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It also means incredibly slow context switching

There was an eventual copyright complaint and cease&desist which I had no intent to fight. I talked with a lawyer (friend of my family) who said I could probably win or find a settlement in court.

They only went after the app a few years after the show was in its prime (it was making ~40$ a month more or less) so I just removed the application from the Android Play Store as that was all they were asking for.

I no longer make that kind of money through any side project but I did during ~ a year of college. It was one of the worst projects (coding wise) I made, and I made it all through ads.

It was just an Android soundboard app for a very popular TV show in Spain. You could tap a button and it'd play some funny sentence from a character from this show. Long press, you could share that sound.

Revenue model: a little ad bar on the bottom of the screen.

It grew from 60$/month to > 1000$ in around 6 months, only through word of mouth. That lasted another 6 months or so until the show became less trendy.

Probably not very sustainable as I was piggybacking on the popularity of the show, but it taught me that making money was 100% not about writing 'the bestest codes'.

Foreman does discovery [1] (PXE, PXE-less, segmented networks, through bootdisk) and handles BMC, I wrote the API in fact :)

http://theforeman.org/plugins/foreman_discovery/4.1/index.ht...

Maybe you were not aware because it's a plugin, we kind of have that problem in the Foreman community, plugins are not as visible as they should and they can contain key features.

Foreman is working on Puppet 4 support [1], and I'd say we'll try to push it forward sooner than later as soon as we complete the migration to Rails 4. Foreman is the upstream for Satellite 6.

[1] http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/8447

Red Hatter here. We have open sourced all acquisitions, I don't know what exactly leads you to think it won't be open sourced, the FAQ just states there'll be a timeline, as it was the case previously for ManageIQ (manageiq.org)

Actually this is a godsend for me. I've been meaning to experiment with Rust, and I keep a ~/NOTES directory with these kind of notes. Hopefully I'll contribute something soon!

The Thoughtworks radar [1] has done a pretty good job in the past of predicting which technologies would catch on and which ones wouldn't.

http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/

> It's frustrating. People are "big upping" each other because they look like each other. People are big upping each other because they are white. And if I big up somebody because they're black it's a problem somehow. [...] We have a similar skin tone, and in fact, I do want to support somebody who looks like me. I think that's a good thing. Let's encourage that. I don't see why that is frowned upon. I don't see why that's reverse racism.

I'm really sorry but if you're 'big upping' anyone in any job because their skin tone matches yours, it is a big problem no matter the RGB of that tone. I'd be embarrassed every morning when I see my face in the mirror if I treated/hired some of my peers better just because they 'look like me'.

Great article overall, but I cannot say I agree with this 'we take care of our people, you take care of your people' attitude. Whether in a minority (hint: I am) or in a privileged position, I believe you should treat everyone equally, reflect on how you've been doing so and try hard to overcome your biases. I'd love to hear other people's comments on this.

Interesting, that makes sense. I'll check if the rest of the team would be ok with forcing commits to use colon as a separator until that feature is added. :)

Still, what does %{scope} actually catch? Anything that's not %{type}, %{description} or an explicit character?

This is quite cool, and actually something I'll propose to use at some http://github.com/theforeman repos.

I didn't really understood the format rules, so if the author posted this, a help section would help. I try to enforce

    '%(type) #xxxx(: | -) %{description}'

How would you do that? #xxxx is just an issue number, so it can be #23891, and after that I want a separator from the description, semi colon or hyphen are fine. Probably %{scope} can be used but I didn't really understand it from the inline help, sorry!

Foreman could use some help - http://theforeman.org/ , contributions can be made to https://github.com/theforeman/theforeman.org

In particular, use cases that demonstrate its value proposition are lacking, API docs miss examples, and the manual has some outdated parts. The layout of the site is a bit dated too, but "it worked for us".

Two organizations where I've worked at (1000s of people) managed their own email infrastructure, with their own spam filter.. it ranged from 70% to 75% of incoming emails.

Most spam emails are just a few words of plaintext, I'm surprised too the size of the stored corpus is spam in the same percentage. It seems like a few emails with medium-large attachments would outnumber the spam content which should be in the kbs/email at most.

For some reason, native speakers of Slavic languages who learn English as a second language, often omit some prepositions in English. It's 100% understandable, but I'm really curious what's the actual reason why this happens.

Red Hat has a rather large number of GPL-licensed Ruby projects, does that count for you?

Red Hat, offices in every continent but Antartica (REMOTE, VISA) (http://redhat.com)

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We are looking mostly for self-directed full stack software engineers and also for product managers.

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What will you do:

Work on cutting-edge operating systems, develop kernel modules, develop software for the cloud (Openstack), virtualization libraries such as Libvirt, Xen, RHEV. Ceph is our bet for distributed block, file, and object storage. JBoss is our topclass Java middleware. Identity management is what you're into? Then join us and help us build FreeIPA. Foreman and Katello are one of the leading solutions for systems management for physical and virtual servers. We need people to help us develop OpenShift, the best open source Platform as a Service product. I could go on and on.

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What will you get:

Excellent benefits

Competitive compensation

Work remote when you choose to

Work at the office when you choose to

Live by the open source mantra

Mentorship when you need it

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I think you get the idea, we have so many products, and we need people mostly into systems, great coders, smart, and who get things done. The technologies you've worked with are important but it's more important for us that you can hit the ground running. C, C++, Python, Scala, Java, Ruby, LISP are just some of the languages we use here. We would like you to have at least one area of expertise.

Email me at dlobatog AT redhat . c om and let me know if you think you'd fit here!

How is this Hacker News worthy content? It's a great article, granted, but it has nothing to do with hacking (unless I'm missing something).

If you downvote this comment, I think explaining in a reply why this article belongs in Hacker News would be great.

You can always send a PR to the original sender PR branch.

This view on higher education saddens me a bit.

Is the self taught dev in your example ahead in work experience and financially? For sure. For how long though? I've personally seen brilliant people stuck in positions they don't belong in just because people generally prefer to give an opportunity to the most educated fellow of the group. Anyway one of the reasons I enrolled in college because I wanted to learn stuff I would probably not have a chance to learn while working. College opens a lot of opportunities (living abroad, studying abroad, prestige internships) that self-taught people usually can't simply 'break-in'. As a simple example, research groups are usually closed to people with college degrees. Not to mention the friendships, freedom to learn new things, the environment in which you can fall and stand up again easily, that college provides.

On the other hand, there are some benefits you can't just dismiss. Try telling a Japanese immigration officer you want to apply for a skilled worker visa because you learned a bunch of stuff contracting and on the internet.

I'm not saying the world is right not taking self-educated people as seriously as college educated people, but as long as the world works like that, self-taught geniuses will be at a disadvantage the same way college-educated punks will have an advantage.

PS: I purposefully didn't start to mention that the upsides of getting a college degree are virtually the same in the US as in places where the ratio 'upside/price' might be much higher.

I had to travel by Amtrak (forced, I lost my passport and I couldn't board a plane) from LA to NYC via Chicago once. ($230)

Not only I got to see a lot of places, but I truly accomplished more quality work than I normally do in a similar time-frame. Nearly zero distractions other than the occasional beautiful sight and the rest breaks I took, I had the chance to visit the surroundings of the major stations the train stopped at.

Perhaps it's my ability to sleep in the weirdest places, but I found the sightseer lounge car couches very comfortable. I went to bed 1hr or so after dusk, and I woke up with the morning lights. That's about 8h of sleep or so every night.

PS: Make sure to download a metric shitton of music before you do this. The sightseer car (the only place where one can truly work comfortably in the train) is usually a noisy place.

So is the average level of education of people working in the tech industry and the barriers of entry.

The same bill mentions new crowdfunding platforms must have:

- At least € 50000 on capital stock

- A civil liability insurance that covers up to € 150000 per year.

Also individual donors must not donate:

- More than a total of € 6000 per year on crowdfunding projects

- More than € 3000 per year on a single crowdfunding project

Funnily enough, political parties in spain can:

- Get donations from individuals for up to € 100.000 yearly.

- Foundations or associations owned by political parties (think tanks) can receive limitless donations.

A childhood friend of mine is now really worried since nearly 80% of his new videogame funding comes from crowdfunding. This measure will easily throw down the drain his and his 20 employees jobs.