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Interview: Ask Bruce Perens What You Will
Bruce Perens is a computer programmer and one of the most important advocates for the open source community. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative with ESR and has worked towards reforms of national and international technology policies. He is an amateur radio enthusiast, and has pushed for open radio communication standards. He is also our interview guest today. As usual, ask as many questions as you'd like, but please, one per post.
Can you please convince ESR to change his name to Eric CloseParens? It's been bugging me for like, decades.
-Hentai [in vita non pacem est]
Having lived through the entire lifecycle of "open source," it seems like its place in development communities and businesses is well-established, with a mix of different licensing and deployment models for whatever anyone wants to do.
So...is there really anything interesting left in "open source" to talk about? (Software patents, maybe, but even that's picked up some case law.)
What do you think of Slashdot Beta?
[FUCK BETA]
systemd - why?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I saw you giving out flyers regarding codec2(a free audio codec intended for amateur radio purposes) at the Dayton Hamvention a few years ago. Are you still involved with the codec2 project? Does it still exist or did it die?
The garden is becoming closed, because the people with money want more money. Open source is nice until there's lots of money to be made, then it goes away.
After the Newton School shooting you posted on Slashdot that you would be willing to give up your second amendment right to prevent something like that from happening again. What other rights would you be willing to give up?
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
Any thoughts on where this project may (or may not) go?
The Real Bruce Perens
Bruce,
Why do you act in such an abrasive and hostile manner when you discuss social issues about which you have opinions?
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
I'm sorry, I keep misreading these interview headlines. I do not think Bruce Parens knows what I will do, what I want, or what the contents of my will are.
So Bruce, do you happen to know what I will do, what I want, or what my will says?
Trusting software vendors is no smarter than trus
Well, I loved listening to the Linux Show back in the day with my 56k!
Can you bring it back? It was a real cool and funny show.
Thanks
I'm an Graphics + UI + UX expert and use open source when I can (I also contribute to a minor open source emulator.)
1. What can we as a community do to address the weaknesses of Open Source?
That is, I see time and time again in open source:
* Functionality not on par with certain commercial apps,
* Bad UI,
* Poor documentation such as man files that don't have any freaking examples,
* A million and one clones that duplicate basic functionality
2. How do you respond to trolls who call open source "open sores" ?
3. How do we overcome the perceived image that "you get what you pay for" That is, some people think that if it is free it isn't worth anything, or it is only "worth" something if I must pay $$$ for it ?
4. Finally, is there an up-to-date list that shows all the various open source "equivalents" of commercial software?
Cheers
--
Only Cowards Censor
Open source to me is more like a practice of engineering. It makes a lot of sense.
Also it's driven down ridiculous pricing in commercial alternatives.
I think you might mean "free" software. I guess when I load my OS and all the hardware works I am not too bothered about the ethical implications of free software philosophy which to me seems like applied Marxism in compsci.
The OSI is 16 this year and in many ways has experienced a difficult childhood but has grown stronger as a result.
What challenges do you forsee out child for the future?
What makes him think that he has the right to decide that for me?
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
I'm shocked at how people like him can throw his life away on something as stupid and trivial as being a zealot for a specific type of computer software. Talk about petty.
More to the point, how do you reply to the criticism and practice that Open Source is worthless because there is no company to back it? I run into this all the time. First, no one stop shop to get tech support from if we have trouble.
Second, No company to go after for liability
And Third, no company to maintain regular bugfixes and general currency and freshness.
We don't have a policy against Open Source, we just have a standard the vast majority of (perfectly adequate) software can never meet
Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now, and let us slay him... and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
I'm an Graphics + UI + UX expert
I have always found self-professed "UX experts" to be people who completely ignore what large numbers of users want and change GUIs for the sake of being trendy. Tell me, what do you think of Firefox's drastic UI changes since Firefox 3?
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
I'd like to know your perspective on the future need for programmers while automation technology continues to displace workers in many industries.
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
Should the software used for Obamacare be open source. I don't just mean the website, but also things like the software controlling pharmaceuticals, X-raya, MRI, maintaining health records etc. ?
Did Bruce ACTUALLY agree to this, or is this another one of your retarded 'ask blah blah blah whatever you want' that just vanishes into nothing because the person in question never agreed to any such thing?
Do you feel that you can continue to act like morons and continue to have any visitors at all?
Being that timothy seems to have the highest IQ of the group, how does it feel to work with a group of 5 or 6 people that have a combined IQ of less than 100?
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Probably the fact that unlike many personal rights, this particular right granted by the second amendment is actually not-so-personal: it affects lives of all people besides the person in question to a much larger extent than, say, the right to say whatever you want. People can choose not to listen, but they can't avoid the bullets.
Ezekiel 23:20
Is anyone working on a auto play blocker?
Passionately Indifferent
Thanks for all your work for the world of computing. What's your Bitcoin address? I'd like to send you a few dollars worth.
Have you patched things up with Lee yet or are you still having a falling-out? Fans are eagerly to see another collaboration, perhaps a new steak sauce or rub.
Support my political activism on Patreon.
Weren't you supposed to mention beta somewhere in there?
Bruce Perens is not only not important, but he is certainly not "one of the most important" advocates.
What can you say about your activities geared towards eliminating the use of D-STAR, C4FM, and other proprietary digital codecs in Amateur Radio? It seems the scourge of these proprietary technologies continues unabated. Have you done any work to develop any open digital standards for Amateur Radio? If so, where does that work currently stand?
My owning a firearm does not affect you in any way whatsoever. I've never fired it at anyone and I never plan on it either. If you're that worried about the your' safety and that of others around you, there are far more deadlier things that can be outlawed (cars, alcohol, high-fructose corn syrup, etc).
I wish I never posed the original question, I'm getting modded into oblivion :-)
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
Some years ago, around 2006, I attended a talk from Eric S. Raymond at a venue large enough to accommodate his massive ego and still leave room for attendees. He informed that he had essentially given HP their Open Source strategy. Your name was not mentioned once. I am curious what were your discussions like at HP during your time there, specifically in regards to the ideals of Free Software versus Open Source. My question specifically:
What legal and financial hurdles and impacts, if any, did HP (and other companies) face when deciding between Open Source and Free Software models? I.e., what proprietary assets/IP could not be completely "freed"? What were the savings/costs associated with the decisions?
Well that escalated quickly. I think that with the obvious discrimination against rural-dwellers in your post (and the assumption that I am one), people will decide for themselves who is "civilized".
Wait, why am I wasting my time on this? I usually don't respond to AC's. Have a good one.
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
If you're so civilized, why are you having such problems with people shooting each other?
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
If you're the same kind of "UI expert" that screwed up Google Maps on Android, I can safely say we don't need any of that crap and that OSS is doing fine. The problem is that you have a flawed metric for evaluating what's "right" and "wrong".
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Why has the ARRL and FCC stalled on non-closed models for hams? D-Star is a travesty; but is the deeper problem that digitized voice trunking induces tracking fears-- especially across spread spectrum?
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
1. What can we as a community do to address the weaknesses of Open Source? ...
* A million and one clones that duplicate basic functionality
Simply await the time of the Gathering, when the five thousand e-mail clients included with your favorite distribution will battle to the last.
In the end, there can be only one.
With predictability now almost certainly in many encryption algorithms, how can we be sure that root certs at CAs aren't jeopardized or compromised by algorithmic weakness?
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
What are your five biggest fears for safety on the Internet today, and where do you believe responsible admins should put their efforts for those five?
Thanks.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
'How do you respond to trolls who call open source "open sores"'
I tell them to see their dermatologist immediately
Do you find your views on blended/mixed license models evolving over time? Is it time to lay down the pitchforks some of the time?
Help stamp out iliturcy.
What are your views on Open source hardware? Is it as important as open source software, or less important, or not important at all?
Or better* http://squte.com/ which also forwards posts to Usenet - so there is a permanent archive that isn't locked in to any one site and a potential community of the millions of Usenetters.
* for sufficiently small values of better
Moderated Usenet
> self-professed "UX experts"
Self-Professed?? My smegging JOB TITLE says "Senior User Experience Developer"
I work for a Fortune 50 company. Yes, 50.
These days I do mostly WebGL and Javascript work.
My boss _starts_ with 60 FPS for UI. As someone who can tell the difference between 120 Hz, 60 Hz, and 30 Hz, I appreciate people who understand the technical and psychological issues in UI and name & shame those that don't have a clue about good UI design. Now if only the rest of the people in the company would understand the _fundamentals_ of UI. *sigh*
I've shipped games on DS, PS2, PS3, PC, Wii (implemented a subset of OpenGL 1.1 on it.) I've done UI work with Localization; I've designed fonts (a readable 3x4 px font and a custom 7x8 programming font); I've designed UI for OCR years ago _along_ with writing an OCR engine (from scratch). Recognition was +95% on handwriting -- but we cheated like crazy.
The _secret_ to understanding good UI is 2 things:
* Signal/Noise
* Whitespace (which is an _extension_ of S/N)
And _your_ credentials and experience are what again??
> and change GUIs for the sake of being trendy.
You got the wrong guy there buddy. You should be careful with stereotypes; they are not always correct.
> Tell me, what do you think of Firefox's drastic UI changes since Firefox 3?
If I may digress slightly. Modern UI/UX design is HORRIBLE. They are chasing the FAD of minimalism, aka anti-skeuomorphism. I _refuse_ to upgrade my iPhone5 from iOS6 to 7 because Apple no longer understands "Contrast" in icon design.
Likewise, Microsoft doesn't have a smeggin clue about good UI -- putting the Menu bar in ALL CAPS for Developer Studio 2012 was idiotic! Getting red of the underline when you pressed Alt was another stupid idea.
I can understand web browsers getting rid of the menu bar to reclaim vertical space, but user want consistency. There is a reason WIMP (Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointer) have persisted for years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Turning menu bars off is OK --if--
a) NOT the default mode, and
b) users have a CHOICE to turn it on/off
No OS does a good job of managing the title bar space. They all waste it.
I've used FF since the pre 1.x days. It jumped the shark a while ago. (Version 27 _still_ leaks memory).
IRONICALLY I've switched to Chrome because of 3 things:
* Tools, Task Manager -- per tab memory, cpu, FPS usage!
* Chrome runs every tab in its own process
* Tabs Outliner
* Compact title bar.
In my day job I use Chrome, Firefox, and Safari for development.
Was there a _specific_ question about FF you had in mind?
I use Windows, OSX, and Linux. I tend to prefer OSX because it gives me the best of UI worlds -- a single menu bar across multiple monitors; although OSX has it share of stupid UI designs too. :-/
So all your gun-ho, "an armed society is a polite society" bullshit is proven incorrect.
Can you give us some proof that its incorrect? Also, define civilized for me.
If only FOSS supported CAPITALISM.
As long as the uncivillised people only shoot other uncivillised people, and leave us civillised people in peace, I see no problem. Same goes for suicide bombers.
Stick Men
You are blaming the wrong party.
I work in R&D.
Change for the sake of change is a *horrible* UI philosophy. See my other reply for more details:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
I'm an Graphics + UI + UX expert and use open source when I can (I also contribute to a minor open source emulator.)
1. What can we as a community do to address the weaknesses of Open Source?
The fact that you're asking that question tells everyone you are not a ui expert
If you were, you'd know exactly what YOU could do to help.
Maybe ... consider fixing the shitty UI options?
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
What spurred you to reopen technocrat.net recently? Was it related to the response to the Slashdot beta?
> there are far more deadlier things that can be outlawed (cars, alcohol, high-fructose corn syrup, etc).
That is a great list. Mod parent up!
Another example:
A person can legally kill themselves by
a) smoking themselves to death, or
b) drinking themselves to death
but yet suicide is illegal. Only the time frame is the difference; yet the former are legal while the latter is not??
Addictive drugs such as Alcohol, Nicotine, and Sugar are legal yet a harmless plant (Cannabis) is still illegal. And you in the back who asked "Why is the Constitution written on Hemp paper if Cannabis is so 'bad' ?" hush! And don't remind anyone of that government propaganda "Hemp for Victory" https://www.youtube.com/result...
You forget how stupid and hypocritical the general public is. :-/
> The fact that you're asking that question
Only a fool pretends to know. The wise man isn't afraid to ask to find out why.
Or in the famous words of Neil Peart:
"What is a master but a master student?"
. /sarcams I guess you were born knowing ALL the answers. Sorry that I wasn't.
> because of 3 things:
Programmer Irony: Fence-Post Bug. Should be 4 things. ;-)
Yeah, your rather hostile attitude isn't doing much to change my opinion of people who generally like to call themselves "UX experts". I'm a programmer, but I wouldn't have the gall to call myself an "expert developer".
Anyway, my specific question about FF is, why do UX "experts" think that it's OK to run roughshod over those of us who prefer a fuller browser chrome (even if we are a minority) and want tabs-on-bottom? Why is it OK for UX people to just force their mockups down everyone's throat? Because that seems to be exactly the attitude of the Firefox UX people, and the reason I switched to SeaMonkey and created a Firefox 3-like theme for it a while ago.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
And your arrogance covers your ignorance magically because you're in a different department?
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You are on record as being rather firmly against private ownership of firearms. Frankly, I thought this extremity of anti-gun zealotry was a Republican myth, a straw man used to rile the rabble. I understand that people in less civilized territories will on rare occasion use guns for murder and atrocity, I am not aware of this impulse being a general hazard of gun ownership.
I'm from Alaska. All the people that I know who have guns have only ever used them for hunting. I'm less sympathetic to those who can acquire an alternate hobby besides shooting, but there are yet many places where hunting is a means of subsistence. I've known many people to bow-hunt, but I suspect if your dinner depended on your marksmanship you might prefer the more effective instrument. Does your plan involve screwing hunters as well as the millions of other lawful citizens?
Originally we are a revolutionary state, and I believe the People yet preserve the right to revolution. Furthermore, Mao was right about the origins of political power: violence is the defining characteristic of government. Do you believe that the 'tree of liberty' is no longer hematophagic? Else, by what means are we intended to obtain and keep self-governance?
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
We don't ship Android apps.
I'm an expert because I have 20+ years of graphics programming & design. I not only know what TO DO, but also what NOT to do (which is JUST as important.)
There is one answer to all your questions:
Most UX people don't know what the fuck they are doing!!!
They failed the 0th lesson:
* Form MUST FOLLOW Function
Sadly they are delusional and want "bling" at the expense of function. They want all sex appeal and forget that the best UI is one that gets out of your way!
IMHO Good UI _must_ _first_ give the perception of a smooth frame rate! Typically < 8 ms is ideal. No one gives a shit about "bling" if your frame rate is crap! Sadly UX people failed to learn the second lesson!
(In truth, both Form and Function are inter-twined.)
Thirdly, almost all UX designers mock everything up in Adobe Flash and don't have a freaking clue about understanding the holy Trinity of:
* Hardware
* Software
* User Experience of 60 FPS / Hz.
If you are extremely lucky they will understand 9-slice and a texture atlas. IF you are lucky.
For example, the typical noob UX designer will give programmers a background of 1280x720 px. On lower end hardware the GPU only supports power-of-2 textures, which means it is rounded up to 2048x1024 (2 MB which wastes 1 MB of VRAM) . For a static background most customers don't give a rats ass if the texture was 1024x1024 and scaled up!
The general UX stupidity and ignorance of failing to understand fundamentals such as frame rate budget (60 FPS), memory budget, S/N, Contrast explains the current fuckups in modern UI design.
Apple UI/UX designers are some of the worst. 2 Steps forward, and 1.5 steps backwards.
I want to smack the designers who put a close-app and minimize/maximize button next to each other.
How many UI / UX people understand Fitt's Law? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
Good UI is about giving user's OPTIONS and CUSTOMIZATION. Some people work better with the menu/dock on the top, some on the bottom, some on the side. The typical UX designer doesn't understand people THINK and VISUALLY process UI different. They are married to the idea that a "one size fits all."
Most UI's are a total joke. It took me ~10 years to finally understand good UI. Signal/Noise. I don't see any UI/UX people talking about that. (There may be, but no aware of any.)
Does this help answer your question?
It affects all of us because you are much more likely to be murdered, and with your own weapon, raising everyone's insurance costs and lowering your neighbors home values.
I ran across an article which is hilarious in hindsight, relating some of the drama about the use of the closed-source tool BitKeeper for managing the Linux kernel. You told Linus to "cool it", and whether or not that worked, the result was the git source control management tool. This in turn has led to GitHub, and an increase in open-source projects, although it's hard to measure such things at the best of times. Do you feel like you were on the right side of that debate? Do you think git deserves the hype it gets, or do you think that mercurial might have done just as well in its place? Which source control tool do you use?
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
Here's the issue I have with your question. It's framed such that "giving up the 2nd amendment = gun ban" and that's fallacy.
The 'trouble' with the 2nd amendment is that it's too strong, too absolute. It results in absolute permission, and one is not required to display any competence with guns, have any knowledge about guns, nor even observe common sense safety practices to have a gun. That's ridiculous.
A "better" 2nd amendment would be one which treats guns much like we treat cars in practice. Anyone can get one, but we keep track of them, require you to demonstrate some level of competence before you can drive one, and if you do something stupid with one like operate it drunk we might take it away, even if you didn't hit anyone with it.
There really should be no practical difference between guns and cars.
note I said, practical. The way we manage cars TODAY should be how we manage guns forever. The problem with simply legislating guns and cars the same is that there is no protection for the status quo with cars. Its entirely possible that in some future we'll not be allowed to own or drive cars, and that would be unacceptable to have that as a possible endgame for guns.
It's kind of funny: I don't think any of these interviews have any responses from their subjects. Ask away! Then forget.
The layout and shouty style of your last 2 posts (not to mention the rambling dump of superfluous information) ain't giving me a very good user experience. If this is a display of your professional skills, then I hope I'll never come across a man page written by you. Style aside, flooding people with random opinions is not the best way to convince others of your expertise. Neither is over-the-top hyperbole (Adobe Flash, really???) I'm not necessarily disputing you are what you claim you are - you could easily be a bona fide UI expert who just happens to be very drunk - but what I can tell you is that you seriously need to rethink your strategy to impress people, because you seem to be going out of your way to discredit yourself.
For a short time, it seemed like the F/OSS movement had the momentum. But then the computing landscape changed, drastically, and it seems like lately F/OSS is losing relevance. Cloud computing and mobile devices may have F/OSS underpinnings, but the computing ecology has changed such that the old licenses seem rather quaint and unable to address the larger goal of promoting a culture of shared knowledge. The Affero GPL addresses some of these issues, but other licenses do not. Do you feel like your dreams are coming true, or do you feel like the ship is sinking?
Did you donate money for Prop 8 one way or the other? If so, when do you plan on announcing your resignation?
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
Amen to that. I've had to install the old Maps to get the old Navigate back again. Combining Navigate into the Maps interface was a HORRIBLE decision. If Google had a fucking clue about UI design they'd reverse the decision and separate them out again. It's 2 separate things god damnit!!
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
Join a "well-regulated militia" and enjoy your right to bear arms.
I've used FF since the pre 1.x days. It jumped the shark a while ago. (Version 27 _still_ leaks memory).
memory fragmentation isn't a memory leak, but I wouldn't expect a self-professed dumbass to know that.
I don't have to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
Eric Raymond, the other OSI guy, is rabidly pro-gun. Nobody could tell the two apart so maybe they got together and decided to publicly disagree about guns.
I am already a member.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Don't worry. After 6 PM, the people with jobs get home from work and start balancing things out.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
I'm trying to put together a spreadsheet flattering to Timothy while satisfying both of your conditions.
Do you prefer a penis to suck covered in Peanut Butter or Honey?
Easy to prove - try a place where there isn't much of a government and see the differences in safety and freedom.
It's also disturbing to see such ignorance dismiss an actual informed view as "cute". It's a "jock" bashing "geek" sort of situation just because the "jock" wants to make fun of someone that actually spends time thinking.
Hi Bruce,
What was it like having to defend your own customers of software you mostly wrote against SFLC lawsuits supposedly filed on behalf of Busybox developers?
Focus on the message not the messenger otherwise you just look like you are focusing on pointless ad hominem attacks.
You've been an outspoken opponent of proposals that would lead to greater (or even universal) use of communications security on the Internet and the web in particular. It seems like the key points you use are related to comsec being unnecessarily wasteful, as well as arguments aligning with national security interests. Can you explain more about the reasons behind reaching your conclusions?
I believe that the proponents of greater use of comsec have articulated the advantages of comsec: integrity, confidentiality, authentication of actors and authenticity of content, greater cost to mount large scale surveillance operations, reduction in unwanted content, etc... Can you articulate the advantages that you see cleartext protocols having over secured variants (aside from perhaps the reduction in complexity and obvious advantages deriving from that)?
When I leave FF running for 30 days and it chews up 2 to 4 GB of RAM, close all the tabs down, restart the browswer, and it goes back to ~ 100 MB that is a memory leak but if you would spend less time on ad hominem attacks you would know that.
> Neither is over-the-top hyperbole (Adobe Flash, really???)
If you fail to understand BOTH the strengths and weakness of an application then you aren't really qualified to comment.
> what I can tell you is that you seriously need to rethink your strategy to impress people
I couldn't give a fuck what people think. If you want to focus on the messenger instead of the message then grow the fuck up.
What is the most important thing the open source community needs now? A display server?
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I now like tabs on top, it makes the URL bar easier to reach (and the search bar for occasional lusers who use my browser)
It helps that Firefox comes with the "File edit view.." menu bar intact and title bar intact by default, on the OSes I use.
.... the only group I can actively imagine making use of [2nd amendment] against the government is also the group I least want to see use it against the government.
Then perhaps you should read a little history and see who has actually used privately-owned guns against their own govrernments - and what has happened when privately owned weapons were banned and confiscated.
You should also consider that privately owned guns are "used" against governments by simply being there, rather than fired.
Example: Richard Nixon is on record, during the Vietnam conflict, as having asked a think tank what would happen if the elections were canceled and being told that this would be a likely trigger for an armed uprising to overthrow him.
You should also know that there is a certain amount of posturing involved. With using nukes to prevent nuclear war via the Mutually Assured Distruction doctrine, Presidents had to put on a show of being just crazy enough to actually USE them - whether they were or not. In the case of individuals with small arms it may not be "crazy" (as in "blow up the world") - just "dedicated". But for the threat to be effective at averting conflict it must appear to be real.
Think of gun in private hands as paying an insurance premium.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Just trying to help. I presume you posted "the message" with the intention to be taken serious, else you wouldn't act so offended by jez9999 not taking you serious. I'm merely pointing out that your mode of communication is to blame for you not being taken serious. You really make yourself sound like a demoscene teenager trying to bluff yourself into a position of authority. People on this site are hidden behind the relative anonymity of their nicknames, so appeals to own authority don't work here. Even if you're an authority on a subject, you still have to explain the rationale of your arguments in terms that the plebs on this site will understand, else you're setting yourself up for ridicule. Most people don't need this to be explained to them because they have the ability to put themselves in the skin of a reader who doesn't have the same knowledge/skills/priority than themselves. It's slightly worrisome for an alleged User Interface expert to show such blatant lack of that skill... if you think communication skills are not important to you, then "grow the fuck up" (or give up trying to communicate).
> I'm a programmer, but I wouldn't have the gall to call myself an "expert developer".
At the risk of sounding offensive it sounds like you haven't programming very long. if you lack confidence in your own skills then try programming for another 20 years. Eventually you'll master it. I would recommend essential books such as:
* Godel Escher Bach
* The Mythical Man Month
* Code Complete
* Javascript: The Good Parts
* The Pragmatic Programmer
* The Design and Evolution of C++
* Modern C++ Design
For a more complete list see: http://cspray.github.io/my.so-...
You'll see fads in programming come, and go, and come, and go. Once you've worked in realtime systems, on compilers, and learnt how to write and architect clean code, you'll have the necessary perspective (and experience) to call yourself an expert developer.
Why? That would just add noise.
Everyone knows Beta sucks.
Tabs on the side is the only way to browse with wide-screen monitors (and I use narrow tabs on side with vertical monitors). Try Tabkit 2nd edition
Yes, I will answer the interview questions as soon as the editor gets them together.
If you have a specific question, you can always reach me via email to bruce at perens dot com or phone 510-4PERENS. Email usually works better.
Bruce Perens.
Even though the total number of licensed hams continues to rise, the prevailing view of those who are not part of the hobby is that it's a thing of the past. How do you see the Amateur (Ham) Radio evolving when there is so much attention on the Internet, cell phones etc.? (The go-to answer here is almost always emergency communications, and while that's important, that's not enough to keep people engaged in amateur radio as a hobby.)
Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.
Why should I care about you? You wrote electricfence and started a foundation which drains money from people that work to earn and donate. What have you done for open source other than electricfence?
Zontar's "touched in the head": schizophrenic multiple personality disorder http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + manic depression http://slashdot.org/comments.p... now go take those meds, you whacko!
"You barge into discussions with your off-topic hosts file nonsense" - by Zontar The Mindless (9002) on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:51PM (#46731153) FROM -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
You said my "APK Hosts File Engine" is a virus/malware http://slashdot.org/comments.p... but it's EASILY PROVABLE it's not, right there in that link too.
Now PROVE YOUR FALSE ACCUSATION above: Show me a quote OR POST of me posting off topic on hosts where they did NOT apply... go for it!
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You avoided backing up your accusation where YOU said I say you are Barbara, not Barbie = TomHudson (same person http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... , & sockpuppeteer like you) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Funny you can't back up your "bluster" there either, lol...
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Why, Lastly?
You're crackers! See here multiple personality disorder http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + manic depression http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
APK
P.S.=> So, THIS quote below is my policy on sockpuppeteers like you Zontar = TrollingForHostsFiles (your sockpuppetry):
"The only way to a achieve peace, is thru the ELIMINATION of those who would perpetuate war (sockpuppet masters like YOU, troll -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ). THIS IS MY PROGRAMMING -> http://start64.com/index.php?o... & soon, I will be UNSTOPPABLE..." - Ultron 6 FROM -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Which quite obviously, I am, since none of you DOLTISH TROLLS are able to validly technically disprove my points on hosts enumerated in the link to my program above of how hosts give users of them more speed, security, reliability, & anonymity... period!
(Trolls like YOU that use sockpuppets http://slashdot.org/comments.p... (your sockpuppet "alterego" TrollingForHostsFiles) & TomHudson - Barbara, not Barbie too http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... before you)
... apk
"You barge into discussions with your off-topic hosts file nonsense" - by Zontar The Mindless (9002) on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:51PM (#46731153) FROM -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
You said my "APK Hosts File Engine" is a virus/malware http://slashdot.org/comments.p... but it's EASILY PROVABLE it's not, right there in that link too.
Now PROVE YOUR FALSE ACCUSATION above: Show me a quote OR POST of me posting off topic on hosts where they did NOT apply... go for it!
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You avoided backing up your accusation where YOU said I say you are Barbara, not Barbie = TomHudson (same person http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... , & sockpuppeteer like you) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Funny you can't back up your "bluster" there either, lol...
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Why, Lastly?
You're crackers! See here multiple personality disorder http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + manic depression http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
APK
P.S.=> So, THIS quote below is my policy on sockpuppeteers like you Zontar = TrollingForHostsFiles (your sockpuppetry):
"The only way to a achieve peace, is thru the ELIMINATION of those who would perpetuate war (sockpuppet masters like YOU, troll -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ). THIS IS MY PROGRAMMING -> http://start64.com/index.php?o... & soon, I will be UNSTOPPABLE..." - Ultron 6 FROM -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Which quite obviously, I am, since none of you DOLTISH TROLLS are able to validly technically disprove my points on hosts enumerated in the link to my program above of how hosts give users of them more speed, security, reliability, & anonymity... period!
(Trolls like YOU that use sockpuppets http://slashdot.org/comments.p... (your sockpuppet "alterego" TrollingForHostsFiles) & TomHudson - Barbara, not Barbie too http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... before you)
... apk
You're a blowhard asshole. Do you know that OneAhead? What the fuck do you do big talker? Act the asshole all day long?