Hacker News: taakd

New comment by taakd in "Musk emails alleged Tesla saboteur, 'You're a horrible human being'"

taakd — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:57:31 +0000

Framing this as though employees have total freedom and choice wrt employer and working hours is plain incorrect. Those engineers at SpaceX aren't organized, thus they get screwed out of overtime and can't talk about the houra and working conditions they are pressured to labor under.

New comment by taakd in "GitHub Coders to Microsoft: Cut Ties with ICE or We'll Move Our Projects"

taakd — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:51:39 +0000

Imprisoning US Citizens at random and trying their hardest to deport them seems to be a critical job of ICE.

https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-keeps-mistakenly-deport...

New comment by taakd in "Google Fuchsia release date, news and rumors"

taakd — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 01:33:22 +0000

Yet security on nearly every android phone is still a joke, with Samsung and LG rarely releasing even the most basic patches.

New comment by taakd in "Police believe Grayshift has a workaround for Apple’s new USB Restricted Mode"

taakd — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 23:59:01 +0000

Grayshift isn't law enforcement though, they're a private company that is creating DMCA violating products. Apple has every right to sue them, and hopefully recover some compensation for how they have sullied Apple's brand.

New comment by taakd in "GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button"

taakd — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 02:48:35 +0000

Did they kill your puppy? I've got multiple servers and VMs with them, uptime and connectivity is great.

New comment by taakd in "GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button"

taakd — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 04:31:45 +0000

Only OpenStack is fully open source and fairly feature complete, with a few dozen providers using the OpenStack platform.

OVH, who owns the largest datacenter in North America uses OpenStack, they're actually one of the largest contributors. Red Hat & IBM both seem to be really pushing private deployments as of late for their larger clients that already own large DCs.

New comment by taakd in "GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button"

taakd — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 04:26:37 +0000

Microsoft might be doing a better job wrt contributing to and creating open source software, but the trust of Microsoft is not there.

My SO migrated everything off Github back on Sunday when rumors broke, deleting the account & repos that had commits and contribs going back years.

Consistently, one of the first questions I ask friends and acquaintences who go to work across the lake to work for MS in Bellevue or Redmond is whether they are on an Embrace or Extend team. Most are on Embrace/Rewrite our own version but "better" teams.

Microsoft has changed, but they're no Red Hat or Suse.

New comment by taakd in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

taakd — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:18:07 +0000

While partially true, there are a ton of small and medium size companies out there that are just starting to rewrite their legacy stacks, with many choosing .Net with MSSQL. Worst part is, these shops keep turning up at my local LinuxFest yearly, looking for new dev talent.

New comment by taakd in "Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US"

taakd — Thu, 31 May 2018 04:34:42 +0000

If your topic touches YC's vulnerable underbelly in any way, they are very happy to ban you. Other sites are much less temperamental, but a good chunk of that is YC's benefactors have many skeletons in the closet.

New comment by taakd in "Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US"

taakd — Thu, 31 May 2018 04:31:09 +0000

Real Name policies have failed to increase civility. If anything, the lack of anonimity has stripped the ability to speak out from those who are least empowered.

New comment by taakd in "[dead]"

taakd — Tue, 29 May 2018 05:06:07 +0000

So they put a shittier SOC into the Stylo 4, running the same outdated Android 7, and nearly everything else unchanged. Honestly, the specs are nearly the same as the original Stylo. Why is LG even releasing new versions of this device when it isn't materially improving?

New comment by taakd in "Oracle’s Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring with Customers"

taakd — Wed, 23 May 2018 06:23:14 +0000

Why wouldn't you just get this from your distro's repos? Openjdk and the like are already there.