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Re: 20×10%

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Post by sph »

e19293001 wrote: post #4

I didn't know this person before: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/emacs/ A banking CTO who contributes a lot in emacs. I really like the image editing he did. Thank you for posting this. Made my day.

I imagine a director-level tech executive at a bank or other slow-moving industry to fit one of two possible archetypes:

1. A suit-wearing person that's so far removed from technology he's just a glorified manager hunt-and-pecking in Outlook all day.

2. A suit-wearing person with a permanent PuTTY window connected to the ageing AS-400 system still running in the basement.

Re: 20×10%

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Post by nanna »

nebqr wrote: post #5

It’s a shame most distros are still rocking emacs 27 and not including libgccjit makes installing 28+ a pain on windows.

If you're on a distro which doesn't have Emacs 28+, one option is to pick it up from guix.

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Post by ducktective »

sph wrote: post #21
e19293001 wrote: post #4

I didn't know this person before: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/emacs/ A banking CTO who contributes a lot in emacs. I really like the image editing he did. Thank you for posting this. Made my day.

I imagine a director-level tech executive at a bank or other slow-moving industry to fit one of two possible archetypes: 1. A suit-wearing person that's so far removed from technology he's just a glorified manager hunt-and-pecking in Outlook all day. 2. A suit-wearing person with a permanent PuTTY window connected to the ageing AS-400 system still running in the basement.

Bon soir, Elliot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmHSx0R3p3A

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Post by sph »

ducktective wrote: post #24
sph wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine a director-level tech executive at a bank or other slow-moving industry to fit one of two possible archetypes: 1. A suit-wearing person that's so far removed from technology he's just a glorified manager hunt-and-pecking in Outlook all day. 2. A suit-wearing person with a permanent PuTTY window connected to the ageing AS-400 system still running in the basement.

Bon soir, Elliot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmHSx0R3p3A

God, I miss that show. I completely forgot about Tyrell, I was mostly thinking of actual UNIX greybeards disguised as banking CTOs I've met earlier in my career :)

Re: 20×10%

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Post by quickthrower2 »

ducktective wrote: post #3

Idea for famous billionaires: support FOSS software and bug squashing streaks like this. It automatically ensues positive image and accelerates advancement of humanity in science and tech, especially for programs that are core to everyday life of developers, like editors. Someone tag Mr Musk.

Billionaires? Or millionaires even. And not programmers even. Pay someone $50k/y to fix the bugs.

Re: 20×10%

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Post by zasdffaa »

Heh! He closed one of mine!

Emacs bugs I've reported can vary from "I'd like this behaviour" to "something ain't right here" to "docs are borked on ". Emacs is so stable there's not many crashing bugs to report.

Emacs devs are great btw, tolerant of occasional n00bishness and very responsive.

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Post by withinboredom »

once_inc wrote: post #2

My previous employer used to plan "express checkout" weeks for developers. In between two larger projects, you'd get the chance to spend two weeks doing nothing other than picking low-hanging fruits off the bug-tracker tree. It worked miracles, with minor-but-irritating bugs getting solved much faster, and with features for niche groups getting implemented as opposed to laying in wait for a bigger project it would th…

I was on a team that did three week sprints separated by a one week “do whatever you want” while the manager and tech lead planned the next three week sprint. I lived for those weeks! It was great for fixing bugs, refactoring for the hell of it, or adding new internal features. I probably learned the most during those one weeks, because someone would inevitably refactor something and we would all learn from the approach. Sometimes we didn’t even commit the new code, but would steal successful patterns for future code.

Sometimes, we would “invent” something novel and truly impressive that would open doors to future features that were previously impossible.

Re: 20×10%

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Post by jhoechtl »

nebqr wrote: post #5

It’s a shame most distros are still rocking emacs 27 and not including libgccjit makes installing 28+ a pain on windows.

On Windows it's very easy:

Download from https://github.com/kiennq/emacs-build/releases

Unzip into a folder of your liking, C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Emacs would be a sensible start

Re: 20×10%

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Post by [deleted] »

nanna wrote: post #23
nebqr wrote: post #5

It’s a shame most distros are still rocking emacs 27 and not including libgccjit makes installing 28+ a pain on windows.

If you're on a distro which doesn't have Emacs 28+, one option is to pick it up from guix.

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