There is a tremendous power in thinking about everything as a single kind of thing, because then you don’t have to juggle lots of different ideas about different kinds of things; you can just think about your problem.

Free software means that the users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software

We can't compete with Apple, we can't compete with Google, directly, in the field of resources. What we can eventually do is head count and heart count. We can compete on the ground of ideology because ours is better.

Arbib and Seba explain this by categorising human civilisation into two fundamentally intertwined complexes: the production system, encompassing all the foundational systems by which we meet fundamental material needs across energy, transport, food and materials (corresponding to ‘hardware’); and the organising system, encompassing how the former systems are governed, regulated and managed by society through economic, political, military, cultural and ideological structures and values (corresponding to ‘software’)

The ‘hardware’ is a configuration of matter which harnesses energy from its environment with surprising efficiency and dissipates it as waste back into the environment.

If one profiles what is going on in this whole process, it becomes clear that I/O dominates. Of the cpucycles expended, most go into conversion to and from intermediate file formats.

Built in the open Concourse's RFC process and governance model invite anyone to become a contributor, developing the project roadmap by collaborating in the open.

GPL "infects" other parts of a system to combat a work-around which was used to violate the software freedom of the user, by firewalling sections of GPL'ed code from the rest of the system.

The point of GPL licenses is to protect the user of the software, not the developer. If you want "protection" as a developer, use MIT (disclaimer of warranty). GPL "infects" other parts of a system to combat a work-around which was used to violate the software freedom of the user, by firewalling sections of GPL'ed code from the rest of the system. If you don't care about your users' software freedom in the first place, then (L)GPL is the wrong choice.

A free program allows you to tinker with it to make it do what you want (or cease to do something you dislike). Tinkering with software may sound ridiculous if you are accustomed to proprietary software as a sealed box, but in the Free World it's a common thing to do, and a good way to learn programming. Even the traditional American pastime of tinkering with cars is obstructed because cars now contain nonfree software.

If any of them is missing or inadequate, the program is proprietary (nonfree)

With all four freedoms, the users fully control the program.

With the other two freedoms, any group of users can together exercise collective control over the program.

Users' control over the program requires four essential freedoms.

freedom to study the program's “source code,” and change it, so the program does your computing as you wish

freedom to run the program as you wish, for whatever purpose.

The first two freedoms mean each user can exercise individual control over the program

Either way, they give the program's developer power over the users, power that no one should have.

When a program respects users' freedom and community, we call it “free software.”

computer users' freedom—for users to control the software they use, rather than vice versa

The computer will run, without prejudice, whatever software you install in it, and let that software do whatever its code says to do.

However, the presence of nonfree software in the computer is an obstacle to verifying that the computer is loyal, or making sure it remains so.

For instance, the AMT functionality in recent Intel processors runs nonfree software that can talk to Intel remotely. Unless disabled, this makes the system disloyal.

Free/Open Licenses Non-free Licenses

I can firmly recommend runit if you want a server-focused, reliable init system based on the traditional Unix philosophy.

Developers want to improve their project. If you find an issue, bring it up. If it's a valid concern, the author will probably want to have it fixed. In many cases, the author will consider it a valid issue, but simply not have the personal time or need to address it immediately. This is where open-source is great. Just fork the project and fix it

Rails' observers were partly inspired by aspect-oriented programming -- they're about cross-cutting concerns. If you're putting business logic in observers that is tightly coupled to the models they're observing, you're doing it wrong IMO.

We consider March 20 1998 to be curl's birthday.

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This can be incredibly frustrating for developers. In my own experience, the person in the worst position is the developer brought in to clean up another developer’s mess. It’s now your responsibility not only to convince management that they need to slow down to give you time to fix things (which will stall sales), but also to architect everything, orchestrate the rollout, and coordinate with sales goals and marketing. Oh, and let’s not forget actually producing the code to resolve the underlying issues. It can, at times, be an insurmountable problem. A developer in that situation has to wear a lot of hats. They need to be:● An advocate to management and by extension the C-suite.● A project manager.● A marketer to understand the features and desired functionality both now and down the road, to make selling the product more simple with defined pipelines and marketable features.● A decision maker, willing to make tough calls with regards to future compatibility of the services, how they interact, and what third-party tools they might need to integrate with to ensure the rectified code will be usable for the foreseeable future.Last but not least, they need to be a good developer to fix the mess. If you employ a developer who can manage all those responsibilities as well as their day job, I guarantee you aren’t paying them enough, or they’re already looking somewhere else.

As web development is something I'm passionate about, having a server like Falcon is empowering.

AI as a Smart Software

If a problem is shared by only a handful of people, it's probably not worth programming a solution. Great Programmers Solve Important Problems The best programmers aren't simply the ones that write the best solutions: they're the ones that solve the best problems. The best programmers write kernels that allow billions of people to run other software, write highly reliable code that puts astronauts into space, write crawlers and indexers that organize the world's information. They make the right choices not only about how to solve a problem, but what problem to solve.

This is the most simulative version of a controller. It will try and mimic real user behaviour. It's the recommended version to use when the goal of the load-test is finding out how many concurrently active users the target instance supports.

I'm often asked to describe the “advantages” of free software. But the word “advantages” is too weak when it comes to freedom. Life without freedom is oppression, and that applies to computing as well as every other activity in our lives.

A proprietary program puts its developer or owner in a position of power over its users. This power is in itself an injustice.

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The problem is not about Open Source or Free Software. The problem is everything else.

We should also insist that every piece of technology is, by essence, political. That you cannot understand technology without understanding the people. And you cannot understand people without understanding politics. Every choice you made has an impact on the world.

It is not by accident that those distributions care a lot about the license of the software they distribute.

free software is provided, "without liability". That rule should be enforced.

When publicly distributed, the open-source code is hidden behind layers of indirection bypassing any packaging/integration effort, relying instead on virtualisation and downloading dependencies on the fly. Thanks to those strategies, corporations could benefit from open source code without any consequence. The open source code is, anyway, mostly hosted and developed on proprietary platforms.

More than 95% of people could be using a computer from 2008 or before without any problems. Needing a recent machine is limited to people who: Do extreme, professional, processor-intensive video-rendering. Compile massive programs and operating systems with severe time constraints. Play recent triple AAA video-games on high settings. Use many massive Electron apps and other inexcusably bad software written by soydevs and other people who shouldn't be writing software.

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we shouldnt build anything new, we should try to make compatible the mindsets and tools that we already have

I want RSpec Rails development to be fast, and lightweight, much like it was when I joined the RSpec project.

As of right now the full build takes over an hour to run, and this makes cycling for PRs and quick iterative development very difficult.

One problem with using this extension is that the author stopped supporting their extensions years ago and has not been heard from since. You also need to bypass the version check per this article.

We often think of software development as a ticket-in-code-out business but this is really only a very small portion of the entire thing. Completely independently of the work done as a programmer, there exists users with different jobs they are trying to perform, and they may or may not find it convenient to slot our software into that job. A manager is not necessarily the right person to evaluate how good a job we are doing because they also exist independently of the user–software–programmer network, and have their own sets of priorities which may or may not align with the rest of the system.

… aaand it’s gone – they did indeed decide to remove the option flag, as they always do

This will fix the problem, as long as the Chrome developers do not decide to remove this option.

Getting hooked on computers is easy—almost anybody can make a program work, just as almost anybody can nail two pieces of wood together in a few tries. The trouble is that the market for two pieces of wood nailed together—inexpertly—is fairly small outside of the "proud grandfather" segment, and getting from there to a decent set of chairs or fitted cupboards takes talent, practice, and education.

the Peter Principle, the idea that in an organization where promotion is based on achievement, success, and merit, that organization's members will eventually be promoted beyond their level of ability

Esta necesidad de recompensa adicional, apoyo, y el reconocimiento por el trabajo reproducible es un problema de infraestructura institucional, especialmente en la academia, donde las métricas de promoción y tenencia están vinculadas explícitamente a los documentos y, a menudo, no tienen en cuenta el software reutilizable.

lots of commercial products because the reality is these often have a better UX and larger user numbers.

This is not a discrete project but an ongoing process and should always be competing for focus in strategic decision making.

Adiciones o sustracciones compatibles con versiones anteriores incrementan la versión menor, y cambios en el API incompatibles con versiones anteriores incrementan la versión mayor

With the rising popularity of ebooks, it’s more important than ever that we have open hardware and software readers that work on our terms.

Users will no longer have access to their Mint accounts on March 23, 2024

By jumping into unfamiliar areas of code, even if you do not "solve" the bug, you can learn new areas of the code, tricks for getting up to speed quickly, and debugging techniques.

Thinking about how you will observe whether things are working correctly or not ahead of time can also have a big impact on the quality of the code you write.

is still used in many businesses.

Using an issue tracker without them is, in my opinion, a little like using an outlining program that only supports two levels of nesting, or like using Wiki software that doesn't have the concept of reverse links. Makes me sad!

Display product requirements, user flows, and design behaviors on each screen.

Document what to build and how designs should behave in a central, searchable, collaborative place for the entire product team.

Division of labor is an extremely mature state for a society. Aiming prematurely for it is counterproductive. Rather than try to imitate more mature domains, start from scratch and see what this domain ends up needing."

For consumers, the equivalent of "build or buy" could be called "ads or nerds". "Ads" meaning ad-supported services, like consumer Gmail or Facebook. "Nerds" meaning hobbyist services based on free software and commodity hardware.

It's incredibly important to test your Facebook Login flow under a variety of conditions, and we've built a robust testing plan for you to follow.

Moreover, social logins are often implemented in an insecure way. Users, in this case, have to trust every application which implemented this feature to handle their identifier confidentially.

As our app grows, an increasing amount of random code is landing in the app/services directory. I'm worried it will become impractical to improve on this, as the number of special cases will only increase. Some pain points off the top of my head (definitely not exhaustive):

I'm assuming some of the goals are to make it clear where to put new files (and to stay within current Rails conventions). We already have a few non-standard app folders in our project, such as app/services, app/queries, etc. and we put some non-ActiveRecord classes in app/models. If we are going to move files, it might make sense to first define where files should go, and then move each file to the appropriate place. This might be more of a reorganization project, than copying over a folder.

How to set up and validate locally Access content editor in wikis or in issues behind a feature flag :content_editor_on_issues. Copy some text from Google docs or any rich text document Press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + V to paste raw text.

A more efficient but more complicated way to simulate perfect guessing is to guess both options simultaneously

Staff augmentation for P2P investment platform

Data and analytics engineers for Gentrack Logical Data Model

Loan processing system with a custom admin panel

HTML had blown open document publishing on the internet

The RWC was developed by The Language Conservancy (TLC), an NGO dedicated to protecting around 50 Indigenous languages around the world, in order to churn out such dictionaries at super-speed. TLC, which has a $3 million budget, regularly teams up linguists with Native American language teachers to work on these dictionaries.

The women are working with Rapid Word Collection (RWC) software, which uses an algorithm to search Apache text and audio databases for so-called forgotten words.

Rather than dealing with the invariably convoluted process of moving my content between systems — exporting it from one, importing it into another, fixing any incompatibilities, maybe removing some things that I can’t find a way to port over — I drop my Markdown files into the new website and it mostly Just Works.

When a language presumes to know more than its user, that's when there's trouble.

I'd argue that when you find a programming language devoid of danger, you've found one that's not very useful.

Day One for me has created journal nirvana, in the same way that Things created multi-platform to do syncing and iA Writer perfected multi-platform text editing.

sudo apt-get install backup-manager

For example, still not over the death of Google Reader after all these years? Why not host your own RSS aggregator like Sismics Reader that nobody can ever take away from you?

It is open sourced and you can find it at https://github.com/digitalocean/droplet-agent

I was browsing someone’s site yesterday, hosted on Wordpress, yay! Except it was throwing plugin error messages. Wordpress is still too hard to maintain. Wordpress is not the answer.