filesystemdude

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by filesystemdude 6y ago
Easy question: I get a paycheck every other week from my employer, Red Hat, who pays me and thousands of other people to build, maintain, and support enterprise open source software. We're still hiring, by the way.
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
This. A Python script is not the answer when I'm trying to do something quick and dirty at the shell. The beauty of shell scripting is that it evolves seamlessly from trying to solve simple problems at my command prompt. I pipe a coupl
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
> For many professionals your employer will often block / avoid GPL code, tools, and libraries. Indeed, which is why Linux is never found in a professional setting. /s
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
Not intentionally picking on Listmonk (or you), but when I hear "alpha-quality code" and start thinking about the complexities of marketing emails with GDPR, CCPA, and the constant threat of blacklists and otherwise getting blocke
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
> Arvind Krishna was "Jim Whitehurst's boss" until now Not true. Jim (and Red Hat under him) reported directly to Ginni. Red Hat was under IBM cloud for revenue reporting, though, but the distinction is material.
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
I assume if the entire world is spending billions of dollars reworking culture, infrastructure, software, etc., that swapping to making weekly pay the norm is just a bit of noise in that transition.
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
The point is the flood of the market with these folks' homes. If there's demand because of a new set of people come by them, that doesn't negate a rise in available properties from which they may select. Real estate companies
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
Our system: I make more, and I pay for the biggest expenses (mortgage, and previously cars and student loans before we paid those off) and have healthcare and whatnot taken from my paycheck. She makes less but still a decent amount and pay
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
Totally freelance? Not sure. Small teams doing custom site development? Absolutely. I've seen large companies pay six figures to stand up a microsite, the kind of thing that one person could easily put together in a few weeks. The catc
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
> Amateur is ad hominem, and also simply incorrect. You're right. I do owe you an apology for that. Sorry. I still find the circumstances _around_ license discussions like this to be filled with a frustrating amount of amateur lawye
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
To be absolutely clear, neither of these "License Zero" licenses are open source or open source compatible in any way whatsoever. Both explicitly violate the first principle of the Open Source Definition ( https://openso
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
So, uh, generate the power somewhere other than on shady roofs? Seriously, I don't get the weird obsession with rooftop PV as if it's the only way to be green. PV is great, but, it doesn't work for every house. Personally, I
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
Huh? SuperTuxKart was initially released in 2007. I recall Linux distributions adding a GUI in about 1994.
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
Eh, I disagree vehemently with 5). - A geonerd and open data nerd who working now works in marketing engineering after years of working elsewhere in the stack.
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by filesystemdude 7y ago
This _type_ of license? Maybe. Depends on jurisdiction. _This_ license? Probably not. Making your own license is hard. The best advice is probably don't try unless you're a licensing expert or have unlimited access to one.
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
I don't think you understand the Linux vendor support model. The labor isn't "donated" in any sense of the word. It's not like these big companies just pay hundreds of kernel developers to sit around and make commit
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
Oh wow, great. I'm used to roadmaps and software planning cycles in months or years so "weeks" is probably before I could even get somebody to open an email to start thinking about this. :)
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
Related (if the creator is still around): Is there a roadmap/timeline for SSO?
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
I see on Commento.io it explicitly mentions being able to import from Disqus comments, but the "Import from a different service" is behind a signup wall. Rather than signing up for a service that may or may not work for my site, I
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
Yes, good catch. "Reactive instead of proactive" might have been better phrasing.
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
I loved SimCity and it's probably among the reasons I got a masters degree in GIS with a focus in city planning. It turns out for a lot of reasons, real city planning wasn't for me, though it took that degree and six years on my c
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
I evaluated solar cells for my home, and ultimately decided against because I probably get more total energy saving from the current passive solar of having huge south-facing windows and an oak tree in front of my house - free heat in the w
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
Constrained geography is an important part of shaping cities, but it's generally considered by geographers and urban planners to be an enormous positive.
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
This is a WONTFIX bug. The ad networks don't care. They're just serving ads paid for by a bidder who very much has decided that you're the target audience. They win when the bidder keeps bidding for your attention. The bidder
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2048 at the command line(opensource.com)
7 points by filesystemdude 8y ago|0 comments
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
It's interesting to me that among the HN readership, the majority of the conversation here is either "This is true because it matches my experience." or "I had a different experience and therefore this is false." Ci
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
Ditto. I tried to write a .pud editor in QBasic in about the summer of '98 or '99, and built a WarCraft fan site for my Kali/Engage gaming clan with entirely hand-coded HTML and some random and probably terribly-insecure cgi-
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
Can someone explain what's noteworthy here?
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
So a platform with only 1% fewer good ideas than Kickstarter?
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by filesystemdude 8y ago
Okay. So the parent poster prioritizes his kids and family over reading. And you're guilting him for that?

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