tolenka

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by tolenka 17y ago
Remember, all public contribution to open source is good. Wishing that volunteers trying to scratch their own itch would do it in a way more convenient for you is unrealistic. Perhaps I have unduly high standards for contributors, but I f
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by tolenka 17y ago
I'm not convinced that Github itself is a net-win for the mainline projects -- without Github, your only options for long-term sustainability of a fork are to submit your patches to the project or to expend considerably more effort maintain
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by tolenka 17y ago
An aside: I'd really love to excise "scratch an itch" from the collection of developer idioms. It sounds so unnecessarily uncouth. =)
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by tolenka 17y ago
My point is that both are way ahead of your typical Java shop, and way ahead of Windows, and that FOSS and Linux do not deserve the beating given to them by the author of the blog post. I think that's a bit unfair to Java shops. =) AFAIK
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by tolenka 17y ago
I think what the commenter meant was the cathedral vs the bazaar model of development. Would'nt FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc all be in the same boat as Linux? Granted that Linux has a benevolent-dictator-aka-linus, but that does not make it deviat
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by tolenka 17y ago
The success of Linux deserves serious consideration, but breathless marvel at Linux and its development practices is entirely misplaced. All the major patches are done by one expert, and many of them are fairly innovative. Ingo Molnar did
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by tolenka 17y ago
If you don't have write privileges into the SVN repository, you have no ability to revision control your changes without creating a tracking repository of your own. This is fairly unique to open source software -- it's not something that
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by tolenka 17y ago
I can't say I understand your point. With svn, I commit often, as long as the code builds and my own unit tests pass. If I need to make a lot of breaking changes, I use 'svn cp' to create a branch and then I can still leverage svn's merge t
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by tolenka 17y ago
I would say that what I, and others, did was more like someone going to a website, hitting view-source, and saying "hmm this is interesting, there is something to be learned here" and then putting the interesting code snippets up on their
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by tolenka 17y ago
I do understand the indifference -- the deadline is more or less completely arbitrary, as there are very few critical scheduling issues dependent on strictly punctual delivery, and all that is really required is reasonable timeliness. If
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by tolenka 17y ago
Outside of school, deadlines are usually based on project estimates, and as long as you provide sufficient notice, it's often possible to adjust the schedule and dependent activities to fit the actual time required to complete task(s). If i
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by tolenka 17y ago
Distribute the code to anyone else under any terms other than the GPL.
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by tolenka 17y ago
For most iPhone applications, why is this better than the built-in GameKit, which allows for peer-to-peer discoverability over bluetooth and WiFi without any active internet connectivity? I could see an argument for cross-platform compatibi