personsunknown

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   by personsunknown 10y ago

   I can tell you my experience as to why Linux won out in production. Many years ago when I was doing enterprise systems administration, we were using both Linux and BSD equally in the beginning. But what eventually gave Linux the edge was ha
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   by personsunknown 10y ago

   Ubuntu contributes very little to Debian.
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   by personsunknown 10y ago

   Fine cooking is a combination of simple things. You meld together a sequence of simple tasks that result in a complex recipe, but we still do the basics of cooking that our "caveman" ancestors did. When the simple things become un
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   by personsunknown 10y ago

   "I'm arguing that I've worked at far too many companies that went bust, because their business model was broken, in order to fund my own hacker activities outside of that." Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems you
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   by personsunknown 10y ago

   Exactly. hipster != hacker
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   by personsunknown 10y ago

   That's a cop out. The scene "sustained" itself just fine. Now people working at Facebook call themselves "hackers". It was as much about a philosophy as it was about technology. When the industry moves on to the nex