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Wonder if this is more due to Bhyve being developed on FreeBSD and Illumos derives from a common ancestor BSD? I know NetApp (stack based on FreeBSD) contributed significantly to B…

Would love UC Berkeley to revive innovation and collaboration as seen during the BSD days.

I hope this and SCIP becomes a standard and we have more programming languages emitting symbols in SCIP format.

Awesome tool I purchased when I stumbled upon it. I draw flowcharts for complex implementations in ASCII using Monodraw and embed them in source code.

This is my exact concern when new corp of developers try and learn operating systems using languages further away from the building blocks. Unpopular opinion: It is still good to l…

What happens when rest of the team does not rise to the occasion? You now have a happy but very mediocre team for the task on hand. Decision making is very democratic but seldom ha…

Well, those OS differences taught us to write (or strive to) portable code. It also taught me to better appreciate strengths in different operating systems over the years.

Samba for file sharing? I led development efforts for the first Samba release on VMS (IA64) working at HP. It was not performant enough compared to ASV but we were on the right pat…

Could it be more to prevent monopoly by their competitor Amazon becoming the biggest investor? OpenAI gave Microsoft a competitive edge and this could just be a hedge to prevent Am…

I feel it is best to leave git out of this - separation of concerns Let external tools evolve independently instead.

Was the BSOD screensaver from sysinternals by Mark Russinovich? I had installed the same and couple of my colleagues sitting around me had done the same. Our CTO (Robotics simulati…

I have a similar requirement where I want all my work related links to open in a particular browser/profile. I use Mac and ended up implementing something that I can tweak easily, …

This is the approach that finally worked for me and have been using this for past 4 years. I create a top level directory for collection of related repositories. It lets me configu…

> I remember having used a Red Hat (?) SourceNav (Source Navigator) by any chance? I used it quite a lot before completely moving to Emacs.

Use ‘ditto’ for copying directories. It is fast! https://osxdaily.com/2014/06/11/use-ditto-copy-files-directo...

We have a service that uses Go http proxy for implementing a reverse proxy. Upgrading to Go 1.16 introduced an unexplained performance drop. We suspect it is due to how it flushes …

Reminds me of my early days as a rookie people manager. I was asked to estimate a project for a team that I had no idea about their abilities. I was very hesitant to estimate since…

I am on my 26th year as a programmer. I love the fact that I can imagine and also make it happen. However, I see a constant push from people around me to focus on creating a pipeli…