Fark is small enough that a lot of the users know each other by name, it seems like. It's just snarky commentary on odd news stories; kind of meaningless, but some people have fun with it.
It was then they tried to appeal to the larger market and grab more market share. That's when it went to shit.
Boobies left the front page. They tried to ban harassing comments. Most things were tongue in cheek inside jokes. (I'm waiting for Natalie Portman to be banned from/.)
Fark, Slashdot and Reddit have left a lot of Internet refugees trying to appeal to the current 15-25 year old demographic or trying to milk a lot of profit out of something. If I had an internet time machine I would love to sit and chat in 2001 Fark or 1999 Slashdot about the current news.
Part of it is because people won't accept that programming and part of STEM isn't a major it's a trade.
You don't need to go to college for 4 years to become a rockstar developer just like you don't need 4 years of Welding Engineering to become a rockstar welder.
So right now they're offshoring. Eventually they'll figure it out and Programming will be an apprenticeship style trade where if you're not really qualified for college you go into programming (or other 21st century trade) at 14-15 and you come out the other end as a fully qualified programmer.
Along with that they need to Unionize, like current trades. Employers are going to continue to treat you like shit because they can. Shame companies that don't hire "Local Programmers 423" to make the next AAA game.
The same goes for the rest of STEM. What STEM was 20 years ago is a trade these days. What STEM is now will be a trade in 20 years.
I couldn't imagine not spending this time here. I VPN into work. Do an on site visit once a month and for the most part communicate by phone and e-mail.
See also oil boom towns. You had people walking out of highschool into 6-figure welding jobs and they spent it all on lift kits for their trucks and snowmobiles & ATVs.
If you want some cheap 'toys' head to the Canada oil sands.
I've switched over to FreeBSD for all non-Windows machines in my house. If you go through the supported hardware list and pick good hardware everything 'just works'. Everything I've tried out so far is "Do or do not, there is no try". If you find hardware with vendor FreeBSD support it's good support. (Intel GigE vs RealTek GigE).
Jails is all I need for 'visualization'. I don't need an entire new ESXi or Xen instance. My FreeNAS server has 8-10 Jails running everything from Nginx for web development to Transmission+OpenVPN for torrents.
ZFS is a great filesystem for root. When I had a PSU take out a motherboard and 1 hard drive I was able to toss the remaining good drive in a new computer and my whole system booted like nothing happened. Replaced the degraded device and didn't lose anything. My Windows machine kept crashing on boot and required some drivers.
It's worse. Their CEO is married to a guy that ran a ponzi scheme. They try to shoehorn SJW into everything. Some of us just want a place to talk the merits of tech.
There are some problems with Reddit that I would like to see addressed in Slashdot's successor.
1) Long posts aren't really valued. It's post as fast as you can, as much as you can. Anything longer than a paragraph and people won't read it or want a tl;dr:
2) I liked having taxonomy in voting. +5 funny should be different than +5 informative. Maybe not as many as Slashdot has but
3) Posts limited to -2 to +5. No band-wagoning 1000 points.
4) You couldn't vote and comment on the same thread. Points were also handed out at random. I would take the full 15(?) days to use all my points to make sure I allocated them 'best'.
There are also some things that Reddit does right.
Markdown. It's a lower cost of entry. Not everyone knows HTML these days, I know it's 'news for nerds' but Markdown is much easier and faster to type.
Those authors haven't gotten up in arms yet but they could (Especially with Firefox's defense of its logo/name for anyone not them)
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"We" is the people that actually do work in the tech industry & engineering. When I go to work in the morning I don't care if you're white, black, purple, gay, straight, trans-gendered, female, pierced, tattooed, et al. All I care about (those that I work about care about) is if you get your work done and if it's quality work. It's been that way for a while and it's been that way with most people I work with and know.
It's why a lot of similar industries don't care about your attire and you can get away with piercings, colored hair and tattoos
It's great for you that you're privileged enough to not have to care about issues of gender equality. However, to be clear, I do care about that stuff, and if you have any interest in social justice, I believe that you should too.
That's the thing. I believe in social justice. And the way to get 'social justice' is to stop pointing out the differences and turning sides against each other. Women and LGBT have been in 'industry' for a long time. (Grace Murray Hopper graduated from Yale in the 30s) It's not an issue for most people. The only people that think it's an issue are the ones that are trying to grandstand it into something more than it is.
Tim Cook wasn't really deep in the closet before he came out, it's just that it was a non-issue around Apple.
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Dice you've successfully figured out how to run one of the most best 'news' and opensource websites and run them into the ground for profit./. and Fark were the only 2 places that could handle 9/11 traffic. I rode out that entire day on both sites when CNN was crumbling.
I'm glad I had Slashdot over Reddit when I was an angsty tenager. I took pride in trying to get +5 comments and put effort into doing so. Honestly slashdot made me a better writer. Reddit is nice for short terse communication but sometimes I want to "talk with adults".
Slashdot didn't need much. Unicode support. Newer HTML5 support. CSS3. Make a decent mobile app, move away from HTML for Markdown. Moderation made sense and was much better than a simple +- system. Voting was randomly enabled and you couldn't both vote and comment on the same article. -2 to 5 also limited band wagoning. It's easier to recover from a bunch of early 'down votes'. Instead you drove everyone away to other sites (which still don't quite scratch the/. itch). You shoe horn in what ever fucking agenda is "big in IT". Looking back at all the news I got from/. I can't ever remember thinking "I wonder if a woman did this" or "Too bad a woman didn't do this" because I didn't care. It was about the tech and news for nerds.
On 'Gamergate', 'sexual equality', 'gender issues', we don't care "Trans-gendered" is a big thing in the news these days (and especially around tech) but a long, long time ago I remember a Mac developer made the transition. (This was in the late '90s.) I read her bio. Shrugged my shoulders went "Neat" and moved on. Why? Because she made some awesome Mac games. Most other person I know in IT or engineering think the same way. None of us care what you do with your body or who you take to the bedroom. I do care if you can cut it and get your work done or contribute to society.
On the other side of that is Randi Harper (FreeBSD Girl) who actually write decent code. I've dug through some of her BSD commits, major props to her for doing that. But it can all be done without photoshopping traffic tickets to make it look like you got swatted, begging for money to move on twitter, (When you already earn $3k/month from Patreon), grandstanding on Twitter for no reason and bandwagoning users against anyone that disagrees isn't the way to do it.
You had the same opportunity to fix Sourceforge all of its' convoluted download mirrors (just use a proper CDN), update to Git, and everything else that Sourceforge isn't and GitHub is. Instead you rested on your laurels and are now trying to use this as one last cash grab before the Titanic goes down.
I don't know where I was going with this either. Just thought someone up top should know why your traffic is tanking and a lot of us are pissed off at you for what you've done.
I just tore apart my home lab and I'm reassembling it, reshuffling some motherboards and hard drives.
Tried tossing my Windows drive on a new motherboard. It just crashed.
I found *one* disk from my PC-BSD desktop. Plugged it into the oldest motherboard I could find and it just worked(tm). Missing half of the zfs mirror on completely different hardware.
Between ports, pkg and their installer program software is easier than elsewhere.
I honestly wished that Windows 10 would be them scrapping everything and going with a *BSD. (Just like OS X). Admit defeat, and start over with a different code base. No one knows or cares how it works, just that it does. Apple has managed to move complete platforms 4 times (68k -> PPC, OS 9 -> OS X, PPC->Intel, Intel->ARM). Microsoft has just released C# as open source. It shouldn't be hard.
Then everyone who knows and wants a command prompt will have a real one instead of a half assed Power Shell (or as it is everywhere else Batch file).
Nvidia releases hardware drivers for it. PS4 is based on it (Meaning AMD has drivers for it).
> If any program freezes, the WHOLE DESKTOP freezes
That's what this release specifically addresses.
"In case of a freeze or if you need to restart Cinnamon for any reason, you can now do so via a keyboard shortcut. The default key combination is Ctrl+Alt+Escape. Pressing this combination of keys restarts nemo and cinnamon-settings-daemon in case they had crashed, and launches a brand new instance of the Cinnamon desktop," said Clement Lefebvre, the leader of the Linux Mint project.
They also claim boosts in speed:
Also, the devs have explained that it's no longer necessary to recompile Cinnamon to choose between consolekit and logind support, the load times have been greatly improved, the CPU usage has been diminished by about 40%, and the support for multiple monitors has been improved as well.
"Un-necessary calculations in the window management part of Cinnamon could also be dropped, leading to reduced idle CPU usage (about 40% reduction in the number of CPU wakes per second)," Lefebvre also noted.
Linux Mint is easier to install stuff on than any other OS. No downloading a separate package and trying to drag it into/Applications or running the installer, they've had an "AppStore" for years. It's called dpkg.
If they can't figure that out I always have the ability to ssh into the box and fix it that way. If something goes completely wrong and they're stuck at a GRUB2 recovery screen they're just as hosed as they would be if they were dumped to a Windows failure screen.
Slashdot Mirror
They banned fatpeople hate but these subreddits still exist: (And I'm not directly linking to them for your own safety)
Then if you want to talk about specific hate speech there is /r/CoonTown and a few anti-Semite ones.
Fark is small enough that a lot of the users know each other by name, it seems like. It's just snarky commentary on odd news stories; kind of meaningless, but some people have fun with it.
It was then they tried to appeal to the larger market and grab more market share. That's when it went to shit.
Boobies left the front page. They tried to ban harassing comments. Most things were tongue in cheek inside jokes. (I'm waiting for Natalie Portman to be banned from /.)
Fark, Slashdot and Reddit have left a lot of Internet refugees trying to appeal to the current 15-25 year old demographic or trying to milk a lot of profit out of something. If I had an internet time machine I would love to sit and chat in 2001 Fark or 1999 Slashdot about the current news.
Does everyone forget the DARPA Grand Challenge from 2004? The second year (2005) they had 5 vehicles finish. 4 of them within the 10 hour limit.
In 2007 they had the 'urban challenge'.
Now we have driverless cars and semis. Google and Uber are poaching a lot of of the grad students and professors from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon.
Then unionize and put an end to it.
Part of it is because people won't accept that programming and part of STEM isn't a major it's a trade.
You don't need to go to college for 4 years to become a rockstar developer just like you don't need 4 years of Welding Engineering to become a rockstar welder.
So right now they're offshoring. Eventually they'll figure it out and Programming will be an apprenticeship style trade where if you're not really qualified for college you go into programming (or other 21st century trade) at 14-15 and you come out the other end as a fully qualified programmer.
Along with that they need to Unionize, like current trades. Employers are going to continue to treat you like shit because they can. Shame companies that don't hire "Local Programmers 423" to make the next AAA game.
The same goes for the rest of STEM. What STEM was 20 years ago is a trade these days. What STEM is now will be a trade in 20 years.
I will still play Super Mario Brothers 3. "Graphics" be damned. It's a good simple game to just sit down and play.
How many AAA games are going to be replayed in 30 years?
Look at Minecraft. It worked because it was simple.
I work from home and my wife took 3 months off.
I couldn't imagine not spending this time here. I VPN into work. Do an on site visit once a month and for the most part communicate by phone and e-mail.
Men - especially young men - lack scope
See also oil boom towns. You had people walking out of highschool into 6-figure welding jobs and they spent it all on lift kits for their trucks and snowmobiles & ATVs.
If you want some cheap 'toys' head to the Canada oil sands.
Check out FreeBSD
How many of those 'plenty of people' use their Linux machines for more than desktops?
There are some serious open 'show stopping' bugs in systemd for power users.
I've switched over to FreeBSD for all non-Windows machines in my house. If you go through the supported hardware list and pick good hardware everything 'just works'. Everything I've tried out so far is "Do or do not, there is no try". If you find hardware with vendor FreeBSD support it's good support. (Intel GigE vs RealTek GigE).
Jails is all I need for 'visualization'. I don't need an entire new ESXi or Xen instance. My FreeNAS server has 8-10 Jails running everything from Nginx for web development to Transmission+OpenVPN for torrents.
ZFS is a great filesystem for root. When I had a PSU take out a motherboard and 1 hard drive I was able to toss the remaining good drive in a new computer and my whole system booted like nothing happened. Replaced the degraded device and didn't lose anything. My Windows machine kept crashing on boot and required some drivers.
It's worse. Their CEO is married to a guy that ran a ponzi scheme. They try to shoehorn SJW into everything. Some of us just want a place to talk the merits of tech.
There are some problems with Reddit that I would like to see addressed in Slashdot's successor.
1) Long posts aren't really valued. It's post as fast as you can, as much as you can. Anything longer than a paragraph and people won't read it or want a tl;dr:
2) I liked having taxonomy in voting. +5 funny should be different than +5 informative. Maybe not as many as Slashdot has but
3) Posts limited to -2 to +5. No band-wagoning 1000 points.
4) You couldn't vote and comment on the same thread. Points were also handed out at random. I would take the full 15(?) days to use all my points to make sure I allocated them 'best'.
There are also some things that Reddit does right.
Markdown. It's a lower cost of entry. Not everyone knows HTML these days, I know it's 'news for nerds' but Markdown is much easier and faster to type.
Some other projects SourceForge has taken:
Those authors haven't gotten up in arms yet but they could (Especially with Firefox's defense of its logo/name for anyone not them)
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population of capital of the country
And Washington DC is the capital of the United States, the country where the Space Needle is located.
I'll train my replacement how I do my job.
But I won't hand over my bash and python scripts that usually do my job.
Who's we white man?
Now I'm white and a man?
"We" is the people that actually do work in the tech industry & engineering. When I go to work in the morning I don't care if you're white, black, purple, gay, straight, trans-gendered, female, pierced, tattooed, et al. All I care about (those that I work about care about) is if you get your work done and if it's quality work. It's been that way for a while and it's been that way with most people I work with and know.
It's why a lot of similar industries don't care about your attire and you can get away with piercings, colored hair and tattoos
It's great for you that you're privileged enough to not have to care about issues of gender equality. However, to be clear, I do care about that stuff, and if you have any interest in social justice, I believe that you should too.
That's the thing. I believe in social justice. And the way to get 'social justice' is to stop pointing out the differences and turning sides against each other. Women and LGBT have been in 'industry' for a long time. (Grace Murray Hopper graduated from Yale in the 30s) It's not an issue for most people. The only people that think it's an issue are the ones that are trying to grandstand it into something more than it is.
Tim Cook wasn't really deep in the closet before he came out, it's just that it was a non-issue around Apple.
Some well known projects they've taken:
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Eh, forget the ./
Dice you've successfully figured out how to run one of the most best 'news' and opensource websites and run them into the ground for profit. /. and Fark were the only 2 places that could handle 9/11 traffic. I rode out that entire day on both sites when CNN was crumbling.
I'm glad I had Slashdot over Reddit when I was an angsty tenager. I took pride in trying to get +5 comments and put effort into doing so. Honestly slashdot made me a better writer. Reddit is nice for short terse communication but sometimes I want to "talk with adults".
Slashdot didn't need much. Unicode support. Newer HTML5 support. CSS3. Make a decent mobile app, move away from HTML for Markdown. Moderation made sense and was much better than a simple +- system. Voting was randomly enabled and you couldn't both vote and comment on the same article. -2 to 5 also limited band wagoning. It's easier to recover from a bunch of early 'down votes'. Instead you drove everyone away to other sites (which still don't quite scratch the /. itch). You shoe horn in what ever fucking agenda is "big in IT". Looking back at all the news I got from /. I can't ever remember thinking "I wonder if a woman did this" or "Too bad a woman didn't do this" because I didn't care. It was about the tech and news for nerds.
On 'Gamergate', 'sexual equality', 'gender issues', we don't care "Trans-gendered" is a big thing in the news these days (and especially around tech) but a long, long time ago I remember a Mac developer made the transition. (This was in the late '90s.) I read her bio. Shrugged my shoulders went "Neat" and moved on. Why? Because she made some awesome Mac games. Most other person I know in IT or engineering think the same way. None of us care what you do with your body or who you take to the bedroom. I do care if you can cut it and get your work done or contribute to society.
On the other side of that is Randi Harper (FreeBSD Girl) who actually write decent code. I've dug through some of her BSD commits, major props to her for doing that. But it can all be done without photoshopping traffic tickets to make it look like you got swatted, begging for money to move on twitter, (When you already earn $3k/month from Patreon), grandstanding on Twitter for no reason and bandwagoning users against anyone that disagrees isn't the way to do it.
You had the same opportunity to fix Sourceforge all of its' convoluted download mirrors (just use a proper CDN), update to Git, and everything else that Sourceforge isn't and GitHub is. Instead you rested on your laurels and are now trying to use this as one last cash grab before the Titanic goes down.
I don't know where I was going with this either. Just thought someone up top should know why your traffic is tanking and a lot of us are pissed off at you for what you've done.
I still won't forget the time you broke the capslock filter, I remember BitTorrent being announced and people thinking it was useless, the iPod's lack of wifi and space compared to a Nomad, et al.
Thanks for the fish?
Bash auto completion?
I just tore apart my home lab and I'm reassembling it, reshuffling some motherboards and hard drives.
Tried tossing my Windows drive on a new motherboard. It just crashed.
I found *one* disk from my PC-BSD desktop. Plugged it into the oldest motherboard I could find and it just worked(tm). Missing half of the zfs mirror on completely different hardware.
Between ports, pkg and their installer program software is easier than elsewhere.
I honestly wished that Windows 10 would be them scrapping everything and going with a *BSD. (Just like OS X). Admit defeat, and start over with a different code base. No one knows or cares how it works, just that it does. Apple has managed to move complete platforms 4 times (68k -> PPC, OS 9 -> OS X, PPC->Intel, Intel->ARM). Microsoft has just released C# as open source. It shouldn't be hard.
Then everyone who knows and wants a command prompt will have a real one instead of a half assed Power Shell (or as it is everywhere else Batch file).
Nvidia releases hardware drivers for it. PS4 is based on it (Meaning AMD has drivers for it).
> If any program freezes, the WHOLE DESKTOP freezes
That's what this release specifically addresses.
"In case of a freeze or if you need to restart Cinnamon for any reason, you can now do so via a keyboard shortcut. The default key combination is Ctrl+Alt+Escape. Pressing this combination of keys restarts nemo and cinnamon-settings-daemon in case they had crashed, and launches a brand new instance of the Cinnamon desktop," said Clement Lefebvre, the leader of the Linux Mint project.
They also claim boosts in speed:
Also, the devs have explained that it's no longer necessary to recompile Cinnamon to choose between consolekit and logind support, the load times have been greatly improved, the CPU usage has been diminished by about 40%, and the support for multiple monitors has been improved as well.
"Un-necessary calculations in the window management part of Cinnamon could also be dropped, leading to reduced idle CPU usage (about 40% reduction in the number of CPU wakes per second)," Lefebvre also noted.
Copy and paste the text into your decoder?
They fell to the same problem that most websites fall to. They failed to change.
There is no reason a site for nerds shouldn't have had full unicode support years ago.
Linux Mint is easier to install stuff on than any other OS. No downloading a separate package and trying to drag it into /Applications or running the installer, they've had an "AppStore" for years. It's called dpkg.
If they can't figure that out I always have the ability to ssh into the box and fix it that way. If something goes completely wrong and they're stuck at a GRUB2 recovery screen they're just as hosed as they would be if they were dumped to a Windows failure screen.