theSpaceOctopus
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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Hey, Fedora mag also has a post detailing the major changes in F28 workstation, here: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-28-workstation/
Hope you find this helpful.
Comment · 8 years ago
Drupal Engineer | Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health | Baltimore, Maryland, United States | ONSITE
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Office of External Affairs is hiring a Drupal engineer with experience building large-scale websites in Drupal 8.
Since its founding in 1916, the Bloomberg School has advanced research, education and practice to create solutions to public health problems around the world.
Faculty, staff and students have helped eradicate smallpox, made water safe to drink, improved child survival, reduced the spread of HIV and uncovered the dangers of tobacco smoke.
The Office of External Affairs is seeking a Drupal 8 Engineer to help architect a Drupal 8 website as we migrate jhsph.edu from our current CMS, SiteExecutive, to Drupal 8.
This is a 3-year position starting approximately May 2018 ending May 2021.
Full job description - https://jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimore-Drupal-8-Engineer-MD-2120...
Comment · 9 years ago
> Your analogy is ridiculous. In what way is polluting a river like hosting a social network on your own servers?
It's an analogy for the "age old personal responsibility argument", but if you want to get metaphorical then maybe society is the river, Facebook the pollutant?
I mean come on man, it doesn't take a creative genius to connect the dots here, and it's certainly not ridiculous.
Comment · 9 years ago
I have 2 blogs, both on WordPress. My web development blog is on a DO droplet and uses the Roots stack, Trellis, Bedrock and Sage. https://roots.io
I've done a lot of WordPress development, custom themes mostly. I can't always use Bedrock and Trellis due to hosting constraints, but I would never choose anything other than Sage for a theme development project.
The Roots projects have always been ahead of the curve as far as WordPress development goes. Whether it's things as simple as name spacing, or actually taking advantage of PHP 7 features, to using Composer to manage dependencies, gulp to automate build processes, Ansible for automated provisioning and deployment....
I could go on and on, but I'm loyal to these tools because they've consistently pushed me to learn new things. I also enjoy the workflow.
My personal blog is hosted by Automattic, on WordPress.com, strictly out of convenience.
I'm looking around at other options however. I've thinking it might be time for me to move on from WordPress. Partly from the Roots stuff constantly driving my curiosity, and partly from being unhappy with the direction the WordPress project as a whole is taking.
I've been looking specifically at Ghost, Craft, various flat file solutions, and have even been considering taking a crack at building my own blog with Python. (Python because I've been learning it and have really been enjoying it)
Comment · 9 years ago
> people who get offended for others and have no actual personal connection with the word and thus have no real negative thoughts.
That could better be described as a capacity for empathy, particularly in the context of genocide. "No real negative thoughts" is your assumption.
Comment · 9 years ago
I think the intent is clear, it’s the word choice which some may find tasteless.
For example, a person who survived an actual genocide may find your analogy to be shallow because where you’ve lost some extensions due to a browser upgrade, they’ve lost everyone they love due to them having been hacked to death with machetes, or gassed, or worked to death in forced labor camps.
I don’t know, maybe they just need to get over it?
Comment · 9 years ago
> This whole article boils down to "new hires require training".
There were also the parts about needless bickering in the PHP community, the responsibility of senior developers to guide junior developers, and the importance of keeping an open mind.
Comment · 9 years ago
Great read, thanks for sharing it.
I’ve contemplated switching to Linux for a while, and keep a laptop with Fedora installed, but every time I seriously consider it I picture losing those key applications and the tight integration with my other devices and I can’t justify it.