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>In GitLab we want every issue and every commit to have an IDE button https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12759 Have you considered nix environments or even containers for that?

what did your parent comment say and why was it flagged?

I'm just back from lunch, so I'm struggling to follow. How would the "hedge fund backed FOSS, where the commercial software competition are publicly traded" work?

>Again in the gospels, we read Jesus ruling it is lawful to do good on the sabbath - if he was aiming at abolishing sabbath, why talk about what's lawful to do during sabbath?

He was claiming to be God

>Then, in the epistles, the author of Hebrews writes, "There remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God."

The point of the book is to say that all the things of the old covenant (the priests, the sabbath, the commandments) are inferior to the new things. In the new, the 'sabbath' is Christ himself. We are to labour to enter into this rest.

That being said, I honour the original (pre-Sinai) shabbat by getting out and enjoying nature, thus honouring His creative acts. It's exhausting, not restful at all. I'm thankful that I live in a culture where I can dedicate the Sunday entirely to worshipping the risen Christ and rest, but as a believer I'd have liberty to do it on any other day if Sunday was not workable.

isn't by definition a monopoly the highest standard of inherent quality? (unless of course there has been coercion/force/aggression)

i kinda think that google got a 100% monopoly because at the time they were the best search engine (and remained so). and as soon as someone comes along who is better, the monopoly will end (i use ddg but i'll admit it's not as good. i like some of the cool hacks and features so i'm trying to stick with it). am i wrong?

> devops

You keep using that word. I don't think you know what it means.

(Coming from a contract 'devop')

There is no such thing. Either you code, and your code helps a company's devops requirements. Or you're in ops because you can't code. I need to collaborate less than devs do. My clients know for a fact that most of my work is done more productively at home in the quiet. Yes we need to talk, plan, work with others (sometimes) but who doesn't?

Do you contract for a few months at a time in $first_world_country?

I'm asking because I've been contracting in London for a couple years and I'm considering doing half the year here, then half the year something like what you describe. But I'd have to move the wife and (soon) kid twice a year. She says she's fine with that.

What, you didn't go to Essaiouira? newb :)

you're right. go find a country where producers and true capitalists are rewarded and powerful, instead of just the middlemen and managers, and you'll be a millionaire.

That time will come. And once technology starts being targets are making these SMEs (fishing boats, smallholders, etc) lives easier, the world will make a big shift for the better.

is this a joke? - "my entire production..." you're a devops engineer? - "link where one can read about the rational.." with good grammar? - "why systemd was needed... " ok you lost me there - "the person who started off the initial project?" and you've been hidden under a rock for the past 10 years??

http://0pointer.net/blog/ - is his blog

are you seriously trying to tell me that someone is going to have to explain what a "container" is by comparing with chroots? :D how have you been running your production stack all these years if you didn't have an internet connection under your rock :)

ah so you're saying that systemd is flexible because it was chosen for a distro where it has very limited remit? so you mean it wasn't some horrible octopus which tried to suck all of coreos into it before they rejected its entanglements?

if you want to set up a channel, just make a channel and put it anywhere (github is free).

if you do (in either nix or guix) let me know. I've been planning on doing something similar for non-free software for a while but to be honest it seems I don't have to use non-free software nearly as much nowadays.

This. Lesson learned: the "over 150 developers" who literally threw away their time(i.e. money) working on this had the option to work on minetest instead. They didn't. Grow up, learn your lesson (I have in much more painful ways) and only use GPL.

irssi? good basic client that will never let you down. it can grow with you

It depends: is one comparing to the average society or full human potential?

I totally agree that Germany has a pretty good system. Their forest schools are a step in the right direction. But they did invent the Prussian model of modern schools (which are a curse).

The point is, it should NEVER be illegal to refuse to send your children to a militarized system which has stunted and de-humanized every single person in the modern system. In the UK, they ever tried to make Summerhill school a bunch of criminals. Also see Steiner schools, unschooling etc etc. The evidence would indicate that doing the BEST thing for your children would make you a criminal in most first world states. If you wonder why the electorate has become more malleable, "stupid" and gullible in the last 100 years, maybe you should look into why this is. It's not because we are "devolving" or because people are stupider now. They are forced, trained and educated to be thus.

the firefox version of it was axed. you have to use chrome. perhaps chromium can be hacked to work with the service, idk, haven't tried.

gvoice is still around but it was axed a few times (talk with google voice users in canada, it was start and stop and start again)

send to phone was a firefox feature. it was axed. the functionality is now only available in chrome.

wave isn't built into the browser, it was axed. but as others have pointed out it wasn't my best, most shining example

google voice. google browser sync. google send to phone. google wave.

then there's a list of things that are STILL around but have stifled competition anyways: gmail (hopefully people might get behind mailpile but i doubt it), gtalk (again, we have to wait another decade at least before a sensible IM standard is used), G+ (how many in the tech community have moved from one company (facebook) to another (google Plus). Just because they haven't axed a product like they did with reader of voice doesn't mean they won't misuse their power. Look at all the features they've removed from google maps because "mama google knows best". And no one dares to compete with them.

Hi, I have several good ideas, some of which I've already implemented on my own property, and thousands of (possibly) less viable ideas in my wastebasket. I'm an automation programmer/sysadmin and so everything I do has to be automatable. I've found thought that often things can be automated naturally, without arduino or anything. Here are things I would look at doing: 1. Grassland management. See Alan Savoury http://vimeo.com/80518559 Note: I would do this with a honeycomb structure of hedges with automatic gates. 2. Aquaponics. I have just finished/am finishing a ~60,000L aquaponics system at my house. Naturally automated (other than planting and harvesting, which can be automated/made efficient. See my blog (posted below)

Also read up on Ben Falk's research. If you're honestly wanting me to put something in place, we'd have to discuss the details and we'd have to fly out and put things in place. I lived in Wisconsin for years but I'm working in London now and honestly I'd be VERY interested in trying some things specific to the mid-west. Good luck! Oh, to contact me, jump on #opensourceecology on freenode and shout for me I'm always on.

Get in touch. My blog (way out of date, the system is now growing veggies and has some fish, planning on stocking it heavy with tilapia this week): http://praxeology.co.uk/blog/libreponics/

I'm curious, as you've mentioned barriers of privilege twice now: are you referring to 3rd world disadvantaged individuals who don't have access to electricity and a PC and internet, or are you referring to millions in first world countries with ADSL 3 tablets, 2 smartphones and a PC gathering dust in the garage? I think it's simplistic to say "there aren't enough people on board because of poverty". I don't know why one suberbia can produce both an RMS and also facebook drones.

First, I disagree that the "GNU vision" (although that is stereotyping, there are a lot of non-gnu or anti-gnu communities and individuals who would like the internet to fullfill it's original premise of decentralized communications) will fail. Because the race to complexity is not inherent, it's contrived. Either a) corporations use technology in increasingly complex ways, which is a reflection of a bloated equities market and societal excess, OR b) technology providers intentionally make things obfuscated. I work as a devops contractor and I've seen this my whole life. Half the complexity in the world is because someone decided to re-write unix, "only different" (meaning, poorly). The "GNU" vision shares thoughts with the unix philosophy of do something, do it well. One shouldn't needlessly rewrite and re-create in the hopes that you'll get lucky and pull a zuckerberg before the next crash. Instead, invest in well-done, simple technology. As you said, many talented individuals are already working to this end.

They will join the heritage of Donald Knuth, Ritchie, Ken Thompson, RMS, ESR etc etc. They existed in a time when there were thousands of engineers writing very complex systems for large companies. All those systems are gone, never to be seen again. Useless. gcc, emacs, vim have their source code in thousands of git repos around the world and are used daily all the time. The next step will be possible!