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by HerraBRE 10y ago
I never said codes of conduct were all perfect. Some (probably most) are certainly flawed and could do with improvement, but the underlying goal is generally what I described. I feel the basic idea is both sound and laudable, so I encourage
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
You seem to just assume a code of conduct can not include mature and reasonable policies. I don't share that assumption.
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
There are indeed many questions. But a lot of people have spent a lot of time thinking about these things. The answers are out there... I think if we take a step back and don't try to invent all the wheels ourselves, we'll fin
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
I may be wrong, but I actually think the current move towards codes of conduct and clarity about expected social behaviour should help with these cases. Being socially dysfunctional (as opposed to being malicious, which is a different pro
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
Drawing that line is exactly what codes of conduct are supposed to do - and like everything else in our community, these are documents which are copied, forked and improved by pull requests.
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
I disagree. Codes of conduct boil down to requiring members of the community to treat each other with basic decency, and defining a process for showing them the door when they fail to do so. This is not a controversial concept in the real w
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
I think many people feel "meritocracy" has become a code-word for "allowing technical contributions to justify and excuse bad social behaviour." Important free Software and Open Source projects are almost always communit
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
This is very interesting, and rings true on many levels. For one, it takes a certain level of competence to be able to differentiate between good and bad work. If your boss can't tell the difference between the two, workers will be rew
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
Government stonewalling then, the government wasn't exactly forthcoming. Reuters had been fighting for information for quite some time.
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
The "collateral murder" video, which was based on Manning's leaks, is really quite chilling and definitely shows wrong doings that were then covered up by the government. There was more, but this was the most visual/memo
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
Instead of "fuel pumps", did you mean "heat pumps"?
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
Although the licenses and in some cases even the software is the same, the communities are very different. The Open Source community is creating high quality technology for techies to build great things. The Free Software community is tryin
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
Absolutely. "Programmers with fast computers write slow code" has been my justification for always buying a cheap shitty laptop, and my excuse for still not having a SSD... Similarly: "Programmers with reliable Internet conne
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
Why do you need to assign blame? My opinion is that trusting people and giving them responsibility is one of the best ways to let them learn and grow. The bigger the mistake, the bigger the lesson. As long as it is possible to recover, it&#
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by HerraBRE 10y ago
You wrote: "Now the only part I disagree with is the last part. Laws and regulations got us into this mess in the first place. These companies are huge because they can sue or prevent others from competing through laws and regulations.
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
My favourite pattern for this use-case is to write script A that generates script B; instead of A invoking 'rm' directly, it runs 'echo rm', or even 'echo #rm'. Then I open up script B in an editor and review t
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
Encryption isn't just about keeping secrets. When correctly deployed it also prevents tampering; when your comms are insecure, it's quite easy for a MITM to inject or remove content. This is not hypothetical, although most of the
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On Crowdfunding and Burnout(mailpile.is)
3 points by HerraBRE 11y ago|0 comments
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
Immature to one is playful to another. :-) It's all going to depend on the team; it would be a mistake to conflate seriousness with competence.
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
It's 1:1, being able to vote is a perk you get for having donated $23 or more. This is only the first time we seek feedback, not the last. :)
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
That's a shame! There were already about 600 forks in github. I'll be tagging the branch point to make this easy for people to do later on as well. Update: Tagged as Gunsmoke--TheLastApacheTag - https://github.com/
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
I wish you the best of luck with your fork! :-)
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
Hah, thanks for the bug report. Maybe skip the snark next time? :-P My work-flow is to draft posts and other changes on my laptop and then use PageKite to show things to a friend or two to get feedback on spelling and content. In this case
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
Hello, Bjarni here from Mailpile. I'm sorry you missed our announcements - we did send an e-mail to everyone who donated $23 USD or more, inviting them to our community voting platform. We tweeted and blogged, it was mentioned on Faceb
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
Interesting to know you took my idea and ran with it! I'd love to chat with you guys about your implementation, the whole point of that blog post was to get people to discuss and interoperate... any chance I'll find you on IRC?
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
Hello! PageKite is "ngrok-like" (we pre-date them by a fair bit), I'd be happy to work with you guys on exploring whether we can integrate and make it as easy to spin up as Sandcats. Feel free to mail me, bre at pagekite.net
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
Uh, I'm certainly not going to go on record telling people they're welcome to ignore our license, no matter what that ends up being. But we're also not going to waste time drafting some sort of legal assault strategy at this
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
For an individual copyright holder, or software which is static and no longer being developed, you are correct. However if either of those preconditions fails, then the reverse becomes true "in practice." When the copyright is hel
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
Deliberately relinquishing power means we can't be corrupted. :-) If the backer community wants closed source versions to exist, we feel it should be on even footing based on a permissive license, not based on the whims of the founding
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by HerraBRE 11y ago
We already set fire to that bridge, most deliberately. It burns as we speak. :-) We've accepted various patches from people, all of which were under both the AGPLv3 and Apache licenses. We now have the choice of dropping one of the t

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