I love the term, it's appropriate. In my experience many of these beg bounties are automated and non-sensical. Script kiddies looking for a quick and easy buck. Generally when they are directed to an actual bug bounty program on HackerOne or the like they don't follow through.
It's great to see Oxide shipping. They have an incredibly talented team thats worked very hard for a long time in the best tradition of Sun Microsystems.
Can you elaborate on the Sun comparison? I am a huge fan of Sun and what they did for computing at large - designing hardware, creating specs, their contributions to evolving unix and so on. I'm not sure how Oxide compares. Unless you're talking about "in the spirit of Sun".
I'm not the one you replied to, so I don't know what they mean specifically about the "tradition of Sun", but
Bryan worked at Sun where he helped create DTrace.
After the Oracle acquisition, he left to join Joyent as VP of Engineering and then CTO. Steve was COO of Joyent. And I have heard similar comparisons between Joyent and Sun.
Sun was a combination hardware and software shop, which Bryan appreciated and has tried to replicate at Oxide. The only reason they have a chance today is because the hardware/firmware interface in most servers is terrible quality.
Borges is the best author most people have never heard of. His stories are mind bending and he's an amazing human being. You can listen to him giving lectures on verse here, his voice is hypnotic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSLV7t9DvN8
In my academic circles he was a demigod, alongside other giants of South American and SA diaspora literature like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar, Isabella Allende, and was considered more or less on par with Franz Kafka in terms of significance. Familiarity with all his major work was taken for granted.
I participated in a thread recently about the relative merits of attending college. I opined in it that contrary to the OP's presumption, jumping immediately into bootcamp or into a startup etc., there are things to be had from a broad liberal arts education that you're unlikely to pick up elsewhere in any comprehensive away. The broader intellectual landscape of your culture is one; less important than intimate familiarity with any particular writer or canon is a sense that such things exist; and are always evolving in response to cultural currents.
Borges is so important a figure it is striking that he would be considered esoteric.
I imagine the same is true now for other giants of world literature, like Milan Kundera, or, Stanislaw Lem, or, Italo Calvino, all of whom still have a lot to offer a contemporary audience.
I love Borges. Part of the reason he's less well known is that his widow has kept a tight grip on his estate. Even denying his co-translator publishing rights. And Borges used to give him 50pc of the sales!
I recently had reason to get involved in networking at a low level and used it as an opportunity to see what all the SDN buzz was about. I came to have a deep appreciation for Open vSwitch and, like you, was surprised at the lack of good documentation and tutorials.
The man pages are very good, but beyond simple bridging the documentation is weak and generally seems to assume the reader is familiar with a lot of concepts in advance. In particular, there seems to be tremendous power in using OVSDB to control OVS across nodes. There is even an OVN project that looks very interesting. However, it seems that most documentation assumes your either using Open Daylight (which is itself a complicated mess) or that your using OpenStack or similar.
OVS is definitely in need of some love from the wider community and needs to come out from the shadows.
I recently started using APEX. It doesn't rely on CloudFormation and has supports for hacking Golang support. Its worth a look if your getting more serious about Lambda development and interested in other options. http://apex.run/