The articles on HN are great but the comments are we keep me coming back, hilarious. Have to run, need to catch my bus.
Half the time I just read the comments. I think I'm addicted. :)
What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
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Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#112There's a lot of comments considering the general case of losing a key person on a project, but I think it'd be interesting to speculate on what happens to Linux when Linus leaves the project! Will it go embrace, extend, exterminate? Will there be a bunch of forks? Will Redhat/IBM/Canonical types keep it up?
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#113Ok. But what if Richard Stallman gets hit by a falling piano?
Emacs would get new features and improvements.
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not a traditional form of re-distribution. In legal terms, I guess it's a gray area. The article is now on the blockchain. It is not published (re-distributed) anywhere in particular. It's also encoded and not in the actual form of an article.
Involving a technically convoluted mechanism doesn't change the fundamental legal question here. It's just made it harder for you to undo your potential violation. A temporary web mirror has at least a narrow time scope and a justification. Choosing to embed a copy of content you don't own into a permanently-public record is a greater offense.
> Choosing to embed a copy of content you don't own into a permanently-public record is a greater offense.
Anybody making copies of that record, and anybody distributing them, would be (and probably already is) breaking the law.
But then, the one embedding it only broke the law once, by making and distributing one copy of the protected work, same as reposting it on a temporary web mirror. Worse, with a web mirror you make and distribute copies for every requests...
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mind providing a source for this? I read this all the time but it doesn't match my experience here in Germany.
1.5 to 3 years doesn’t seem to be too far off the mark. https://insights.dice.com/2016/07/08/how-long-do-tech-pros-s...
Covers only the SF region (with a questionable data gathering methodology).
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Devs stay in one place like 15 months Occassionally a 2 year stint just so some Gen X-er that reviews their resume’ doesnt consider them too noncommittal No need to mince words about people leaving
Mind providing a source for this? I read this all the time but it doesn't match my experience here in Germany.
Same for me. I've been at SAP for nearly 7 years now, and I know only a handful colleagues who left the company. Some people moved to different teams though, so that may count as well, but retention is still way way way higher than 1.5 or 2 years.
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately, they all exist in parallel. So unless we figure out how to cryogenically freeze humans for hundreds of years, we'll run out of Torvaldii (which I think should be the plural for Torvalds) very soon.
Torvalds is a Swedish name (Linus Torvalds is from a Swedish Finn family) and it seems to originate as the genitive (possessive) of the name Torvald https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Torvald I think this use of the genitive is a form of patronymic, like if someone named Torvald had a son named Einar, maybe that person could be called "Einar Torvalds" (that is, Torvald's Einar). So it should probably have a…
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Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#118Obvious, he sends SIGBUS to the driver and then someone examines the core dump :-) Forgive me !
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know if this is the norm outside of SV. I typically stay four years at a position and almost every interview I've had, people will comment about how short of a tenure that is. It's definitely not unusual for developers to stay in roles for a decade or more. Especially very good ones.
Its not the norm outside VC-backed tech land There is just a lot of stuff to build and a salary that needs to increase 30% every other year
I'm not so sure the 30% pay increase with every job hop is necessarily the norm either. Maybe at first when you're moving up from entry-level to senior. But in some markets, you hit the regional salary cap after four of those and you're stuck with 2-4% annual raises -- even with in-demand skill sets.
If I posted the job offers I've received for having experience with Spark/Hadoop, building / productionizing machine learning models (since 2011 even), an AWS certificate, and 15 years worth of other worthwhile skills, people here wouldn't believe me because they are so low. Definitely well below the startng salary of someone at Google. Yet I've had three, all of which were basically identical.