For those like me confused how opensource.net is related to opensource.org from their about link:
> OpenSource.net launched in response to the halt of Opensource.com operations by supervising entity Red Hat, which supports the move. This includes facilitating the republishing of selected, previously published material from Opensource.com for the archives of OpenSource.net with the project’s community manager Seth Kenlon continuing to play an advisory and supporting role.
I'm sure you've comprehended this, but it's not obvious from your snippet: .org (Initiative) launched .net to continue the work of .com, which had been Red Hat's pet project since its inception.
And if I may add a bit of an "insider" insight, Red Hat used to fund it decently. I volunteered for a while, got plenty of swag and they even offered me an all-expenses-paid trip to Raleigh (Red Hat's HQ) for some sort of a community meetup. As a college student from a not particularly developed country, being treated that way by a company as large as Red Hat felt very motivating. Unfortunately in my particular case, US embassy said no.
Sure it does... Right up until the parent comment gets downvoted to oblivion, taking all subsequent responses out with it, leaving nothing potentially educational behind for anyone to learn from.
(Not a problem unique to HN by a longshot, but actually a shortcoming of nearly every discussion forum I've seen that allows downvoting.)
It isn't mysterious. It just doesn't match the vibes of HN. I don't come on HN to see silly jokes. And as you can see by the number of flags this post has received to kill it, it looks like most HN readers agree with me.
> Iceland was a very poor country for most people other than a few well off in the fishing industry.
Very insightful. I had no clue this was the case.
Is there any published list somewhere that measures the relative richness between the countries? I am just curious to see which countries come out at the top and which ones at the bottom. Anyone knows any such list?
Tell us more about your project! Did you start it from scratch? Or did you use another opensource app as starting point and developed it further for yourself? What language is your app written in? Where do you run it? In CLI? or desktop GUI? The more you can share about it the merrier. I am sure others want to learn more about this too.
It's basically like the Google suite of apps or Next Cloud, I have the main app where you can manage your account, backups, etc, and it links to a bunch of other apps, each one living in a subdomain. The apps that already exists are:
- Password manager
- Finances
- Contacts
- Account (Backup, Restore, private keys, etc)
- Authenticator (OTP, TOTP)
- Email
- Photos
- Movies (2 parts, one is an IMDB like manager and the other is a Netflix homepage look alike for viewing content)
- Flashcards
- Link tracker
And I have the following apps in the development pipeline:
It started just as an MySQL database that I used to track my expenses and budget, later I started also storing passwords in it, quickly I realized that I needed a user interface, then I slapped a bootstrap theme on it (this was back when Angular 1 was all the rage), then it went through many iterations as across the years and the current one started back in 2020, it uses VueJS 3 and used to use ant design, but I had to create my own UI library to accommodate the sheer complexity of the custom UI needed. It runs on a raspberry pi with docker.
I like that law! My law for the past few years has been every app expands until it is beyond bloat, which is recognizable when it has the feature du jour, which can be found across every popular and unrelated app. At the time, that feature was stories, which could be found in Snapchat, instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Uber eats, and I think even Venmo at one point.
Once you got away from social apps, it was clearly feature creep. That was my indicator for when there was probably a better alternative app for accomplishing the app’s original purpose, but it was often too late to switch due to the network effect.
> What if you have never cooked at home but all the time in a commercial kitchen? That's the reality for most of us here so it is a bit difficult to relate to this article.
Really? I'd hazard a guess that the majority here (> 50%) have never worked at a commercial kitchen!
I'm honestly curious to understand why you think most people here must have worked at commercial kitchen and never cooked at home?
The poster is speaking through the analogy: they mean most people here have coded professionally but not at home. I'm not sure I agree with that, I think a lot of programmers have done hobby projects, even if only when they were starting out.
> they mean most people here have coded professionally but not at home
The idea that there are devs who did not do fairly extensive home coding is so alien to me! I don't personally know a single dev like that, and it would never have occurred to me that they exist.
> As noted in another comment, some of this can be attributed to manufacturing being done elsewhere
This is an excellent point. Are there reports similar to TFA that accounts for this? I mean a report that calculates the total demand a country is putting on carbon emissions (directly or indirectly) will be more insightful.
> The current Remembrance Agent uses the Savant information retrieval system developed in-house by the Jan Nelson and Bradley Rhodes. The Remembrance Agent runs through emacs, a popular text editor. The user interface is programmed in elisp, and the results are presented as a three line buffer at the bottom of the window.
There is a nice retro screenshot of Emacs after this. Looks like a really old version of Emacs. A nice window into the history of computer stuff!
> Colin Cotter (Imperial College, London) and Julius Ross (University of Illinois at Chicago, supported by NSF-DMS 1749447). You can provide feedback, or access the source code here.
I'd really like to know how these two people from different parts of the globe came to collaborate with each other. I know we live in the age of Internet and all but I'd really like to know how such people find each other and collaborate.
I missed out on this kind of collaboration when I was in college. But learning the answer to this question might be helpful to others who might want to do such collaboration but do not know how to get started.
Know each other's work through publications, connect via email (ostensibly to ask for clarification on a detail, or to request a preprint), maybe meet at conferences but not always. I've written a couple of papers with people who I've never met in person (and that's not uncommon).
> OpenSource.net launched in response to the halt of Opensource.com operations by supervising entity Red Hat, which supports the move. This includes facilitating the republishing of selected, previously published material from Opensource.com for the archives of OpenSource.net with the project’s community manager Seth Kenlon continuing to play an advisory and supporting role.