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fate = will && choice || circumstance
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fate = will && choice || circumstance is a personal blog at stochasticresonance.wordpress.com about programming and culture. Since 2009, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “To whom it may concern - Openstack a plea”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited for a 2013 post by Andrew Clay Shafer warning about OpenStack, and for a 2010 post explaining Chef's resource ordering versus Puppet's require parameter.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Programming People, People Programming and other Misadventures
Most-linked posts?
- To whom it may concern - Openstack a plea3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-11-05
What Hacker News says?
Andrew Clay Shafer called it in 2013: https://stochasticresonance.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/opensta... In a former life, I was frustrated by the futility of trying to be involved with the Openstack project. My next phase was to warn people away. Now I wonder why I bothered. Years later it's apparent that I was right, but what benefit do I see from that? Better to aggressively ignore bad technology and spend effort on…
Comment linking /2013/11/04/openstack-a-plea/
on “The Guardian goes all-in on AWS public cloud after OpenStack 'disaster’”Submitted Incubators are a Ghetto as a story · 104 points
HN discussionWhat author meant, i think, is that "Chef manages resources in the order they are specified." while Puppet encourages usage of "require" parameter to explicitly define the dependency. He does state that it is possible in chef, also providing link that explains the difference. Here is the link if you missed it http://stochasticresonance.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/puppet-c...
Comment linking /2010/01/20/puppet-chef-dependencies-and-worldviews/
on “Puppet versus Chef: Why Puppet wins”Submitted Learning Machines and the Future of Academics as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Typing Speed A Factor In Programmer Productivity ? as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted To whom it may concern - Openstack a plea as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free, as in Fear as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted DevOps – You’re Doing IT Wrong as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts from Open Stack insider on fragmentation and politics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted To whom it may concern (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incubators are a ghetto « fate = will && choice || circumstance as a story · 1 points
HN discussion