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Chris Maunder wrote: department of redundancy department
That redundant department in the department of redundancy department was redundant, or expected?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Once upon a time FOSS was about Freedom. "Winter is coming"
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Quote: The moment that Open Source becomes primarily about “my time” is the moment that Open Source is no longer a movement.
Reality bites. Welcome to the grown-up real world.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Yeah, sometimes the "purity for purity's sake" just doesn't work. I feel for his fee-fees. 
TTFN - Kent
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I'm not sure what he's saying there.
Open source is dead because proprietary solutions built by a group of focused developers with a definite business goal in mind that got them through the tough un-fun times beat open source software developed by a disparate group with no fixed business goal and minimal chance of reward?
If so then...yes.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The moment that Open Source becomes primarily about “my time” is the moment that Open Source is no longer a movement.
There's a lot of truth to that statement. The idea of OS (or any pro bono work) is, philosophically speaking, primarily about giving, whether as a creator of an OS project or a contributor. Certainly I also take from the OS community, and have on occasion made monetary donations. I also take in terms of learning new things, and receiving any (useful) contributions people make to my OS projects.
However, the primary motivation is still giving, and there in, the concept of "my time" betrays a certain mindset. Yes, we all have responsibilities at work, home, our families, and to ourselves personally, but what matters is how we choose to prioritize those responsibilities.
Marc
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I don't think it was ever alive. There are a few, unbelievably well done open source projects and then all the rest, a few of which are adequate, but most awful.
Open source projects tend to stagnate. For a small, single purpose library, this is a Very Good Thing. For projects like Linux or Boost, it's annoying if not simply pathetic. A big reason, if not the reason, is that polishing a project is very time expensive and therefore cash expensive. Without an income source, nobody can afford to do the job and what company wants to pay for this only to have to give it all away?
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Serverless architecture is as important to businesses as electricity was to the Industrial Revolution. Or maybe it's the marmoset of cheese? The sunlight of radio?
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Sounds like non-dairy creamer to me. 
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That sentence is a wonder. "as electricity was to the Industrial Revolution" basically means, AFAICT, not important at all. Large scale use of electricity in industrial processes came some time later.
So she's really saying serverless architecture is unimportant. Personally, it seems like a good match for some tasks. For some information that may actually be informed, I suggest this article on Martin Fowler's Bliki: Serverless Architecture[^].
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the marmoset of cheese? The sunlight of radio?
I remember the taste of wonder, now !
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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The dumbest analogy I've read in quite a while. Even the term "serverless" is idiotic--there's still a server.
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JavaScript is the most popular programming language of 2016, according to RedMonk’s recently released biannual programming language rankings. "It was as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror"
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I bet more of those goes to maintenance mode. That's what we doing here.
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Is that popular, or just "forced to use". There is a huge difference.
Also the methodology is questionable. It simply indicates that they have more activity on GitHub and Stack Overflow. Rust, for example, has its own active communities so may see little activity on SO. Further, a high degree of activity on SO may actually indicate that a language is harder to use.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Well used anyway. iirc Redmonk's bogoindex is just a tally of what's being done on github.
Which still makes it one step above Tiobe's bogoindex based on search engine results and job postings. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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At least including search rankings has a chance of including communities such as Rust where the main activity is not on Stack Overflow, but on their own web sites.
Although most methodologies for measuring popularity seem flawed to me, just in different ways.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Feds charge 30-year-old Ukrainian Artem Vaulin over his involvement in piracy website KickassTorrents. "Sometimes you kick. Sometimes you get kicked."
It's the plot of probably the dullest episode of CSI, but an interesting view into how someone can get tracked.
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Will begin Flash blocking in August; expand to all content in 2017 "All in all you're just another brick in the wall"
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Facebook's Connectivity Lab announced today that the company has for the first time test-flown a full-scale version of Aquila, the solar-powered high-altitude drone that Facebook hopes to use to deliver Internet connectivity to the remotest populated corners of the Earth. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the Internet!
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If there are any remote spots in Texas there will be some shootin' goin' on...
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Today, the team behind one of the most sensitive dark matter detectors announced its full experimental run had failed to turn up any of the particles it was looking for. "Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls, which are labeled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it."
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Dark Matter is on Fridays on SyFy/Space channel at 10:00pm eastern time 
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On that note: is it any good? I noticed that the first season is on Netflix, but I haven't tried it yet.
TTFN - Kent
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