Containers

111 points by kitwalker12 7 years ago | 10 comments
  • yarosv 7 years ago
    dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16979090
    • joshka 7 years ago
      Working on a mechanism to glue these two stories together as we speak...
    • guessmyname 7 years ago
      Ha! This is my co-workers in my previous job.

      It's a bit sad when you get paid just slightly more than them but your work is significantly bigger because you always end up cleaning up their mess. I used to mentor them, trying to make them understand the benefits of each different technology in the stack and the disadvantages. It didn't take long for them to "unite" and riot against me for criticizing all their work and "make them look bad" in front of the managers. Ultimately, I secluded myself in my own projects and forgot about the almost daily discussions.

      I hope they have matured more and learned that using the trendy tech for the job is not always good.

      • tlb 7 years ago
        I'd really like to have several dedicated iPads for fixed purposes. The problem is that they each require regular user interaction to upgrade apps or the OS. For instance, I have one mounted to my music stand to run Ultimate Guitar and Spotify. When I come back to it after a week, it often takes a few minutes to click through all the upgrade dialogs, or deal with Spotify being logged out, or whatever.

        Apple: I'd buy more iPads if they required less frequent hoop jumping. As a goal, I should be required to do something only once a year.

        • jd20 7 years ago
          Can't you just turn off auto-updating (for both the OS and apps)? Or maybe just leave on auto-update for Spotify, since they probably don't service very old client versions. Probably turn off iCloud as well, since it will nag you periodically when you get logged out as well.
        • Zelphyr 7 years ago
          He misspelled “frameworks”.
          • peterwwillis 7 years ago
            eli5 containers: complicated things that make a program so you can run it on anyone's computer, as long as they have a certain kind of computer
            • slaydemons 7 years ago
              Containers are not really complicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups

              A much better eli5: https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/10/10/what-even-is-a-container/

              • peterwwillis 7 years ago
                Of course containers are complicated! The kernel's documentation for cgroups is 13 separate documents! You can't even "download" a container without a complicated tool to "manage" it on the disk! They are quite complicated.

                Also, cgroups aren't containers. "Containers" is a loosely defined concept encompassing Linux's common implementations of cgroups and namespaces and chroot environments and networking and union filesystems. Complicated x5.

                Also also, that eli5 assumes a lot of Linux knowledge most five year olds don't have.

              • cosmie 7 years ago
                > as they have a certain kind of computer

                With certain kind of software installed