PieterH

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:-)
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The real value, and the perceived value to specific buyers, are two different things. Most technology acquisitions are about buying staff and clients. A GitHub engineer is worth much more to (say) Yahoo! than a Sourceforge engineer. (Even i
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Thank you for clarifying this.
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Those 4.5K employees will, I guess, be doing rather less than the past employees of GitHub. However they represent a weight of numbers that figures in any sale.
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Women fought for equal rights, for centuries, and achieved this towards the end of the last century, by any measure. Feminism won the fight for equality. You are setting the clock back, and asking for women to be treated as fragile, vulnera
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There are three aspects I can see. One is firms that use github internally, who have gone through the pain of learning to manage it. As long as the license cost remains less than the cost of moving away, they'll stay. Two is organizati
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ZeroMQ on ARM Cortext M3 32MHz, 512KB Flash, 80KB RAM, 6LoWPAN(github.com)
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ZeroMQ is a community of many projects. The old core library is libzmq, written in C++ by hundreds of people, led originally by Martin Sustrik. The library I'm explaining in this book is CZMQ, a high level C binding for libzmq that off
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Since you ask, I'll admit it: I enjoy trolling C++ users because the language has so often thought of itself as superior to C. Beating on the language always gets lots of discussion going, which is fun. I've nothing against the la
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Yes, indeed. I've updated the book title on Gitbooks to make this clear. I'm writing and publishing the book piece by piece, to get feedback early on in the process.
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It is at heart a guide to using CZMQ, the high level C binding for ZeroMQ. More broadly, how to write scalable C applications like Zyre and Malamute. The fact ZeroMQ is written in C++ is invisible and irrelevant, except that it's easy
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Creating an svn repo was fast, yet you could not use it without a dedicated server, DNS configuration, security configuration, firewall configuration, etc. etc. If this was your only job, sure, a few hours' work. For the rest of us, be
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CZMQ is a library of around 30K lines of code. The Scalable C book is in many ways a guide to using that library in real projects. Of course every programmer develops their own dialects, just as every writer has their own voice. C is howeve
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It's zlist_dup() and you would not use recursion to process these types of lists. The API is designed for iteration. One case for recursion is when you use lists of lists of lists... you can then process such structures recursively. Se
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The CZMQ list embeds the cursor because (a) it is sufficient for all cases we've encountered and (b) it makes calling code simpler. This iteration pattern is widely used in CZMQ and Scalable C applications like Zyre and Malamute.
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It is a gesture of dominance that most men will accept and even enjoy, the same way as a dog accepts and enjoys being patted on the head. It's not an aggressive act, but it is dominant. This is quite clear from the way men respond to i
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Yes, very much so. This is critical. We often depend on alcohol to relax and socialize, when among strangers. Yet it makes us vulnerable to all kinds of manipulation, and the next day everything is blurred and we forget. When I see a man (o
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If you're making cider, then a "bad apple" is essential. I'm not making this up as I go along. Almost four years ago I wrote ( http://hintjens.com/blog:18 ) "The Economics of Evil" explaining why
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I can, and do. "Bad actor" is a term. "Bad" is an adjective. It's like saying "apple" and "pine apple" must be the same fruit. We're smart enough to give different meanings to the same word,
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So how long have you used this style of argument on line? Is it a habitual thing, or are you just emotional right now?
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Citations, please. I've grown up and lived in many cultures. Manners change. Abuse does not. Invoking cultural relativism is not going to work here. Let me explain: abuse is about identifying a boundary and then crossing it, deliberate
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All so true.
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If it's used to intimidate and isolate, then yes. Remember school bullies? Same thing yet more subtle and stealthy. Often the model of harassment is indirect. For instance you have a group of people who are happy and working together.
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Here's a funny thing about culture. It distorts a lot, so some cultures accept public stonings and lashings, while others won't let a parent slap a child. Yet what constitutes abuse is universal, and what constitutes positive soci
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The reason I wrote this article is because I think the mainstream is so wrong it hurts. All the behaviors you listed are a normal and necessary part of socialization. Without some argument there is no learning. There is a real right to free
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Most harassment at tech conferences is male-on-male, and it is not sexual. It is about power and control, and perhaps amusement. Sex, gender, height, choice of programming language: these are ways to create and exploit vulnerability. Someti
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Yes, and in my article I state that: "The second problem with exclusion of supposed bad actors is that it is prejudicial. Even bad actors add to the diversity of a crowd." The term is there, I'll change it if anyone has a bet
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Feeling safe and learning aren't exclusive. The term "bad actor" is widely accepted and understood. If you have a better term, I'm all ears. The term is accurate when seen from the perspective of the majority, which is t
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You're right, this part is thin. In terms of penalties, there is only exclusion, or law enforcement. We can expand on the procedural part later.
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You're projecting and/or reading meaning that isn't there. Most of us congregate to learn and open our minds. A small percentage come to prey on others. This is just how it is, no good or bad. My book The Psychopath Code ( ht

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