Agree very much. I do attend a few non tech meetups, like movie meetups & hikes for eg. 2€ fee over the movie ticket rarely makes any sense. While proper tech style meetups may actually have organizer costs and such, a meetup where the whole point is meeting a bunch of people over a coffee or so with minimal organizational requirements doesn't make sense with the fee.
Also ceph (& swift) are known to scale well in prod. clusters with over 30+ PB of data (at least looking at CERN's cluster) and the latest version of RGW does support geographic redundancy for S3 like apis
+1 for Ceph. We're running several ~3.5 PB clusters in production. We've not taken advantage of the new RGW features in Jewel, but it works well as an object storage solution.
I'm happy with using elpy for python development in Emacs. The defaults are nice. Also backends like jedi/rope are supported.
https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy
Agree; customization and extenisibility of emacs is something unmatched (not a vim user, can't comment on that), I have been using emacs for just an year now; and still I feel I am more productive in emacs than anywhere else, keyboard macros and elisp extensibility can almost bring any feature customized to your fingers.
Certainly a very interesting analysis, whenever an author uses a deus ex machina, people are bound to come up with explanations, criticisms and the like. Here though it seems like an attempt to you know explain with an inherent internal logic of the Middle Earth.
Agree totally that it is a very great piece of writing.
