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by mgbmtl 10y ago
Well, same here, after all I'm on HN during the weekend (half-working, planning a conf, while supervising my kid & friend).. There are all sorts of people, but if we're going to generalize, I think the general expectation shou
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
I know very few people who actually put in lots of hours and who do productive work. It's just that at first, you have to put in more time to find what you're good at. In many non-US cultures, overwork is a symptom of bad time man
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
I don't mean to be pedantic, but Gitlab helps to host your own private git repos, which fits the title of the article. The article goes further, giving an example of how you can do some bare metal git hosting on a lightweight VM. It&#x
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
Still though, Cyrillic was imposed on Kazakhstan and was adopted fairly recently, it's not the same in Bulgaria. Fully agree on the rest though. And nice blog! И аз съм живял в България за няколко години. :)
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
In big cities, I think that between higher fuel efficiency and the small margins that stations make, it's not surprising to see the smaller stations close. (Anecdotally, in my neighbourhood, a few stations closed, our tiny neighbourhoo
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
til: terminix (gnome terminal emulator with tiling). Pretty neat. Interesting compromise for those (like me) who might like some features of a tiling window-manager, but prefer Gnome. Oh, and other really neat feature: "terminix --quak
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
On one large free software project, we adopted Mattermost (an open source / self-hosted equivalent of Slack). We went from ~12 active users and ~50 lesser active users, to ~ 100 active and ~ 500 lesser active users. I agree that more f
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
Trivial example: Debian vs Ubuntu, when Ubuntu used upstart. Now I don't need to worry about process management anymore and can provide better Ubuntu support. Although I'm speaking with my sysadmin hat (I have a few hats). I have
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
> "I don't think anyone has ever dropped a distro because it wasn't using systemd" That's an odd assumption. I have. I'm a big fan of standardisation. I understand some people not liking systemd, but there a
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
It didn't work out for OpenBSD. I wouldn't generalize so quickly. Mentoring students does take work, some do try and game the system. That happens no matter if GSoC or not. With GSoC, you basically have a form of financial support
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
> Nothing about sexuality, nothing about feminism, or equality, [...] From the DCOC: "The Drupal community and its members treat one another with respect." > When it comes to Drupal, the only gender problem it has is the peo
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
The Techcrunch article has a broken link to Dries' blog post: http://buytaert.net/living-our-values The Techcrunch article focuses too much on BDSM in general. If I understand correctly, the problem here is on the spec
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
Interesting point about ActiveX, but I think that Flash killed (or stopped the proliferation) of ActiveX, at least for video. Flash "just worked". Don't get me wrong, I use Firefox and I don't use Netflix or Flash, but m
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
I rarely defend customs agents. I'm sure they could flag me just by looking at my public twitter posts, which use my real name. I have already decided to avoid the US anyway. However, Canada can be just as bad. Bottom line: know the la
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
Agreed, I was being bitter/sarcastic. I meant to say that they incorrectly profiled the other person who was stopped.
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
As someone from Canada, that guy was being a total dick, very aggressive, mansplaining the agent, which isn't surprising that it would trigger the customs agent. He would have had the same response from an agent at the border in Canada
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
I cancelled my participation in a free software conference this year, but I doubt it will be much noticed except by the core team (I help with internationalization). I also didn't make too much noise about it, not to harm the event&#x2
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
Said rules are not applied systematically, and there is clear bias in how they are applied.
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
Yep, it was pretty decent. It did IMAP, I could read/write messages, attach files and it didn't crash. The UI was fine. (I used a Firefox OS phone as my only mobile device for 2 years)
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
I think most cloud providers go beyond that. For example, creating/restoring snapshots with a UI, monitoring/automation tools, large scale DB services, etc. I rent dedicated servers from a large-scale provider. They're really
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
That's a lot of people to move and things to rebuild. Op did say "the current round of civilization". I also agree that lots of things changing at once are likely to create instability, with negative economic and social impac
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
http://voip.ms is pretty decent and offers a few nice features that can avoid building an on-site PBX. I use this with good Polycom "HD voice" devices. I'm also rather picky about voice quality.
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
I don't see why. It's good advice no matter what, for current or future employees. Not to mention the author's background..
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
The twitter accounts are presumably run by people who are employed by agencies funded by the US government. They could lose their jobs or have funding problems because of this. I think a more fair comparison would be to when scientists were
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
sorry yes, I meant the CBSA :)
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
Anecdotal, but: I suspect that the CBP have very specific criteria that can flag specific situations. I know someone who would systematically get arrested/interrogated by plain clothes officers if she was returning back to Canada alone
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
"today neither NTP nor NTPsec shares code or patches with the other" So I guess it's not the "reference implementation".
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
I recommend OVH.com. They provide bare metal servers in a semi-automated way and have locations in US, Canada and France. For the type of application that I run, where our demand is not very elastic, I find it very cost-effective and more f
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
I would agree if we were talking about center-right or center-left politicians, where the biggest criticism is "being too much like the previous person". Trump, for example, lost the popular vote and seems to anger many of the peo
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by mgbmtl 10y ago
I strongly recommend watching the documentary "Hypernormalisation" by Adam Curtis ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation ). The main focus of the documentary compares the styles of Trump and Vladimi

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