Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

Post by ggame » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 1:53 PM UTC

astrodust wrote: post #185

aoeu345 wrote: post #138

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For what it's worth, I used to live with a guy who used the Magic Lantern firmware add-on for certain Canon cameras, which was very powerful free software that had a community forum. He would tell me about how he'd shit talk the devs for not including some feature or when something wasn't working. It's pretty terrible.

Having a community leader who isn't afraid to crack some heads to keep people in line is always important. People like this poison any community. Make a Code of Conduct and use it to control your community rather than let your community control you. It's like parents complaining their kids are "out of control" and "there's nothing I can do". Seriously? We've been raising kids for a hundred thousand years. This shit i…

Post by mbreese » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 1:58 PM UTC

edblarney wrote: post #316

fnord123 wrote: post #237

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Strong disagree. There should be funding bodies for projects like this who can fund projects and also provide a semblance of orchestration. The Linux Foundation (with the Core Infrastructure Initiative) and the Cloud Native Compute Foundation are already working in the right direction, imo. There are other organizations that work through contracting work to develop free and open source software. Red Hat and Canonical…

"There should be funding bodies for projects like this who can fund projects and also provide a semblance of orchestration. " A much better way than 'government funding' would be for users to just pay for it . It's called 'capitalism' it works very well. Oftentimes, it's difficult for the government and centralized bodies to know 'what to fund' and what not to - it's a hard thing, it can get political. Money goes ent…

Post by Asooka » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 2:05 PM UTC

astrodust wrote: post #63

thedevil wrote: post #55

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> Will he be whiteboarded? I like the way you word it - it makes it sound like a form of torture.

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    static char ALLTHEFUCKINGMEMORY[1024*1024*1024];
    static size_t NEXTBYTE = 0;
    void *myAlloc(size_t size) {
        void *ptr = &ALLTHEFUCKINGMEMORY[NEXTBYTE];
        NEXTBYTE += size;
        if (size & 3) NEXTBYTE = (NEXTBYTE & (~3)) + 4;
        return ptr;
    }
    void myFree(void *ptr) {
        fprintf(stderr, "REAL PROGRAMMERS DON'T NEED TO FREE MEMORY\n");
        exit(-1);
    }

Post by wolfgke » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 2:05 PM UTC

astrodust wrote: post #182

ggame wrote: post #141

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As you point out, sufficiently good. But not great. I agree that the world is a better place with open source. I simply wish there was a culture were developers opened their wallet and supported it. That way we would have even more of it.

Then instead of bitching about the tools or the attitude of developers, which does nothing, why not work to encourage people to support it properly? For example: I think personal donations can only go so far. I'd rather see an easier sell for simple "support packages" that developers can recommend to their organization that helps further development. "We're really invested in package X and it'd be great to be listed…

Post by usernam » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 2:08 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #277

usernam wrote: post #264

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Having a VAT number in most EU countries has a fixed cost that is non-negligible. For a realistic example in Italy, having a VAT number implies a minimal fixed yearly cost of ~300eur (combining all various expenses) even for zero income. If you already are an employee, any extra income is likely to be taxed higher and require extra bookkeeping, to the point that cost parity is only attained if you can invoice for at…

Some of those costs are general accountancy that you would have to do anyway, as long as you try to sell anything. AFAIK the big problem with VAT, from a seller perspective, is the fact that most governments, knowing full well that 90% of businesses fail in the first 2 years, ask for big upfront payments on estimate VAT remittances in that window, to make sure they don't lose out. After 3 years, as long as your accou…