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themtutty··on Radiolab: Post No Evil [audio]
I want so badly to like Radiolab, but honestly I feel like it's produced by ADHD'ers, for ADHD'ers.

Hell, I feel like it gives me ADHD just listening.

themtutty··on Backyourstack: discover and sponsor your open-source dependencies
The site offers to analyze your composer.json file, but doesn't seem to identify even popular libs like Monolog and Doctrine
themtutty··on Ask HN: Have you ever chosen Postgres over Mongo and regretted it?
tl;dr Nope, although Mongo is fun to ride around in the backyard.
themtutty··on Advice
And the general, consistent feeling of well-being and attentiveness is seductive - it makes you feel like it'll always be there, without any maintenance.
themtutty··on Advice
> This probably won't change a lot throughout your life

For many people, this is not true. Look at how common a second-act career has become.

themtutty··on A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
Most of the reviewer's comments aren't about anything new in 18.04. It's like he didn't see any of the 17.* releases?
themtutty··on Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser
@authors The "Try it out" page shows nothing about where to get Cockpit or how to configure and run it. #plsfix
themtutty··on Many packages suddenly disappeared
Was just discussing this elsewhere online. Package management is broken (or incomplete, depending on your viewpoint). What's needed IMO is the following:

1. Allow a single package file, including multiple clauses (or sub-files, whatever) for different languages. Let me manage my Angular front-end and Flask back-end in the same file. A single CLI tool as well - Composer and Bower aren't all that different.

2. Be the trusted broker, with e.g. MD5 checking, virus scanning, some kind of certification/badging/web of trust thing. Let developers know if it's listed, it's been vetted in some way.

3. Allow client-side caching, but also act as a cache/proxy fetch for package retrieval. That way, if Github or source site is down, the Internet doesn't come to a screeching halt. I see the value of Satis, but it's a whole additional tool to solve just one part of this one problem.

4. Server-side dependency solver. Cache the requests and give instant answers for similar requests. All sorts of value-adds in analytics here, made more valuable by crossing language boundaries.

5. Act as an advocate for good semver, as part of the vetting above.

NOTE: These features are not all-or-nothing, I believe there's value from implementing each one on its own. Also note that nothing here should lock people into one provider for these services. There's a market to be made here.

themtutty··on What MongoDB got right (2015)
Doesn't Postgres do everything that MongoDB does? I still see MongoDB's popularity coming primarily from ignorance about what PG can do.
themtutty··on Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones
Why does this link go directly to a sign-up page?
themtutty··on Amazon Echo Show
Their demo video is cringe-worthy. I understand that you're also marketing to non-technical folks, but it's like a film from grade school.
themtutty··on Stop the Daily Standup Meeting
Ugh. Provocative, radical idea that is founded upon overly-simple, faulty assumptions. To think that the author's three categories for teams are the only three, and that standup communication only takes the forms he describes is just hubris, and leads to dangerous advice.
themtutty··on Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Add specific websites or help data (e.g. Zeal) into Unity Search

- DESCRIPTION: I would love to use Unity to search for API definitions for Angular, JS, Lodash, PHP, Postgres, etc...

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: CTO for a software product company. Use 16.10 all day every day.

themtutty··on Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Voice commands

- DESCRIPTION: Just like for my phone, I am beginning to see the value of being able to issue specific commands to the desktop.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: CTO for a software product company. Use 16.10 all day every day.

themtutty··on Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak?
I worked a summer job in 1987 or 1988, doing 9cm glass-plate manufacturing. The main application for these plates was apparently U2/SR-71-style high-altitude photography.

Of football games, I'm sure. They always told us they could blow up the exposure to that size, anyway :)

themtutty··on Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak?
Except when the retirement and health benefits of 10% of the entire city is eliminated, so that the CEO can still get his $5M "performance bonus". That's not exactly efficient use of capital.
themtutty··on Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak?
Yeah, basically all along Ridge Road from Lake Ave to Mt. Read.

Remember the coal pile they used to maintain?

themtutty··on Ask HN: Ruby Dev, is moving to PHP a step backward career wise?
Do you want to work for a company / team that pre-judges based on the acronyms in your technology list?
themtutty··on The Income Tax: Root of All Evil
This is garbage. The article is 62 years old - exactly how far along this "trend to Socialism" are we at this point?