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in a freshly created venv, with attrs and ipython (and deps, of course): (attrs) % ipython Python 2.7.14 (default, Oct 19 2017, 23:28:49) Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" f…

Really awesome to see how far this has come with the development since its original form! Nicely done!

Very early on: * time tracking: a frankenstein combination of system logs (especially helpful when jumping between workstations), paper notebook, and chatlogs * invoicing: http://b…

Depends on many, many things. Most are fairly specific to the region in question (whichever it might be).

Yeah... it's tough.. Still, I'm sticking around. There's potential to do good here.

As a mini-followup: due to this kind of scenario, we ended up having to replace UPS battery packs in about 8 months (1/3 of their minimum intended lifecycle) due to how heavily the…

Ah, no no. The expectations are not low. People are paying for a service, and they expect it to work. I once (another country, another ISP) dealt with a query/complaint of "it does…

By way of answering, let me recount a short story for you. It takes place during the very first time I visited Kampala (the capital of Uganda). It was about 3 years before I had st…

Nothing exciting published, no. Blogging wasn't particularly big around this part of the world/specific-weird-subset-of-the-market for most of that time. Should I consider writing …

(all below is in an American/US context) Read about ILECs/CLECs. Understand what the cable offerings' contention model is. Do the math. Understand the support burdens of NAT-on-NAT…

While I don't wish you ill will, I do wish to remark that you have had it remarkably easy with this. Source: 7 ISPs. In Africa. On unreliable power, broken fibre, people stealing y…

Will contact separately.

Someone with an interest in the liveliness of open-source ecosystems. I didn't find enough relevant data out there, so I decided to get some.

First to get some more responses. Later, if possible, I'll attempt to release the raw (albeit sanitised) data. At minimum I'll post a follow-up with some statistics/analyses.

"How unreliable is UDP? Let's test with these 5 network paths that I have no control over, and have no idea what their design constraints are...that should be totally authoritive, …