froztbyte

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by froztbyte 8y ago
in a freshly created venv, with attrs and ipython (and deps, of course): (attrs) % ipython Python 2.7.14 (default, Oct 19 2017, 23:28:49) Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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by froztbyte 9y ago
Really awesome to see how far this has come with the development since its original form! Nicely done!
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by froztbyte 9y ago
Very early on: * time tracking: a frankenstein combination of system logs (especially helpful when jumping between workstations), paper notebook, and chatlogs * invoicing: http://billable.me/ * both: some elbow grease Evolu
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by froztbyte 10y ago
Depends on many, many things. Most are fairly specific to the region in question (whichever it might be).
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by froztbyte 10y ago
Yeah... it's tough.. Still, I'm sticking around. There's potential to do good here.
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by froztbyte 10y ago
As a mini-followup: due to this kind of scenario, we ended up having to replace UPS battery packs in about 8 months (1/3 of their minimum intended lifecycle) due to how heavily they got load-rushed over the months. The load cycle liter
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by froztbyte 10y ago
Ah, no no. The expectations are not low. People are paying for a service, and they expect it to work. I once (another country, another ISP) dealt with a query/complaint of "it doesn't work!" which turned out to be due to
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by froztbyte 10y ago
By way of answering, let me recount a short story for you. It takes place during the very first time I visited Kampala (the capital of Uganda). It was about 3 years before I had started working in the ISP/telecom space in Africa. This
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by froztbyte 10y ago
Nothing exciting published, no. Blogging wasn't particularly big around this part of the world/specific-weird-subset-of-the-market for most of that time. Should I consider writing up some of them? Past aside, there are many things
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by froztbyte 10y ago
(all below is in an American/US context) Read about ILECs/CLECs. Understand what the cable offerings' contention model is. Do the math. Understand the support burdens of NAT-on-NAT. Run the numbers of RF contention, and share
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by froztbyte 10y ago
While I don't wish you ill will, I do wish to remark that you have had it remarkably easy with this. Source: 7 ISPs. In Africa. On unreliable power, broken fibre, people stealing your spectrum, etc.
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by froztbyte 10y ago
Will contact separately.
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by froztbyte 10y ago
Someone with an interest in the liveliness of open-source ecosystems. I didn't find enough relevant data out there, so I decided to get some.
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by froztbyte 10y ago
First to get some more responses. Later, if possible, I'll attempt to release the raw (albeit sanitised) data. At minimum I'll post a follow-up with some statistics/analyses.
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Open-source Funding and Support Questionnaire(docs.google.com)
84 points by froztbyte 10y ago|37 comments
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Extracting a stronger signal from your mailbox(blog.froztbyte.net)
1 points by froztbyte 10y ago|0 comments
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A minimal eventloop implementation in bash(github.com)
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by froztbyte 12y ago
"How unreliable is UDP? Let's test with these 5 network paths that I have no control over, and have no idea what their design constraints are...that should be totally authoritive, right?" Pretty bad test conditions on this, t