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WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#21

Why have programmers (with jobs, usually) become the modern-day mendicants, begging pizzas and beer off of passers by? Or maybe they're like buskers, peddling their amateur/down-home status? What is the "donations" thing about? Doesn't it make people (with jobs) feel ashamed? Can you really say you're in open source, if you've got your little cardboard sign and upside down hat on all your projects?

Its nice to get some money from a side project. Might make you work more on it.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#22

Why have programmers (with jobs, usually) become the modern-day mendicants, begging pizzas and beer off of passers by? Or maybe they're like buskers, peddling their amateur/down-home status? What is the "donations" thing about? Doesn't it make people (with jobs) feel ashamed? Can you really say you're in open source, if you've got your little cardboard sign and upside down hat on all your projects?

Wait, are you being serious? Im speechless

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#23

Why have programmers (with jobs, usually) become the modern-day mendicants, begging pizzas and beer off of passers by? Or maybe they're like buskers, peddling their amateur/down-home status? What is the "donations" thing about? Doesn't it make people (with jobs) feel ashamed? Can you really say you're in open source, if you've got your little cardboard sign and upside down hat on all your projects?

You mean it's shameful to receive money directly from the users, and respectable people must have an intermediary for it?

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#25

Why have programmers (with jobs, usually) become the modern-day mendicants, begging pizzas and beer off of passers by? Or maybe they're like buskers, peddling their amateur/down-home status? What is the "donations" thing about? Doesn't it make people (with jobs) feel ashamed? Can you really say you're in open source, if you've got your little cardboard sign and upside down hat on all your projects?

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Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#26

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

Zooming works fine here. Mobile Safari iPhone SE.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#27

Why have programmers (with jobs, usually) become the modern-day mendicants, begging pizzas and beer off of passers by? Or maybe they're like buskers, peddling their amateur/down-home status? What is the "donations" thing about? Doesn't it make people (with jobs) feel ashamed? Can you really say you're in open source, if you've got your little cardboard sign and upside down hat on all your projects?

Thank you for donating your 2¢ We understand you don't need to contribute anything to enjoy this comments section and therefore we do truly appreciate that you've found enough value to contribute to this endeavor!

It is better to give than to receive! Let me know if you want more, I can riff on this topic for...hmm... at least 250 words.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#28

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

On mobile, tapping the picture opens it in isolation, allowing you to zoom in on it.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#29

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

Same, Firefox on linux can't zoom the image. Right-click 'View Image' does provide a standard zoomable image, but why make me work to see if your product is of use/benefit to me?
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