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Re:Concourse CI on Monday July 17, 2017 @01:20AM (#14785864)
Mozilla's TaskCluster is definitely aimed at CI use cases, but does handle all the requirements you listed. It is entirely open-source, but unfortunately they aren't currently interested in supporting other organizations running it.
Re:Why I replaced MIT with copyleft license for Nodemailer on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:15PM (#13557365)
Looking closer, you can't incorporate GPL code in a EUPL project, but you can incorporate EUPL code in a GPL project. The EUPL explicitly is allowed to be used as part of GPLv2 project, and indirectly as part of a GPLv2 project via the CeCILL v2 licenses which has a similar provision.
Re:Python packaging is good now on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @02:38AM (#12295909)
distutils2 may have died. The idea of declarative package metadata hasn't (although it may not have advanced as quickly as you might like). There is a PEP[1] (which is sadly not yet implemented[2]) which a) starts to move some metadata into declarative format b) is designed to allow implementation of alternative build systems that have more declarative metadata.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/ [2] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3691

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2016) on Friday April 01, 2016 @11:41AM (#11405626)

  Location: Edmonton, AB
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, Twisted, Builbot
  Résumé/CV: https://gist.github.com/tomprince/0e703ef81bf723a33b02
  Email: [email protected]
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2016) on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @11:16AM (#11203627)

  Location: Edmonton, AB
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, Twisted, Builbot
  Résumé/CV: https://gist.github.com/tomprince/0e703ef81bf723a33b02
  Email: [email protected]
Re:Camino browser reaches its end on Friday May 31, 2013 @02:16AM (#5797182)
Home/End go to the beginning/end of a page on linux/windows. (Unless you are referring to the behaviour in a text area).
Certainly, social-psycology isn't as certain as hard sciences. One problem, is that in some ways, they are much more complex than the hard sciences. So, to reach the kind of conclusion and laws that you get in hard sciences, they need much more data. Certainly, we can't draw any firm conclusions from this one study, but doing a bunch of similar studies, over several centuries (note that this study took 75 years), might lead to the start of social science becoming a hard science.
Re:Zsh-lovers – tips, tricks and examples for the Z shell on Saturday March 30, 2013 @05:14PM (#5466680)
I could imagine that that is for keyboard layouts where | is prohibitively difficult to type.
Although, questions with non-personally identifiable data or more likely to get honest answers.
Re:Finishing what Aaron Swartz started with PACER on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @01:35PM (#5098746)
While, won't argue that Lexis-Nexis and West Law provide a value-add, in addition to the raw data, I have the impression that the raw data isn't easily available elsewhere. So, even if all you want is the raw data, you still need to pay them for access.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2013) on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @12:09PM (#4993074)
SEEKING WORK - Edmonton, Alberta - Remote Possible

Tom Prince - Continuous integration specialist

I'm one the core developers of https://buildbot.net

I design, deploy and manage various buildbot installations.

Re:GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns on Sunday December 23, 2012 @12:00PM (#4959902)
That was exactly the point being made. That things like coding standards often need somebody to make a decision and enforce it, and that RMS didn't do that.
Re:Python Packaging: Hate, hate, hate everywhere on Friday June 22, 2012 @05:12PM (#4148842)
This doesn't consider the use case of needing to have multiple versions of the same package installed for testing. Sure, it would be nice to be able to have a second machine provisioned to do testing on.

And, as a extension of that, if you are using virtualenv+pip for testing, it makes sense for the deployment to use that too, as that means that the testing environment is closer to the deployment environment.

Or perhaps simple presenting the view of history that was acquired from school. Demonstrating the limited viepoint that standardized testing promotes.
Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split on Saturday January 28, 2012 @04:54PM (#3523404)
I don't think I have ever heard that acronym before. I don't think it is common usage.
I would say the couldn't,after 77 years, or 15-20 years.