StaticRedux

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by StaticRedux 7y ago
In that context they saw a market opportunity and took a chance. Makes it even stranger to dedicate a takedown post to it.
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
I don't understand why a hobby project for a few people warrants what is essentially a takedown post.There is a ton of open source projects that are not needed. People do them for all sorts of reasons. Live and let live.
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
TL;DR; when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail Although I like your version also. Haven't heard the full story before like that
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
This is such a tired argument. It's been 20 years. You don't think other OS's have had the opportunity? The fact is, Windows is still king today because of backwards-compatibility and nothing else. No other OS has taken this
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
I don't think that's true. I've never heard that about any other industry. Certainly not about janitorial work. Doctors curing a patient, lawyers winning a big case, secretaries keeping the schedule up to date, teachers with
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
This is more prolific in software than just Y2K. At a company I work with, if everything is going smoothly and things are working, devs get a ton of crap for not getting more done, no matter the pace and productivity. Of course they get cra
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
The Democrats could pack universal single payer healthcare into this bill and it would still pass. It would be political suicide for Republicans and Trump to block it. They would of course scream about the Democrats playing politics, but th
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
Terrible analogy. You don't die if your OS crashes. If a bridge or a building collapses, it's very likely to kill people.
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
Not to disregard your own experience, but I too am old enough to remember the start of mobile phones, and no one I ever knew thought they were dorky. Douchy maybe, but that was mostly bc the early adopters were wealthy businessmen and finan
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
I'm not. I'm just judging him for doing so. Which is wrong. I shouldn't have phrased it like that. I guess that stigma in society around people who are perfectly happy being happy and don't feel the need to "be grea
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
The question posed was why do they Have to? Not why Should they. Of course we need people driven to move society forward. But there is a stigma in modern society it seems around people who are perfectly happy being who they are and not &quo
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
Why do they have to? I have that drive, but my wife is perfectly happy with a calm, comfortable, stress-free life. And in fact it helps to bring me back down to Earth sometimes also. There's nothing wrong with wanting a life that free.
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
In my opinion RuboCop is too strict. Every code standard analyzer takes some tweaking to get it set up for a particular project and team standards, but RuboCop needs changing of a ton of rules to make it even usable in a reasonable fashion.
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
I'm sure it's not ok to the people that need those new medicines
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
It's not privilege. It's a right the country has fought and died for for over 200 years. It's a principle the country was founded on. "Privilege" has lost all meaning in today's world. It's just a word to
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
I'm in the US too. Inventions is usually defined in the contract itself and does not necessarily apply to patentable things. This is just my personal experience, so take it for what it's worth, though I do have a fair amount of ex
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
Form an LLC, use a registered agent, put everything in the companies name, don't tell your employer, profit. Nothing they can do about it. The odds of them finding out are nearly non-existent unless you go around putting your name on e
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
"inventions" is not used in the same context as you would use it when talking about an inventor, like Tesla or Edison. It's legalize. It depends on the language in the contract, but it usually includes everything under the su
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
Are they? Or are the Iranian people too afraid of the Revolutionary Guard to say different? If you want to go that route, North Korea has the most popular government and leader on Earth. I don't think you can make claims about popular
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
It's a hackernoon opinion blog post, not the New York Times. And you don't need a citation for something that is clearly meant to be hyperbole. [Citation needed] has gone from a notation about checking facts to a trendy response w
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
As a generalist developer nearing 40, I worry about this all the time. I have extensive and valuable experience in certain areas, including management, but I have started investigating other directions I can take my career and more focused
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
Using Google Docs to report problems with Google, including Google Docs. Irony at it's finest.
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
This must be why GitLab is giving me shit. They recently made the switch. Wonder if there is any second guessing going on over there right now.
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
Then you've never been an athlete at a high level. I don't mean that negatively, but I can assure you that even people who love every second of what they do, like many professional and even college athletes, can suffer burnout. Ex
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
80%+ of the plastic in the ocean comes from China. It's not fair to lump the US in with China. "They recognize it and want to do something" doesn't mean shit when you're by far the worst part of the problem. Especia
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
I certainly won't disagree with hostile modern software trends. I just think if FOSS maintainers are accepting the responsibility of maintaining the project, they should accept the responsibility of taking bug reports seriously. Everyo
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
My claim is common bc it's the truth. Source: I am a maintainer of several projects. Some that are used extensively. And I take bug reports seriously, even if I can't always get to them right away. "it's free, go away&qu
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
TL;DR; FOSS Zeolots: everyone should use FOSS! Micro$oft is evil! Also FOSS Zeolots: Oh you have a bug? Screw you. You're getting it for free. Stop complaining. I'm busy making a new icon. OSS is great. But until this attitude is
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
Roslyn is open source.
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by StaticRedux 7y ago
Justice Department answers to Trump. Doesn't mean he can tell them to just go arrest someone. No matter how many times he tries.

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