rodgerd

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by rodgerd 5y ago
> I don't understand this take at all, it's effectively saying that your pay should be driven by your needs as opposed to the value you create. Yes? Do you imagine a skilled programmer living in India gets paid the same for the
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> To me, the downside of remote coworkers is we've already seen a dynamic at many companies that start with "we'll allow remote workers" straight to "if we allow any in-person collaboration, then remote workers w
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Without telling malicious actors how to break your systems further.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Instead we've got economists agitating for taxing at-home workers to punish them for undercutting the expected profits of the owners of CBD property empires.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
There were a number of big public policy successes in the 70s/80s/90s around smoking, lead pollution, and ozone destruction. And having seen that, megacorps have been refining their playbooks to make sure that it never, ever happe
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> But, is it just me or has it become rarer for open source project maintainers to feel free to let projects go? Social media - and GitHub is definitely a social media tool - gives people an easy way to shout at you whenever they're
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by rodgerd 5y ago
To double-down on that, rms noted that he doesn't think that developers "should be able to eat sushi every day". Which is both pretty rich coming from a guy who lived for free at a university while enjoying a million dollar g
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by rodgerd 5y ago
The purpose of AGPL is to have a bunch of people harass you about you daring to have the temerity of not letting them run their business on your code for free.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> the mob Ah yes, such a winning way of referring to people who like a different text editor to you. Way to up the quality of discourse.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
At the time, Sun were pushing it heavily as one of the two salvations for Solaris, so I'm not surprised. I have to say that my limited experience in dealing with Sun as a customer mirrors Brendan's comments around a remarkable arr
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by rodgerd 5y ago
If you're trying to get people to try your new editor, no matter how awesome the ideas that you're trying, you're going to lose a chunk of your audience if it doesn't support C syntax highlighting, a chunk if it doesn&#x
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Inversely I'm kinda confused how Porsche (owned by VW) seems to get very good reliability scores[1]. Down to 9/26 from last years 4/26. Compared to VW's 24/26 that's quite a large delta. Reliability was al
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I would be surprised if the audience for those vehicles want lots of modern updates, as well.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Toyota is the last automaker (historically) to integrate "new" tech into their vehicles. The Prius was ground-breaking work; had Chevron not killed NiMH batteries, they would have been shipping mainstream electric RAV4s in th
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Had it been a front/rear layout like the S2000 I would have thought it be a slam-dunk; as is, the front/front combo knocked it out as an MX-5 competitor.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> It's really remarkable how vehicle reliability has improved. When I was a child, run-in periods and 2 year warranties were the norm. It was a big deal when the Japanese manufacturers started doing standard 3 year warranties. It re
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> it’s a fantastic resource and an essential one to avoid getting ripped off with severely overpriced and underperforming product Yeah, you need to whip off the rose tinted glasses. ASR is a step in the right direction, but there are no
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> The fact that they supposedly sent one email to RMS Stallman himself has confirmed that they did. Where does this "supposedly" come from?
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by rodgerd 5y ago
LSP seems like a real blessing for editor authors, since "it can't do anything useful with my preferred programming language" has been a big lock-in.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Had Apple stuck with GCC they wouldn't have the legal ability to do this. They tried. rms lost the email.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Copyright is either the death of the author plus a period, or a length of time for a non-human entity such as a university or limited liability company.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> What I also came to think of is that GCC recently positioned itself in opposition to the FSF because of the "Stallman-Controversy". Is this a kind of retaliation on their part? "Random acts of rms" aren't a new
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Some company making money using your information isn't with intent to hurt an individual The Mercer family didn't personally want to kill, imprison, or cripple a bunch of people, but that's certainly what they achieved w
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by rodgerd 5y ago
There's a reason that they're cranking up lawsuits and rhetoric against the Apple "monopoly" on app stores, too.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Almost everything I receive is damaged, late, or mis-delivered. Books are especially abused somewhere in Amazon’s fulfillment. (They’re always bent, creased, or dirty.) Strangely enough, a company whose employees have to piss in bottl
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> The best-known problem with PGP is its poor usability, but that's not its biggest problem. I don't know - if the design were more sounds from a crypto perspective, but it was still as easy to fuck up as the current interface,
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Nonsense. The same surveillance capitalism runs on a multi-thousand dollar OLED panel.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Values are what you talk about. Culture is what you do.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I'm glad that your anecdotes trump an actual study.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I think that "It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the metabolists failed because the buildings they produced weren’t metabolic enough to cope with the ever-changing needs of the city’s inhabitants. Surely, preservation of their wor

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