Too bad they don't do that with alcohol... There's advertising for alcohol everywhere, often associated with sports club which is especially bad for young people. People drink everywhere even at the beach. There's a real alcohol problem here and it's a shame they don't spend as much energy fighting it because in the grand scheme of things, it's even worse than tobacco.

I would rather see an end to sports betting advertising before alcohol. At least the alcohol advertising is not integrated into sports tv coverage.

What do you mean "not integrated"? Alcohol advertising is present in the most popular sport in Australia, AFL football.

I can't say anything about Channel 7, but during the Foxtel coverage, during every pre-match, and Friday and Saturday post-matches they have to cross to a man from the betting company to give them the odds for other games in the round etc. I don't see them cross to someone from CUB or Lion Nathan to give the beer update.

Well it's arguable that alcoholism has way less direct bad effects on public than smoking. There's nothing like passive alcoholism.

It may be a nuisance but passive smoking has negligible effects on public health.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2013/12/12/study-fi...

Alcoholism is actually one of the drugs that scores the highest on the "harm to others" category, due to things like drunk driving

Tell that to the drunk car crash victim, or the overloaded EMT at closing time.

I agree with you that alcohol abuse is a problem, but it does seem to me like a different take would be required to reduce binge drinking.

Two things stand out:

1) Alcohol branding and brand identification is extremely common and deep seeded in the West. It'd be a very hard cultural sell to drop alcohol branding.

2) A lot of alcohol is consumed in bar specific pints, not the packaging it's sold in.

Off topic, but "deep seeded" is a pretty great eggcorn (word/phrase that sounds like another word/phrase, is quite different but still approximates the meaning of the original).

It's like "deep seated" with a reproductive twist.

Of all the ways that don't work is trying to make people quit something by increasing taxes. Guess that's a win for Indonesian smugglers.

It works.

Specifically, it works because the taxes make it too expensive for teenagers to become regular smokers. That's the most important time to limit tobacco consumption, as we all know.

Research indicates smoking among teenagers has declined by about 65-70% in the 15 years to 2014 [1].

But even regular smokers I know who are well into their 30s are cutting down, switching to e-cigs or quitting, due to the cost. Yes it's for health reasons too, but the cost factor is adding urgency.

http://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-1-prevalence/1-...

Recent html5 multi-player games have used .io e.g. slither.io

Multiplayer games do not have a monopoly on the dot IO tld. I have several for various purposes, none of which are game-related.

There's an iPad version of ReBirth now: https://www.propellerheads.se/rebirth

Getting 503 error on hyperdev.com.

> {"status":"Error","statusCode":503,"statusDetail":"Waiting To Serve for cosmic-panther: No service found running on port"}

Nice sense of humour at least ;)

cosmic-panther is your random word set for your instance.

I remember hearing exactly the same about Facebook and even ... Google. Can't find the link anymore but there was a famous article from the NYT (IIRC) saying Google problem was finding a business model. Time will tell for snapchat.

Their orchestration product is Docker Universal Control Plane [1]

[1]: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-universal-control-pla...

I'd guess go version doesn't matter, you should install the binary which is statically linked, no?

> Given the dependency in question is Redis, such a solution is probably exasperated by the fact Redis hasn't really had a decent HA solution.

Redis sentinel[0] is the HA solution for redis for quite some time.

[0]http://redis.io/topics/sentinel

That page says this:

Sentinel + Redis distributed system does not guarantee that acknowledged writes are retained during failures,

I haven't heard good things about Redis Sentinel nor am I sure of their failure modes, which is why I wouldn't describe it as decent.

I haven't kept up to date on "Sentinel 2" that was launched with 3.0 so the situation might have changed.

At least you can't get spammed by external companies on group chat which is one of the reasons people hate emails now.

Well, technically you could setup internal only email servers and addresses. In fact, it might even make sense for some companies to go to a whitelist-only approach for most employees' addresses. Unsolicited content could filter through a single mailbox.

There's a packer manager in alpine. Maybe not as complete as ubuntu but pretty decent imho.

Yes, it does have a package manager, but... , like you said, it's not as complete and it is different, which means you need to put in extra efforts to convert and make things work (also don't forget about a potential lib C compatibility fun). Why go through all this trouble though? Why not use the distro you are already using as-is and still get Alpine-like image sizes? One nice thing about Alpine is its hardened kernel, but you won't be using it in your Docker container. Alpine is nice, but it's not worth it when there are other alternatives that don't require extra time and effort I'd rather use to build a better product.

And if you are using 3rd party Docker images Alpine won't help :)

Has something like nix been considered for alpine? I think it would be really great for use in containers since it has the built in ability to garbage collect unused dependencies.