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by HerraBRE 15y ago
Clickable: http://rdfc.is/
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
Yes, I do think this could be worked out - the packaging infrastructure we have today is really powerful and could be built upon. No reason to throw out the baby with the bathwater, I just wanted to illustrate some of the obvious drawbacks
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
You are right, the same argument can be made, and often it should be made. As an example, a lot of people are pissed off that they can no longer fix their cars themselves because of black-box designs and software restrictions. The ultimate
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
If I don't like the license you use, I don't. Except when I have no choice, which has unfortunately often been the case due to natural monopolies or social pressure. A decade ago, that problem was Microsoft. Today it is becoming SaaS in
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
I do this at http://pagekite.net - I build both RPMs and DEBs and host my own repos. This works fine for the most part and is relatively easy for technical users to take advantage of. It was a bit of work to get it working (and my packa
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
You're joking, right? Free Software is not about slavish compliance with licensing terms or inventing shiny new technology for technology's sake (that movement is called Open Source). Free Software is about having the freedom to control y
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
It depends on the project really, centralization has many advantages. I just thought being able to go fully distributed was a neat hack.
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
That is exactly what PageKite does, you should try it. :-)
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
Good luck!
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
That is exactly the point! :-) Dvcs systems have that potential, but people still generally fall back to using a central repo for sharing, because the network gets in the way of direct push/pull. The point of the article is to show one way
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
Only if you create accounts and your workstations can reach each-other somehow. That is more effort and won't work at all if the workstation is behind a firewall on some remote network.
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
I'd rather symlink it. :-) Of course, I'd wager not very many of us work all the time on web-visible machines, which is why adding PageKite changes things - I'm sharing repos off my laptop now.
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
I've been to quite a few conferences, speaking about my startup's software ( http://pagekite.net ). In my case, since we release our core product as Free Software and are very aligned with the decentralization and "cloud backlash" movement
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
That looks pretty neat. Is it just a bonjour enabled web interface, or does it do other stuff? If it's mostly a web UI, you may be able to expose that using PageKite too, for sharing over the Internets: pagekite.py localhost:9331 bananajo
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
I just discovered this trick yesterday, and thought it was so awesome I had to write about it. Truly decentralized code sharing! :-)
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Show HN: git clone, git pull with no central repository(pagekite.net)
46 points by HerraBRE 15y ago|18 comments
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
A solution may be to provide a template, where developers can list explicitly the activities they do not support. You'd still be imposing your morals and beliefs on others, but at least it could be less ambiguous. This would not be a "free
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
Free Software is not a gift. That is where you go wrong. Just because you want it to be does not make it so. Free Software, as advocated by the FSF and many others, is an attempt to remedy the ethical problems posed by closed source softw
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An Evolutionary Theory of Excercise(bre.klaki.net)
1 points by HerraBRE 15y ago|0 comments
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
Fair 'nuff. I think the Google Alumni organization tries to keep track of some things like that, but I have no idea how successful they are. I've never bothered telling them what I am up to. :-P
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
Exactly! This is actually why I am in no real hurry to look for VC-type investment. Taking VC money at least appears to eliminate the "middle ground" for the business, one becomes obligated to shoot for big money or go bust trying. It took
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
Wait, what? It sounds like you are defining success or failure solely in terms of whether there is a big-money exit or not. That seems so... sad. What ever happened to "provides employment" and "provides value to its customers"? Anyway,
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
This was meant to be an "Ask HN" post, but it seems the "Ask HN" prefix gets stripped off bare URLs... Oh well. :-)
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Does this postmortem say too much? Too little?(pagekite.net)
3 points by HerraBRE 15y ago|1 comments
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
If you are using write(2)/read(2) on a local file, is there any other buffer that comes into play aside from the memory in buffer cache itself? You are correct that obviously we don't really know when the data will hit disk, but that doesn'
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
Mmap just gives an alternate API - access the file contents as a memory buffer, not a file. Turns out the underlying mechanism is the same, and if you are happy with fseek(), read() and write(), you don't really need mmap at all.
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An experiment: Shared memory vs. files(bre.klaki.net)
13 points by HerraBRE 15y ago|8 comments
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
It's been mentioned on Hacker News a few times before, but my project PageKite (and showoff.io and localtunnel) is designed to help out with quick web demos and collaboration. Getting started is now two lines: curl http://pagekite.net/p
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
Having lived both in the U.S. and abroad (I have dual citizenship), I have to say I agree with the original comment. Americans are afraid, and the culture of fear predates 9/11 by a wide margin. If you want to estimate how many attacks have
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by HerraBRE 15y ago
If minecraft clients can be configured to use HTTP proxies, you should be able to expose a minecraft server using PageKite; PageKite can handle arbitrary TCP streams, as long as the client knows how to initialize the connection with an HTTP

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