31h | 8 years ago | on: Divorce and Occupation
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31h | 8 years ago | on: Switching Your Site to HTTPS on a Shoestring Budget
Open source means the project can be redistributed by any user. So any user, including yourself, can re-host the project on Gitlab.
31h | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the worst Oracle can do to OpenJDK?
Just removing the word Java from the OpenJDK sources and documentation would be a huge endeavor.
Is any project working to do this, ala Debian's IceWeasel?
31h | 8 years ago | on: Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
I ought to site my source - W. H. Auden via http://www.paulgraham.com/quo.html
31h | 8 years ago | on: Kindness is Underrated (2014)
> I think a more specific word for this is empathy.
No - empathy just means feeling the same emotion as people around you, which is not always helpful. What you want is compassion.
I often see "empathy" tossed around as a cure-all for social problem. When someone gets angry at work and it makes you angry - that's empathy. Ever seen footage of a frenzied mob saluting a fascist dictator? That's empathy as well.
31h | 8 years ago | on: Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
This looks like a lot of work for what amounts to very little end-user benefit.
The sons of Hermes love to play
And only do their best when they
Are told they oughtn't;
Apollo's children never shrink
From boring jobs but have to think
Their work important.
31h | 8 years ago | on: Why you should hire a tech co-op
a rigorous "theory of change" (of the kind used by charities and the third sector) to decide on potential impacts and side effects
I see. Sounds like "very rigorous maritime engineering standards".
31h | 8 years ago | on: Why you should hire a tech co-op
we tend to find people choose us because of the way we share and distribute the surpluses we make.
In my experience engaging consultants, I've never asked how they spend their profits. It surprises me that would be your major selling point, but maybe your clients are spending other people's money.
31h | 8 years ago | on: Why you should hire a tech co-op
What's the pitch based on value to your customers, rather than some imagined "social value" from political causes which your customer may well perceive negatively?
31h | 8 years ago | on: Why you should hire a tech co-op
Pardon if I don't give someone credit for asserting they support "social change" without specifying what they're changing. It could mean anything from "ban mosques in London" to "free condoms with every middle-school lunch".
31h | 8 years ago | on: Why you should hire a tech co-op
An educational co-op is a completely different concept from what is described here. Work/school co-op means a student does paid full-time work while still enrolled in a degree program (e.g. a semester off). What is described in this article just refers to a worker-owned consultancy.
31h | 8 years ago | on: Why you should hire a tech co-op
> we reinvest our own profit into new projects that we believe are going to bring about real social change.
So what? Why is there an implicit assumption that if someone is trying to bring about "change", that it must be good?
31h | 8 years ago | on: David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war
The first sentence asserts that Brendan Eich is the author of Java, which is false.
31h | 8 years ago | on: Luther's World: Understanding the man who was the powerhouse of the Reformation
> Just saying that Chinese had "moveable type" omits the technological and practical considerations that made European printing press success.
OK but just saying the Europeans had a superior printing press omits the the radical thinking and acting that made Martin Luther's doctrines a success.
Your position is like saying, baseball became America's national pass-time because of radio. Yes, radio existed and helped, but it wasn't radio broadcasts of soccer or regional hopscotch tournaments. Baseball made a particular appeal to the soul of the people and the time which soccer and hopscotch did not. The medium is not the message; content is king.
31h | 8 years ago | on: Luther's World: Understanding the man who was the powerhouse of the Reformation
> The answer is technology. Printing press revolution had exploded.
No. China had movable type printing presses by 1040 AD, yet there's no evidence that it led to a mass uprising against the state religion at that time.
You're trying to undermine the historical singificance of Martin Luther's spirit and vision by saying that he just happened to be in the right place at the right time when the printing press came along. I don't buy it.
31h | 9 years ago | on: GDNative – A scripting language module for Godot
2D is a special case of 3D. If you only want to do 2D then a 2D API is going to be simpler than a 3D API. There's a whole mess of parameters and transformations that just go away.
31h | 9 years ago | on: Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications
At the risk of prolonging a pointless line of discussion: what does github have to do with anything in this context?
31h | 9 years ago | on: Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications
Can you clarify what you are driving at with these questions? First off, a lot of people prefer hosted source repositories other than github (e.g. hub.darcs.net, gitlab.com, My Own Private Server). Github naturally imposes various limitations on their "free" plans.
31h | 9 years ago | on: Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications
> With the old upload-and-forget model of software distribution, you could put a tarball on a free FTP site for a few pennies
You can still create a Digital Ocean droplet, Docker container, or VM Image - and do the same thing (upload & forget). Then it's up to the user to pay $5/mo to host it, a process which doesn't need to take more than a few mouse clicks.
31h | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
> embedded (aka firmware for buzzword compliance)
Firmware is a buzzword for embedded? I don't think this is right. In my experience "firmware" is a subset of embedded programming, referring to low-level bare-metal code such as bootloaders and microcontroller applications (literally code stored in ROM). "Embedded" more broadly refers to any code for systems other than servers, web and personal computers (including e.g. embedded Linux).
"Firmware" has been a term of art for as long as I've been programming, which is probably longer than a lot of readers on this site have been alive, so I'm not sure how it qualifies as a buzzword. Unless people doing Linux application programming now call themselves "firmware" engineers because they work on embedded systems?
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There was a time when our ancestors became monogamous, and before that they weren't. So how do you consider non-monogamy more "modern"?