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What is the base data for your analysis? Is this data available?

And how did you come to the conclusion that "missing high quality linux desktops" are the thing "holding back" Linux?

Is this based on some statistical work you did?

If we talk about feelings - did you ever have the feeling that corruption, lobbying and blackmailing could play a role?

BTW - why do you think Linux is missing high quality desktops? I am working with very high quality Linux desktops since many years and I wonder why people are using such low quality desktop OS that are sold commercially.

Portable Django 3 years ago

What are your facts about what most people want? Did you do some statistical work in this field? It would be interesting to see your results.

As a competent HN reader you certainly are basing your view on some facts?

Simon H, your inter-galactical mission has failed!

People of planet earth KNOW, that YOU and your friends are HERE and we will not submit to extraterrestrial leadership!

Your denial of an obvious fact is evidence of you being part of the extraterrestrial gang that tries to stay in the dark - but it is too late, you can hide in Antarctica or in the oceans, we still know that YOU are here!

BTW - would you please like to support us in building better polyphonic analog synthesizers? This technology is stuck in the 80s and we still have limitations in total voice count and number of modulation sources - we need some serious evolutionary jump in this area. Thanks!

PhpBB 3.3.10 3 years ago

But people using forums also got so many things wrong.

One thing that really went wrong: people using forums as issue trackers.

Just look at the mega topics that exist for one $thing with never-ending addition of posts that are a nightmare to search and extract knowledge from. Instead of using an issue tracker, they post more and more messages to the one forum topic dedicated to $thing. Some hardware related forums still do that. Ultra long topics with hundreds of posts, somewhere between page 157-178 there are some nuggets you will never find.

Also the extremely annoying UIs - as an example look at the minimal navigation / pagination buttons in many forums. Well, OK, that started to change slowly, but still we have horrible UIs everywhere. Annoyances like most space on a forum page still wasted for unimportant side information do exist - some designs are so bad that the most important information has the smallest font size.

But while the good old slick and dirty PHP forums still delivered with all that warts, mostly because these people still knew how to program fast software, then came the ruby programmers and brought us a vision of forum software that should get a premium lifetime award for coding horrors. JS heavy frontend with grotesque front-end anti-patterns and a monstrous bloated backend that breaks when your forum actually has some attention. The time of "internet software as a satirical art form" has not stopped until today.

So hopefully the old-school PHP devs can easily iron out the annoyances of the past and still deliver internet software that is fast and usable.

Happy release party, PhpBB!

PhpBB 3.3.10 3 years ago

I do not understand what do you mean by "interlocking" and "overlapping" networks. The word "federate" you use very near to these words make me believe that you are talking about some technical feature - but I do not know that.

What kind of "interlocking" and "overlapping" are you writing about here?

I think I am missing some text - is there anything between

"Then combine all those geojson file into one mbtile file by using tippecanoe."

and

"Then, convert that mbtile file to pmtile by using go-pmtiles"

??? I see only a grey box - looks like some code should be displayed there?

BTW this limitation made me believe that the data distributed with Protomaps is limited to that zoom level in general. Some wording related to "data" and "shopping" near that map quickly made me assume that deeper zoom levels will cost money.

Are you presenting a limitation of the product on the front page or is this just a limiting presentation of your product? Mind the difference.

Rails on Docker 3 years ago

Please explain

"I recommend avoiding Ubuntu because it violates the principle of dev - prod parity."

What exactly is the problem? Would you please like to provide sources to this issue / some explanation / any helpful content? THANKS!

Sorry, but the story is missing a very important ingredient for a kids book: I can not identify any deeper moral or social or any idea.

While stories "just for fun" have of course a right to exist, it is very questionable to fill your kids brain solely with random, empty, meaningless fun stories.

Stories for kids are an important part of helping to build a moral compass for the world. Besides "getting rich quick with fun products" I see no value transported in that story.

Empty stories will produce empty humans.

There is more to a good story than "something happens" and "nice pictures".

Thank you very much for your information.

Unfortunately you invalidate your own work by not providing the sources of your knowledge. The internet has a cool feature called "URL", it is meant to provide the source of some information so that your readers can access your sources, too. Just use it!

In a mature, scientific discussion you always want to provide these sources.

Just saying something without sources is an internet discussion style of the past and should not be accepted by modern humans.

Jump Servers 4 years ago

Do you have some data about how many orgs actually set SSH PAM via LDAP?

Where can I see this data? I would like to check your statements.

We are on the internet, so would you please like to add the source of knowledge to your statements - it is a very basic and good feature called "URL", please use it!

Or do you just want to say "I have not seen many orgs with SSH + LDAP in my career because I have never worked in one and from that I conclude that the whole world works like this"?

Jump Servers 4 years ago

But it is written on the website: "without security compromise" - so it must be secure!!!

Also there is a lot of low contrast text on that website - this shows that they really know what they are doing and you can trust them. I am sure it is a very good company and you should give all the login credentials of your org to them and also install their binary on all servers.

Isn´t "trust in company" the reason why you are using Linux servers?

Looks like no Windows support for the whole clickhose product family!

This is actually great as it gives me one more reason to ask for a real operating system! Now with clickhouse-local only available on Linux (or OSX) I have a very good point to make, as everybody loves data tools like these! Finally!

Follow up blog post to be done: "How clickhouse-local helped me to finally introduce Linux as a client OS in our working group."