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by hitekker 11mo ago
Definitely true. Wikipedia has sensitivities reflecting their most dedicated (& extremely online) administrators. Alert & keen for some topics while inert & hostile to others. I use their bias sometimes for detection. For exampl
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by hitekker 11mo ago
I was looking for a credible source, which you have not supplied. The threads you've waved at do not show Tim to be the "racist, sexist or creep" that you've insinuated. Rather, they show a committee that can't hand
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by hitekker 11mo ago
If Tim Peters has a "history of being shitty", I'd expect Wikipedia to mention it. But his article is clean, if not golden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Peters_(software_engineer) . The only thing I&#
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by hitekker 11mo ago
"Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, the developer of Palworld, alleging patent infringement related to game mechanics similar to those in Pokémon games." Sony should have been mentioned in this description. Last I he
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by hitekker 1y ago
From my skim, I didn't see anything mean spirited. So far as I've seen, Graydon is not a zealot and he doesn't play political games. It was a shame to lose his guiding hand
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by hitekker 1y ago
Apparently, the two resignees refused to talk to the CEO of Framework despite the CEO offering his time https://pan.rent/@jcape@hachyderm.io/115486043718543717 Too bad. I think the offer to talk is a respectful move. T
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by hitekker 1y ago
Yes, he was free to express his bigotry once he stepped down. Before that, Patrick was the leader and he hated non-memory-safe languages. He was not the only one, and that hate got worse after he left. It's nice you got tacos with Zig&
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by hitekker 1y ago
I used the "lets jump on a quick call" tactic once at work. Other party rejected it; they said they've made their position clear and didn't need to say anything more. I was impressed. They actually did make their positio
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by hitekker 1y ago
A bit of a tilted take. Zig's BDFL was an early major supporter of Rust. It was Rust's core maintainer group who excluded him and warred against his language. The leaders decided any "memory unsafe" language was against
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by hitekker 1y ago
If you haven't, go read "The Singapore Story" https://annas-archive.org/md5/6578558e0416e264a39da0448003ec... If you're bored, skip to the Japanese invasion Chapter and then read on. Many unique thi
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by hitekker 1y ago
Kostya fanned the flames https://codecs.multimedia.cx/2011/10/why-ffmpeg-is-better-th... As for "his" ownership, I think LibAV was a failure each team member should own and comes to terms with. That&#x2
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by hitekker 1y ago
> This bug is subject to a 90-day disclosure deadline. If a fix for this issue is made available to users before the end of the 90-day deadline, this bug report will become public 30 days after the fix was made available. Otherwise, this
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by hitekker 1y ago
I'm not sure if Kostya's account is truthful. He has a huge axe to grind against ffmpeg https://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html IIRC, his "LibAV" fork was malicious and his people
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by hitekker 1y ago
Here's a better summary: ffmpeg is getting DDOS'd by AI generated security CVEs. Those CVEs currently have zero real-world impact; the "researchers" didn't even bother to write a patch/fix for their reports. My
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by hitekker 1y ago
Nah, it's entitlement to expect maintainers to overwork and fix every single "security" issue thrown their way. ffmpeg has just a few resources and Google has way, way more. The maintainers are not your servants nor are they
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by hitekker 1y ago
Skimming through, this document feels thorough and transparent. Clearly, a hard lesson learned. The footnotes, in particular, caught my eye https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/397#_external_referenc... > Why does
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by hitekker 1y ago
Related, from https://prachititg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/the-everyt... > At a management offsite in the late 1990s, a team of well-intentioned junior executives stood up before the company’s to
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by hitekker 1y ago
How has Thomas Kurian performed as CEO? Seems like he hasn’t done too bad of a job.
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by hitekker 1y ago
The rest of the Spotify podcast covers Jessica's side, but I think you've missed the subtext. I'll summarize: TripleByte guy describes how companies prioritized diversity over merit in their hiring goals; quotas in layman&#x2
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by hitekker 1y ago
Yeah, that's a red flag they didn't address. Other people raised a similar concern in /r/ruby but Joel called them an asshole & then edited his comment to hide the insult.
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by hitekker 1y ago
This is a conditional surrender. Andre Arko & friends maintain their claim on the moral high ground while offering RubyCentral everything else the company wanted all along. Andre's new condition is to have a "legal agreement&q
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by hitekker 1y ago
YC's Jessica Livingston and the founder of TripleByte observed the similar racial and sex quotas from the inside: https://x.com/jesslivingston/status/1884652626467303560 IBM's CEO infamously championed D
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by hitekker 1y ago
Generally, they don't. Zealotry is not specific to Rust, but you've reminded me of some moments in the 2020's edition of Programming Language Holy Wars™. Like, one zealot stabbing at another HN commenter saying "Biased p
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by hitekker 1y ago
Didn't that bug get fixed before it went public?
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by hitekker 1y ago
Thanks for writing this. Joel Drapper is fibbing & playing memory games in a weird attempt to exert ownership over the community. It’s good to hear someone credible set the record straight.
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by hitekker 1y ago
João, you're going to have to work a lot harder than this to cancel Matz.
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by hitekker 1y ago
I agree with busterarm's take. Andre Arko's story omits specific concerns like ssh'ing into Rubygems in Japan 9 days after the debacle. Further, his narrative excludes his termination email and instead focuses on generic plat
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by hitekker 1y ago
Glauber, your memory is off. That line of attack was not in your blogpost; it's in your now-deleted manifesto, the README.md of libsql[1]. It was a strong statement of intent, praising the software and campaigning against the maintaine
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by hitekker 1y ago
One ugly thing I remember was the insinuation that SQLite was somehow immoral. Glauber Costa attacked SQLite[1] with lines like: > We take our code of conduct seriously, and unlike SQLite, we do not substitute it with an unclear alternat
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by hitekker 1y ago
You should try doing the work first instead of demanding others to teach you.

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