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by amirmc 12y ago
Sounds like you've had some bad experiences here. Is your contribution process documented anywhere? IME well-meaning folks will generally try to conform to existing procedures if it's easy to find out what they are. The more time
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by amirmc 12y ago
Indeed, documentation and even quick tutorials are often overlooked but they're the first thing you look for when trying out a new project.
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by amirmc 12y ago
Slightly off topic, but for some reason, reading this post and the comments made me think of PG's essay on startup hubs, where he mentions startupicide. These VAT rules seem to (inadvertently) act that way. http://paulgraha
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by amirmc 12y ago
I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. I never made any claims that supported (or opposed) the current EU set up. I merely pointed out that the comment I replied to added nothing constructive to the conversation and that Tax i
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by amirmc 12y ago
Your comment doesn't add very much to the discussion. I could argue that most software engineers have never had a 'real' job either. Tax across the EU is an important concern, given how large companies can position themselves
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by amirmc 12y ago
> Every once in a while severe economic recessions comes along and wipes out all the badly managed companies kept in life support by banks/government. Except we didn't allow this for the banks (iiuc), so not everything gets G
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by amirmc 12y ago
That just underlines how broken the system is. As a sibling comment points out, patents can still go uncontested. Even worse is when small players end paying fees (because they can't affird lengthy litigation), which ends up supporting
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by amirmc 12y ago
How about trying to understand and deal with the root-cause of people shooting up schools?
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Here's my solution to that. Gather all the information possible, including things you've purchased so that I know whether or not you actually have those games or any of your friends do (and whether you actually play them). Asses
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> "... but as far as I can see, that blog provides no evidence that Uber is actually phoning home" That does not make it ok.
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> "... it makes me wonder about the rest of his technical assertions that I'm less able to judge." What technical assertions? From what I can gather, he's just pointing out what he sees in the code and what he think
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by amirmc 12y ago
You're right. What I meant was that someone looks at something and says "This is so cool/interesting/useful, I wonder how they made it?" For a language like OCaml, this means getting existing devs interested but th
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by amirmc 12y ago
> I've long thought OCaml was weirdly suppressed. My (somewhat rambling) 2cents, since I started working on improving this via OCaml Labs. - Poor tooling: OCaml (and ML) is taught at a number of institutions so undergrads do have
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by amirmc 12y ago
I'm pretty sure they'd be drowned out by the number of US readers and the effects of timezones. The US comes online after Europe and if they don't upvote the same stories, they won't hang around.
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by amirmc 12y ago
I was going to ask whether 'non-strict' means lazy but I decided to look it up first. I thought others might also find it interesting. https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Lazy_vs._non-strict
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by amirmc 12y ago
> Not sure what is being worked on now that might be relevant in a decade and a half from now. Mirage OS is one of those things - http://openmirage.org - though I expect (hope) it'll take much less than decade to be re
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by amirmc 12y ago
While Git itself might not be the right thing, the principles behind it may well be. You might like to check out Irmin, a library to build distributed storage systems. http://openmirage.org/blog/introducing-irmin
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by amirmc 12y ago
There are actually a great many efforts in this regard. You mention Freedom box and Sandstorm, which are only two of them. I'm working on http://nymote.org and it'll be built using Unikernels (specifically, Mirage OS -
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by amirmc 12y ago
We can already upvote. Although we can't see the scores it's already a simple way to acknowledge the contribution.
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The mailbox at your house doesn't require security patches, trouble-shooting, upgrade cycles, and that's just the software stack itself. When you get to the issue of blacklisting/deliverability that's a whole new set of
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by amirmc 12y ago
Please do get involved! If you're learning OCaml, then http://realworldocaml.org is a great resource. When you start trying out Mirage, join the mailing list and let us know how you get on. Finally, to see where we can take
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by amirmc 12y ago
> Unikernels also suffer from the lack of VM resizing and minimum VM sizes being too big in many cases. Could you clarify what you mean here? Is this specifically a Unikernel problem or an ecosystem problem (in terms of actually trying t
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by amirmc 12y ago
For Mirage OS, all libs are released as packages in OPAM [0], so it's really straightforward to find out which versions you're using (and manage/update/remove them). In fact, we just did a set of releases recently [1].
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by amirmc 12y ago
Is there a link you can point us at? If it's in portugese we might have trouble understanding it.
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by amirmc 12y ago
Is there a reason you're pointing to a specific commit? The link below is to the current version. Also note that it's easy to make quick edits in GitHub's web interface without having to clone the repo locally. It works wel
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Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era(pewinternet.org)
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by amirmc 12y ago
Sounds a lot like you're describing Mirage OS (and its ilk). I see that you've written OCaml before, so I assume you've come across it already -- if not, I think you'd find it really interesting. http://openmi
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by amirmc 12y ago
At first glance this made sense but after a second read it doesn't. > 3) Creators who choose all or nothing are more committed to the project, the raise, and the process. Keep what you raise often attracts dabblers. I feel this on
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I've known engineers who fit your MBA description and MBAs who fit your engineer description. It's about people in the end.
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Back then a reasonable person might have had faith in the rule of law, and in the oversight system and that targeted surveillance was the norm. It turns out there are secret courts, with secret interpretations of laws and indiscriminate m

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