marssaxman

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   by marssaxman 11y ago

   Ah, ok, so it is all about the traditional, unintentionally ironic definition of "trusted", then.
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   by marssaxman 11y ago

   That's been my experience with big companies entirely, which is another reason I raise an eyebrow and silently call "bullshit" when I hear people earnestly going on about the importance of negotiation. How the hell are you go
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   by marssaxman 11y ago

   The word "trusted" with regard to firmware traditionally means "pwned by a hostile adversary"; did ARM just choose a bad name for their project or is this another bit of "you think it's your computer but you&#x
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   by marssaxman 11y ago

   > Do some workers and employers prefer a lower salary for more vacation days? sure. Just agree on that as part of a contract. I've tried. It's never happened. I feel very cynical when I see all the oh-so-earnest discussions abo
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   by marssaxman 11y ago

   That was not the best evidence I could find; it was the first evidence I could find, after about fifteen seconds' search. This kind of thing happens all the time. It is not hard to turn up the proof if one cares to look. You are movi
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   by marssaxman 11y ago

   It's already happened. Proof: http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/opinions/AppellateCourt/2012/1... But seriously. Stop relaxing so much. The situation has already become worse than you apparently believe poss
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   by marssaxman 11y ago

   I can understand the security argument if you're running a server, but I'm not, and what I care about is predictability: I want the apps that have been working to keep on working in exactly the same way until such a day as I decid
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   by marssaxman 11y ago

   Or, more simply, we could put each package in its own directory. Such application package directories could perhaps be marked with a distinctive type-extension, for example ".app".
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   by marssaxman 11y ago

   These are all admirable goals and line up very well with my priorities, but I'm not sure why one wouldn't simply use static linkage for everything. The notion of a single, versioned "runtime" for each app is a good one;
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    Certainly common in my experience. A coworker of mine just celebrated his 57th birthday. He's definitely better at this stuff than I am; experience counts. The youth bias in this industry has always been largely based on illusion.
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    I personally don't see why rating the service is any of my business. If the service sucks, I don't go back. If the owner of the establishment wants to know why their business is tanking, they can do the same thing anyone else woul
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    Works well in lots of places. Tipping is an obsolescent, faux-aristocratic relic of a social hierarchy I would strongly prefer to read about in history books and not to experience in daily life.
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    Thanks for your thoughtful dig into these commands. Perhaps my biggest point of confusion with git comes from that nebulous intermediate structure which sits between the real working directory and the real repository, which sort of acts lik
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    Oh wow. I have been anti-Tesla due to their creepy "we still own your car" auto-update craziness but that just takes it up another level. No, Tesla, I will not buy your cars, not now not ever, because you don't trust me and t
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    Very sorry to have rewritten my comment out from under you - I took a look at it, decided it was needlessly verbose, rewrote it, and promptly dropped into a subway tunnel... So my edit actually went through somewhat later. Now I wish I hadn
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    Commonly: pull, push, commit -a, reset --hard HEAD, checkout $FILE, status, log, show $HASH. Sometimes: commit --amend, rebase -i, add, rm, mv, stash [pop|apply]. Rarely: branch, revert. Git's documentation uses such a wide and flagran
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    A "push request" would just be a git-format-patch on the contributor's side and a git-am on the project maintainer's side. Github wouldn't have to create a separate repository - they'd just have to keep an inco
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    Thanks - I am unfamiliar with gitlab but will have to check it out.
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    My experience is that C99 has been universal outside the Microsoft world for years now - even for embedded programming. I can't remember the last time there was any trouble using it.
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    I have been using git for years and I still find its interface completely inscrutable. I have given up trying to learn it in a way that makes it make sense, and simply use a handful of everyday commands I've memorized by rote and look
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    I've never understood why all the fork/change/commit/push/pull-request fol-de-rol is necessary. Why can't we just pull, hack, and submit a "push request"? But I guess I've never understood why ev
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    Okay, I guess I see some value there. The problem is that my motivation is fundamentally political, and centralized services are basically autocracies. I suppose it's a good thing that people can emigrate more easily now, thereby forci
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    I see where you're coming from but I think you're being too harsh. I don't know Moxie personally, but he's been out there fighting the good fight since the '90s - I have a vague and possibly erroneous memory of havi
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    Self-driving cars only exist as research prototypes. They are as speculative as flying cars. Tesla is the only offender I know about when it comes to real cars that actually exist and have obnoxious over-the-air update systems, because norm
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    I was using Signal, too. One day it phoned home, got some new instructions from its creators, refused to work any longer, and demanded that I download an upgrade. I was not excited about this, since upgrades generally break things, but afte
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    It's precisely the fact that Moxie is so credible on this topic that makes his post so frustrating. I believe that he's telling the truth as he sees it, and I believe that he's as well-situated as anyone could be to pull off
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    That's one of the most depressing things I've read in a while. If this is actually true, the internet has failed.
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    Well, perhaps, but I'd rather just... not have a car that is a computer on wheels!
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    It's the loss of control that bugs me. When I buy a car I am not buying an ongoing relationship with the car's maker; I'm buying a physical object, which is then mine, and I'll choose when and how it will be serviced. Th
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    by marssaxman 11y ago

    Perhaps. I'll worry about such things after self-driving cars actually exist. Right now they are an engineer's fantasy, or a salesperson's exaggerated way of describing semi-automatic assistance features; who knows what the r