strumptrumpet

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by strumptrumpet 13y ago
You're playing semantic shell games here. The user has no reasonable way of knowing that stripe.js came from stripe, and as such, there are no technical OR human controls that enforce that behavior. In short, the fact that stripe.js is
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by strumptrumpet 13y ago
I run my own mail server and it's essentially zero work. I have postfix, dovecot, SpamAssassin, and RoundCube, all authenticated via LDAP. It required some upfront configuration, but it has run itself with minimal configuration changes
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by strumptrumpet 13y ago
Is your reply bourne out of experience? Mail hasn't changed much in more than a decade. Systems like Ubuntu update cleanly from release to release. Maildirs are very easily migratable. You can literally set up a new mail host, and then
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by strumptrumpet 13y ago
> I don't claim that it's a particularly easy problem to solve, but it seems to have been done when people just used a mailing list and cvs, so it is possible... It worked back when we had a mailing list, CVS, and a web page
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by strumptrumpet 13y ago
I believe the best tool Github could provide to encourage this would be to make forks subsidiary to the project they're forked from.
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by strumptrumpet 13y ago
I like 0MQ a lot, but this is disingenuous. Let's break it down: > portability Sockets are just as portable, more so on UNIX descendants where one can rely on relatively consistent socket APIs. Beyond that, almost every single lan
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by strumptrumpet 13y ago
> However, you're essentially taking it as a given that the absolute number of worthwhile projects has dropped thanks to GitHub. Not just dropped -- they're drying up. I can only speak from anecdote (nobody has paid me to run
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by strumptrumpet 13y ago
> There are no-fewer quality-obsessed developers participating in the community as a result of GitHub. There is natural attrition of participants in any project; what keeps (or kept) so-called "quality obsessed" developers in
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by strumptrumpet 13y ago
> has me scratching my head. I would have assumed "there are more people writing code now than five years ago" If I'd been more precise, I would have said no more code per capita.
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by strumptrumpet 13y ago
Your core premises are flawed: 1) The internet and the apps built on it still run just fine. There is very little maintainership and investment in core difficult technology development. Most core projects that make up the foundation of the
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by strumptrumpet 13y ago
Renaissance? Open source has never been less healthy. All the previous social constructs around properly documenting, testing, and releasing stable versions of your code have been swept away. Instead we're faced with the constant chu