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If the article's writer read this, please add this as one of the reason why FOSS need to move from GitHub.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in

Also, some project include their dependencies to VCS which only count once per build.

The idea is if you want to use the library, you just include the makefile inside your project makefile, define a TARGET values and you will automatically have tasks for build, debug, etc.

The key is a hack on .SECONDEXPANSION pragma of GNU make, which means it's only work in GNU/Linux environment.

[1] https://GitHub.com/shuLhan/libvos

Edit: ah, turn out I write some documentation about it here: http://kilabit.info/projects/libvos/doc/index.html

AFAIK, there is no changes in accounting process since, I don't know, 50 years ago? Accounting should have been replaced by software and people start teaching/learning how to use the software instead of teaching at university.

Here is a thing that I learned when I finished college (I have two degrees which means it has been happened twice in my life):

college is not just about learning, its about finding friends and socializing. You can learn anything by yourself, anytime, anywhere, but knowing some people is hard.

You may think that your friend is loser, because they are just playing or party around. Well, here is the thing: one of your friend will be someone, either small business men or work in government. This is a long-term investment. When they success and you have learned more skill in IT, when they need some custom software or service, they will probably remember you and call you or vice versa.

Big company can wait later, do you think you are the only programmer out there? Think again, there is probably more with a degree, experience, and smarter than you.

So, you failed on exam? Try again and keep having fun with your friend.

So, you don't like socializing? Write something, built something, while you still have free time in college, learn and create. Later you will get a degree and product to show. Free time is hard to get when you already in "big" company.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

> but one thing that concerns me is that the discussion that happens is no longer (easily) searchable.

No it is not. Look at the top right and type your words. If you use free plan, only 10k message will be archived, other than that it will be deleted.[1]

> Mailing list archives are handy when you are looking for a solution to a problem. With Slack, a lot of that knowledge disappears.

Its a tool for direct communication for group, not for documentation. I think you miss a hammer for screwdriver.

[1] https://myabuy.slack.com/pricing

Plus, C/C++ programmer can do a refactoring or optimizing more in their code, even in low level, with the limit is only their time and skills, but in high level languages like Java/.NET optimizing level is stuck in VM.

Some note that i learn from Internet to minimize spam emails:

- Never use third party proxy or anonymous network (i.e. Tor). I once work for company that not allowed to use any port except 8080, so for several months i use Tor. Suddenly, after several weeks my spam folder increased with junk emails.

- Make sure you clear all your caches and cookies _before_ and after browsing for pr0n. duh! :)

- Never use any third party application from Facebook/MySpace/any-social-networks, unless you using your non-private mail on your Facebook/MySpace/any-social-networks account.

- Do not read spam email. If you know that email is spam just check it and delete, or let the system delete it automatically, like Gmail do. I do not know anything about SMTP protocol but there is one feature that make your email notified to sender when you read it, by opening your email you just notified the spammer that your email is, at least still, active.

Spammer, in context of the emails gatherer, is not stupid. They know what their doing.

thread closed.

http://journal.kilabit.org/salt-n-pepper

how do you "create" your password ?

'90: "Dear X, your program does not work in my system, here is a patch."

'00: "WTF, i cannot run this program, what should i do ?"

There is nothing wrong in Linux as OS, in fact it's become more mature and usable since i first install it. Most problems that i read in forum now is about not working hardware or from people that does not know how to read manual or to lazy.

<quote> All STAT data are collected from standard Solaris or Linux programs (vmstat, iostat, etc.) or some special (like psSTAT for users/processes activity) and saved in MySQL database. Collected data are accessed via Web interface and can be presented in several manner (interactive or static graphs, text, HTML tables).

dim_STAT can be used for On-Line monitoring one or several hosts on the same time. As well, data may be easily post loaded from output files of stat commands and analyzed in the same manner. At any time collecting from new stat commands may be added to the tool (via Add-On interface) and enlarge your view on application workload, RDBMS, your personal STAT program, etc. </quote>

a website that allow FOSS community to pay up developers based on community request. basic goal : to speed up FOSS development.

i.e: let just say that user A want to donate $100 to pay any developer to create a 3D driver for X card. Later, user B want it to and increase the pot $150, and so on, and so on. At some time, some developers take a request and developing it, publish it and take the money. As a profit, 5% of the pot will be taken by the website.

So this website basically functioned as a mediator between FOSS user and FOSS developer.

Because of the environment where i live, i did not have a good resources like sciences book, articles that cover it up. it's not even something that you can talk along with your teacher/professor/people, because of the strong culture and religion here. Even if i ask some of the "smart" people here i can guest what their answer, "it's not true" end of discussion.

Then, recently, i read a lot of news/articles about evolution in internet, first i just skip it and then later thought come to my mind, "why, why science peoples and some people had very strong opinion/faith about evolution". i really want to know base of their opinion/faith.

Reading some or any articles in Internet it's just not enough, because some of them will accept it and some of them will denied it. seriously, no one just can change their faith just because read some paper ? it take some serious talk, arguing, and sometime some prove. right ?

i know that by asking question or discussing about evolution here will not fulfill the void in my mind, first, not every people here is evolutionist; second, i believe it will be a long, long, discussion.

so, as a first step i some of question that i keep long enough in my mind here (as you can see above, voted down to minus. i hope it's just because my writing skill, not because my stupidity and curiosity ;). i hope some one understand my position here.

to continue our discussion,

Are you sure that wasn't a movie?

no, it was some article i read. See, this is where i become hard to believe just any article i read.

In evolution the species that doesn't get it "right" fails.

part of me believed that was true, because i see and read some species become extinct. if i am not wrong, some species in north pole.

there is a theories that say human ancestor evolve after dinosaurs extinct, and another theories say human and dinosaurs live coexist.

so, if i take first theories it's like saying "how can a thing evolve so big like dinosaurs, but human does not exist yet ?"; or if i take the second theories it's like saying "OK, first experiment is fail, let's try evolve to another morph" same like saying we evolve because an accident.

see, how confused am here ?

> Are you saying that things can only evolve to become physically bigger, but not smaller ?

no. i believe it's become smaller.

FYI, this evolution-y thing is new to me, in fact i don't care, until recently. it's not as much as am interested in tech and music. so please forgive me for my poor knowledge. and asking does not mean rejecting.

there is one thing that i don't understand about evolution.

if evolution is true than human, bear, elephant, and any-big-animal-that-exist-today-except-whale should be the "biggest" thing that happened today, after evolving. but, why there is exist monstrous animal like t-Rex, whale, mammoth, etc. ?

EDIT: for anyone who could not see my face when typing this, "that was the longest comment i ever read on HN" is a compliment, not a sarcasm.

create "just-the-2nd-column" from x ( :f2::: );

-- http://github.com/shuLhan/vos

since i saw the first autism movie (monk ?), i had a thought that autistic people seem to be a perfectionist (a road to a professionalism)

i never saw or meet autistic people in a real life. so, the article seems convince me.