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completely anecdotal, but the reason from my perspective is that the system has been overwhelmingly rigged against being able to take economic risk. I would have started my own bus…

> you can't become a doc for love of the profession, because it's a profession you can't test drive oh, I don't know about that. It's like a 6 week community college course to beco…

Nope. OSS was here long before redhat and everyone else, and it will be here long after. Because, in your analogy, the librarians are all volunteers. That’s how we got here. If the…

Right all this talk of "what it takes to be a success in OSS" ... programma please! "Success" in the OSS world is putting code out that others can use. Either they find it useful, …

> But my personal history? My photos? Words I've written? Oh well. If someone wants that stuff, they can probably get it. And the gaping maw of robotic commerce doesn't actually ca…

I checked the demos and I was like "neat!" ... then I was like "ok how many megatons of frameworks I don't care about is this buried in?" The fact that it wasn't. That's what's gon…

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I say I'm a musician on the side, but truthfully I've been messing with sound instinctively since I came out of the womb, and I only picked up programming and design and stuff late…

> What are the remaining APIs that people need in Electron that are not available in the web browser? And what's the timeline to getting those in the browser to deprecate Electron?…

wow! that is an amazingly well done video!

One of the reasons I love HN is that the commenters here usually have a much deeper understanding of this sort of thing than I do. Which is why I'm left wondering why nobody has me…

add to this also the target audience. FB may have started out as an invite only thing for technically savvy(ish) college kids, but those days were completely over the minute they g…

An interesting question I've had recently, which isn't necessarily directly related to the subject of the article is, "how does access to technology affect brain development?" When…

Sure, but the fuller picture is more like this. Nearly every major industrialized nation's infrastructure was bombed to hell after WW2, except America. To the victor went the spoil…

when we can make web pages, and entire sites without once actually using something a human can disassemble and reverse engineer ... this will be the end of the open web. truly the …

Since the hot mess that was 2016 on Facebook went down, I've been pondering this a lot. Facebook was an effective rear view mirror, for a whole lot of us. The more savvy among us c…

This is what makes me want to see something like Electron developed over Firefox internals. Packaging my own browser with my code so that I am now developing toward ONE client inst…

Yeah I dunno. There's like at least 3 or 4 different ways of constructing "classes" without the Class keyword. Frankly, that's a mess. I get that each has it's own advantages etc, …

Stop a 9mm @ ten meters from what? Even if the bullet didn't breach the fabric, the fabric is gonna breach YOU. I guess it might make recovering the projectile from your internal o…

hold on now. This isn't nature we're talking about here. It's other humans. When I spend 20 or 30 years of my life specializing in a particular task, and doing it to generate a lar…