matt__rose

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by matt__rose 13y ago
Best Comment? Brendan's house and my nightclub thank us for selling out early and often.
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by matt__rose 13y ago
Actually, most contemporary hipster build systems are bad reimplementations of make. Yes, make is a PITA, but every other build system is worse.
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by matt__rose 13y ago
Not quite. The UNIX wars were basically "Hardware" wars. Basically, you bought your workstation from Sun, or HP, or SGI, or IBM or whoever, and you got the version of UNIX that was shipped for that hardware. You could compile y
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by matt__rose 13y ago
This study was big news here in Ottawa, as it was Nortel's R&D HQ. The demise of Nortel decimated tech employment here.
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by matt__rose 13y ago
Let me guess, they were under the couch cushions, with some Lego pieces and stale Cheetos.
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by matt__rose 13y ago
the kid's dad was right. I've done construction, drywalling, welding, and even retail. It is HARD. Your whole body aches at the end of every day, you become prematurely aged with injuries to your knees, and your back, and your
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by matt__rose 13y ago
rpm, dpkg, windows MSI file, .App folder on Mac. These will all work with any language that you want, plus, you get the added benefit of standardized placement and having the USERS of each platform know what to expect when they install wha
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by matt__rose 13y ago
$30mil in VC money and nothing to show for it, but we're not in a bubble...
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by matt__rose 13y ago
You're not doing anything that needs root access. Why would you need to ever type sudo??
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by matt__rose 13y ago
This is actually a list of obscure (20 years of Linux use here, and I haven't heard of most of them) command-line utilities. Definitely going to explore calcurse
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by matt__rose 13y ago
with the X bug, building X has always triggered tons of warnings, it's easy to see why they're overlooked http://keithp.com/blogs/xserver-warnings/
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by matt__rose 13y ago
yes, well, mostly. python has subprocess.Popen which is an awesome way to call out shell cmds, but I do most of my SA work in ruby. I just find it more pleasant to write.
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by matt__rose 13y ago
His fibonacci example in ruby is, well... I've never seen a ternary operation in ruby.
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by matt__rose 13y ago
Some of us remember learning to program before SO existed. Hell, when I started to learn to program the WWW was still pretty new, and still looked on as something of a fad. You had to read books, and man pages to figure anything out.
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by matt__rose 13y ago
Really. You develop on the equivalent of a VT100 terminal? You don't use a web browser, or Xwindows, just a tty? Are you sure about that?
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by matt__rose 13y ago
Interestingly, I worked there when there were 4 engineers. They had most of the product worked out back then. The Pandora website the last time I checked is not terribly functionally different from the internal Savage Beast website from 2
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by matt__rose 13y ago
I remember working at an Optical Networking startup in Ottawa, where my boss, in particular, was extremely passionate, and believed deeply in the company, and consequently worked weekends and 18 - 20 hour days regularly. The company never
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by matt__rose 13y ago
They still provide all the sources, as well as easy means to build them ( a source rpm ). This is far more than what the GPL requires them to do. What they don't distribute is the srpm with all of the patches neatly broken out by bug
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by matt__rose 13y ago
Mostly it's a matter of picking your poison. dpkg allows some things that RPM doesn't, and vice-versa. dpkg does have some nice features (well, features I can't remember, except for I went "Ooo, I want rpm to have that
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by matt__rose 13y ago
That is the exact same argument that KK was making in that Wired piece. Quote: How many times in the history of mankind have we wired the planet to create a single marketplace? How often have entirely new channels of commerce been cre
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by matt__rose 13y ago
Oddly enough, that's exactly what people were saying last time there was a tech bubble. "This isn't a bubble, it's a paradigm shift!" See http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.09/zero
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by matt__rose 13y ago
In 1995 lots of people cared, Me, for one. And it was nice when companies like SGI and Sun put real care and thought into the design of their workstations. I could never afford one for myself, but I ooh-ed and aah-ed whenever I got to wor
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by matt__rose 13y ago
Gee, you mean like RPM, or deb files? Why people keep reinventing these tools, but much worse, I have no idea.
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by matt__rose 13y ago
A friend had a ball cap from pittsburgh university that said "Pitt" This was very funny to my swedish friends
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by matt__rose 13y ago
Umm, this has been happening since the 60s. They called it "Going back to the land" Anyone interested should look up The Farm in Tennessee
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by matt__rose 13y ago
the guy who owns acme.com has similar problems
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by matt__rose 13y ago
OpenSSH 4.3 is likely the most popular because it is the version that comes with (redhat|centos|scientific|oracle) linux 5. It's still widely in use. 4.3 had a lot of bugs, but redhat has been backporting fixes to it since it came ou
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by matt__rose 13y ago
This is funny HN headline: google is changing its logo Source Headline: Is google changing its logo? Source conclusion: No, google is not changing its logo.
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by matt__rose 13y ago
umm, iptables is a part of the kernel, and is exactly the same, regardless of distribution. I've used a bunch of different distros and iptables is always the same. What is this guy talking about??
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by matt__rose 13y ago
RIM tried the same thing with the Playbook... We all know how well that worked

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