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by dozzie 10y ago
The problem is that you can't say this for sure in the USA. Java's owner, Oracle, demonstrated more than enough bad will regarding their language's users (Google with their Dalvik), and the legal system in US allowed them to
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by dozzie 10y ago
Hard to tell when Oracle decides otherwise. Google had something (Dalvik) that looked like a separate implementation of Java, but got hit with a copyright suit. I say for a long time that Java seems like a liability (though I don't say
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by dozzie 10y ago
Like what?
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by dozzie 10y ago
> as a software developer [...], the world simply does not work that way. Well, the world is not a software developer, so hard to argue what would be if it was. Or your grammar was off. > [being] a software developer who would gladly
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by dozzie 10y ago
It's really sad if you don't strive to excel at your craft. Though I understand that most of the craftsmen don't care about their work, they care about bringing home a good living.
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by dozzie 10y ago
If you write about fashion in programming, then sure, you have a lot of competition around. But if you write on a (a) technical, (b) advanced, and (c) rarely touched but important topic, then there is some space. And there still are such to
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by dozzie 10y ago
> If you’re talking to a recruiter, there’s probably 80% or better odds they’re relatively new to the field. Makes sense. When a recruiter contacts me, more often than not she has less work experience in total than me in a single comp
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by dozzie 10y ago
[dozzie@alojzy dozzie]$ uptime 02:29:42 up 53 days, 11:03, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.19, 0.18 [dozzie@wolfram dozzie]$ uptime 02:29:49 up 9 days, 14:20, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.24, 0.26 One is my desktop, th
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by dozzie 10y ago
He clearly didn't mean sysadmin's automation that is nowadays called "DevOps". He meant "system administration" gigs.
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by dozzie 10y ago
>> dependencies represent an acyclic graph > AFAICT that's not always true. And you are right. apt-get has "upgrade" and "dist-upgrade" commands for a long, long time for a reason (the latter allows to upgr
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by dozzie 10y ago
> My favorite is from Bill Gates: > “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” Nice. And then we have Windows that needs dozens of gigabytes disk space and can do nothing
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by dozzie 10y ago
SaaS that is open source makes sense when you provide something that would be difficult or troublesome to achieve with running the thing on-premise. Good network connection with high uptime is one such thing. Keeping the software updated, p
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by dozzie 10y ago
Unless Microsoft fucked up postinstall scripts, what programmers that build packages tend to do.
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by dozzie 10y ago
>> The strength of a defense based on the non-copyrightability of pornography rests on whether pornography promotes the progress of science and useful arts as prescribed by the Copyright Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Hollywood movi
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by dozzie 10y ago
And what was wrong with GNU date? $ date Fri Dec 16 11:12:17 CET 2016 $ date +%s 1481883140 $ date -d @1234567890 Sat Feb 14 00:31:30 CET 2009 $ date -d 'Sat Feb 14 00:31:30 UTC 2009' Sat Feb 14 01:31:30 CET 2009
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by dozzie 10y ago
One day, when the commenter gets a bit more seniority, he'll learn what we all had to learn at some point in our careers: you don't always have the possibility to run a stepping debugger (e.g. when serving network).
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by dozzie 10y ago
To clarify: I'm not against managing (downloading) dependencies. I just want two separate steps: [download things] and [compile things]. This separation allows to build the project off-line, which is not an uncommon scenario. There are
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by dozzie 10y ago
Actually, no, please don't. Build system should not download shit from the internets. Build system should only build .
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by dozzie 10y ago
But own business or consulting is nowhere near a response to that. That's why I think he/she may mean something else.
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by dozzie 10y ago
> [...] it will be another 5 to 7 years before I am truly proficient. Just in time to be obsolete. How do I combat this? Better networking? Starting my own business? Consulting? Judging from how you use it, I think that under the word &q
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by dozzie 10y ago
It's not "performance monitoring". It's "website performance monitoring". It's useless if one needs to monitor state of a network and servers and services.
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by dozzie 10y ago
> Keep the dialogue open between recruiters and developers. The problem is that recruiters are too dumb to (try to) understand the field they recruit for and too dumb to listen. The former results in meaningless buzzwords spaghetti in of
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by dozzie 10y ago
The problems are to a) get to the point when all your input is validated and b) stay there. It's easy to validate some data, it's horribly difficult to validate it all (or rather, it's horribly easy to forget something)
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by dozzie 10y ago
So it's basically as useless for general processing as Markdown, because you won't have a grammar from which you can generate parser, hence all the parsers will be handcoded with various quirks differing from one to another and no
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by dozzie 10y ago
It will be once he actually analyzes the protocol, because it would mean pulling it out from OpenVPN's source code, which is a really difficult task. I don't know how Green or his team is skilled in reverse engineering.
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by dozzie 10y ago
Honestly, `man awk' (or `man gawk') is good enough not to need anything else. I learned awk this way over a decade ago.
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by dozzie 10y ago
> TCP/IP is the network protocol that is best known for connecting the machines that make up the Internet. A factual error right in the first sentence is quite an achievement. TCP/IP is not a protocol , it's a set of pro
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by dozzie 10y ago
You're off by one there. Your "junior dev" should be "apprentice" or "student".
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by dozzie 10y ago
> Every single thing you're describing here is catastrophic and world-ending. I fail to see how replacing a Diesel engine that burns diesel oil inside its cylinders with a Stirling engine that burns dried guano in an external combus
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by dozzie 10y ago
> All of our food is produced and distributed using oil. Regarding distribution: - we had working short-distance transportation with no oil whatsoever for ages literally, and for mechanical transport, there are alternatives to burning

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