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by sogrady 4y ago
If you're referring to licenses that - at times intentionally - blur the definition between open source and proprietary, yes. It is not in favor of those licenses. The implicit argument that these licenses singularly benefit SaaS is mu
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by sogrady 4y ago
This article consists of a few highly selective observations, glued together by make-believe. Open source was the industry default? On what planet? "Team, make everything open source by default, unless I tell you otherwise" -
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by sogrady 4y ago
By way of disclosure, I'm the author of the linked piece. That said, having spoken to most of the parties involved prior to their decisions to relicense, I can tell you that investors were a major motivating factor in many if not all c
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by sogrady 6y ago
glad to hear you got something out of it
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by sogrady 6y ago
Disclosure: I'm the author. Appreciate the feedback, will keep that in mind in future.
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by sogrady 8y ago
There is not, though we have historical rankings for the top 20 available here: https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2019/03/20/redmonk-top-20-lang...
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by sogrady 8y ago
Ha! We get asked about CSS every time. Our general answer is that we try very hard not to editorialize, and let GitHub’s Linguist make determinations. We do make decisions, but to date, CSS has continued to make the cut. As for how language
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by sogrady 8y ago
I can understand why people criticize it, but I personally like Fi. The multiple carriers give me coverage in areas I don't expect it like Maine islands or the Sangre de Cristo foothills, and the price is reasonable if not the lowest a
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by sogrady 8y ago
RedMonk | Analyst | US-based | Full-time We're a small, developer focused industry analyst firm that researches a variety of infrastructure technologies from hardware to software. We're trying to help companies understand and adap
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by sogrady 9y ago
If you can find analogies in which sports teams are willing to use solutions to play with fewer players or practice anything remotely close to loyalty and thus fit within the context of this, by all means let me know and I'll include t
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by sogrady 10y ago
Understood. We're always looking for better ways to visualize this data, so we'll bear these comments in mind.
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by sogrady 10y ago
This is more or less our position. COBOL has never been ranked, for example, because COBOL isn't highly visible on GitHub or Stack Overflow. The last time we checked, for example, COBOL was present in 11 total repositories on GH. Which
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by sogrady 10y ago
Setting aside the specific Julia functional merit questions, the answer is that in general, no, the difference between 51 and 52 is not particularly significant. That being said, the macro perspective - in which Julia is growing more slowly
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by sogrady 10y ago
Much of this is attributable to these rankings being counting stats rather than rate states, which makes age an asset. There's a surprising amount of Haskell in existence, but certainly if you're looking at rate at present Swift i
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by sogrady 10y ago
Dart held static at 37, which leaves it 11 spots behind TypeScript. We have seen very little movement in the language generally, and it hasn't really gotten any notable boosts from outside drivers.
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by sogrady 10y ago
The rCharts package we're using doesn't handle that, but if there's interest we can look into releasing a larger version.
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by sogrady 10y ago
The reasons you cite are certainly the reasons we found the original analysis by Drew and John compelling. It's not a perfect analysis, in part because there isn't one, but we've found it interesting both as a snapshot in tim
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by sogrady 11y ago
RedMonk | Analyst | US-based | Full-time We're a small, developer focused industry analyst firm that researches a variety of infrastructure technologies from hardware to software. We're trying to help companies understand and adap
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by sogrady 11y ago
Disclosure: I wrote the linked piece. When discussing the potential risks of data-oriented models, it's necessary to recognize that all data isn't created equal. Facebook, Google and others are obviously trying to accumulate perso
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by sogrady 11y ago
[Disclosure: I'm the author] No argument that up-front, perpetually licensed software is currently a huge, profitable business. Windows and Office alone, as acknowledged, generate essentially $44B by themselves. There are also profitab
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by sogrady 11y ago
RedMonk - http://redmonk.com/jobs - Remote or Portland, ME or London, UK Analyst ## Who is RedMonk We're the analyst firm that thinks developers are the most important constituency in technology. Our work shows up here
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by sogrady 13y ago
Portland, ME. Several colleges in the area, can rent an apartment in town for < $1K, an office with parking for less than half of that, good airport 15 minutes from downtown, < 2 hrs from Boston, tons of outdoor activities (hiking, se
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by sogrady 13y ago
Personally, I enjoy having a repository of my location history that I can browse easily. Where was I on such and such a date? Easily looked up. As for the privacy issues, they are real, but my carrier could easily replicate this data if req
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by sogrady 13y ago
I'm in the market for a solution here, but really need one with calendar integration. If I have to go back and forth between the app and my calendar it doesn't save me that much time over email. App looks great otherwise.
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Seven Days With a Chromebook Pixel(redmonk.com)
1 points by sogrady 13y ago|0 comments
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Why Open Source Matters, and the Limits of Pivotal HD(redmonk.com)
1 points by sogrady 14y ago|0 comments
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My New Email System(redmonk.com)
1 points by sogrady 14y ago|0 comments
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Does Enterprise vs Consumer Matter?(redmonk.com)
1 points by sogrady 14y ago|0 comments
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by sogrady 14y ago
the numbers for both axes are their respective rankings, not actual tag counts. their positioning, therefore, isn't directly proportional to the actual tag volume, but how they rank relative to one another. if we had actual numbers on the g
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by sogrady 14y ago
(disclaimer: i'm the author) it's important to keep two things in mind when considering any ranking: first, and most obviously, no language ranking will be perfect for all readers, because the metrics for ranking languages will vary on an i

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