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  1. Pence is a moon kind of guy on Mike Pence Tells NASA To Accelerate Human Missions To the Moon 'By Any Means Necessary' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    By any chance, is there a "christian" prophecy which includes human presence on the moon?

  2. Elixir on Ask Slashdot: Should I Ditch PHP? · · Score: 1

    Learning Elixir was a very refreshing and pleasing experience. The language, the tooling, the documentation are excellent, developper-friendly. The underlying OTP is powerful for making resilient and distributed applications.. The Phoenix framework is very well-made. Learning functional programming made me a better Python and perl programmer.. I used this online course, I recommend it:
    https://www.udemy.com/the-comp...
    (price reduced with the coupon)

  3. Re: Yes on Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? (gamesindustry.biz) · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of existing languages usable for gaming, why create a new one? Some even can be translated to C++ or javascript, like Haxe, already used succesfully for some commercial videogames..

  4. Backstory on Samsung Buys US Cloud Services Firm Joyent (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The following post from Bryan Cantrill is worth a read, if only to know more about Samsung's motivations for buying Joyent.

    Samsung acquires Joyent: A CTO’s perspective

  5. If they say so on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    We must take their word
    It is a very well known fact that spies always tell the truth

  6. Re:Jails on Docker Images To Be Based On Alpine Linux (brianchristner.io) · · Score: 1

    Or an Illumos Zone.. Illumos being a fork of OpenSolaris.
    Even better, you can run Linux inside an Zone on SmartOS, an Illumos distribution, via system call translation..
    And Smartdatacenter+ sdc-docker = SmartOS based IaaS solution with docker support..
    Smartdatacenter and SmartOS are made by Joyent, everything is opensource.
    That's what they use to power their public cloud..
    Truly an hidden gem, as other Joyent opensource stuff like manta..

  7. Right to not be offended ? on John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 2

    as Ricky Gervais once said: Everyone has the right to be offended. Everyone has the right to offend. But no one has the right to never be offended.

  8. Re:Cost of deployment of Node.js on PHP 7.0 Nearing Release, Performance Almost As Good As HHVM · · Score: 1

    As for not being production ready, the Joyent IaaS solution SmartDataCenter heavily uses Node.js
    It is used on many public / private cloud including Joyent public one..

  9. Re:Cost of deployment of Node.js on PHP 7.0 Nearing Release, Performance Almost As Good As HHVM · · Score: 1

    Node.js forum software => NodeBB
    I use it and IMHO it is pretty decent

    Node.js blog software => Ghost

  10. Re:I volunteer as tribute. on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 1

    Exactly.. Expecting more from the food industry than from the tobacco industry would be naive.

    They'll minimize negative consequences of their product as much as they can.

    If they manage to make food as addictive as cigarettes they'll do it.
    I they didn't reached this goal already they are working toward this...

  11. Re: Shocking on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 1

    What hobo murder and voodoo practice have to do with scientifical experiments involving culture of adult cells?

  12. Re:Hostile governments... on The Network Is Hostile · · Score: 1

    Why this obsession with the health care ?
    Isn't the fact that those governments use trillions of USD from taxpayers to oppress whole nations an order of magnitude worse ??

  13. Error in the summary on Microsoft Edge Performance Evaluated · · Score: 1, Informative

    "It is great to see Microsoft focusing on browser benchmarks again,"

    You are welcome.

  14. They can be exhausted on USAF Cuts Drone Flights As Stress Drives Off Operators · · Score: 1

    As they did a lot of work

    Drone war: every attack in Pakistan visualised

    41 men targeted but 1,147 people killed

    Warriors they are not.. They are more like executioners..with dirtier hands..

    And people giving them orders, from the POV of the population affected by drone strikes.. How are they different from terrorists ?

  15. Hadoop alternatives on Is Big Data Leaving Hadoop Behind? · · Score: 1

    Has anyone considered Joyent's Manta ?

    This is a distributed object storage with integrated compute.
    Data is stored on a cluster of SmartOS hosts..
    And processed directly on each host inside a OS container (SmartOS zone), no data movement.

    Lot of APIs available: R, command-line, python, ruby, node.js etc..

    Available on their cloud and as a on-premises commercial product, opensourced last November (simulteanously with smartdatacenter).

  16. 41 men targeted but 1,147 people killed on Drone Killed Hostages From U.S. and Italy, Drawing Obama Apology · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe the civilian casualties also deserves apologies too..

    http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

    How many civilian casualties hidden under the newspeak term "militant" ?

  17. Re:Zoloft is a 1000 times worse on Acetaminophen Reduces Both Pain and Pleasure, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    You can find HTP-5 (also known as oxitriptan) in many drugs, not only herbal supplements..

    http://www.catalog.md/drugs-in...

  18. Re:Zoloft is a 1000 times worse on Acetaminophen Reduces Both Pain and Pleasure, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    Like many other anti-depressant Zoloft is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor...

    The other way to treat this is by increasing level of serotonin...

    Seeds of Griffonia simplicifolia contain a lot of 5-HTP, a precursor of serotonin..

    It's non-patentable so I guess it won't be as popular as patented psychotropic drugs anytime soon..

  19. Re:Finally ... on Microsoft Creates a Docker-Like Container For Windows · · Score: 1

    When you can run Docker inside Solaris Zones..
    And the datacenter is viewed as an elastic Docker host.
    Things start to become interesting..

    Thanks to Joyent Triton

  20. Re:It's the cloud on The New Struggles Facing Open Source · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, thanks to Joyent, who opensourced smartdatacenter the software they use to run their public cloud...

    The hypervisor is SmartOS, it is based on Illumos (fork of opensolaris)..
    It has ZFS, Dtrace, Zones (think virtualisation with bare metal performance), crossbow.. and KVM as they ported it..
    You can run SmartOS instances inside Zones, and even Linux instances (by way of ABI translation), or any OS using KVM,
    And even present you datacenter as an elastic docker host, as they implemented Docker API in SDC.. (sdc-docker aka Triton)

    I'm currently evaluating it, so far I'm impressed..

    Here are the github repository and the docs

  21. Re:R? on Valve's SteamVR: Solves Big Problems, Raises Bigger Questions · · Score: 4, Funny

    eally ?

  22. Meanwhile in France on Chromebooks Overtake iPads In US Education Market · · Score: 1

    Our president François Hollande made promises:
    Starting September 2016, every highschooler will get a tablet beginning from the 5th grade (typically aged twelve)

    Another promise, they will also learn to code.
    Great .. but why give them a tablet and not some other device that would allow them to apply what they learnt..

    We citizen are told again and again that there is no money, but there is money for buying gadgets..
    We are going through the same mistakes that were done years ago in other countries...

    2 years ago my son was 3 years old and beginning to go to school, and guess what was in the classroom ? A fracking interactive whiteboard. I have serious doubts about the educational benefits, especially for young childs. Of course teachers weren't even formed..

    But, you know, our governments have no money..

  23. Re:seems like good news, but really? on Scientists Coax Human Embryonic Stem Cells Into Making Insulin · · Score: 1

    And in the case of the fetus who is the neighbour ?
    The women aborting ?
    Didn't she consent to the use of her fetus for scientifical purposes ?
    So how could she be prejudiced ? Who else could be ?

  24. Re:Heinz der man! on Heinz Zemanek Passes At 94 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Veuillez poster en anglais, s'il vous plait.

  25. Re:The French don't have e-mail on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    Courriel according to the Académie française