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   by ijobs-ly 14y ago

   It's actually quite the opposite. Scouring the internet is what you have to do to find Windows software. With UNIX-like systems the software is more organised and more often than not packaged for you in respositories. There is no need for
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   by ijobs-ly 14y ago

   Well said. Developers are severly exploited. Even the ones who become millionaires. Hello VC. The way out of this situation is quite simple but not obvious to many. And of those who recognise it, they get it wrong. I'm talking about plat
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   by ijobs-ly 14y ago

   What is the purpose of JSON? Does it have to do with efficiency? Because if so, now we find ourselves discussing the resource requirements just to scan/tokenise and parse it to get it back into a human readable form. Why did we translate i
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   by ijobs-ly 14y ago

   In my biased opinion, once you have gotten over the learning curve, nothing beats daemontools for running services. It is a fantastic set of tools. Why some OS doesn't just embrace djbware I'll never understand. It compiles, smoothly, in
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   by ijobs-ly 14y ago

   "What I hate about those working at Facebook"
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   by ijobs-ly 14y ago

   Interesting comments. Like in so many other instances where an article criticises, explicitly or implicitly, the way some nerds make money, the reaction is to downplay it. There's nothing really shocking here. As Cringley pointed out in