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London's basically great for: 1. Startups 2. Scaling/Growth 3. Existing company expanding from USA->Europe or Europe->USA It's not as good as Silicon Valley for any of these, but n…

As a Brit when I started doing deals in North America one of the things I picked up was that I had to be explicit about disagreement OR where a decision was not being made yet. In …

Do you have an experience working in Europe or the UK? > I couldn't even hope to get employment in tech in the UK or Europe without a degree Maybe this is how it looks from the out…

Guix is gathering feedback from users and contributors on their experiences; what they love and what they've found challenging. Whether you're new or a veteran we'd love to have yo…

"Modern" seems to be used a loose adjective these days for "I rewrote $thing [in Rust]". Minecraft was created in 2011, and is Wikipedia says the last version of the 'classic' edit…

I use it for additional packages on top of another Linux distribution (Ubuntu). This gets me rolling release packages and guix shell which is great for development as each project …

Yes, I wasn't throwing shade on Nix, I was drawing a specific comparison about Linux distributions. My opinion is that Guix/Nix move the state of the art for Linux distributions fo…

We're a small group 5-10 people, so it's very informal and friendly. I'm sure Fabio ( https://fabionatali.com/ ) who organised it would have good advice! I'll say that from my pers…

No. Guix is more similar to Debian, with only 'Free Software' applications in the main archive. For proprietary codecs, firmware and so forth there is the Nonguix channel. Again, t…

New packages and updates to packages come into the archive continuously. For example, in roughly the last 24 hours 40 packages were added or updated - https://git.savannah.gnu.org/…

Guix can create reproducible development environments that are "sealed off" from the rest of the distribution. It's called Guix shell and it's very flexible: * Guix Shell https://w…

For those that don't know Guix can be used as: * a package manager on top of an existing Linux distribution (think apt or rpm) * a development environment (think Python venv but fo…

FFS - talk about missing the point.

Sorry that annoyed you. One thing to bear in mind is that at Weaveworks we made massive contributions and did our best to be part of the community in the right way: * Flux * Flagge…

Thank-you - really appreciate this comment - acknowledging the work that great people did and the efforts they put in. I wish the outcome was different - but we really tried to do …

The shutdown means great people with Cloud Native skills are available now. People across all teams: marketing, product, engineering, dev-rel, consulting / CRE, customer success an…

> I am so freaking sick of companies lying and exploiting open source. This is Embrace, Extend, Extinguish at it's finest. I don't see how this is 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish'? Th…

I think you know this as you mention "olden way" - it's definitely the thread of history where most UNIX servers were multi-user systems: that's how I was first exposed to Unix, ev…

I've been using Guix on top of Ubuntu so that I can have the latest versions of some applications I care about, while keeping the core Ubuntu which works well with my hardare. Simi…

Finding that "intrinsic motivation" to work on a hobby is something that really helps to keep you going. Often we're extrinsically motivated by others praise, social media likes et…

Totally get it. But, the issue is that to sell something it has to solve a problem for someone else. Generally the choices are: a. Build something that solves your personal problem…

That's pithy but a characterisation that misses many important aspects. Bram's been developing Vim for 30 years [0]. Just think about that for a second. An open source project that…

True - but you're forgetting the executives previously learned experience of telling a team that a due date was September and them delivering six months later. The consequence was …

Actually ... It's equally hard to do good or bad management, since most of the time you have no idea if you're achieving either outcome - and neither does anyone else. The problem …