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by sjellis 6y ago
Brad Smith has been with Microsoft since 1993, and is one of the lawyers that enabled the business practices that made Microsoft notorious, and the target of multiple legal actions. Microsoft only settled with the DOJ in 2002. The company p
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by sjellis 6y ago
Yes, it's about confidence levels. There will always be known differences between staging and production, e.g. service names, networking. The point about staging is that it lets you run risk-free tests on a set of things, in a way th
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by sjellis 6y ago
> Mozilla's marketing portraying itself as the white knight of the open web is tiresome and contradicted by past behavior. Pocket is still installed by default, and remember the Mr. Robot scandal? Here, the perfect is the enemy of t
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by sjellis 6y ago
Yeah, I would note that not only is the Bitwarden code Open Source (if you want to self host), the commercial service has a free account option, and the pay options are about $1 per month per person: https://bitwarden.com/pr
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by sjellis 6y ago
I am very happy with Bitwarden as a product. It does everything that I want, and I like the UX better than the other password managers that I tried. The fact that it is Open Source code that has been professionally audited also gives me an
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by sjellis 6y ago
IMO, Bitwarden is underrated as a password manager. It is fully-featured for personal use, easy-to-use, low-cost and is audited open source code . This announcement addresses a major limitation of Bitwarden that was holding it back. It sho
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by sjellis 6y ago
I would say that it can be both. Large organizations like Microsoft have so many different people and teams that there isn't necessarily a group-think. On the contrary, different teams will have different priorities, and keeping people
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by sjellis 6y ago
I really like VS Code, but am definitely wary of the way that it intermingles open source, proprietary code and remote services. For that reason, I use the VSCodium build most of the time. You definitely need to take responsibility and read
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by sjellis 6y ago
This "open core" model has been used for a long time, and it might work for commercial vendors that have large products with a plugin architecture, but it's a constant source of friction and inefficiency. Not everybody can or
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by sjellis 6y ago
To be fair, Raspbian is meant to support first-time users. They have explicitly said that they want to produce something that works for the widest range of hardware.
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by sjellis 6y ago
Competition is not a bad thing, but I'd definitely recommend that people check out Sourcehut. Sourcehut ticks all of the boxes for a well-run project: Open Source, good engineering, sensible financial plan, excellent maintainer who wor
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by sjellis 6y ago
Yes, this is one of the reasons that I decided to use Joplin: it's Open Source and cross-platform. I never want my notes to be locked to one or two platforms.
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by sjellis 6y ago
I would definitely recommend Weinberg. Don't be put off by the fact that his books are self-published, and the covers aren't great. He is brilliant.
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by sjellis 6y ago
It has to be said: if Apple published their source code, we wouldn't have to rely on reverse-engineering and speculation.
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by sjellis 7y ago
IMO, the power of shell is really the ability to leverage command-line tools (e.g. git, curl, jq) with very little code. These tools are very fast, well-tested, feature-rich, and often easy to install in a reproducable way. IMO, The inflect
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by sjellis 7y ago
The only one that I found questionable was item 5, because they specify Puppet, which is a legacy server configuration system that is not particularly great for cloud anything. Ansible or Terraform would make far more sense.
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by sjellis 7y ago
Kubernetes addresses a bunch of infrastructure concerns, so IMO it's more equivalent to learning a new cloud platform (AWS, Azure) than anything else. People who already know one or more cloud platforms, and are familiar with the kind
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by sjellis 7y ago
> I can’t imagine we’re alone in the scenario. There is no way our small company could justify purchasing the enterprise licenses we routinely suggest our customers purchase. This is probably the norm for smaller partners. You could use
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by sjellis 7y ago
It's worth a moment to give credit to the long defunct Stateless Linux project: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StatelessLinux This was imagined a decade ago, but the technology and the market weren't ready th
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by sjellis 7y ago
They are also adding per-application isolation of settings: https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/07/12/settings-in-a-san... Flatpak is one piece of a broader design to secure Linux workstations. It is al
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by sjellis 7y ago
Manager Tools is amazing: the single best source of practical guidance for managers that I know.
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by sjellis 7y ago
I really like the concept of this book. Your choice of topics is interesting, because it's so ecletic.
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by sjellis 7y ago
Yeah, AppImages are not really comparable to snap and Flatpak, which both address this issue by managing shared sets of libraries as well as applications. Flatpak calls these sets of libraries "runtimes", and snap calls them &quot
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by sjellis 7y ago
The TinyGo project are implementing a Go compiler on top of LLVM, to use Go on very small devices: https://tinygo.org/ The Go language is defined by a spec with compatibility guarantees, but beyond embedded systems and WASM
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by sjellis 7y ago
Microsoft have been very good at figuring out which features they need to add for developers, but the actual experience of using Windows is not great. Part of the problem is that they are adding stuff without taking anything away. My Window
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by sjellis 7y ago
Getting a FastMail subscription over a decade ago really has been one of the best tech decisions that I ever made. They are a great mail provider, and I am very happy that my money helps fund work like JMAP.
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by sjellis 7y ago
"The next best thing might be infrastructure that makes the deployment easier but no one's really interested in investing in infrastructure tech without some tangible reward." Almost every OS vendor is investing in deployment
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by sjellis 7y ago
"Software as a Service is impossible to pirate and generates continuous income rather than a single upfront fee. That’s all you really need to know to understand why there is less and less desktop software coming to the market these da
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by sjellis 8y ago
"Using a brand name in place of the actual name of the feature seems like going a step back to me." It's a sign of massive success, too. Like "Hoover" now being a synonym for vacuum cleaner.
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by sjellis 8y ago
"I'm honestly confused at how much effort people spend on .vimrc and .emacs files to get poor versions of narrow slices of functionality that comes out of the box with the most basic of IDEs." I think that it's the other

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