slgeorge

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by slgeorge 10y ago
The issue with the "Cathedral and the Bazaar" is that he's right for an individual piece of software, but wrong for an integrated system. Can you get the best editor, best grep, best <insert technical tool> with FOSS?
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The problem for Free Software advocates, is that they 'won' but that's also brought about a change in 'communities' make-up. The key quote is in the first sentence "Once upon a time FOSS was about Freedom"
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by slgeorge 10y ago
The primary thing commentators on HN don't acknowledge is that dealing with legal issues, whether in court or phone calls/letters, costs money and time. That takes a company away from their core objective of delivering service to
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Cryoshon - what's "Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Dennett)" like, I picked it up in a bookshop the other day as it was in the 'recommended' but the title really put me off (too markety) - is it any go
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I don't know what the commentator is referring to. But, there's a wide-spread belief in the UK that arming the police is a bad idea - since it leads to issues. There has been an increase in the number of 'armed police' w
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by slgeorge 10y ago
You're right, you can't "sell" GPL software. What you mean by "sell" is "grant a license for usage" and that's exactly what the GPL or a similar FOSS license does. So the two things conflict. Re
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by slgeorge 10y ago
That's an error if you want Linux [0] to work on client hardware. Manufacturers pay the distributions to do hardware enablement if they think there is a customer for the OS on their hardware: alternative OS users are invisible if t
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I thought the default was to create a login shell? See the "Start a non-login shell" section on the Arch Wiki[0]. I turn that off with the option mentioned there: that way it inherits from my current environment - I probably misun
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by slgeorge 10y ago
For a lot of OSS projects users who have donated feeling entitled would be a good problem to have. There are plenty of users who feel entitled and they don't donate time or money !
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I guess that the 'diverse social sphere' helps. I'm sure there's a real term for what I'm trying to describe. I've found our opinions and values change slowly, over time as we interact and take on new experienc
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Hmm, interesting. Perhaps involvement in a community of 'givers' and making a public statement, counter-act the 'values erosion' of working with people who are more focused on themselves.
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by slgeorge 10y ago
"Earning to give" is highly unlikely to work unless you're a very strong willed individual (in my opinion). We're social animals, so if you decide to focus on a "high earning" area you land-up working with othe
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by slgeorge 10y ago
I understand your perspective, I probably even personally agree with you. But again, you're weighing the value of 'increased employment' over 'individual rights'. I currently live in France, and there are protests i
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by slgeorge 10y ago
This sentence: > The problem is that laws that proclaim to be on side of the employees > makes the labour market less competitive for employees. And, this sentence: > Look at france, they have have absurdly strong lab
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Access to skills, networks or resources you don't have. For any significant decision it can be valuable to get a different perspective. It can also be a way of protecting confidentiality. Lets say that you are deciding whether to sell
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by slgeorge 10y ago
oh wow, didn't know that. Arg! all my personal notes have list that will have to be re-formatted that!
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by slgeorge 10y ago
- Stop publicly promising salary increases altogether. Promote people based on their ability, not an artificial loyalty policy. Some people deserve 10%+ raises, some you'll find are overpaid. Use a basic job ladder and put the burden o
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by slgeorge 10y ago
> * Because your metrics might not be good enough to actually discriminate low performers from high performers I think this is very true. For many complex roles you land-up with all sorts of indirection to create 'metrics' whic
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by slgeorge 10y ago
For standard RST tables I use vim-table-mode ( https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode ) which is fantastic as it automates RST or markdown tables. There are some other RST table types: a. List table: Pretty simple
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by slgeorge 10y ago
a. In RST you must have a blank line between parent bullet and child bullet. I don't think that's correct, this works: # Remove the spaces at the start to put in a file (HN rendering) * Bullet 1 * Sub-bullet 2 * Bullet
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Online: http://rst.ninjs.org/
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by slgeorge 10y ago
> How much have legal costs to the client been reduced due to this increase in efficiency? It's pretty hard to answer that one as it depends on the type of legal services. Anecdata only... My experience is from a UK based perspectiv
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by slgeorge 10y ago
It certainly is positive for the ability to create new free software. It is negative for the ability to control other people's actions through copyleft licenses, since the same ability to create new free software also allows creat
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by slgeorge 10y ago
The vast majority of challenges organisations face are wedded in how they interact with society. If a groups not working well together, is it knowledge and creativity that's the problem, or social and value clashes between members. The
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by slgeorge 10y ago
What's to keep this non-hire from logging into Glassdoor and warning everyone else (and existing employees) about the offensive contract verbiage? Nothing. As long as they remained factual. It's unlikely existing
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by slgeorge 10y ago
> EBITDA itself is not the problem, but rather the calculation companies themselves use to derive it. Heh, I find it a bit difficult to consider it a useful measure, when (as you point out) you have to immediately clarify how it'
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Ah! reminds me of the dot com bubble where everyone was profitable! ... uh by EBITDA [0]. A measure that caused all sorts of problems since a bunch of companies also manipulated their Earnings [1]. For every cycle, the line swings back and
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Yeah, Newsblur rocks. I also find it a great watching a single committed developer (Samuel Clay[0]), build a small business with an Open Source code-base [1]. [0] http://www.newsblur.com/about [1] https://github
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by slgeorge 10y ago
The main argument I hear from designers in favour of agencies are that there's a lot more variety since you work on a lot of different situations, and that for a less experienced designer there's more opportunities for learning fr
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Personally, I never answer this question when using an external supplier. Because, if you do, it goes something like this: 1. External supplier, "What's your budget for this work?" 2. customer, "Something between 50-10

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