Month: March 2017

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Is this the end for the Genius annotation platform?

nius, which raised $56.9 million on the promise that it would one day annotate the entire internet, has been losing its minds. In January, the company quietly laid off a quarter of its staff, with the bulk of the cuts coming from the engineering department. In a post on the Genius blog at the time, co-founder Tom Lehman told employees that Genius planned to shift its emphasis away from the annotation platform that once attracted top-tier investors in favor of becoming a more video-focused media company.

The Verge: Brain drain. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwgLyzwDk

The article makes no mention of the future if the Law Genius that launched with much fanfare some years ago but seemed to fall into disuse more recently.

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From Vagrant to NixOps – Mayflower Blog

NixOps is a cloud deployment tool using nix, the functional package manager for unix systems. Nix makes it very intuitive to define absolute package dependencies. No more thinking and guessing about required runtime dependencies.
NixOps supports deploying to different platforms. Bare-metal, cloud, and even virtual environments like virtualbox work out of the box.

 Mayflower Blog :: https://blog.mayflower.de/5976-From-Vagrant-to-Nixops.html