PieterH

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by PieterH 10y ago
Thanks for doing this. I mean, copying the article.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Doesn't work for this article, Google shows only one hit and it's paywalled.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Nice chart. I call this exponential drop "cost gravity". 50% every 18 months, more or less.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Click on 'web' and then the first link Google offers you.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Tried it, liked it. How do you stop spam, link farming, etc.?
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by PieterH 10y ago
Haha, broscript... Sorry, thought I was on Reddit.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Cheap Samsung B&W around $60-70. I've used two over 5 years, very good.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Lexmark are also crooks. Samsung has been good (cheap lasers) but being bought by HP.
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by PieterH 10y ago
The replacement toner is worth buying too, lasts some thousands of pages. I love my cheap Samsung lasers.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Yeah, patent law, recourse of the scoundrels.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Sigh. Well, HP is doing their best to bring us into the paperless future, I suppose. Nice of them.
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by PieterH 10y ago
All you need to do is buy from a business that doesn't depend on fraud. Samsung make very nice and cheap black & white laser printers. I've bought two over the last few years, around $70. I see one on Amazon for $75 that has w
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by PieterH 10y ago
That is so corrupt. HP deserve a total boycott.
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by PieterH 10y ago
It's always a delicate balance, as there are obviously a fair number of people who don't know what they're doing (yet, if they're learning), as well as some malicious people. There are ways to deal with that, e.g. force
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by PieterH 10y ago
Small correction: "Hintjens". Don't blame me, some 19th century Flemish priest misspelt "Awesome" so there we are.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Felix and I met some time before he wrote that blog post, and I explained our C4 process to him. His pull request hack, which I merged into C4 not long after, is neat though github doesn't provide the tools to do it easily.
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by PieterH 10y ago
No, quite different. There are strong rules about what constitutes a valid patch. Probably stronger than in most projects.
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by PieterH 10y ago
ZeroMQ has native stacks in Java, C#, Erlang, C. Also C++.
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by PieterH 10y ago
ZeroMQ is a messaging layer that runs over numerous network protocols (TCP, UDP, PGM, TIPC,...), as well as inter-process and inter-thread. It provides abstractions (like pub-sub) that work over all these protocols, and it shows the develop
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by PieterH 10y ago
We use the LGPL license with a clause that makes it harmless. The MPLv2 license is not an issue. All complaints from businesses about licensing come straight to me, as they have for years. MPLv2 raises zero complaints. ZeroMQ "memory
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by PieterH 10y ago
ZeroMQ is hardly dominant. It's a small player in a huge market and there was and is space for many more projects in this area. I'm glad nano seems healthy again, yet it's not enough, and I'll explain why. In the end the
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by PieterH 10y ago
Like any radical shift in technique, it's best to try on a small project. It takes a while to get the hang of it. I'll answer your questions... - It is really seldom that a patch is reverted (that a patch is removed). As in, it on
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by PieterH 10y ago
Thanks for the updates. I've edited my comment. I've always wanted nano to succeed, just disliked the negative attitude to ZeroMQ expressed in its docs, which seemed unnecessary and damaging.
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by PieterH 10y ago
If you try to use ZeroMQ to replace TCP with the same semantics, then no, it won't work.
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by PieterH 10y ago
There is no case law in France. Copyright and patent violations fell under criminal law some years ago. There was a long battle in the EU to stop this happening. The movie industry won. In France the law was passed under Sarkozy iirc. Whe
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by PieterH 10y ago
It never happened because (IMO, I'm guessing), no-one actually needs nanomsg. I've never really understood the hostility some people had towards e.g. the ZeroMQ protocols, since these RFCs are as plastic and open to contributions
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by PieterH 10y ago
The set of problems that any particular design will answer (it's a general thing, not just software) will change over time as economies change. That's why you probably don't own a horse, and certainly don't ride to work
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by PieterH 10y ago
This is so true and so sad. It's what kills many projects: maintainers who think they have some holy mandate for "quality" and create such a difficult environment for new contributors that we fork the project instead. Read my
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by PieterH 10y ago
> Does anyone have examples to share of open source projects that have very low friction for drive-by contributions while still maintaining quality? Projects with very clear documentation and instructions for contributing? Yes, absolutel
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by PieterH 10y ago
See http://hintjens.com/blog:112 for my opinion on why nano isn't (wasn't, perhaps, as it seems to be doing better) a good choice.

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