> Whether you love or hate Microsoft for $6.99/mo you can get Office, (decently private) email, cloud storage, and Skype. Hate Skype? Don't blame you but from there you can get a phone number that you can give out and…
> coming to the conclusion that slowing development time was worthy if the resulting product was performant What I don't get is where these claims of faster development time come from. Toolkits like Qt make it way…
Snap-on, Knipex, Milwaukee, Bosch
Yes. Erlang is built around distributed message sending and serialization. Python does not have any such things; even some libraries like Celery punt on it by having you configure different messaging mechanisms…
> There are a lot of python distributed systems built around in memory stores, like pycos or dask, or built around existing distributed systems like Akka, Casandra, even Redis. Cassandra and Redis just mean that you…
Here is a good example of ESR being racist: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/816449724127608833 Here is an example of ESR being misogynist: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907
This is trolling by people who do not understand the GPLv2, and has happened before. Someone had the "brilliant idea" of "retroactively revoking" the GPLv2 a decade ago (2008):…
> If the code is written in a distributed fashion from the start then it can be designed so it's one python/node/R process per core. That's a really glib dismissal of how hard the problem is. Python and node have pretty…
There is no such software, because what you are asking for is for the software to "one-click install" read your mind. Dropbox cannot cover customized use cases, and it does not accomplish the same goal. My use of the…
Those are all very good ideas for email. Part of it could be dealt with in RFCs, part of it by changing default email client behavior. I also agree that email should be a personal preference. I think that DFeed[1][2]…
> Of course there's no name. That's because this is an Internet post, not a car that can be used to maim and kill people.
> Cryptography isn't perfect; someone could always guess your private key. Cryptography is a branch of mathematics, and cryptographic systems can be formally proved to have certain properties, such as being unable to…
By your definition, wearing a wig and sunglasses to get away with shoplifting is a "clever exploit." Refusing to put license plates on your car so you cannot be identified for breaking the law is antisocial criminal…
The author is Philip Greenspun, who in the 1980s worked with the people that created all of the things you listed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun There is nothing myopic about his perspective.
What benefits exactly can be derived from driving without license plates that make it a "hack"? Avoiding getting arrested for hit-and-runs? Not getting tickets from red light cameras?
If you care about this, the best thing to do is to start using IPv6, and insisting on IPv6 support in any interactions with service providers (SaaSS, hosting, data providers, etc.) that you have.
> Maybe RSS could be dropped? Are there news readers that support RSS but not Atom? Unfortunately yes. Gnus has not gotten Atom support yet (people keep using external programs to translate). Also far too many feeds…
> expanding it with social functionality like likes, reposts and comments One of the problems I had with blog comments is spam. Blogger would queue up moderated comments and send you an email about them. The idea…
That comment was true then and is even more true now. rsync, unison, and git over SSH provide a far superior solution for more use cases (many of which Dropbox cannot support) than Dropbox does, without any of Dropbox's…
Driving without license plates is irresponsible antisocial behavior, not "hacking."
> snazzy Electron interface or some other trendy framework that makes everything super easy Except that Electron is harder to use than pre-.NET Visual Basic, or Delphi, or especially HyperCard. All of the developer…
Hospital shifts in the United States should be used as a warning for what not to do: "Halsted promoted several very important concepts and practices in residency training: graded responsibility, a variable and lengthy…
You can get that in Emacs with the which-key: https://github.com/justbur/emacs-which-key
This is why Richard Stallman calls SaaS "Service as a Software Substitute" and recommends running your own programs on your own computers: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s... If you are using…
> Whether you love or hate Microsoft for $6.99/mo you can get Office, (decently private) email, cloud storage, and Skype. Hate Skype? Don't blame you but from there you can get a phone number that you can give out and…
> coming to the conclusion that slowing development time was worthy if the resulting product was performant What I don't get is where these claims of faster development time come from. Toolkits like Qt make it way…
Snap-on, Knipex, Milwaukee, Bosch
Yes. Erlang is built around distributed message sending and serialization. Python does not have any such things; even some libraries like Celery punt on it by having you configure different messaging mechanisms…
> There are a lot of python distributed systems built around in memory stores, like pycos or dask, or built around existing distributed systems like Akka, Casandra, even Redis. Cassandra and Redis just mean that you…
Here is a good example of ESR being racist: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/816449724127608833 Here is an example of ESR being misogynist: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907
This is trolling by people who do not understand the GPLv2, and has happened before. Someone had the "brilliant idea" of "retroactively revoking" the GPLv2 a decade ago (2008):…
> If the code is written in a distributed fashion from the start then it can be designed so it's one python/node/R process per core. That's a really glib dismissal of how hard the problem is. Python and node have pretty…
There is no such software, because what you are asking for is for the software to "one-click install" read your mind. Dropbox cannot cover customized use cases, and it does not accomplish the same goal. My use of the…
Those are all very good ideas for email. Part of it could be dealt with in RFCs, part of it by changing default email client behavior. I also agree that email should be a personal preference. I think that DFeed[1][2]…
> Of course there's no name. That's because this is an Internet post, not a car that can be used to maim and kill people.
> Cryptography isn't perfect; someone could always guess your private key. Cryptography is a branch of mathematics, and cryptographic systems can be formally proved to have certain properties, such as being unable to…
By your definition, wearing a wig and sunglasses to get away with shoplifting is a "clever exploit." Refusing to put license plates on your car so you cannot be identified for breaking the law is antisocial criminal…
The author is Philip Greenspun, who in the 1980s worked with the people that created all of the things you listed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun There is nothing myopic about his perspective.
What benefits exactly can be derived from driving without license plates that make it a "hack"? Avoiding getting arrested for hit-and-runs? Not getting tickets from red light cameras?
If you care about this, the best thing to do is to start using IPv6, and insisting on IPv6 support in any interactions with service providers (SaaSS, hosting, data providers, etc.) that you have.
> Maybe RSS could be dropped? Are there news readers that support RSS but not Atom? Unfortunately yes. Gnus has not gotten Atom support yet (people keep using external programs to translate). Also far too many feeds…
> expanding it with social functionality like likes, reposts and comments One of the problems I had with blog comments is spam. Blogger would queue up moderated comments and send you an email about them. The idea…
That comment was true then and is even more true now. rsync, unison, and git over SSH provide a far superior solution for more use cases (many of which Dropbox cannot support) than Dropbox does, without any of Dropbox's…
Driving without license plates is irresponsible antisocial behavior, not "hacking."
> snazzy Electron interface or some other trendy framework that makes everything super easy Except that Electron is harder to use than pre-.NET Visual Basic, or Delphi, or especially HyperCard. All of the developer…
Hospital shifts in the United States should be used as a warning for what not to do: "Halsted promoted several very important concepts and practices in residency training: graded responsibility, a variable and lengthy…
You can get that in Emacs with the which-key: https://github.com/justbur/emacs-which-key
This is why Richard Stallman calls SaaS "Service as a Software Substitute" and recommends running your own programs on your own computers: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s... If you are using…