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Standards-compliant open source WebSub Hub(websubhub.com)
33 points by whit537 5y ago|11 comments
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by whit537 5y ago
Gotta be creative to work for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCHF (according to his LinkedIn).
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by whit537 5y ago
Anecdote: Troy Polamalu's account (840k followers) has been hacked and scamming people for going on two weeks and his media team can't get Twitter to even respond let alone resolve. :( https://www.reddit.com/r&#x2F
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by whit537 5y ago
Next time let's go with "We Just Gave 11¢ Less Than $155,000 to Open Source Maintainers." :smirk:
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by whit537 5y ago
Sorry. :^( We'll keep trying to do better!
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by whit537 5y ago
That's awesome! Good luck! :D
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by whit537 5y ago
We're thinking through how to follow up on this post with additional signal-boosting throughout the year, point taken about exposure value to small projects. We'll keep that in mind! Thanks for Nim and keep up the great work! :^)
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by whit537 5y ago
Not meant to be snide, no. It's something we thought about when allocating our budget: how are projects going to perceive this? Is giving $100 or $500 worse than giving nothing at all? So my question was also asked in earnest! :D Back
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by whit537 5y ago
I'm genuinely curious what they donate, maybe it's already that much? More? Less? No idea. Also, at their scale cost of FTEs dedicated to upstream open source becomes a significant consideration. How many kernel hackers do they em
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by whit537 5y ago
I'd love to see other companies express their open source donations in terms we can compare across companies. Yes, in absolute terms $155k (rounding up ;) is not that much, but Sentry is not that big. We have ~75 engineers. How much do
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by whit537 5y ago
> you left unpaid volunteers to deal with an angry customer. > You didn't even get a product manager or customer success manager to intervene. For the record, these are false statements. zeeg did get me, a paid employee, to ste
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by whit537 5y ago
Right, I was intentionally reframing the question. As a company we wanted to arrive at a budget through a global view and then allocate from there. Rather than look at 100+ projects individually and build up from "How much value did we
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by whit537 5y ago
We have no Nim usage in the company. One of our engineers nominated it as something they find personally interesting, and we wanted to give at least a little bit to every project that our employees nominated. By contrast, we use Rust quite
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by whit537 5y ago
:face_with_rolling_eyes:
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by whit537 5y ago
Imagine my surprise seeing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28693731 surface serendipitously three weeks ago. That post from four years ago during Gratipay's final days is linked in today's announcement. :D
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by whit537 5y ago
<3
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by whit537 5y ago
It's tough, I think it depends on the framing and is definitely something worth talking about. Part of what we were trying to do with this initiative is start with some _global_ concept of "fair" and then allocate that amount
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by whit537 5y ago
Yup, it was https://www.softwareheritage.org/ , they accept donations in Euro only. :)
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by whit537 5y ago
TIL. Neat! :) https://www.opendental.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Dental
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by whit537 5y ago
> solid software that open source doesn't come close to > Open source doesn't even have an answer here. > Open source sucks here too. > open source not close > But it sucks for the vast majority of product categorie
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by whit537 5y ago
> either of these fields you claim provides reinforcement for that amount being a reasonable spend My statement was based on these two statements of yours: > Art - $2k/yr buys a lot of solid software > Software - $2k a year bu
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by whit537 5y ago
Haha ... jinx! :D
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by whit537 5y ago
Found it! :D https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/pull/2883
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by whit537 5y ago
Per-user closed-source software cost for other technical fields is an interesting comparison. Thanks for surfacing it. :^) Of your five examples, the first two reinforce $2k/yr as a reasonable spend, the second two are no-ops since you
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by whit537 5y ago
<3 Not seeing you at github.com/kawsper so not sure what the PR was ... but thanks for the PR! :)
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by whit537 5y ago
<3 Funny timing, btw. :) https://twitter.com/chadwhitacre_/status/1431368348886052865
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by whit537 5y ago
So yeah for a non-tech company it'd be something like "every developer in the IT org."
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by whit537 5y ago
Soooooo I realized that commercial software is no longer onpremise (Oracle) but SaaS. :D Anecdotally, $2,000 per user per year would be a really expensive SaaS app (right?). Not exactly apples to apples but so far I think $2,000/user&#
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by whit537 5y ago
Okay this is really complicated. D: https://wintelguy.com/oracle-db-licensing-calc.pl https://www.orskl.com/what-is-the-cost-of-oracle-database-li...
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by whit537 5y ago
Thrashing, one might even call it. :)

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