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by rantanplan 9y ago
> generally a better starting point than "well here is the source" Definitely not when it comes to security. We are talking about packages , which means even legit, well-intended programs can be weaponized by the packager .
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by rantanplan 9y ago
I'm talking with more than 20 years of experience being close to people who follow these treatments. One has to wonder why would we not choose a treatment(3-12 months, depending on the person/situation) since it can demonstrably h
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by rantanplan 9y ago
I briefly considered Arch, a few years back that I was having a relationship crisis with my Fedora. Unfortunately it was a no-go for me for the following reasons, but the situation may have been improved since then: 1) Back then it was only
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by rantanplan 9y ago
No one is judging no one. And you should keep supporting them any way you can. But I am just stating facts. > at some point methadone might get de-prioritised But that is wishful thinking, not reality. Open-ended programs do not work. Pe
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by rantanplan 9y ago
> they have the rest of their lives to figure out when they can stop. The answer is: never. Only if they get into a program that guarantees they will be detoxified in 6 months(or so). This is rare unfortunately because it needs the addic
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by rantanplan 9y ago
I use Roku in Greece and it's been a pretty good experience. It's not Roku that makes you jump through all those hoops for spotify, but spotify itself. https://support.spotify.com/us/listen_everywhere/on_
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by rantanplan 9y ago
> I don't know if Roku supports that It does through Plex
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by rantanplan 9y ago
Just RHEL. The biggest(or 2nd biggest) contributor to the Linux kernel.
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by rantanplan 9y ago
Hate to be that guy and I know it's just for fun, but that is not a one-liner. Not at a 135-characters length :) And I'm not even accounting for the 1-char useless var/func names. EDIT: To clarify, I don't think that the
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by rantanplan 9y ago
RHEL makes up maybe 99.9% of the Linux enterprise installations these days, so we can't overstate RedHat's influence.
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by rantanplan 9y ago
> I wish he would stick to what he's good at Thankfully he didn't follow your advice, hence he revolutionized every domain he touched. You really should read more about his contributions to various disciplines.
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by rantanplan 9y ago
Been using KDE on Fedora for almost 8 years now. It's been mostly a smooth experience. Personally I would recommend it to any KDE fan.
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by rantanplan 9y ago
In an era where hot air and hip DB technologies prevail, I'd like to emphasize the fact that the CockroachDB engineers are consistently honest and down to earth, in all relevant HN posts. This builds up my confidence in their tech, so
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by rantanplan 9y ago
This can be alleviated by meeting once a week(if all members are in the same area) or once per couple of months(for more distributed teams). I would be very wary of companies that can't perform because physical attendance is mandatory
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by rantanplan 9y ago
A million times this. So basically they conned people into a walled garden without providing any of the benefits they explicitly(or implicitly) promised. As long as they get 30% of fart apps, who cares, right?
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by rantanplan 9y ago
apt-get install is not a business model. Is a way to package and distribute software in general.
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by rantanplan 9y ago
Yeah, I probably misinterpreted what point you were trying to make.
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by rantanplan 9y ago
Revived as in what? Make people believe that 1 million of fart apps is worth paying for? How much value do you put on apps that superimpose dog ears on people in real time video/camera? How many apps have you downloaded and how many ar
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by rantanplan 9y ago
Think vast codebases that were created by many programmers that weren't you :D
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by rantanplan 9y ago
I use Fedora as my primary development OS in my various machines for ~8 years. Previously I was on various SuSE versions and even farther back I was on Slack. Around 2011-2013, I used on my work(office) machines Ubuntu while I continued to
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by rantanplan 9y ago
Only CentOS/RHEL, but it's probably not for you if you'd like a distro with cutting edge software packages. On the other hand, although I understand your need, keeping the /home in a different partition and just installi
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by rantanplan 9y ago
Install the free and non-free rpmfusion repos https://rpmfusion.org/
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by rantanplan 9y ago
> if you're looking for a "just works" desktop experience. Pretty much every popular distro has this experience nowadays. Fedora(as a sibling poster mentioned) is indeed one of them and may I add, at least, twice as stable
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by rantanplan 9y ago
Yes I like it too, but think farther ahead. Why is Ubuntu the defacto supported Linux distro? Why is,quite often, steam so difficult to install, while it's a breeze to install on Ubuntu? You can't expect people to consider you as
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by rantanplan 9y ago
As an experiment I have OpenSUSE leap on my workstation(while Fedora on my laptop). I can't say bad things about it, except that it's quite often that you can't find packages for various applications. A random example would b
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by rantanplan 9y ago
A Fedora "leap" release, same as with OpenSUSE Leap, with a 3 year support cycle would be the ultimate system for me. I've been using Fedora for the last 7-8 years, but I have to upgrade every 13-14 months or so. And CentOS i
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by rantanplan 10y ago
It's not a false equivalency. Books have been written about it and describe how you defeat REST by doing what you describe. When you encapsulate most of your operations under POST you basically create your arbitrary protocol. No assump
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by rantanplan 10y ago
You're just supporting my argument and weakening REST's case. I can do you one better. If you managed to reduce everything down to GET and POST here's an idea; just use POST for everything. Boom. You just re-invented SOAP.
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by rantanplan 10y ago
> use-cases far beyond what their designers intended OK, I get what you're saying. Problem is that as far as I can see REST is perfect for S3-like services, Maps(?) and slightly more than basic CRUD applications. You are bound to
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by rantanplan 10y ago
Your comparisons are not that relevant. Also comparing it to a "protocol" is the overstatement of the decade. How many browsers do you have? 3-5? How many REST client libraries are there? Answer: one per service(per programming la

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