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On Why Open Source Developers run Mac OS X(sharms.org)
65 points by sharms 16y ago|128 comments
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by sharms 16y ago
I enjoyed reading the post, and agree with it. It would be nice to read a follow-up post on balancing life -- does being a winner mean not having a family, watching a movie with friends etc?
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by sharms 16y ago
One of the most frequent experiences I have with potential employers is writing my resume in HTML or LaTeX, only to have their HR accept only .doc documents. How do you guys get around this?
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by sharms 16y ago
I have programmed literally hundreds of thousands of lines of python without using classes or __metaclass__, as a counter example. When dealing in industry, we can't always hire the best talent, so there is no need to make things overly com
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by sharms 16y ago
These compare because map reduce says "take this set and split it up" -- all of which can be done through tools which already exist. Hadoop Map Reduce may make it more approachable for java programmers, but distributed work happened long be
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Corruption is forcing Russia’s best and brightest to flee the country(newsweek.com)
123 points by sharms 16y ago|91 comments
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by sharms 16y ago
Ted Tso wrote the majority of the filesystem in question, so he is pretty much the authority on the matter. He was hired by Google, and his point is that if Ubuntu is going to make a distribution, they need to have the engineers available t
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by sharms 17y ago
I think, as I have been guilty of, people underestimate just how hard it is to hire someone. It always sounded easy, but after hiring a few people, it is very hit or miss no matter what you do. To imagine you can predict what a developing s
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by sharms 17y ago
In a world of 7 billion people, you will find that just about everyone is a dime a dozen. To use your own words, the following is equally as true: there is nothing "impressive" about signing up to lobby the U.N. as an unpaid intern. Show m
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by sharms 17y ago
Xen actually does support overcommit: http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2008/08/27/xen-33-feature-memo...
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by sharms 17y ago
Hardy a good old boys club. I would suggest actual examples rather than a 'my friend says' vague statement. As someone with direct Ubuntu development experience, the majority of packages (ie what they refer to as universe) are generally ma
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by sharms 17y ago
Does anyone have experience with running large scale deployments of this? I am not a fan of nagios itself (last I looked at the code it was a horrible perl mess), but the idea itself is great.
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by sharms 17y ago
I suspect what they mean is that Fedora doesn't support running at 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit userland. The problem starts with the initramfs, and I suppose slicehost is not in the business of modifying to underlying OS all that much. ht
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by sharms 17y ago
I run Cherokee at my company, and have found it fast / secure and rarely do I ever use the graphical admin. For reference I have roughly 4000 servers running it at any given time.
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by sharms 17y ago
In this scenario, if there is only one person providing food, at that point it becomes economically viable for individuals and consumers alike to produce food, and fill that void. You didn't include it in your comment, however it is importa
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by sharms 17y ago
I would love to disagree with you on this (my opinions on economics stray pretty far from normal). I believe precisely the reason America is so successful is because of debt. A worker who does not work a day never gains that day of work ba
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by sharms 17y ago
It is important to note that roles which are automated only require a shift in skill set. Cashiers may turn into Uscan machines, but Uscan machines require more administrators and support staff. With the money saved with the automated, the
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by sharms 17y ago
This sounds suspiciously like marketing speak. I graduated in 2006, and we never even spoke of DB2 in my time at the University of Michigan. For curiosities sake, specifically to your post: What makes it ideal to startups (any cool example
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by sharms 17y ago
The funniest part about all of this is I have yet to purchase an apple device (I run Ubuntu myself), but I can't not watch these presentations. It would be great if there were other tech companies with such well presented products and ideas
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by sharms 17y ago
Gizmodo also has a live feed if you enjoy variety: http://live.gizmodo.com/
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by sharms 17y ago
I followed close to the same plan as the original poster, rarely going to classes. I had a medical disability note so I was able to do so without repercussions, but used my time off to focus on research which landed me a great job once I w
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by sharms 17y ago
What I haven't seen explained is what exactly needs to be rebuilt? If someone has nothing, and there is an earthquake, exactly how does billions of dollars restore nothing? Or because of this earthquake the world should build their infrast
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by sharms 17y ago
As someone who is considered sane, with no known issues of depression, and a parent, I can say unequivocally that under no circumstance would I let a child die, regardless of circumstances. Finances, mortgage, whatever don't factor for a s
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by sharms 17y ago
This looks promising. I myself am still trying to transition to writing an app using Python / Django / MongoDB but haven't got to it yet. Very promising database though, and to see the community come up with tools so quickly is a good sig
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by sharms 17y ago
After reading the entire article, this definitely impacts any interest I had to integrate with google maps, youtube or google app engine. I wonder what the chances are they will change gmail terms the way they did to author (ie deceptively)
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by sharms 17y ago
Does anyone have a working open source implementation of this? I saw this video about a week or two ago, and decided to hook up at webcam to python / pygame and try a few things, and I have trouble even checking what colors changed each fra
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by sharms 17y ago
They would also need a way to validate the data unless the encryption was symmetric, I don't think they have tested this out on data they didn't already have.
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I Don't Code in my Free Time(teddziuba.com)
167 points by sharms 17y ago|134 comments
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by sharms 17y ago
Right but I can selectively run ltrace, where as my logging statements are always in the code, and if statements have to be evaluated etc
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by sharms 17y ago
This is very cool stuff. I usually debug my programs through log messages, but this looks to be much easier / less performance impact.

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