Except Apple have been shaving full pounds and more off of their laptops, don't know where you got the wrong idea that it's only 30 grams.

And yes, knocking a 5-pound laptop down to 3 pounds is quite noticeable and a huge boon.

On: Harvard Is Wrong That Asians Have Terrible Personalities

[workinthehead]

Whoosh. They're not being "racist". They're simply applying a "character test".

On: Restaurants are figuring out how to do without servers

[workinthehead]

Apparently for all the economic-related punditry, HN still doesn't understand economics. Jim, you do realize that "inflated" (relative term of course, since Uber is more expensive than taxis in some markets) is still part of the supply-demand curve, no? You absolutely have both. Go read a textbook before you chime in next time, k?

[dang → workinthehead]

We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On: Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers

[workinthehead]

It's more of a poor (dare I say "trailer trash") southern thing in my experience.

On: Facial recognition CEO: software is not ready for use by law enforcement

[workinthehead]

Nah, you just need some cool makeup: https://cvdazzle.com/

[Tade0 → workinthehead]

This is the best explanation I've ever seen for why hairstyles in sci-fi movies tend to be original to say the least.

[redbeard0x0a → workinthehead]

Hey, I see they updated the styles at some point. This is awesome!

On: Facial recognition CEO: software is not ready for use by law enforcement

[workinthehead]

You're right, but if "acting responsibly" was at all a prerequisite, they wouldn't even have their precious guns.

[logfromblammo → workinthehead]

Or their cars.

On: 'New Zealand wants you': the problem with tech at the edge of the world

[workinthehead]

Perhaps under some misguided assumption that it benefits business?

On: 'New Zealand wants you': the problem with tech at the edge of the world

[workinthehead]

Why? Asses can be beautiful. And it doesn't change the fact that NZ is about as remote as you can get.

[zinckiwi → workinthehead]

In the past decade or two, NZ's remoteness has seemed increasingly like a feature, not a bug.

On: Docker Considered Harmful (2016)

[workinthehead]

Well, there is a big difference, but not the one you've managed to come up with. Vagrant is normally used to run full VMs (although you can use it to drive Docker), so while you might run App, Supporting App, PHP, Apache, Node, Nginx, MySQL, Mongodb, and Redis all as separate containers, you'd probably put them all on the same VM. Your comment almost makes it sound like you don't understand Vagrant or VMs.

On: Docker Considered Harmful (2016)

[workinthehead]

You run your containers on a hypothetical platform that hasn't been released?

[hadlock → workinthehead]

We half of all our QA processes to Fargate sometime around April, more than halved our compute costs. After the big summer milestone there is another big project to move the rest to Fargate. I prefer running my own k8s/kops cluster, but our B team got it stood up in a week and have had no issues in at least a quarter.

[_wldu → workinthehead]

You are misinformed. Fargate is out and it works. I have containers running on it right now and they have been for several weeks now. You can select it or the old EC2 approach. Try it, you may like it.