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by clinth 13y ago
Working intermittently (10%) from home. Checking in on a production system that's going to get its first big whack of data load later today.
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by clinth 13y ago
It's also cognitive load. Facing infinite options with no guide isn't great. You don't read the entire internet, and likewise you're not looking for all options when looking for an application. Apple hosts all iOS apps, they have to sell th
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by clinth 14y ago
The company is Steve Jackson Games, their telling of it is here: http://www.sjgames.com/SS/
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by clinth 14y ago
I'm not the OP, but it's more likely to point at Mongo. Easy scalability through sharding is one of its advertised strengths.
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by clinth 14y ago
He was in a public professional setting, representing the company with a badge that said Sponsor, which more than likely paid for his entire trip to go and represent that company there. He was on the clock. Off-hours work friendships are no
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by clinth 14y ago
You mean personal conversation. Their conversation wasn't private, it was in the middle of a conference hall.
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by clinth 14y ago
Nobody is forcing you to stay at the conference?
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by clinth 14y ago
Good faith means less when you're selling an ongoing service and accept money. When they promised an ongoing service to host purchases, they laid the rug out and stood on it.
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by clinth 14y ago
Agreed. However, you can grind out a book with more certainty than you can create a prominent open-source repo.
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by clinth 14y ago
Amazon rewards the thought train of: want to buy smart book, need device to read smart book on, buy iPad. Seems enlightened to me.
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by clinth 14y ago
As the article said, development ran long. Sony completely funded 33 months of a 10+ person team to make Journey. At $10-20 a copy, it would take a lot to break even.
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by clinth 14y ago
We use the open source version in our wing of the Broad Institute for our external web application (python based), and we're absolutely thrilled with it. We're a Atlassian/JIRA shop internally, and the JIRA plugin. It's not better than havi
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by clinth 14y ago
You're right! In this case though. the site is run by drivethrurpg / rpgnow, who have been at pdf selling for some time. This should have a decent chance of success.
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by clinth 14y ago
> there not enough jobs at That One Company That's Changing The World I met some Counsyl devs at PyCon last year, they were wonderful. We talked about meaningful work. There are so many companies and nonprofits trying to change the wo
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by clinth 14y ago
Just downloaded and gave it a minute. Mute doesn't work. Reproduce: start app, hit mute, start game, and this tremendous gong noise rings out when the round starts. Would uninstall right there. Also, on the Play Store, it's "Empire Of Sud
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by clinth 14y ago
Single data point: I've been on the fence for cancelling them, but I'm calling them to do so tomorrow.
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by clinth 14y ago
And shoot every indoor scene twice?
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by clinth 14y ago
The real cost is in manufacturing and maintenance. What is the cost of replacing every machine, every factory, every load tolerance specified in every standard? Every screw, every nut. Things that need to work, in place for decades, which w
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by clinth 14y ago
The four books are: The Macintosh Way (1989) Database 101 (1991) -- pdf does not include free disk inside, wow I'm old Computer Curmudgeon (1992) What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us (2012) http://www.yousendit.com/download/WUJZZUNndW
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by clinth 14y ago
The clearest example is from the LWN article you referenced. > "Once a developer assigns copyright, they are at the mercy of the assignee to enforce the copyright. In this particular case, one can speculate that the failure to pursue th
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by clinth 14y ago
I really enjoy Pelican. It's simple. For other devs: if you're familiar with Jinja, then you're 80% of the way there.
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by clinth 14y ago
Strange to see so many Windows 7 products listed. Free stuff makes news, and I would have guessed that they'd try to drive all news to Windows 8.
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by clinth 14y ago
I see that you're the author. Thanks for replying! > Sure, there's plenty of software development which doesn't involve fancy algorithms or data structures... avoiding computer architecture, operating systems, mathematics, networking, d
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by clinth 14y ago
> or you're lucky enough to be working within a narrow area where your deficit doesn't matter This implies that non-algorithmic work is a narrow area. In my experience, it's the vast majority.
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by clinth 14y ago
Yes, but all objects are not iterables. If you list1.extend(object1) as the cheat sheet describes and object1 has no __iter__, it won't work. Likewise, you can iterate strings, so understanding the target of the iterable will be frustrating
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by clinth 14y ago
Apologies, I based my comment on atop's README: For interactive use it is sufficient to install ATOP with the command (as root): make install I wouldn't have guessed the reference to root was optional! Thanks for the point
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by clinth 14y ago
Not in its documentation, but atop requires root. If you're on a VM somewhere, you might be happier with htop or glances.
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by clinth 14y ago
Tools like Bootstrap are a means to an end for a lot of people. It's enough to get theme there , and not be horrible — gets them back to focusing on their original problem. (Also: thanks for SexyMap, my wife and I loved it! On default sett
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by clinth 14y ago
Like you said, I don't think it has to do with the open-sourcing per se. The open sourcing is good news. I'm not a TextMate user, but from what I've seen, this is confirmation that the TextMate author isn't going to release TM2 even though
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by clinth 14y ago
Agreed. Github is popular even though git itself is obtuse.

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