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Comment Re:Decline is a choice (Score 1) 308

Partially because I'm too busy at my current startup... The thought of a replacement to twitter occurred to me a while ago, and with Reddit's shenanigans there has to be a way to make something that's a blend of /. and Reddit without too much difficulty. Bake in public API access from the beginning with a rate limit on free access that accommodates moderation bots etc. and go from there.

Getting the BE architecture right from the beginning to handle the mind-bending loads would be the hard part, or accept that at some point you're going to have to make a BE core change that's high risk and just go with something fast and easy to start with. Assuming it's all microservices it should be a doable thing to make a cut over to a new database at some point once needed.

Comment Re: Decline is a choice (Score 2) 308

filling the gaps for - you know, little things, like accessability (maybe it's time the DoJ took a look at Reddit on that?)

Nope. They're a private entity with no government function. They are not required to meet accessibility guidelines per 508 standards. Source: am doing QA for a product that is required to meet AA standards level.

Comment Re:Invalid (Score 1) 179

If you want to have a "do not compete" for a year after you fire someone, pay for the year...

IIRC the CA bill on non-competes says something to this effect. That straight up no competes are illegal and if you want to prevent someone from working in the industry you are obligated to pay their wage for that period of time.

Comment Re:It's not the language, you stupid jackwagons... (Score 4, Informative) 663

One of the big eye openers I had at a previous gig involved buying a Klockwork license and running it against our codebase. Granted it's still only static analysis, but I think it found close to 20K possible vulnerabilities about 1/3 of which were real (the other 2/3 were after any end user interaction, internal APIs, so that first third would be the interface side). Took a solid 6 months to address 90% of the issues and the other 10% required redesign of architecture to resolve.

Problem is those tools are *expensive* so most open source projects can't afford them and all but the huge shops don't want to spend the $$.

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 192

Intel even made an end-run around that caveat. They hire contractors through a third party (Kelly services) and they people are Kelly employees doing work for Intel. Unlimited contract duration, second class citizen status. Further it all but eliminated the one drive for managers to actually hire good people as GFT, because now there's no limit on contract duration, there's no worry that the person will go somewhere else on their next contract.

Comment Re: And will it still work (Score 2) 100

W.T.(actual)F?!?!
While I am not an apple fan, my current employer provided me a Macbook Pro for my worstation, and I have 4 USBc ports available. We use Yubikey C's for our 2fa and that still leaves me two open ports after using one for power for a docking station and monitor or wired ethernet and monitor if on the road...

Submission + - Rest In Peace Robin "Roblimo" Miller (1952-2018) (wikipedia.org)

rootmon writes: Our thoughts/prayers are with the family and friends of long time open source writer/journalist Robin "Roblimo" Miller who passed away this morning.

Robin "Roblimo" Miller (born October 30, 1952) was the Editor in Chief of Open Source Technology Group, the company that owned Slashdot, SourceForge.net, freshmeat, Linux.com, NewsForge, and ThinkGeek from 2000 to 2008.

Miller formerly owned Robin's Limousine, a small limo company based in Elkridge, Maryland, the origin of his online nickname. Miller is best known for his involvement with Slashdot,[1] where he was not only the corporate editorial overseer but also Interview Editor.

As a freelancer, Miller wrote for a number of print and online publications including Time.com, Baltimore City Paper, American Medical News, Innkeeping World, Machine Design, The Baltimore Sun, and Rewired.com. Miller is the author of three books: The Online Rules of Successful Companies, Point & Click Linux!, and Point & Click OpenOffice.org, all published by Prentice Hall.[citation needed] His latest[when?] ventures revolve around Internet-delivered video, including video software "tours" and tutorials on Linux.com and his recent "side" venture, Internet Video Promotion, Inc.

Miller has been a judge for the Lulu Blooker Prize and is on the online advisory board of the Online Journalism Review of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California.

  He is married with three grown children and three stepchildren. Robin lived in Bradenton, Florida for over a decade before recently moving to Forest Park, Georgia.

It was my privilege to have known Robin personally and have met him on several occasions including a trip to Liberty City in Miami where our LUG setup a K12LTSP (Linux Terminal Server network) computer lab for neighborhood children.

(Biographical Info Quoted in Part from Wikipedia)

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