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That's some serious effort going on there.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is why soulless corpos can never compete with talented people who are more than happy to work on amazing things for free just for the sheer satisfaction of achieving something actually useful, instead of lining shareholder pockets while pretending to look busy

[–] JWBananas 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

for free

They literally work for Redhat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is now owned by IBM. I still think Red Hat is a force for good but yeah, they're not smol beans in their basement.

[–] EqMinMax 1 points 1 year ago

Which is now owned by Lenovo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my experience, numerous people who love tackling hard problems for the sake of it go on to work at soulless corps. That's part of their success.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For the record, I wish more talented people were working on open source and doing volunteer work, I'm just stating the view from the ground here in Silicon Valley.

[–] 0485919158191 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He said it was easy, which git bisect is, but it's still very impressive! Love the dedication!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

rebooting 200,000 times sounds like a typical Windoze update

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Windows 7 after a fresh install has entered the -- oh wait nevermind it's rebooting again...