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by sjansen 5y ago
An ethical argument could be made that by watching we are encouraging the behavior and therefore share any blame if something goes wrong.
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by sjansen 5y ago
An explanation of their motivations would be helpful. I’m sure it’s great for anyone that already knows they want it, but what about everyone else? My experience managing many different flavors of *nix has been that the GNU utils are far su
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by sjansen 5y ago
Dunno, if you're called out publicly I see no problem with replying publicly. I mean what's the alternative, silence? For all we know, there may have been additional private communication and if there was I'm pretty sure it&#
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by sjansen 5y ago
> There are a LOT of anti-vaxxers who disingenuously couch their advocacy as "I'm only asking questions". And they quickly reveal their bad faith, at which point they can safely be ignored. Or, if you don't feel like
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by sjansen 5y ago
That's a pretty strong statement considering there was an extended review period before merging and no one expressed any concerns. Instead of singling out a single person, I think it's more accurate to say the security community i
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by sjansen 5y ago
I’m not opposed to sharing an author’s unpublished works after death because their is value in allowing certain readers access. But after reading Douglas Adam’s, I’m personally hesitant to read unpublished item from any other authors. After
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by sjansen 5y ago
It makes more sense if you lived through the marketing hype. I'd compare "Java as solution to everything" to the more recent "web scale" and "NoSQL" crazes, but with the backing of a PR firm instead of Int
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by sjansen 5y ago
The issue is breaking external references. Do you include git SHAs in your bug tracking system? Or perhaps your department wiki links to a specific commit to document lessons learned? Maybe you're using Sentry and find including the gi
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by sjansen 5y ago
I still don’t think the analogy captures the reality of the situation. I’d argue it’s more like buying a car that advertised room for five passengers, but when it’s delivered your discover a third row giving you enough room for your entire
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by sjansen 5y ago
I’ve been thinking it was about time to replace my current Synology device, and until seeing this was planning on sticking with them. Now I’m hoping to see recommendations for an equally low maintenance replacement in the comments.
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by sjansen 6y ago
If you haven't met RMS in person, it's hard to understand what a raging asshole he is. Frankly I'm surprised it has taken this long for him to be called to account for his behavior.
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by sjansen 6y ago
This isn't about a single event. RMS has been alienating even his strongest supporters for decades. The tone of his return to the FSF board made it clear that he still hasn't learned why and isn't interested in learning.
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by sjansen 6y ago
> Stallman is a bastion of software freedom In my judgement, he has done marginally more good than harm. Under his leadership the FSF has had only limited impact. Mirroring his own behavior, it has instead often wasted money and good wil
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by sjansen 6y ago
Not really a surprise given the weakness of their arguments. If you’d like to hear a lawyer read and comment on their complaint, I recommend https://youtu.be/FL7r-Nt5j50
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by sjansen 6y ago
In my opinion you've hit on Ubuntu's biggest contribution to Free and Open Source software. When I started using Linux a couple decades ago, "we ship when it's ready" was the dominant FOSS approach, and I thought it
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by sjansen 6y ago
From a business perspective, the biggest problem I've experienced with community-based distributions is the limited support cycle. Debian averages about 3 years with LTS, which is really good for for a community distro but really short
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by sjansen 6y ago
Just a guess without reading the code, the unused bit is probably to avoid complications from signed integers. If the sign bit is never set, signed and unsigned integers can store the same data.
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by sjansen 6y ago
> Normally the people who rise up the ranks are the politically astute Don't discount Nadella's political astuteness. I think it would be more accurate to say he is not merely politically astute, but instead able to combine h
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by sjansen 6y ago
All of this is true, and yet Go is going from strength to strength because sometimes "worse is better". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
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by sjansen 6y ago
In my opinion, Go & Python are similar languages in the way they balance language constraints with just enough expressiveness to not feel stifling. I think this is part of the reason so many Python shops have adopted Go as either a seco
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by sjansen 6y ago
Pretty much. If you’re spending $1000/month on servers, you’d only save < $200/month and the added complexity probably isn’t worth it. If you’re spending $100000/month on servers, saving ~$20000/month is probably wort
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by sjansen 6y ago
Depends on your scale. If each of your web servers has a hand picked name, definitely not. But if you stopped naming servers a long time ago, and if the pricing structure is favorable, it could mean a huge cost saving without an expensive r
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by sjansen 6y ago
> A bit of friction, if applied correctly, is not a terrible thing I observed the same thing in a different context in my previous gig doing Linux training. We strived to make our books as clear and simple as possible. When we discovered
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by sjansen 6y ago
We've learned through painful experience to treat Celery as little more than a vanilla pub/sub system. Some of its more "advanced" features sound nice, until you discover they're implemented in surprising or unscala
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by sjansen 6y ago
Maybe I'm looking in all the wrong places, but I'm having a surprisingly hard time finding hardware requirements. I love that with Erlang I can throw an experimental app on Digital Ocean for just $5/mo and see if it gets trac
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by sjansen 6y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how often we as developers are quick to point out other people's obviously incorrect decisions, only to defend our own Rube Goldberg implementations 30 minutes later by pointing out that critics just don&#
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by sjansen 6y ago
Probably not while complying with privacy laws. I would be much more upset to find out a governemnt employ on a deadline used Google Sheets or Airtable to share my medical data instead of an Excel doc on a secure government file server.
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by sjansen 6y ago
Sure, I'll go ahead and suggest that Epic may not be "a victim of Apple's anti-competitive and draconian tactics". "Anti-competitive" is a matter for courts to decide. Epic could have taken Apple to court witho
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by sjansen 6y ago
Congratulations on being added to a bunch of government databases! ;-)
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by sjansen 6y ago
I think Snowden is a hero. Sadly, this feels more like Trump’s perverse “everything Obama did was bad so I’ll do the opposite” logic, instead of acknowledging that Edward Snowden made a difficult choice to protect our republic.

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