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by pauldix 8y ago
I thought this was a super interesting read. Despite the year, so many of the problems are the exact same. This project was massively late. Development went on for five years and they always thought they were a year or less away from shippi
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Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (1989) [pdf](antitrust.slated.org)
235 points by pauldix 8y ago|84 comments
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by pauldix 8y ago
Agree, I thought I knew everything about the story, but the book had even more in it. Well written and highly entertaining. I couldn't put it down.
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by pauldix 8y ago
I'm biased since I'm married to the author, but I highly recommend "Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking". Rachel (the author) does on the ground reporting in 12 countries interviewing poachers, traffic
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by pauldix 8y ago
Heh, the Star Trek thing might have been a bit of an overreach based on people's reactions, but let me see if I can restate the point I was trying to make with that little bit. Licenses like MIT give the most possible freedom, particul
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by pauldix 8y ago
Ah, good catch on the typo. I meant the opposite of that, but so many edits messed it up. I get the idea that copyleft gives people the freedom to see the code and modify, but the limitations it imposes for using that code in derivative wor
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by pauldix 8y ago
Yeah, I'd be interested in an analysis of open source projects that are copyleft licensed and successful with the "what if" question posed about if they were MIT or similar. I'm definitely not the person to put forward a
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Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, but they are a dead end(influxdata.com)
45 points by pauldix 8y ago|60 comments
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by pauldix 8y ago
Of course, but those opportunities within those companies are few and far between comparatively. Engineers that get to work on OSS full time probably represent less than a fraction of a percent of their engineering workforce. I think Wes wa
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by pauldix 8y ago
I totally understand this move, but I would rather find a way to subsidize open source development that at least comes close to being able to pay FANG level salaries. It sucks to put a decision in front of someone that they can work on open
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by pauldix 8y ago
We've been expecting this for two years. It was just a matter of when. It validates our space. AWS did this to Elastic, they have competing products with NewRelic, Splunk, SumoLogic, and countless others. All of whom still have healthy
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by pauldix 8y ago
For Rust I've seen people reference Rust Koans ( https://github.com/crazymykl/rust-koans ), but I haven't looked at that myself. I wanted a project that was sizeable enough to force me to use a good number of l
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by pauldix 8y ago
Yeah, if I was still doing primarily web applications, particularly version 1 apps where you don't know what the final product will actually be, I would probably still be using Rails for that. It's just insanely fast for creating
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Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also very exciting(influxdata.com)
287 points by pauldix 8y ago|274 comments
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by pauldix 8y ago
I don't think this really changes anything with MongoDB and how open or closed it is in practice. This really is just MongoDB clarifying their original intent with picking the AGPL. Basically, if you're going to offer MongoDB as a
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by pauldix 8y ago
Agree, Bloomberg was a tech company long before it was a media company. And Bloomberg himself would probably be in the top five of the richest list if he ever took it public (he owns 88% of the company).
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Assessing software engineering candidates(dtrace.org)
6 points by pauldix 8y ago|0 comments
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by pauldix 8y ago
Article says that it's for potential acquisitions. I'm not a banker, but I assume they don't make loans for those kinds of operations. Also, they charge interest. Ultimately, it's a question of what the most effective (c
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by pauldix 8y ago
They passed $100M in revenue. Assuming their growth and other numbers are good, this isn't crazy at all. The only thing that is different is that this was a private funding rather than an IPO. Used to be that companies would go public
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by pauldix 8y ago
I still don't see how they were obfuscating anything. They stated very clearly that those parts of code had restrictions and the purpose of those restrictions were to enable them to profit from providing them as part of their offering.
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by pauldix 8y ago
If it was really about the confusion, people would stop taking them to the wood shed after they cleared things up. But that's not what's happening. People are still railing about this and talking about the "bait and switch&qu
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by pauldix 8y ago
I updated the language in the post for clarity. However, I wasn't confused by the Redis post and I didn't for a second think this was an official Apache Foundation thing. I seriously doubt that others thought that either. I suspec
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by pauldix 8y ago
Post author here. I'm surprised at the number of comments in this thread that say it's about the messaging or the Commons Clause license. They've cleared up the confusion about what is still BSD (almost all of it) and that it
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by pauldix 8y ago
Of course Redis is doing just fine. But that depends on continued development (investment) and continued community involvement. To me it looked like the villagers have been gathering with pitchforks and torches for the last 24 hours and I t
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by pauldix 8y ago
The vast majority of InfluxDB users are using open source exclusively. There are millions of servers all over the world running open source software built by InfluxData. When I say we're building for our community, I mean exactly that.
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by pauldix 8y ago
Creator & CTO of InfluxDB here. I won't respond too much in this write-up specifically but felt I had to respond to the requests for me to comment. For the benchmarks, I haven't looked at their fork of our original code and w
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by pauldix 8y ago
On some level, readability is a subjective thing. So is expressiveness and general feel for a language. It's about aesthetics and reasonable people can disagree about language and API design choices. We're making our choices and w
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by pauldix 8y ago
fluxlang is what people should be searching for and we'll continue to point that out in future blog posts, documentation, #fluxlang on Twitter and SO and everywhere else. People got there with Go, so I assume people will get there with
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by pauldix 8y ago
Author here, I just noticed that this got picked up so I'm late to the party. I suppose I'll take the bait and aim to clarify one thing that I think is funny people are getting hung up on. My line: "I don’t want to live in a
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Why We’re Building Flux, a New Data Scripting and Query Language(influxdata.com)
91 points by pauldix 8y ago|113 comments

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