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the libraries/packages for all the languages we use, pip install $20,000 of work so i don't have to do it. database stuff like postgres, sqlite is especially l
by PostOnce 8y ago
the libraries/packages for all the languages we use, pip install $20,000 of work so i don't have to do it.
database stuff like postgres, sqlite is especially lovely for portability and ease of deployment.
Firefox, libreoffice, gimp, vlc, and Linux, Ubuntu particularly.
evince and calibre
compression software / archivers like 7zip
cli stuff like mosh, irssi, and htop.
i essentially no longer use proprietary software not out of any moral or economic stance, but just because it either does less or is vastly less extensible or takes too long to deploy or can't be trusted.
open software is wonderful.
- cimmanom 8y ago$20K sounds like an underestimate by a couple orders of magnitude if you estimate a single year of full time work by one developer at $100K. Many mid-sized Python projects use libraries that I’d guess together represent somewhere between $2M and $200M in developer hours - depending on whether you’re using frameworks or just relatively simple libraries.