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> It's as if it's some sort of daily prayer.

That's probably the whole point of it. Ask yourself daily: WWMD? "What Would Musk Do?"

How would I add another repository to the microsoft store in order to have nightly builds of a specific app or third party apps available?

Is there an apt-like command line interface for the microsoft store?

Or about 3 horses.

Mergers like this are required to keep competition and the free market alive.

It's all good now, though. Nothing to worry about.

The name is burnt. They still are a company with business interests. While their interests might align today with the open source community this doesn't have to be so tomorrow and there is no resistance internally to burn these bridges they are building today.

Or you can move immediately like many others. What would you gain by staying until it's too late?

They have reached the end goal of the big buyout. What more could they possibly want?

I wonder how Microsoft can manage to commercialize all the projects on GitHub. Maybe by providing an universal installer that works through the Windows Store. Maybe by adding a few mandatory patches to each project that improve compatibility. Maybe by making a much improved version of Git with a proper GUI interface. The possibilities are endless!

It may not be in the job description but usually somebody has to clean the data by hand or build specialized tools before it can be used.

Something as simple as a text field for entering a date can produce interesting effects. Even if your data looks good on the surface, when you dig in, you might find interesting things. Like data entered when the system was definitely shut down for maintenance.

Your rules are basically "the winner takes it all in the long run". This is similar to reality but real actors can disappear. Individuals have a limited lifespan. Their offspring have slightly different abilities. Corporations/Nations/Organizations are run by individuals (chosen not randomly) and may face technological/political challenges but here it's not clear that these structures need to disappear.

Do you see a good way to factor in these things?

The things that are on schedule are one part but there are other things not on the schedule when you have scheduled a few days to do programming.

I find it hard to balance between being unavailable to my colleagues/users and being interrupted all the time. Often the most efficient way to solve a software problem is to just come to the developer and resolve it together in a few minutes. These interruptions happen at random though and are hard to plan. Some days there are none and other days there are people almost lining up.

I also suspect that the mind is able to go into a deeper state when it does not expect to be interrupted all the time. So not only the interruptions but also the expectation thereof is taking energy away. Some days when there is nothing going on I even miss the interruptions and even get the feeling of needing to actively stray away with my concentration.

I wish my company would have a hidden room where I could go with a laptop, disconnect everything and emerge only after the work of the day is done.

How do you finance your daily living?

We would have to wait for a few decades to come to such conclusions with scientific methods. It's a political decision to market the event as such.