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The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Because most machines these days have volume control built in. You can pause the talk, though, if you want it to shut up for a moment.

I think most people would expect for an audio player to have volume control. I can't think of another web audio player that doesn't offer it.

But they're completely redundant. What would you use it for?

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Why am I getting a talk on Openstack at Cern, and not the Greg KH talk?

CTO of voicerepublic.com here

All talks have unique URLs, so when you click the link from HN, you shouldn't find yourself at another talk. If you can reproduce that problem, I would be very interested in a detailed bug report, though.

However, we have multiple talks on Openstack[1], if you were interested(;

1. https://voicerepublic.com/search/1/Openstack

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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I'm using Chrome on Linux and I got "You are using an outdated browser - You are using an old version of Chrome whis is 28." That's a little snarky. Chrome on Linux doesn't have automatic updating and I tend to forget to update. Here's a mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LWDDNOb...

CTO of voicerepublic.com here. Sorry for coming off snarky. We develop and run VR using Debian Stable which ships Chromium 33 right now. We are a very small team building voicerepublic.com and did launch just last week. To offer a perfect experience, we only allow browsers that we actually could test. Whence the team grows, we certainly will test and support more browser versions.

Update: Some stats

After about 4000 hits from HN, about 1% of visitors have a browser older than:

* Chrome/Chromium 30

* Safari 7

* Firefox 24

* IE 10

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think most people would expect for an audio player to have volume control. I can't think of another web audio player that doesn't offer it.

But they're completely redundant. What would you use it for?

I don't know about you, but I would use it for volume control.

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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CTO of voicerepublic.com here. Sorry for coming off snarky. We develop and run VR using Debian Stable which ships Chromium 33 right now. We are a very small team building voicerepublic.com and did launch just last week. To offer a perfect experience, we only allow browsers that we actually could test. Whence the team grows, we certainly will test and support more browser versions.

Good answer. And hey, on the bright side, you reminded me to update Chrome!

How are you not getting chrome updates from your distro?

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Why am I getting a talk on Openstack at Cern, and not the Greg KH talk?

CTO of voicerepublic.com here All talks have unique URLs, so when you click the link from HN, you shouldn't find yourself at another talk. If you can reproduce that problem, I would be very interested in a detailed bug report, though. However, we have multiple talks on Openstack[1], if you were interested(; 1. https://voicerepublic.com/search/1/Openstack

Open the link in this page: Select the "download" option, and pick "ogg" https://voicerepublic.com/system/audio/2014/05/16/DQxIXPoh2T...

is the URL I get, and that isn't Greg speaking

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Why am I getting a talk on Openstack at Cern, and not the Greg KH talk?

CTO of voicerepublic.com here All talks have unique URLs, so when you click the link from HN, you shouldn't find yourself at another talk. If you can reproduce that problem, I would be very interested in a detailed bug report, though. However, we have multiple talks on Openstack[1], if you were interested(; 1. https://voicerepublic.com/search/1/Openstack

Happens to me too. Multiple browsers (Firefox 29 and Chrome 34)

The talk at the URL is about something at CERN for me in both browsers. Its an interesting talk, but I don't think its what I'm supposed to be listening too... although maybe thats the joke and this is how they stay sane developing the kernel.

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Why am I getting a talk on Openstack at Cern, and not the Greg KH talk?

CTO of voicerepublic.com here All talks have unique URLs, so when you click the link from HN, you shouldn't find yourself at another talk. If you can reproduce that problem, I would be very interested in a detailed bug report, though. However, we have multiple talks on Openstack[1], if you were interested(; 1. https://voicerepublic.com/search/1/Openstack

I just saw the same problem. I just clicked through to https://voicerepublic.com/venues/223/talks/982 and the recording is for OpenStack at CERN (the text etc refer to Kernel development). The talk starts out "We have a few hundred thousand lines of perl code..." That was a nice little start for a talk about Kernel development!

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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I think most people would expect for an audio player to have volume control. I can't think of another web audio player that doesn't offer it.

But they're completely redundant. What would you use it for?

A web page shouldn't act like it has exclusive ownership of system resources like audio; there may be other pages or applications running, and it's often useful to be able to control them independently.

For instance, if I have Gmail open in the background, there's no reason that adjusting the volume of whatever's in the foreground should also force me to change the volume of incoming chat notifications.

Re: The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it

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Why on earth doesn't that player have a volume control?

Because most machines these days have volume control built in. You can pause the talk, though, if you want it to shut up for a moment.

It is a real pain in the ass on the Mac in my living room. The mini is hooked up to the stereo via SPDIF and for some reason that I have never bothered figuring out there is no volume control for digital out. For every other application vlc/itunes/etc I can manage the volume. I had to dig the remote out of the coffee table for this talk. Granted it would have been less of an issue without the nasty mic feedback/buzzing from the recording.
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