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by kakwa_ 8y ago
> I feel like there's a lot of untapped potential in GitHub's profile system I'm a bit sad they removed the "punch card" in the projects statistic. This was a great tool to see if a project was a side project fro
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Another example: https://github.com/jjyg/boobs https://github.com/jjyg
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Even with best intentions from both sides, acquisitions don't go well in a lot of cases. It's quite common to have the following scheme: 1) nothing significant happens for 1 to 2 years, the big company slowly integrates the smalle
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and https://launchpad.net/ (...sorry)
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I'm not sure it would be really useful. Github is more a service than a software, you need tons of components to make it work (Elastic Search, a DB, haproxy or nginx, a lot of ruby, a few C/C++ libraries, a few python libraries, e
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Running your own git server is far from impossible. But you have to take into account various items. 1) the cost of the server, you don't need a powerful one, a 5 or 10$ a month box is more than enough, but it constitute a barrier for
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Not only California. The same could be said for Saudi Arabia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrigation_in_Saudi_Arabia#/me... (and also in Libya IIRC)
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No, Google code was a failed attempt at a code hosting service from Google. They failed to make it attractive to other developers. I don't remember the name, but MS tried for a year or two to create another competing hosting platform i
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I would be as worried if it was AWS or Google. Github should remain a neutral ground in my opinion.
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Software and stealth: how carmakers hike spare parts prices(reuters.com)
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American Fuzzy Lop. http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ And no, it's not the rabbit ^^. It's an 'intelligent' (as opposed to purely random) fuzzer that is quite good at finding edge cases (it's a v
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> The dangers of pointers and explicit memory management are overrated Hummm, not my experience. The first time I ran AFL on one of my C library (parser/converter of EMF files, really easy to mess up), the result was quite frighten
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I'm on the other end of the spectrum, I have a bunch of low popularity projects on Github (Python, C, Puppet, a little bit of Perl). Low popularity meaning above 0 users, but users can be counted on your fingers. My motivation are ofte
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I don't care if MS is getting better lately. The fact it's getting better is obviously a positive thing, but will it stay that way in the future? no one knows. I like the fact Github is independent of all the big players. I really
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Not necessarily. Let say you are a large developing country and you want to bootstrap a domestic car industry. The first cars coming out will probably not be that great as you don't have the engineering knowledge or the experience buil
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
RIP 35mm Fujifilm Neopan. The 1600 was a great high ASA film.
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A similar thing happened in France in the 80ies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matei_Pavel_Haiducu A Romanian spy was reluctant to conduct an assassination of two dissidents living in France. So he contacted the french
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The likelihood of an employer firing people abusively is much greater than an employee being an asshole. It can indeed hinder start-ups a little because of uncertainty in any new ventures. But keep in mind that the vast majority of workers
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I don't think it's a French or German, or even European specificity. I've seen payments delay happens with French companies (one of my last jobs, we were blacklisted from buying servers from Dell directly, the company was a b
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36K was my starting salary to when I started working about 8 years ago. In the Paris area it's a standard salary for a junior developer fresh out of engineering school. It can be higher if you are coming from a top school like Centrale
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nope. 30k a year is the salary of a junior developer after employee taxes, and it's the low end of the spectrum. A company will at least pay 50 to 60k euros per year in total for a junior developer.
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> we're talking each month you pay total twice and a half as much as the employee sees BEFORE TAX. I'm in Paris and here how my salaries break down: Currently I'm at ~50K a year "Brut" (before taxes on the employ
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CIR is a huge joke, it doesn't help small companies that much. Big companies are far better at collecting it than start-ups. On paper, CIR is for research and development efforts, basically it's for efforts that improve the state
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Npr.org and GDPR interesting user options(choice.npr.org)
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I was hoping for a lot more to. I was hoping for a global union with a broader scope. This union could defend workers in areas of the industry where abused are public knowledge, like the video game industry or workers sold like meat by IT s
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
I'm wondering, how do you handle failovers? Is it automatic or manual? On infrastructure I handled from top to bottom, I used VIPs with keepalived (only the vrrp part, with a weight linked to success/failure of a check script). Bu
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It's less powerful, but personally, I've replaced my Intel NUC case with one of these Akasa fanless chassis: http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?tpl=product/product.list.... The thing is not perfect, the case
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
At my college, we had a bar with a custom account management system (it managed the credit of each students). The thing was all text/ncurses. The terminal was an under-clocked PII, with all the fans removed and connected to the server
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
> The attack requires privileges access to your computer or your mail server in order to modify your existing messages True, if your computer is hacked, you are f d (as always may I add). But, the point of PGP and S/MIME is to pr
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Docker is a bad solution to a real problem: Software engineering is still immature and we are not capable of maintaining stable interfaces/API. As a consequence, it's a nightmare to update a system without some kind of regressions

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