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Re:IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware
on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:38PM (#16963103)
In reality it often means these systems are built in bad, ineffective way. Most likely in bad, ineffective languages/technologies. You don't need 17 years to be able to contribute to Apache Spark. You would not call that a small project, would you?
Re:GIMP 2.10.0 Released
on Sunday April 29, 2018 @03:46PM (#16953569)
Good to them finally giving UX a serious thought, as well as using multicore and adding flatpak installation method. At least opensource affocinados stand some semblance of chance in PS/LR holywar.
Re:Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release
on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:47AM (#16809198)
Let's hope this will finally change the "compatibility with py3 is a feature" to "no py3 compatibility - no library" state of things. It's really surprising how stubborn some teams are.
Re:As Facebook Struggles, Rivals’ Leaders Stay Mostly Mum
on Sunday April 01, 2018 @05:58PM (#16730730)
Yep. What this situation shows is that open data is faaaar faaaar worse represented than open source. There is not even a faint whisper of possibility, you know, not using proprietary platform and use the internet the way it was meant to be used.
Re:As Facebook Struggles, Rivals’ Leaders Stay Mostly Mum
on Sunday April 01, 2018 @05:51PM (#16730675)
YOLO, people from IBM and Apple chiming in to preach about business decency. Now I've seen everything.
Re:How to avoid merge conflicts
on Sunday March 18, 2018 @03:57PM (#16613932)
It's rather cute to so naively believe such practices can be maintained.