slgeorge

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by slgeorge 8mo ago
London's basically great for: 1. Startups 2. Scaling/Growth 3. Existing company expanding from USA->Europe or Europe->USA It's not as good as Silicon Valley for any of these, but no-where is. It's also n
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by slgeorge 8mo ago
As a Brit when I started doing deals in North America one of the things I picked up was that I had to be explicit about disagreement OR where a decision was not being made yet. In the UK during a negotiation a 'silence' is not equ
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by slgeorge 8mo ago
Do you have an experience working in Europe or the UK? > I couldn't even hope to get employment in tech in the UK or Europe without a degree Maybe this is how it looks from the outside, but it's not how it works in reality. My
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Guix Users and Contributors Survey(guix.limesurvey.net)
8 points by slgeorge 2y ago|1 comments
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by slgeorge 2y ago
Guix is gathering feedback from users and contributors on their experiences; what they love and what they've found challenging. Whether you're new or a veteran we'd love to have your opinion and comments! As the projects neve
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by slgeorge 2y ago
"Modern" seems to be used a loose adjective these days for "I rewrote $thing [in Rust]". Minecraft was created in 2011, and is Wikipedia says the last version of the 'classic' edition was released in 2017. So a
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by slgeorge 3y ago
I use it for additional packages on top of another Linux distribution (Ubuntu). This gets me rolling release packages and guix shell which is great for development as each project I'm working on can be completely separated. For 's
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by slgeorge 3y ago
Yes, I wasn't throwing shade on Nix, I was drawing a specific comparison about Linux distributions. My opinion is that Guix/Nix move the state of the art for Linux distributions forward. So Guix<->Nix are both similar Linux
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by slgeorge 3y ago
We're a small group 5-10 people, so it's very informal and friendly. I'm sure Fabio ( https://fabionatali.com/ ) who organised it would have good advice! I'll say that from my perspective the fact that it&
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by slgeorge 3y ago
No. Guix is more similar to Debian, with only 'Free Software' applications in the main archive. For proprietary codecs, firmware and so forth there is the Nonguix channel. Again, this is fairly similar to how distributions like Ub
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by slgeorge 3y ago
New packages and updates to packages come into the archive continuously. For example, in roughly the last 24 hours 40 packages were added or updated - https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/ . Advanta
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by slgeorge 3y ago
Guix can create reproducible development environments that are "sealed off" from the rest of the distribution. It's called Guix shell and it's very flexible: * Guix Shell https://www.futurile.net/2023&#x2
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by slgeorge 3y ago
For those that don't know Guix can be used as: * a package manager on top of an existing Linux distribution (think apt or rpm) * a development environment (think Python venv but for any language) * a VM system (like Docker but declarat
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by slgeorge 3y ago
FFS - talk about missing the point.
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by slgeorge 3y ago
Sorry that annoyed you. One thing to bear in mind is that at Weaveworks we made massive contributions and did our best to be part of the community in the right way: * Flux * Flagger * Cortex * Ignite * Weave Net * and a whole host more Oh
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by slgeorge 3y ago
Thank-you - really appreciate this comment - acknowledging the work that great people did and the efforts they put in. I wish the outcome was different - but we really tried to do good things, and play well in the open source community.
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by slgeorge 3y ago
The shutdown means great people with Cloud Native skills are available now. People across all teams: marketing, product, engineering, dev-rel, consulting / CRE, customer success and business operations Across the States, UK/Europe
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by slgeorge 3y ago
> I am so freaking sick of companies lying and exploiting open source. This is Embrace, Extend, Extinguish at it's finest. I don't see how this is 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish'? This license guarantees that the code
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by slgeorge 4y ago
I think you know this as you mention "olden way" - it's definitely the thread of history where most UNIX servers were multi-user systems: that's how I was first exposed to Unix, even though by late 80's/early 9
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by slgeorge 4y ago
I've been using Guix on top of Ubuntu so that I can have the latest versions of some applications I care about, while keeping the core Ubuntu which works well with my hardare. Similar to your comment the ability to see exactly what is
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by slgeorge 4y ago
Finding that "intrinsic motivation" to work on a hobby is something that really helps to keep you going. Often we're extrinsically motivated by others praise, social media likes ete. While praise is no bad thing, it doesn&#x2
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by slgeorge 4y ago
Totally get it. But, the issue is that to sell something it has to solve a problem for someone else. Generally the choices are: a. Build something that solves your personal problem - later find out if that applies to others, and whether the
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by slgeorge 4y ago
That's pithy but a characterisation that misses many important aspects. Bram's been developing Vim for 30 years [0]. Just think about that for a second. An open source project that's been running for longer than the age of pr
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by slgeorge 4y ago
True - but you're forgetting the executives previously learned experience of telling a team that a due date was September and them delivering six months later. The consequence was missing the marketing/PR window, negatively impact
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by slgeorge 5y ago
Actually ... It's equally hard to do good or bad management, since most of the time you have no idea if you're achieving either outcome - and neither does anyone else. The problem with all forms of management is that it's com
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by slgeorge 5y ago
I wasn't trying to set up an "opposition" on the language level in my sentence. The decision was couched in my personal constraints - whether "as a hobbyist" it was practical for me to learn the language successfull
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by slgeorge 5y ago
I've been messing with Clojure/ClojureScript for a few years having previously had zero Lisp experience. Overall, I think Clojure does a good job of being both practical and lispy. It's a language that is for building real th
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by slgeorge 5y ago
For Clojure on the JVM I've seen etaoin ( https://github.com/igrishaev/etaoin ) and there's clj-chrome-devtools ( https://github.com/tatut/clj-chrome-devtools ). I would ask on Clojureverse
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by slgeorge 5y ago
> It goes against everything open source stands for Sorry, that's not correct. It goes against your opinion of what open source should stands for, and many projects run in a way where everyone can contribute. But, it's not the
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by slgeorge 5y ago
I voted you back up because generally I agree that using weak value judgements (e.g. X is old fashioned) without saying WHY a particular thing needs to be improved is not very useful. In fairness, in the article he does say why all these co

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