Argorak

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by Argorak 12y ago
The answer to this is really simple: the people running the space. Run you own space, have your own CoC. Done. If you can't get enough people to stand up and say "we're running a conference for tough as nails abrasive people,
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by Argorak 12y ago
They are all hobby, on top of my work time. Many of the attendees are there for fun, especially on eurucamp, off their own pocket. Obviously, 3 days of meeting with 300 international people isn't going to be all random (even things lik
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by Argorak 12y ago
> The moment you're thinking in dichotomous terms like "the organizers" and "the attendees" Hold it right there. I run the space, I raise the money, I sign the contracts, I'm can be held responsible if someo
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by Argorak 12y ago
I used to run eurucamp (I'm on a hiatus), which is a very affordable summer community conference at a lake with impromptu bike rides, canoeing, parties and lots of visitor participation. We have only 1 invited speaker (keynote). We hav
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by Argorak 12y ago
That's exactly the reason why I put up CoCs for example - we define what is inacceptable in a certain space and put it in clear writing to avoid gaming. It binds the organizers as much as the attendees. It cuts out the play. For exampl
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by Argorak 12y ago
I have explicitly stated that "beautiful" is not at all a goal. Clarity is.
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by Argorak 12y ago
I don't see anything what you describe as inherent and necessary to nerd culture. What you want is an abrasive culture and I oppose that. I certainly never "left the world" and certainly not because I found all those things u
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by Argorak 12y ago
That's why, when setting up such a document for a project as big as the Linux Kernel, you get someone with writing skills and get extremely pedantic for a while. Simple and clear beats beauty here as well.
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by Argorak 12y ago
Wishing someones death is a spitting insult in many cultures and for good reasons. Many insults are not meant literally.
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by Argorak 12y ago
_usually_ is the keyword. Sometimes he wants people retroactively aborted. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495 You never know when it hits you.
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by Argorak 12y ago
I'm not sure that kind of mechanical parts level the field. I'm terribly bad at learning repeatable, dumb, tasks - like checking your base at the beginning of SC2 for stray drones. For me, it's the lamest gameplay decision no
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by Argorak 12y ago
GTK is the issue here. It's Mac OS X support is not stellar.
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by Argorak 12y ago
Hm, I would make the distinction, but I do see the point you are making. It ensures people can even become developers.
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by Argorak 12y ago
Especially, it protects your right as an open source user, which I feel is a perspective rarely taken.
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by Argorak 12y ago
You are still comparing apples with oranges. Go and even Padrino (which is a full-stack in a full blown install) are not even the same category. Point being that memory comparison even in the Ruby/Rails space are incredibly problematic
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by Argorak 12y ago
Yes, but garbage-collected languages with embedded markers (which Ruby used for a long time) are not at all COW-friendly (because GC runs touch the pages). Only in recent Ruby versions is that not a problem (and was changed for exactly that
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by Argorak 12y ago
Then say Rails. Rails doesn't care about memory. There are frameworks of similar targets like Rails that tend to use less (e.g. Padrino) and care. We did have an effort pushing down unnecessary memory use of the base profile and we gai
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by Argorak 12y ago
Ruby or Rails?
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by Argorak 12y ago
Ah, yes. I agree, I've seen quite a few very smooth Ruby deploy pipelines as well.
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by Argorak 12y ago
How do you think the previous design was bad? It might have been just the right thing for the first 2 years.
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by Argorak 12y ago
As I said below, if you tread off the full-stack-track, you get a lot of the go-like things in Ruby as well. My point being: I usually rate architectural changes as more important as a change in development details (and the programming lang
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by Argorak 12y ago
Not going to argue your decision, the process of splitting up is also a chance to change the platform. We do a lot of non-Rails Ruby-work and did implement Microservice-Architectures in it and found it rather unproblematic. The trick is not
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by Argorak 12y ago
Every time I read something like that, I get the feeling that "Monolith to Microservices" is the pattern and the language doesn't matter. At the beginning, a Monolith has huge advantages: easy to deploy, all in one place, sma
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by Argorak 12y ago
We did some measurements with Padrino applications in the wild and found that all of them could be improved a lot in relatively simple ways. E.g. by not loading multiple JSON parsers. Padrino being a rather slim framework on top of Sinatra,
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by Argorak 12y ago
For all the complaints about CRuby, the recent years have been under the sign of steady improvement, on a predictable schedule. A new version on Christmas, patch version around February/March.
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by Argorak 12y ago
It's free as beer until you take a sip from the glass. Also, the US isn't the land of the cheap sakes, which kind of doesn't fit "for most".
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by Argorak 12y ago
I don't see the reason for downvotes. The parent's sentiment is pointed, but has merit. It's initially doesn't cost anything, but if you want to charge for a game, it costs you. You also don't get many freedoms alon
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by Argorak 12y ago
I'd start with animation technology ;).
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by Argorak 12y ago
Hehe, "she". Great. I think the project would be better off with less bad jokes in the README.
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by Argorak 12y ago
This is standard in the EU and I think that is a good thing. Full contractual freedom is a B2B thing here. And yes, having people sign that their communication will be monitored is an unreasonable thing in my opinion, cutting to the core of

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