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"At this point, they can market themselves as the only rational choice for corporate Linux support..."

I'm not sure how relevant this is to Debian.

Its current, official support window of "through 1 year after the release of the next version" (with an additional LTS experiment for squeeze at the moment) is just too short for corporations running Linux in production, especially if you get started anywhere near the release of the next version. E.g. right now I'm helping a non-profit corporation upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, and the prospect of doing that again in less than two years means it probably won't be moving to jessie.

How many orgs out there are really happy with Debian's short support windows?
I use curl over wget in most cases, just because I learned it first I guess. I use it enough that I rarely make the mistake of not redirecting when I want the output in a file.

The one case where I will reach for wget first is making a static copy of a website. I need to do this sometimes for archival purposes, and though I always need to look up the specific wget options to do this properly, this use case seems to be one where wget is stronger than curl (especially converting links so they work properly in the downloaded copy).
My experience with self-managed artists is quite negative - but this is entertainment industry related. Just the fact that there is somebody you can call during the day and get a definitive answer on a request, and who makes sure the talent is showing up and delivering on the negotiated the deal, is securing them deals they otherwise would never get. This is most certainly not something that one would classify as "hard work" but it is super valuable when "talent" meets "corporate".
We need something to mean what "begs the question" used to mean, then, because it's an important concept to be aware of.
I'm willing to support artists who are being ripped off by their label (like boykott their label if they make it plausible it's evil). But ultimately, picking the right label is the artist's business, not mine. If the label doesn't pay them, they should switch the label.
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>All I see at colleges and conferences worldwide are Macbooks.

I know anecdotal evidence does not equal real data, but I'm a sophomore/junior (switched majors) in college and I prefer to use Linux over OS X or Windows.

Also, IMO open source products are usually better than their closed source counterparts. I know what is actually running on my computer. I can alter the program how I need. Everyone who contributed to the project did so out of their own enjoyment. Being open source means experts in different fields can make the product better, safer, further optimized.

Gimp does the job for me, I personally use Google Docs because I switch computers a lot. Microsoft Office is just as bad LibreOffice in terms of usability, so I wouldn't call either superior. Don't quote me on this, but I'm sure lots of technically superior closed source products are developed with the help of open source software.

If Linux came at the cost of SQL Server... that's a weird question. How does something open come at cost to the consumer? I can see donations being greatly appreciated, but not required payment. There's to many rabbit holes I could go down here.

But I could be completely wrong, I'm just a 20 yr old dude trying to figure out if Computer Science is even the right degree for me.
I don't think that is true at this point. Books of criticisms on systemd have already been written. There isn't a maintainer out there who hasn't heard all of it. Yet many people still insist on bothering the community with this, it's become a burden. And it's not a burden because the criticisms are valid, it's a burden because the criticisms don't actually contribute anything.

I think at this point it is safe to say that anyone voicing criticisms on systemd without contributing fixes or solutions to said problems is hostile to the Debian community, and should neither feel or be welcome.

Feeling unwelcome is the only way these people will realise they will either have to solve the problem themselves, or start a new community.
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Well, yes, but understand that most of the surviving medieval European pieces of art are icons and other religious works, which put a number of requirements on the artist that dictated a less-than-precise portrayal. It was not a general lack of talent or technical understanding. Politically more important figures had to be drawn larger than everyone else, with their heads placed higher, regardless of their more realistic height and position in the scene. Being often used as sort of religious picture books, the depth dimension is present, but often used to depict passage of time, not distance from the viewer. And for a period of time, it was considered sinful to try to "compete with God" by making things look more realistic.

And like modern software projects, the artists had to work with the employees they could find and train on their own. It does no good to design a perfectly rendered scene when the only employees you have on hand to do the grunt and fill work are recent college undergrads who have only touched PHP or Java.
I have learned more from Wikipedia than from any General Practitioners I have seen.
After reading several articles on euthanasia in Dutch papers, I get the impression that quite some people seem to think going to a nursing home is worse than dying (and a substantial part of them thus see euthanasia as a good alternative).
>"In essence, I'm not. I'm responding to a bad argument. You can't just go on a rant about unicorns on the South Pole, and when people tall you you don't know what you're talking about, ask them all to prove you wrong. That's not how reason works."

And if I had no prior-opinion OR evidence on unicorns in the South Pole, I'd equally be skeptical of your claims that there aren't any, as I'd be of the guy that claims there are. I'd ask you both for some basic stats/research on the matter, which is what I tried to point out.
This part resonates well for me:

"Now, how did I, standing stout and tall, get forced out of my tribe? I've been a DD for almost 14 years, I should be able to weather any storm, shouldn't I? It turns out that no, the mountain does get worn down by the rain. It's not a single hurtful comment here and there. There's a constant drum about this all being some sort of conspiracy and there are sometimes flares where people wish people involved in systemd would be run over by a bus or just accusations of incompetence.

Our code of conduct says, "assume good faith". If you ever find yourself not doing that, step back, breathe. See if there's a reasonable explanation for why somebody is saying something or behaving in a way that doesn't make sense to you."

It's easy to say to ignore the comments and the haters, but if you keep shit thrown at you by people who automatically assume the worst possible for everything, even an elephant skin gets pierced at some point.
They have seen a couple of departures lately. Joey Hess[1] blamed the way decisions are made within the project[2].

[1] https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/on_leaving/

[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00174.html
Having watched the disease developed up close, the problem is that there is a very good chance you'll never be aware that you can't take care of yourself or even that you are approaching that point.
Isn't that an argument that the UK market represents far higher returns on investment and thus a much stronger startup scene i.e. the crap has been weeded out?
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I just want to point out that while I didn't include numbers here, I have in a child post of this thread. Also I mean I would love to know the world you are living in where what I said isn't true. There is not one study or academic research done that does not coorliate the plight of the working poor with their social status. This is a generational problem and to my knowledge there is not a single study that does not like poverty with higher rates of substance abuse, crime, and single parenthood. I have provided numbers please by all means cite even one resource that finds no link between poverty and social vices ?
> The US has turned the corner and is a job creating machine again

The employment-to-population ratio has't recovered and is near the 30 years low.

http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet
ever here of boo :-) for the younger hn readers that was a fashion startup based in London that crashed and burned hard back in the 2000's
>I find that weird. Why are you wanting to copy stuff from http all of the time?

This kind of question (and the other question you make above) remind me of the people that answer Stack Overflow questions with their opinions of "best practices" and "what you should be doing instead" instead of answering what the poster asks. E.g:

Q. "How do I store JSON in mysql?"

A. "Why do you ask? What do you want to achieve with this? You'll be better served with a NoSQL database".

etc, etc.
I was thinking more this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Blob:_Trouble_on_...
I think the biggest nuisance with this strategy is that neither tool is included by default on the machines I'm usually working with— wget is missing from my Mac, and curl is missing from my Ubuntu servers.

Both can be quickly rectified, but it's still a pretty big pain.
There may be a big overlap, but "tech-savvy" and "think all information should be free" are not synonymous.

Personally I'm against submitting paywall links to HN because it makes it harder for everyone to read, but I have no problem (either overall morally or or a personal level) with content like the WSJ being behind a paywall.
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"Inbox is great for consumers..."

That was the main point I took away from looking at the Inbox website. The top three categories it uses are promotions, purchases, and trips. It's an inbox for someone who's a consumer - literally. Looks like it's not a communication tool so much as method of more easily getting people to buy things.
I agree. A better comparison would be coders (or academics) who use Aderall or some similar 'brain doping' to achieve performance enhancements vs those who don't. There are whispers that it's an issue in academia, especially among those competing for tenure.
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"because there is not one certain way to establish if someone is a citizen or not"

Only about half the states require citizenship to vote, this can be trivially verified on wikipedia. Its technically illegal at the federal level to vote in a federal election if you're not a citizen but that's only enforced politically "making examples of" and voter intimidation purposes and so forth.

It seems among the young HN participants, or maybe foreign participants, there is culturally almost no understanding of whats federal and whats state level in the USA. I would assume this is an intentional goal of the educational system, to make control of the population simpler. There is also an undercurrent of those who actually understand this simple fact not saying much, because "everyone knows" that you get 50 states into a big pile, anything you say about them can and will be wrong in some minor detail in one state and your entire argument will be viciously attacked because being only 98% right is the same as 0% right.

There is also at least a three step game being played where the first step is "demand ID to vote" rather than the existing "we trust you" system. The second step is state ID is technically free if you have the documentation required. The third step is making the documentation required change annually and sometimes be very expensive, almost impossible to obtain and you can always blame the victim for not having all the right paperwork.

My wife doesn't have a "real id" because it would just cost too much and be too much of a PITA to fix, so when a "real id" level license is required to vote, she'll be disenfranchised from voting. Eventually it will be enough of a PITA for her to obtain the docs she needs and we can certainly afford it, its only $100 or so, but that's a weeks labor for other social classes... very much intentionally.
> For the document explorer, do you want to see the documents that you created or just interesting docs that anybody created? Either way, we just pushed up a way to export a doc as an image by appending .svg to the end of the url--I’m excited about using them as thumbnail previews in the explorer.

Me personally, I'd like to see a list of my own recent modified documents and a way to name them. Like Google Drive for example.
I wouldn't integrate a way for looking at other documents before you're not able to "lock" documents so that others can't destroy them.
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My first job out of uni was for an oilfield services company around 2006-2008. I did another 12 months for them recently in 2013. It's an outrageously homogenized industry at almost every level, at least here in Australia: it seems that in earlier times, it wasn't so hard to make your small own oilfield startup. But nowadays oilfield-specific instrumentation vendors (and sensor manufacturers!) have largely been bought out and either shut-down or brought in-house by the bigger players.

A diverse set of contractors means you're all double-checking each other's work. I've also seen jobs where most of the services are provided turn-key from one main contractor (and we'd been brought in reluctantly due to availability problems). When everything from the rig, to the drilling fluids, bits, sat comms, wireline services, DST/production and so on are all provided by the one umbrella company there's a lot more copy-pasta going on and opportunity for errors to propagate [and never get noticed]...

It's a shame, Baker Hughes seems like it had a pretty phenomenal history.
Unfortuntly I think CP Snows two nations is still intact and its not the technical/sceintific side that has the whip hand - in the UK techies are regarded as greasy engineers not fit to press our nose against the window (to quote tom jones) to look at the other professions.
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Can you elaborate why he considers the Debian constitution a toxic document?
This. There was a similar article in the New York Times this week talking about how surprising it is that COD players are competing in million dollar tournament despite the fact that such large scale tournaments existed for games such as counter strike over a decade ago. Major starcraft tournaments have been occurring for even longer than that.
It seems to me that if you purchase a shirt depicting women in skimpy dress, and you decide to wear that shirt around the office, or in any sort of professional setting (where, say, you might be interviewed by a TV news crew), then you either:

1) don't realize that it might make people uncomfortable, or

2) you realize it and don't care.

If #1, then the reason that no one has brought it to your attention is because they're scared of the repercussions, in which case, what does that say about you or the environment you work in?

If #2, then you may be brilliant and get things done, but it doesn't mean you're not a jerk.

That said, it sounds like Dr. Taylor's apology was genuine. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he did not mean to offend anyone, and I hope others will, too.
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I love Theo, but a lot of people have differing ideologies from him, and as well all know that isn't okay in the OSS ecosystem.
Hasn't Japans central bank started last week to buy 100% of all newly issued government bonds? I fear this will end very badly for them since the Yen doesn't have the status as a global reserve currency like the US Dollar.

Also, the debt to GDP ratio is insane, I am still stunned they didn't default 10 years ago.

Maybe a default is the only way for them to get out of the decades of stagnation at this point, even though it will be very painful in the beginning.
The far bigger financial advantage for them is the fact that they hit the maximum fee — so they end up paying comparably little per user.

I'm not sure Apple is even that concerned about the competition from such projects — all their major competitors have no issue with paying the licensing charges.

It's worthwhile pointing out that Mozilla nowadays use H.264/AAC/MP3 support from the platform layer, as does Opera (though, yes, most Linux distributions do not ship such things by default — but that's a small percentage of the market) — and in Opera's case the argument to not support it was always one of philosophy (avoiding giving themselves a competitive advantage that works against a free and open web) rather than one of finance (Opera has plenty of revenue to pay for the license).

When there were all the discussions around HTML5 and mandated video codecs the reasons that Apple publicly put forward seem reasonable from their point-of-view: supporting video codecs that no major company has previously shipped bears a risk of patent infringement cases (and defending such cases is expensive, even if your odds of winning them are good!) that might result in huge fines/compensation. When the majority of the content on the web was already using H.264 (and it seemed dubious that many sites would support more than just H.264 unless everyone dropped H.264 support, which seemed highly unlikely to happen), there was no compelling market reason to take on that risk. The de-facto state was the web already relied on a non-free codec, and mandating a free one was only of marginal benefit if nobody started using it (yes, it provides a free common baseline, but de-facto everyone has to support H.264 as a baseline anyway, however sad that is). This isn't so malicious as it is accepting the reality of the market, sadly.

When almost all browser installs support H.264 already, you may as well use it for WebRTC. Would it be nice if the web didn't rely on H.264? Yes. But we're already at a point of relying on it, so we may as well rely on it elsewhere.
Don't forget a third possibility: it doesn't make anyone around him uncomfortable. In this case, it says nothing but good things about the person and the work environment.

The hypocrisy surrounding this episode astounds me. Can you imagine the reaction if a female scientist got so much criticism for what she wore on camera? It would be completely different.
If your work environment is such that people can turn up wearing a shirt plastered with pictures of women then there's one of three things going on;

1. People are offended or upset but they don't feel able to speak out about it.
2. People ignore the opinions of their colleagues when they speak out.
3. Everyone is so liberal and easy-going that no one has a problem with it.

It's possible that the ESA is in group 3, but we don't know. Whatever the case, anyone seeing this sort of attire on the news is unlikely to think "Wow, that's a really inclusive place to work." That's why this shirt is a problem; not so much the content per se but the fact that it makes the ESA look like an horrible alpha-male "brogrammer" sort of working environment so people who are sensitive to these issues are less likely to want to work there.

Even if you think it's fine to wear a shirt like that to work, to wear it on the day that the world's media are going to be putting you under the microscope shows a colossal lack of awareness. And that is a problem...
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With the greatest of respect, Boris is a blithering, two-faced, mendacious, squirming idiot-weasel who would say anything to garner the nomination for Conservative Leader. If that means slating the (really quite mild) response to Mr Taylor's shirt as a way of massaging the pipe-smoking elder gentlemen of Tunbridge Wells via the Telegraph, then by jolly, he'll do it.

And bugger all the actual work he's supposed to be doing as Mayor of London to support multiculturalism and diversity.
As a strategy for keeping systemd out of Debian, harassing the maintainers of systemd until they quit the project is extreme, immoral, and effective.

(This is not an endorsement of the tactic!)
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You might be interested in this New Yorker article then: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/09/man-and-superma...
I enjoyed the post for teaching me what teamwork really is: assume good faith,
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Guix is a package manager and a GNU/Linux distribution, whereas Chef and Puppet are configuration management systems that work with a number of different distros.

So, rather than using Puppet + Debian or something, you would probably just use Guix, because Guix has system configuration tools[0]. Guix (Nix, too) solves system management problems from the bottom, at the systems level. Other tools tack it on top of existing operating systems.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#System-Co...
The rockstar metaphor always strikes me as unprofessional because it seems so incompatible with team work. Why aren’t there any rockstars in other areas of engineering?
Not only that!. Companies that sponsor an H1B person need to "show" proof that they have attempted to hire a US person before they can turn to sponsor an in immigrant.
Even if you discount that the shirt was unappealing to women, it's a ridiculously ugly and unprofessional piece of tat to wear on a worldwide live stream as the face of a professional organisation (that isn't, say, "Hideous Shirts Inc.")
"If you know anything about China activities in Tibet, you would know that China IS evil."

Following that rule, the US is evil too. How many native Americans they exterminated? Millions in California alone.

How many innocent people died in Iraq after US invasion for taking their oil?. How many people have died in Libya from the war US promoted?

Of course, most of Americans(that don't travel around the world, know languages and understand other countries) believe the propaganda that says that the invasion of Iraq(or any other country) was to promote freedom and democracy and lollipops. So do the Chinese, they have their own propaganda machine, like the US.

But war is a racket, it has always been:
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Profit-Motive-Warfare/dp/14...

Now, for example, most Americans have a strong opinion against Putin, without having traveled to Russia or the Ukraine because what they know about it is given by a channeled(and powerful controlled) media they believe to be truthful.

Having lived both in the US and China,and traveling there often I perceive the US had freedom in the past but is decreasing fast with the 9/11 NSA abuses and whatnot, while China lacked freedom but increases it day after day.

Americans believe using words alone is enough, like saying "we are the land of the free", but in practice they are giving away the freedoms they have in exchange for other perceived qualities, like "security".
>I don't think guix does system configuration at all.

It does, actually. Check out the documentation for details:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#System-Co...
I believe it's about referring technical decisions in subgroups to project-wide political votes (general resolutions = GR).

I can see why trying to keep everything as a pure technical meritocracy is appealing, but I don't think it's realistic. Libre software is inherently political.