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olgeni··on Swift: I think we should use GPL v3 instead, it's the future of open source
Too bad nobody noticed.
olgeni··on Ex VMware, Microsoft and Citrix workers set up application container company
I'd skip the "Debian" part if possible.
olgeni··on Are tarballs obsolete?
Step 1: gems, npm, pip, etc. Step 2: "containers". Step 3: this.
olgeni··on Netflix Doesn’t Care About Your Children
A new drama every day.
olgeni··on What Programming methodology is this?
Burnout driven programming.
olgeni··on Carly Fiorina endorses waterboarding 'to get information that was necessary'
Good - more diversity is needed in war criminals.
olgeni··on The Debian 900000/1000000th bug contest
This stopped being fun after actually having to use Debian at work.
olgeni··on Systemd's latest conquest: the 'su' command
Not sure why it says "Linux/UNIX".
olgeni··on Brazilian Prisoners Generate Alternate Energy While Cycling to Freedom (2012)
Straight from Black Mirror.
olgeni··on Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person
Sorry, but I'm really not going to explain intersectional cisgender privilege (or whatever) to the guy panhandling on the street.
olgeni··on Flexibly Agile: What does it mean to you?
Run away, parkour style.
olgeni··on Is it time we put more effort into Linux / OSS?
Maybe put some effort in cross-platform software.
olgeni··on Debops (2014)
Sounds good - let's give this a spin :)
olgeni··on Debops (2014)
Looks like 17.3 from the package name. Today it might not be "way" behind, but it will be in a year or two. Or three.

I can see the point of having a "stable" kernel, but these freezes are mostly random. Back in its days, Squeeze shipped with R14A (not B). That's not stable, it's just a random cutoff. It means that whoever did the package did not even know what A and B used to mean in Erlang releases.

That's not something you can put in production.

olgeni··on Debops (2014)
OTP_VERSION lists minor releases, so that should be a "true" 17.3.
olgeni··on Debops (2014)
Arch has 18.0 - better indeed, but you need to keep an eye on GitHub to find out which is the actual latest version :|
olgeni··on Debops (2014)
Yes - in the beginning.

If you look here https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases you'll see that - even on Jessie - 17.1 is unfortunately way behind.

olgeni··on Debops (2014)
I'm actually developing on 18.0.2. At least 17.5.x would have been better.

The fact that erlang.org does not list minor releases at all probably doesn't help. One can go to erlang.org and think that 18.0 is the latest...

olgeni··on Debops (2014)
I recently had to develop an Erlang application targeting Debian "stable". It was humiliating at best. Countless hour were wasted trying to get around bugs in prehistoric packages, or building new (and working) packages from scratch.

Never again.

olgeni··on The Dehumanizing Myth of the Meritocracy
It is a very efficient process: you can basically guess the full content just by looking at the url.
olgeni··on Ask HN: What is a problem you want to see solved?
Subtitles - we are doing something like that with Epson's BT-200 (also for audio description). Also, RNIB ran a trial in the UK with Games of Thrones :) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jyRwZjn1M]

(disclaimer - I work on this stuff)

olgeni··on Uber blocked in Italy
Of course it was. Let's do a couple of strikes too.
olgeni··on [dead]
Sorry dudes, you cannot say you have a "code of conduct" unless you copy and paste from one of the two/three Big Names in the field and make a decent "voluntary" donation.
olgeni··on I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode
I searched for "white" and of course I found a few, as expected.
olgeni··on We must bulldoze what’s left of the nerdy white men’s Internet
While I understand the need to pile on the subject to be counted as one of the enlightened, this kind of stuff stopped being interesting a long while ago.
olgeni··on Why you shouldn't use Vagrant
Testing on Vagrant is quite useful when you are forced to deploy on Linux in the end.
olgeni··on Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD?
I have VirtualBox + FreeBSD stable/10 but things can get weird when disk load is high (IIRC some processes can get stuck in biowr).
olgeni··on How the Linux philosophy affects you
Owners of Mike Gancarz's original book might find the title kind of weird.
olgeni··on Does VirtualBox VM Have Much a Future Left?
They should probably just add support for the extension pack on FreeBSD.
olgeni··on iTunes Connect portal down – users able to login to others' accounts
"Portals that mix accounts will be rejected"
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