lonelappde

Please clarify who "we" is in your comments.

Sure, why not? Or they impute value from usage.

That's a problem that's simple to solve by putting a quota on # analyses per project per month, perhaps weighted by how popular the project is. Like everything else at GitHub, private project users pay extra to cover the public project users. It's proportionall regardless of a feature's cost.

That means the price is negotiable. Rich users pay more, poor users pay less, both users get value, producer makes a profit; everyone wins.

Grit isn't about trading A for B. It's about trading off idleness and pain avoidance for effort.

Pain is temporary, different from destruction.

The problem with the that quote is that "it's better now than before" is used my large political movements to justify cancelling the effort that got us here, and letting us backslide.

It's pretend handwritten.

There's no need to enforce any license. Inkscape is free and open for as long no one takes away the license by force.

Do you think the team is opposed, unaware, or starved for development resources?

Inkscape isn't "it". It's "us".

The US provides food aid to people with low or no income.

"Eating into savings" is what saving are made for.

It can seem expensive if you ignored the compensation your employer was paying while you were employed.

How is it unavoidable? If the employee leaves on their choice, is severance paid?

That works for people who build savings.

Linux is great on the server. It will never be good on the human interface because hardware and UX trends evolve and fragment faster the tiny user community can afford to support.

No way this is just a matter of paying a freelancer $50K. If that was it then System76 would have done it and someone would be rich from selling a closed source driver already.

And software doesn't even touch the problem that most of what's wrong with non-Mac touchpads is the universally lousy hardware.

Galileo in particular was prosecuted by the Catholic church for making spittle flecked rants against the Pope. Much like a modern YouTuber, he then pretended he was persecuted for his science.

That's off the mark. It's more that there are angry, frustrated, or stupid people and they taught how to channel their anger, frustration, and stupidity into specific forms of hate. Conspiracy theories don't grow because all these people came to the same conclusion independently and then found each other.

Have you not noticed that the most populous country in the world is run by a self-identifying Communist Party?

And the USSR, #4 was Communist until it collapsed economically, not intellectually?

Even in big cities, Costco is a restaurant and convenience store supplier. In remote areas the warehouse part is more emphasized.

Reminiscent the fire ant invasion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_imported_fire_ants_in_th...

The author is from the 1990s era of Linux / FOSS, before kindness was part of the culture, when the culture had a tough competitive streak where mistakes and humility were seen as signs of weakness and disrespected. High expectations wee tightly bound with low levels of patience. And many people were scared off from contributing.

Sure, but that's a consequence of international war.

The war (and the warmongers) is your main problem. The rest are a large pile of details. When the tanks roll in I'm not worried about my GitHub issues.

If you have 100GB+ with Google, takeout doesn't work. Either you have to manually download files 2GB at a time reauthenticating each time, or try a 50GB download the times out on the server side as gets cancelled with auth error. There's no way to but a physical backup or run a long running process to fetch your data reliably over the course of the week.

It might work if you get an GCE VM and crossload your Google takeout to cloud storage and then download using cloud storage APIs.

If you set up shell corporations appropriately, there's no problem. Only individual people have trouble.

Every time a banned developer makes the front page of HN, it turned out that the company had hired a contractor or employee who had been previously banned for malware.

Has anyone done a social science research study to estimate the chances of losing a Google account?

This is an important number. 1% annual chance? bad deal. 0.01% annual chance? Maybe worth the risk. 0.0001%? Sure, I'm more likely to get hit by lightning.

> pretentious

No.

> or confusing

Occasionally, with customer service phone reps. It's a good filter to identify people who are too low IQ to trust in general, so it's a great signal

Have you tried downloading your data from Google? If you have a large data set (for being a loyal user for years) and a slow (non-business-class) internet connection, the server just expires your auth token before you can complete the download.

Google doesn't ban itself when they violate their own terms of service (Notification spam, mass WiFi network collection, Google Buzz) "just once or twice to test it"

Cloud is not backup! Rogue software can erase you cloud data too. You can't call Google or Dropbox and ask for last week's version of your cloud files.