zbentley

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by zbentley 9y ago
> Can you suggest examples of (stereotypically) masculine behaviours that aren't considered toxic, but positive by the mainstream public/media? Sports. Military Service. Working Fathers.
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by zbentley 9y ago
Depends on what you mean by type errors. For example, NPEs in Java are technically a "type error", in that your code is mishandling data due to insufficiently specified types, and I'd have no trouble believing that 15% of Jav
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by zbentley 9y ago
Other than integration with the rest of the Nix/NixOS ecosystem, how is NixOps different from Puppet? Reading briefly through the examples, it seems very oriented towards provisioning machine instances rather than provisioning behavior
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by zbentley 9y ago
That doesn't really have anything to do with GP, right? I feel like this is a maybe-true comment on the link in general, but not the post you're replying to: entitlement/general nastiness towards open source maintainers is ve
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by zbentley 9y ago
I agree with everything you said, but couldn't resist: The awful behaviors you see from some users of a previously free-and-open project that went closed (ish) sound an awful like the behaviors of . . . paying customers in pretty much
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by zbentley 9y ago
This was pleasantly nuanced and comprehensive. The gamut of reactions to license changes is always a fascinating roller coaster. The "most maintainers have very little to lose" point is one that isn't emphasized often enough.
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by zbentley 9y ago
Player of Games is good, but I suspect you'll be disappointed if you're coming from more complex titles like Matter or Use of Weapons. Excession is one of my favorites that's not quite as dense as the rest of his work. Massiv
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by zbentley 9y ago
My god, finally something that explodes as easily as all cars do in the movies.
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by zbentley 9y ago
True, but having all the data on the government's site may ( may ) make it more secure from being leaked to sources other than the government. This isn't a statement of the government's software quality, but one of incentives
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by zbentley 9y ago
Well . . . 85.7% (6/7). On Sundays, it's Amazon's: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-30/it-s-amaz...
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by zbentley 9y ago
Maybe, but where "hacking someone else's" might just be issuing a search warrant, the difference in difficulties is like the difference between swatting a mosquito and swatting a gnat.
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by zbentley 9y ago
Those are valid points, but I think they miss the point of the question: are you more scared about data security in an online identity provider provided by the government or Facebook et. al.? Your answers were more about things the govern
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by zbentley 9y ago
Many people want to make software for the public good via the public sector. For some, the opportunity to do that outweighs the benefits of earning top-of-the-line paychecks. It seems deeply cynical to correlate geographic areas with salari
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by zbentley 9y ago
In which case EV wouldn't get you anything, right (since presumably it would be verified and issued before the site was taken over)?
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Study: Tech Elites Tend to Be Liberal with Exceptions (Regulation, Unions)(gsb.stanford.edu)
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by zbentley 9y ago
I regularly do all of those things . . . in Perl, with either core features of the language, or ubiquitous, well-supported libraries, in readable, concise code that doesn't "fight" with the language/runtime. Something li
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by zbentley 9y ago
FaaS/serverless is very similar to CGI. When talking to new adopters, I describe serverless cynically as an incredibly resource-wasteful rediscovery of CGI using VMs instead of processes; I describe it charitably as a very flexible CGI
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by zbentley 9y ago
"Whatever you pay me to do."
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by zbentley 9y ago
Possibly off-topic: this is why GitHub, and GitLab, are both problematic platforms for online collaboration and community-building. There was once a list of grievances against this person here https://github.com/nodejs/