IRC is still the best place to get help quickly (if you know the right place to ask), especially for some more esoteric tech niches...
Can you post link to best irc channels
Readit Newsreeves23423 commented on Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC? · Posted by u/pyeu
Also, you can implement an IRC client and/or server in about an hour in any decently high-level programming language.
Are you saying literally or figuratively. You mean it is possible to implement a working python3 client in one hour ? I would love to see someone do a live stream .
reeves23423 commented on Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project lists.gnu.org/archive/htm... · Posted by u/rurban
> doesn't ruin RMS.
He's perfectly capable of doing that himself.
There was a time where his style of firebrand-like vitriol against proprietary software was crucial. But that time is over. GNU/Linux won, it won years ago.
GNU does not have the influence it once did. It is an organisation geared up to solve the problems of the early 90s.
The real crux is this, "computing" and free software is not the preserve of academia anymore. It should be for everyone. Which means getting rid of deliberately antagonistic behaviour.
It serves noone.
I want my children to follow in my footsteps, as I followed my dad. But they can't do that if we cling to these idols who bully, cajole and generally act like obnoxious arseholes. There is just no need anymore. It doesn't work, it doesn't make for better code.
Crucially it serves as an excuse to let abusers, psychopaths and other nasties continue to abuse people "because RMS, Jobs & Ballmer all did it"
No, that kind of behaviour has to stop.
Comparing RMS to Jobs and Ballmer is a joke. RMS is way more capable and he devoted his personal life for the sake of good. Jobs and Ballmer are just business people.
I heartily wish that you continue learning Rust, another significant contribution to open source languages. What has been already commented, things such as borrow/checker are humps you work through and it will work out for you eventually. The other challenges are some of your enterprise 3rd party integrations with the outside world, some of which may again demand your time if they are still in beta, etc.
Also, the organization has no desire to invest in training or experimenting. The project is funded by the "business" and they want to see a business result in return for their money ... so you basically you sneak in a bit of time as you try/test something new. Nim won out by somehow getting a team with python expertise learn and deploy their product fast enough.
This does not answer op question on why Rust was dropped ?
reeves23423 commented on Edward Snowden: Permanent Record amazon.com/Permanent-Reco... · Posted by u/peterkelly
He is sitting his 50 week sentence in HM Prison Belmarsh in UK and has access to lawyers. Media is tracking his case. There is nothing to report.
There are people who spew up conspiracy theories on the spot when they have not heard anything, from pure ignorance, yet they speak ill of mainstream media.
If they are tracking where is the news about Jullian Assange.
reeves23423 commented on Uber lays off 435 people techcrunch.com/2019/09/10... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
> We even started building and maintaining our own chat app
God I love the Not Invented Here disease. Somebody, somewhere, thought "hey, slack is way to expensive, we don't want to get 'locked in', and 'mumble mumble privacy cloud evil stallman' so lets write our own chat application.... how hard can it be?"
Boom, now the company is straddled by a shitty, homebrew chat application that is maintained by nobody because the original author left for greener pastures. Nobody dares replace it though because that would be sacrilege. That chat app is part of the company, after all!
Arg.... I hate, hate, hate when engineers with a bad understanding of business and too much time on their hands lock their organisations into homebrew crap that has nothing to do with the value delivered by the business.
/rant
> 'mumble mumble privacy cloud evil stallman'
RMS was always right especially with regards to privacy.
reeves23423 commented on I Took a Pay Cut for a More Meaningful Job fastcompany.com/90308995/... · Posted by u/oumua_don17
> being a tenured professor would be pretty sweet
The grass is always greener.
I was a tenured professor (the European equivalent). Overall it was a very good position but not necessarily meaningful, and certainly not lucrative. Besides, being somewhat a second-class researcher, I was kind of stuck in my university.
I thought for a long time this was the Graal job, until I realized that there were so many cool things to do. I eventually switched job, and I regret that I hadn't done it before. Simply changing job is very refreshing.
Just curious.
Are you financially well off ?
Are you very confident in your skill that you have no worry of being unemployed at all ?
My personal opinion is that people who are not gifted but work very hard and have an average IQ can not take risks like leaving a tenure job unless they are free of financial responsibilities.
What are you thoughts ?
reeves23423 commented on Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp? schneier.com/blog/archive... · Posted by u/anilgulecha
Does it really matter? We already know that these companies are willing to collaborate with intelligence services. We already know that Facebook is hoovering up your data. We know Jan Koum already left Facebook over privacy issues. Maybe the article is click bait trash, maybe it isn't, but we should assume that whatsapp isn't secure.
By that argument, w all are going to be dide someday does it matter we nuke the planet. The point is "Resistence is not futile".