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by jpetso 6y ago
Am I the only one who thinks "$100k-$150k guaranteed performance bonus" is a weird concept? I get how maybe "bonus" can count as "not salary" by being paid as lump sum. But "guaranteed" and "perf
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by jpetso 6y ago
There are Linux integrators who make plenty damn sure that suspend and other features work well. Instead of comparing against random mix-and-match scenarios, it would be fair to compare with products that are going for similar integration w
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by jpetso 6y ago
With a decent tech income for Canada (i.e. cheap for Bay Area standards), I can live well, achieve financial independence before 45 and work for a great company with inspiring coworkers. Could I speed this up by another 5-10 years by moving
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by jpetso 6y ago
I fear what will happen to DirectX-on-Linux if Oracle vs. Google goes in favor of Oracle.
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by jpetso 6y ago
Breaking internal APIs is also what Linux does. Nvidia and other out-of-tree modules must have a rather hard time with adapting their code to an ever-changing kernel. Sure there are people who argue for stable APIs. It works for Linux thoug
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by jpetso 6y ago
While Unitarian communities are awesome, they're still a niche thing. I don't see anything becoming nearly as dominant as the old Church used to be - not if we have our pick of ideologically diverse reading material, supportive su
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by jpetso 6y ago
We know that building a business is hard. There is no silver bullet that provides both the adoption rates of OSS and the monetizability of proprietary software. So you pick one, and live with the consequences.
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by jpetso 6y ago
It does, however, support the quoted statement that (actual level of recklessness notwithstanding) cities are safer than suburbs in regards to getting hit by cars.
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by jpetso 6y ago
They're saying it's okay to convince people with arguments about personal sacrifices, but if it's not hurting you directly and immediately then your argument annoys them and they don't want to hear about it.
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by jpetso 6y ago
For the record, I prefer SSH-via-kioslave over SSH-via-fuse. On my previous work Macbook, I'd bind it as "normal filesystem" and that worked great until I suspended my laptop or disconnected the VPN, at which point filesystem
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by jpetso 6y ago
I haven't checked whether Roman Gilg is still working for Valve, but he ended up forking KWin into KWinFT (plus supporting libs) with a heavy Wayland focus. He got frustrated by upstream KDE not merging his extensive refactorings on a
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by jpetso 6y ago
Being able to own a starter home outright within 3 years or so sounds pretty sweet to me. Many people need decades to pay off their mortgage.
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by jpetso 6y ago
The issue with "time limit" licenses is that it effectively centralizes contributions. As an independent developer, I won't want to write patches for a project that will have already advanced internally. Sure I can make a cha
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by jpetso 6y ago
It should be noted that Japan is not the only country that frequently disregards technical constraints, units of measurement and other cultural circumstances from outside one's own country or seaside metropolitan area.
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by jpetso 6y ago
Would you equate satisfying the (real or perceived) needs of individuals with social benefit? Are there situations where you could view the profit-generating satisfaction of one person's needs as a net negative to the sum of all indivi
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by jpetso 6y ago
To clarify, I wrote "factor OR three", by which I meant to emphasize my complete lack of certainty regarding the "best possible" performance you asked about. I'll only commit to my earlier statement about the defini
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by jpetso 6y ago
Hard to say, and I suck really bad at estimates. If I low-ball it at maybe 200-300, that's likely off by a factor or three. A possibly old but close enough page on chromium.org lists the following teams: Animations Team Bindi
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by jpetso 6y ago
I was part of the BlackBerry browser team in the days of BlackBerry losing the mobile market. We maxed out somewhere between 50 and 100 people working on the mobile browser, and that doesn't include business/marketing because it w
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by jpetso 6y ago
Funny that you should mention Signal as example for joining a federated service when they have actively and vocally moved away from federation. https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
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by jpetso 6y ago
Not from a Nordic country, but with some similar-minded tendencies. You understand that you enjoy living in a system that you can trust. You understand that being able to trust the system means that the system has to trust you. You value a
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by jpetso 7y ago
Yes, and this is discussed in the article too.
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by jpetso 7y ago
It's amazing what you can do with life if you don't care much about your reputation. I'm not in my middle 40s yet (still ~10 years off from that), but have a good stable job, feel respected, and still totally want to go for e
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by jpetso 7y ago
Except that working on stuff for FAANG doesn't necessarily make things better and instead just helps with monetization and/or lock-in. Is it really an improvement to cover more of the search results page in ads, centralize ever mo
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by jpetso 7y ago
There is, in fact, an excellent charity called Doctors Without Borders who are all about doctors giving their labour force for much less than society would generally value it for. They're not the majority of doctors, just like the majo
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by jpetso 7y ago
Here's an example: > After your free trial, Amazon Prime is just CDN$ 79.00/year (plus any applicable taxes). Cancel anytime. Quebec residents receive an initial 13-month membership for CDN$ 79.00, instead of a free trial.
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by jpetso 7y ago
Not to defend the wacky compensation vs. house prices ratio, but the SWE who earns less than C$100k in Vancouver is not the same SWE who's going to make US$350k+ just by moving to NYC or SF. Not by a long shot, or they've been exc
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by jpetso 7y ago
Not to mention that it often comes with a grippy coating that prevents the phone from sliding out of your hand. Oh, and not to mention the fact that everyone needs to put a plastic or rubber case on their metal or glass phone, so not only d
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by jpetso 7y ago
As long as enough people reproduce around the world, there is another generation to pass it on to. Someday in the future, there may be a time where not enough children are born. Right now though, the global population is still growing and w
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by jpetso 8y ago
If we only had a meta search engine for taxi rides that enabled you to get the quickest ride from any service! Somehow that's a thing in the airline sector but (for now) not in the on-demand ride business. Or at least not on the client
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by jpetso 8y ago
In a way, (A)GPL is the proprietary license of the community. Anything that's licensed under (A)GPL will compete with corporate interests, rather than be shared among competitors. When you have competition, you can pick a different mar

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