nuser's comments

On: All software sucks

[nuser]

BSD-license can be revoked by the copyright holder you know.

This is not true. None of the standard BSD licenses are revokable.

[antocv → nuser]

Yes they are, any licenses are revokable. The GPL as well.

I could release software under GPL, not accept any patches, see the software grow and 2-3 years from now when a lot of people are using and depending on the software, bam I revoke the GPL from all previous versions and impose a special EULA in its stead. I can because I am copyright holder.

On: Employee Equity

[nuser]

When my employer failed in 2002, I had no trouble getting another job offer. Unfortunately that company failed before my start date. As did the one after that.

I moved to NYC to get a semi-functional job market.

These days the possibility of highly correlated failure is a major component in my career decisions.

On: Tptacek's Review of "Practical Cryptography With G...

[nuser]

I firmly believe that you shouldn't author a book in something if you lack the appropriate expertise. If you do so, you risk disseminating misinformation at scale, causing enormous harm.

Sometimes expertise is actually required.

On: How 'DevOps' Is Killing The Developer

[nuser]

My average "devops" engineer is paid the same as the senior-level engineers within my company.

[nailer → nuser]

Ditto. DevOps is charged out at the same comparative rate Sys Admin was 10 years a ago. Which makes sense - it's boring work and not as many people want to do it.

[nuser → nailer]

Boring is in the eye of the beholder. The biggest challenge I've found is that very few engineers have the depth to even attempt the job competently.

Most engineers simply don't have a meaningful understanding of the internals of large-scale environments.