Chef and Puppet are huge in DevOps. It seems Ruby has found its niche.

For me, a copycat installation would just be a Linux box and a code repository. Most of my machines run some form of Linux, but most of my own projects aren't large enough to bother with much in the way of revision control, so I don't usually do that part of things.

When I'm writing something for myself, it tends to be in areas that I don't get to cover at work (playing with C++11 features, graphics, audio, etc). While I'm not making any kind of attempt to specifically better my professionally-useful skills, I'm sure there's some overflow of benefits from time put into my personal interests. I have some coworkers that run full server farms at home, though. That sounds too much like work, so I've avoided setting up anything like that.

Tra la la la la la la la la la la! You know, I've never understood why trolls do what they do. Seriously, what do you get out of it? And it's the same tedious shit over and over.

Marxist-style redistribution won't work with humans because humans don't like the disconnect between the value of the work they do and the benefit that they receive from doing the work (that is, humans are greedy). Robots don't have that problem. If non-sentient robots can provide all the "from each according to his ability", and they aren't going to complain about it if they're dumb automata, then why can't humans provide the "to each according to his need" (less the resources necessary for upkeep of the robots)? Remove humans from work, and give them all the benefits of the work being done. At least in those simplified terms, it seems like it would make sense.

OK, Trolly McTrollerstein.

Did I say that no one was a leech? No? OK then. My previous statement stands.

And if you're doing your download via BitTorrent, you're likely also uploading to other peers in the swarm.

Well, there is always the option to use them as a paid service. As far as the ad-supported version goes, if people (as a whole) avoided ad-supported services, I'm sure the issue would sort itself out one way or another (that is, the business would change its monetization model or go out of business). It seems like hiding in the short term, but it would force the "problem" to solve itself in the long run.

I guess the physical knob on my speakers would be getting more of a workout then. Does it also do that in the web player (which they apparently don't show the link to on Windows)?

If you want the electric locks, clock, alarm, etc to work, there's going to be some power draw. 1.1kWh still sounds high. From other comments, the car keeps some of its computers running or something (to process things like the keyless entry). Still sounds like overkill....you'd think they could run some of that stuff on a couple-watt low-performance SoC or something.

I've done small amounts of both. Haskell definitely reminded me of Prolog in some ways. I used to think of programming Prolog as building a database of facts and relationships, then executing queries against the database.

Blade wants a word with you.

I know that I have some channels with 10 subchannels, and some channels with just 1. Maybe the frequency they're receiving is one of the ones that doesn't have multiple signals multiplexed into it?

The discussion shifted. They tend to do that. I was always responding to at least a portion of Tepples' previous post (usually, whichever part seemed more interesting to talk about at the time).

But you *do* say "update the data", "upgrade your components", and "go change your clothes". "Informations" isn't a word. Nor is "hardwares" or "clothings".