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Gazpacho posted:raymond is the leading contributor to ntpsec so you can't necessarily say he's been slacking ntpsec shouldn't exist. its main "feature" is deleting code from the mainstream ntp project. there already exist alternative implementations of ntp. the only reason to go back to ntpd in the first place is to use unusual features the ntpsec guys are removing it is a typical esr project: software no one wanted, poorly maintained
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Raere posted:NTP is important and he should be funded unless he's working on some useless fork because principles this is exactly what is happening did you ever imagine it would be something else
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Feb 18, 2017 05:28
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Gazpacho posted:he wrote the emacs vc driver and has contributed to it substantially over the years the original vc mode was written by rms in 1992 esr's main contributions came in 1993 i guess i'm glad he threw in a few patches 25 years ago
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Gazpacho posted:"the heroic age of micros" aka the period when you could pass yourself off as a big shot without much to show for it. much like eric raymond fritz posted:in no surprise about esr's analysis, he has it ending in 1981, aka one year before the commodore 64 came out he's more or less right about this the "heroic" part is that back than any idiot could slap together parts in a garage to make some kind of halfassed microcomputer. they weren't really compatible with anything. there were no meaningful standards beyond the S-100 bus design the commodore 64 and the apple II and the ibm pc swept the market and killed off all those dumb garage tinkerers
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eschaton posted:the S-100 bus and CP/M were the IBM PC compatible of their day, but they were extremely fiddly to get working right and had serious interoperability problems that led to serious market fragmentation; you often had to buy the OS and other software from your hardware vendor, even though it was "standard," because everyone used slightly different disk formats and so on, and even then getting all the pieces-parts to work together was often a nightmare that made DOS-era compatibility dances look sane eschaton is 100% correct about this but it's even worse than it looks on the surface. only the bus was standardized in the s/100 era. this is like buying a random "computer" and the only information you have about it is that there is a PCI bus inside, somewhere.
third party software was almost non-existent because it was so drat hard to verify compatibility before mailing a check to some address you found in the back of "whole earth catalog" (because computer pioneers had a lot of overlap with late-generation hippies. you think software developers are flaky now?) Notorious b.s.d. fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Feb 19, 2017 |
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TOOT BOOT posted:I don't think ESR could write about his last bowel movement without being self-aggrandizing quote:On was: their skin color looks fecal. The other was: their bone structure doesn’t look human. And they’re just off-reference enough to be much more creepy than if they looked less like people, like bad CGI or shambling undead in a B movie. When I paid close enough attention, these were the three basic data under the revulsion; my hindbrain thought it was surrounded by alien poo poo zombies.
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Feb 20, 2017 01:45
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minivanmegafun posted:the ti computer in particular was goofy as gently caress, being its own weird 16-bit CPU (TMS9900) and then they hamstrung the poor thing with a 256 byte memory attached directly to the CPU and then an 8-bit bus to page the remaining 16K of shared video ram the 256 byte memory was SRAM, not DRAM. it was intended to be the register file for the cpu, because early 1980s chips didn't have room for on-die registers the ti-99 series looks a lot less goofy when you keep this in mind
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Gazpacho posted:i went ahead and refined the stats a little because i do want to be fair and also i can't pass up a chance to shell script so i went and looked at the 'git blame' output for ntpsec esr's primary "contributions":
he actually made the codebase worse lol
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Feb 20, 2017 19:11
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FMguru posted:i love that he will be a part of your larp but only if he gets to be the main character and also he has to win in the end otherwise forget it
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Feb 22, 2017 06:09
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A Pinball Wizard posted:what music do you think esr listens to  
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FMguru posted:isnt the vast majority of this guys contribution to nntp just "fixing" nitpicky nonissues? he is the principal contributor to an ntp fork that deletes ntp's useful features :clap:
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Mar 11, 2017 19:34
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the cathedral and the bazaar was masturbatory wishful thinking. which is exactly what the world needed in that moment, on the cusp of the dotcom boom. one crappy essay with no footnotes plotted a course for millions of dollars out of VC wallets and into pointless companies with no business model in no particular order:
esr spread manure on the seedbed for an entire generation of failed companies. (in other words, he covered the industry in poo poo.)
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Mar 14, 2017 04:57
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shame on an IGA posted:Also they paid $20/share I haven't looked into potential split/buyback history but if esr really was still autistically clenching his 150k shares he netted 3 million dollars 2 years ago LNUX IPOed at 14.4 billion, but sold to gamestop for 140 million, 0.9% of its day one value. the best case scenario for esr was earning $300k. given the many, many weird mergers they executed over the years i bet he got less than that
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Mar 15, 2017 01:46
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oh yeah va linux did a 1:10 reverse split in 2006 when they were named "geeknet" so esr's best-case payout was $30k, not $300k 
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best-selling authors should not be invited because your inclusion some how excludes me, the real sci if fan 
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