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Speaking of homebrew, its author definitely fits the tiny block in this cartoon.
by marcrosoft 6y ago
Speaking of homebrew, its author definitely fits the tiny block in this cartoon.
- woodruffw 6y agoWe're actually a thriving team now, although donations (and more eyeballs!) always help :-)
- jacquesm 6y agoIf you didn't ping each other to see this within 15 minutes is a nice testimony regarding the reach of HN.
- marcrosoft 6y agoI honestly don’t know the homebrew team but I use it and it’s the first thing to come to mind when I saw this xkcd. Edit: partly because I also know the original author was denied a job at Google. Imagine the productivity gain this team has given to a company the size of google.
- ekianjo 6y agoThere are bots to find out mentions of specific keywords on HN.
- saagarjha 6y agoA number of maintainers browse and contribute a fair bit.
- harry8 6y agoshhhh. Don't tell those of us who don't like apple. We'll pay him to make the project unusable.
- SilasX 6y agoThe first thing I thought of was OpenSSL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7575210 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7575210
- majewsky 6y agoGnuPG and ffmpeg also come to mind.
- SilasX 6y agoYes, I remember GPG being in the news for that: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encrypti... But I also remember the takedown about no one actually relying on email encryption for security: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22368888 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22368888
- mbakke 6y agoI thought it was referring to the "Olson" time zone database, used by virtually any operating system except Windows to keep track of time zone changes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080437 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080437 Voluntarily maintained by a single person for decades until hit by a big lawsuit and ICANN stepped up to help.
- raverbashing 6y agoI'd argue homebrew is the cartwheel that brought the bricks there, and not the bricks themselves. Yes, it's an important piece of software. But it's not "required" for any services itself.
- piva00 6y agoOpenSSL on the other hand...
- raverbashing 6y agoYeah let's not get into that conversation...
- ralphstodomingo 6y agoDon't even go there. Might jinx it.