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by benji-york 1y ago
"Even with a 13% bigger budget, we still managed to spend 92% of our money in 2024 paying contributors for their time." The Zig Foundation model of paying contributors is really interesting. I don't think I've seen it d
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by benji-york 1y ago
> I don't think anyone would sue you for patent infringement against your hobby project. You are mistaken.
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by benji-york 1y ago
There is no legal distinction between violating copyright "professionally" or not.
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by benji-york 1y ago
I don't know of a canonical XP team size, but "small" is the normal recommendation. 8-12 would seem larger than small to me. Personally, 8 is the largest I would have a team. At that point you should consider breaking it in
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by benji-york 1y ago
> The ideal setup is to put 5 people in the same room with the PO and close to a few key users. (I suspect you are aware, but just in case this is new to you.) This is essentially the core of Extreme Programming.
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by benji-york 1y ago
The Information Society song "Mirrorshades" would pair well with this.
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by benji-york 1y ago
If you like that style of scifi, you may also like Adrian Tchaikovsky's work.
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by benji-york 1y ago
This makes sense to me. (Not that I would personally ever buy a car with that mechanism baked in.) They could either make two models (incurring the costs associated with having two different SKUs) and let people pay more for the one with mo
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by benji-york 1y ago
If you're interested in doing similar things but with a terminal, the Kitty remote control mechanism is pretty cool: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-control/
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by benji-york 1y ago
Same experience here, I owned this exact piece of equipment as a teen (I'm ~50). Aside: I know "boomer" is just slang for "not young", but I can't help but think that only the most tech-savvy Baby Boomer would
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by benji-york 1y ago
Personally, I employ/enjoy a highly skeptical form of optimism. I think things could be great, but there are many obstacles along the way to be aware of.
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by benji-york 1y ago
> I mean the passenger train from Lebanon, TN to Nashville, TN is quite busy. From the article: > Outside of Amtrak’s once-daily City of New Orleans, Tennessee has only three rail transit systems (two of which are currently suspended)
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by benji-york 1y ago
Did the front fall off?
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by benji-york 1y ago
Having read this book in the late '90s, I've though of it at least monthly since then. The themes are truly epic, but the human behaviors described (sometimes in great detail) are horrendous.
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by benji-york 1y ago
Some trivia for those who might not be aware: the tile of the series is a reference to the beloved 1981 book "Starting FORTH" which you can now read online at https://www.forth.com/wp-content/uploads/2018
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by benji-york 1y ago
My guess: optimism vs pessimism joke.
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by benji-york 1y ago
One option: https://www.ultimarc.com/trackballs-and-spinners/spinners/sp...
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by benji-york 2y ago
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns): A Movie About They Might Be Giants is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LaAgpV5UAM
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by benji-york 2y ago
As a long-time Vim user I am very happy to learn this trivia.
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by benji-york 2y ago
For the people that also use macOS: Option + hyphen and Shift + Option + hyphen.
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by benji-york 2y ago
You might like top's commit messages, e.g., https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/e6f22569e9db16d... commit e6f22569e9db16dbef7d9bdee5bb41b8cb7a03ca Author: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcas
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by benji-york 2y ago
See Python PEP 722 – Dependency specification for single-file scripts https://peps.python.org/pep-0722/
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by benji-york 2y ago
Very nice! The ability to get novel interactions out of connected devices is something I think we're just starting to bloom.
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by benji-york 2y ago
I'm not the OP, but I'm very curious why people are downvoting this comment. Is it that they don't agree that "the New World [...is...] much more welcoming [...of...] all sorts of productive folk"?
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by benji-york 2y ago
>> I get the impression the author is relatively inexperienced > calling out inexperience is unnecessary IMO. I love it if someone loves programming. I think that's great. I'll observe that the commenter did not make the
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by benji-york 2y ago
Interesting take. I wonder if all the new ways of being heard (social media, mainly) have made the "cost" of being heard via music relatively higher.
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by benji-york 2y ago
Background: https://tim-one.github.io/psf/
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by benji-york 2y ago
The BATNA acronym helps people understand negotiating a bit better, but outside of education, I don't see that it has much use.
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Node.js.org Is Down(nodejs.org)
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by benji-york 2y ago
I lament the lack of rST support in much of modern tooling. I'm reminded of all of the alternate worlds that didn't quite come to fruition, but could have (Lisp, Smalltalk, BeOS, etc.).

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