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by markphip 4y ago
I spent first 15 years of my career at an AS/400 ISV. It is a great system ... for certain things. I doubt you ordered a "bunch of AS/400's" that is not how it worked and the smallest systems still cost 6 figures. Y
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by markphip 4y ago
Yeah, that is how I accelerated my career ... was back in 2006 though. Still think this is a great path to follow though.
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by markphip 4y ago
Anyone could just push the repos to GitHub, including GitHub employees. Here are links to Amazon and Salesforce https://aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/ https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/codegen/
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by markphip 4y ago
FWIW, just as Amazon and SalesForce are already doing their version of CoPilot, there is nothing to prevent GitHub from training its models off open source that is hosted on sr.ht or GitLab or anywhere else. If it is open source then the so
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by markphip 4y ago
IANAL, but at this time, I do not see how any of the licenses have been violated. I guess we will learn more if someone steps up to challenge that. That seems to be the inflection point in your argument that makes it hard to discuss where y
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by markphip 4y ago
Other than the SCO Unix/Linux suit, I cannot recall OSS license discussions around a few lines of code. It usually seems to be about direct usage of OSS libraries or applications. That is why I cannot get too worked up about Copilot ye
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by markphip 4y ago
HN commenters cannot seem to decide if Copilot is not even worth $10 because what it can do is so basic and trivial or if it is somehow the "end of open source" because it can do so much. The latter reaction seems hyperbolic. I ha
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by markphip 4y ago
Is there even one $10M ARR business that has donated $500K even one time? Maybe I am just missing this as these companies do not get the attention of GitHub but I have been involved in open source for 20+ years now and I have little memory
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by markphip 4y ago
My guess is a blog post probably costs less than $500K to create so I guess that makes this a good deed.
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by markphip 4y ago
A $500K donation to the maintainers of the open source projects used by a company is significant. Full stop. There is no other hand. It is also not the only contributions they make. If all companies made decent sized donations to the open s
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by markphip 4y ago
You should add Gerrit to your list: https://www.gerritcodereview.com Gitweb does not belong, it is just a repository viewer.
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by markphip 5y ago
This has been around for a few years and was one of the first so I think it is actually fairly widely used. It was the one I adopted for our products and I have stuck with it. I see it used a lot elsewhere too. That said, it depends a bit w
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by markphip 5y ago
I did not mean to imply that I thought RISC-V was a challenger to x86 and ARM right now. Just that it is accessible to those that want it which can let them make sure software runs on it. Even that, I do not think is really true yet but it
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by markphip 5y ago
The most compelling argument for POWER was to make sure there is competition to amd64/x86 and we do not develop a monoculture. I think arm and risc-v have filled that hole nicely and taken over for POWER. Without readily available and
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by markphip 5y ago
I wouldn't say I am "okay with it" but definitely "tired of it". Myself and my family all have the boosters. As long as transmission is high and masks are recommended we will wear masks. Other than that though, my p
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by markphip 5y ago
I have been fully remote since 2007. I already live in a rural area so for me I was just grateful of the better work opportunities that remote has offered. The rest of this story will be about a friend and co-worker that I have managed. We
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by markphip 5y ago
Why do these pills even exist? Are there people that are able to tolerate fentanyl? It does not make sense for drug dealers to kill their customers so I have just never understood why these pills circulate if they are to lethal.
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by markphip 5y ago
I can only guess ... and my guess is that Apple likes this project and would like to see it succeed but to formally help it creates a situation that in the future could be problematic for them. Imagine their team that builds the MacBook wan
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by markphip 5y ago
These are pure guesses on my part, but I would guess that 99% of laptops that are sold each year are purchased with 16GB or less RAM and 99% of laptops that have been sold all time have never had their RAM upgraded. So I would also guess th
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by markphip 5y ago
They were big and heavy but not as bad as you would think. They could fit under your desk and were regularly just run out of a closet somewhere. Of course there were also gigantic ones but that was mostly due to the quantity of disk and tap
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by markphip 5y ago
You would be surprised. I worked for an AS/400 ISV and while the customers were all huge companies, the part of the company that ran an AS/400 was usually very small and had a lot of autonomy.
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by markphip 5y ago
I learned on the AS/400 and RPG. I still kind of prefer it to SQL for reading/writing from database. I also really liked CL as a scripting language and the object-orientation of the operating system. In the early 2000's I was
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by markphip 5y ago
It does not seem like she did it as a Board member, she did it because she felt like she was still an Active Maintainer of that project. It seems like the project feels like even if she is still a Maintainer she still was wrong to merge wit
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by markphip 5y ago
I did not really dive into the details of the legalese that was shared in the comments, but on the surface none of what the .NET Foundation doing seems that odd. How is it any different really from how Apache or Eclipse or many other founda
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by markphip 5y ago
I did not see any indication that she was asked to revert the PR. It seemed like it was more just about that she felt it was OK to bypass the policy.
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by markphip 5y ago
It seems like a sad story all around. All of the parts about how the PTO works seems pretty normal to me though. You definitely do not accrue any days in an Unlimited PTO system, that is the whole point of it. The company wants to clear the
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by markphip 5y ago
I had never heard of this so found the article interesting but it seems like this place is clearly real so I am a little confused why the article is written the way it is.
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by markphip 5y ago
You do not mention salary. Is the startup also paying more than your current position? I would put a lot of weight on the real money you are receiving now. Especially if you like your current team. I've had stock options pay out OK for
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by markphip 5y ago
This is great, I was pleasantly surprised to see the feedback here has all been positive as well.
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by markphip 5y ago
Same here, zero freezing and amazing performance. I use Safari though and have not even installed Chrome.

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