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by zeruch 3mo ago
" It's so boring the kids are still complaining about people who have more money than them" That's not what they are complaining about; they are complaining about them rigging the system further in their favor to the de
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by zeruch 3mo ago
I worked at SugarCRM for years. It's often easier than one suspects once you figured out what a customer pain points are and show them a less burdensome solve. Most businesses do not need the kitchen sink approach of SFDC or SAP, they
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by zeruch 5mo ago
"Companies have shown us that IP going to AI providers is acceptable" This is where I'm expecting future collision; you can't both value IP for it's training value, and yet devalue it for the actual sources of IP (
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by zeruch 5mo ago
This is....ridiculous. Does Meta also capture it's CEOs movements with such fidelity?
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by zeruch 5mo ago
I still have my Sony Vaio from that period. Its on a shelf covered in stickers and signatures (e.g. Illiad, ESR, Commander Taco/Hemos, etc) as a kind of keepsake, since I suspect it wouldn't even boot up after so many years of not
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by zeruch 5mo ago
"It's a delicious irony that E is now a super-lightweight system compared with the mainstream environments" Absolutely.
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by zeruch 5mo ago
The amount of abuse I hurled at Carsten Haitzler (Raster) during our time at VA Linux (where he worked on E as well as other stuff) was a complete sitcom unto itself; at one point he debated making a "zeruch insult generator" just
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by zeruch 5mo ago
"A society unable to tolerate deviance from the norm, is a society that will fail to adapt to inevitable changes to the norm" I feel the same way about societies that continue to fail lessons of history and repeat the same damagin
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by zeruch 7mo ago
Nobody of a certain age. If you are over 35 you'll remember when they were known as a Chinese firm buying up all of the IBM Thinkpad business...
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by zeruch 8mo ago
Hurd is long past ever being anything but a pet project of RMS and his familiars.
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by zeruch 8mo ago
Xenix was worse, but only a little. Both it and HPUS were atrocities.
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by zeruch 8mo ago
Good riddance. Of all the Unix variants I tried over the years, HP-UX was the second worst (that dishonor goes to Xenix). I remember giving a talk at Chico State University back in the dotcom era, and got a tour of the CS dept; they had var
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by zeruch 9mo ago
Network effects and an as-yet insufficient friction to leave en masse has kept LI in a semi-moated space. There have been competitors, but they are either niche (Zerply) or more regionally specific (Xing, with its focus on following EU data
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by zeruch 9mo ago
Which college?
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by zeruch 9mo ago
Vera-Augustin, the two founders.
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by zeruch 9mo ago
"but I got the impression that their server line was just as important." They were far more important for the business.
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by zeruch 9mo ago
They did. I actually worked on a few of those projects (e.g. Stampede Linux) One of these days I should blog about how we ended up hosting Python for years...
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by zeruch 9mo ago
1. I have some serious biases against Penguin at the time (for...reasons) and frankly was never impressed with their product. 2. Without getting into a bunch of weird minutiae, we got big enough to be a threat to people who could afford to
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by zeruch 9mo ago
Reddit was contemporary to Digg, it just survived 'better'
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by zeruch 9mo ago
They didn't evolve into SF; SF was a project inside of VA that eventually became the flagship of what remained after the hardware and related services were excised. When they started (1998/99), Git wasn't a viable option (the
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by zeruch 9mo ago
Some people can make a living doing something they enjoy. "Success" is not fame, and vice versa (they are wholly orthogonal to each other), and I remember reading an interview with a member of Canadian group Saga, who in the US ha
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by zeruch 10mo ago
"I wonder why we cant mandate Optical Fibre as standard as well" Lobbying by big ISPs.
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by zeruch 10mo ago
That language feels like it came from a fever dream of Alan Greenspan.
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by zeruch 11mo ago
Many are not.
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by zeruch 1y ago
ESRs gravity peaked around 2004.
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by zeruch 1y ago
It did, and that statement is inaccurate only in the fact that it fails to mention that the driver behind the descent was pure self-dealing avarice.
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by zeruch 1y ago
If there is one thing Tufte taught a lot of people, clarity and accuracy are not mutually exclusive.
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by zeruch 1y ago
I've tried so many todo apps and the only thing I've stuck to is Obsidian and a daily morning habit of checking my list (I check it multiple times a day, but I set at least one 'forced' point in the morning to level set.
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by zeruch 1y ago
I haven't bought a Rotring in decades (and the Rotring rapidographs I do have still hold up), and wouldn't at this stage given the decline in build quality since their buy-up from Newell (although I hear their APAC product is subc
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by zeruch 1y ago
"All dogs are completely safe, and only attack when provoked" this is relentlessly vague, and not in line what most animal cognition specialists or vets will tell you.

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