Cette licence permet d'utiliser, reproduire, modifier et distribuer librement le code avec attribution, mais impose des restrictions pour les opérations dépassant 700 millions d'utilisateurs mensuels.
Interesting they only mention the 700 million users thing and not the other restrictions on use. Personally I could regard the prohibition against basically Google and Microsoft using it to be a minor transgression, it's the larger list of unacceptable uses that's the big problem.
In 2012, he travelled to France and bought me a beer to thank me for my work on Org-Mode, and it was great. He was enthusiastic about this worldwide half-random connections, and insisted on how great it was to be able to connect with everyone in this way... we certainly miss him and that spirit.
Hi, I'm in charge of code.gouv.fr and I initiated this BlueHats prize.
The money comes from the French government (4x10K€ for the four prizes).
We wanted to do this with NLnet to benefit from their experience and to rely on another entity to transfer the funds.
We received a lot of interesting submissions and asking public administrations who deserves the award is already a very nice exercise. We will write more about the process and the lessons learned after this first (experimental) iteration.
Thanks! No, we don't plan to self-host and manage our own instance of sr.ht: the FLOSS unit at Etalab is small, we have just a few repos.
Also, self-hosting a sr.ht would make sense if we can welcome repos from any public agency, but there is no plan for such a project, partly due to the lack of resources.
Ten years ago, there was still heated debates about whether Nicolas Carr was right.
Now we kind of know he somehow was right, so parts of the debate are over, while others, still relevant parts, leave us speachless. Or maybe that's just me.
I haven't read Carr, but the article makes it sound as if only reading attention span is addressed. I am astounded at my inability to watch films I enjoyed as a young adult because the scenes are too long and the story unfolds too slowly.
Likewise, I am astounded at my inability to watch most modern media, because the scenes are too short and the story unfold too quickly.
I feel that the most in the Simpsons: same characters, but it feels so different than the early seasons!!
My absolute favorite sci-fi show is Star Trek TOS. It's not from my generation, but I relate far more to the way the story is told - without 3 different plotline unfolding at once in the same show, and without 1 of them requiring me to remember perfectly what happened in the last 3 episodes.
Hear hear, I wondered if I was alone in this. There's shows I'd watch and even (as far as I can tell) enjoy, but after a few episodes, I'd skip to Wikipedia for a summary so i didn't have to spend a couple weeks just watching. And it's only over the last 5 years or so. No idea what happened to my attention span.
Reading in another comment that there was some hostility in the official mailing list had me worried to read his take.
Instead, I got a wonderfully done perspective on it. Has done criticism, but all constructive. And lots of hope for seeing the results.
I share his general ideas on this. I, also, don't really care for forcing standardisation. Nor do the defaults worry me. I'm convinced most of the "Emacs is hard" crowd is just send fulfilling propaganda. So many think it is harder than alternatives because that is just what you say.
> I'm convinced most of the "Emacs is hard" crowd is just send fulfilling propaganda. So many think it is harder than alternatives because that is just what you say.
It's not too hard for people to learn, sure. But it's also a much steeper learning curve to get value from compared to IDEs or to VSCode. The latter are really quite nice out of the box.
And it's surely way easier for a novice to dig themselves into a hole they can't get out of with Emacs compared to VSCode.
I think spending some time to know your tools better is a good thing. But for those who don't have the time or interest, I wouldn't say Emacs is a great choice.
I'm not convinced. I recently installed VSCode after all that hype and I'm somewhat disappointed. Without referring to external media, it's not all that easy to get anything done. It isn't exactly intuitive. It takes effort like anything else.
(full disclosure: these days I'm almost exclusively an Emacs user, but for Java I might use IntelliJ instead and long time ago, when VisualAge for Java was still around, I evaluated a bunch of Java IDEs for the company I worked for)
And on this, I just disagree. It feels faster to use vs code for people that are used to tools like vs code. For novices, though, they are all complicated.
Worse, for many IDEs, the worst hole to dig is where you tie yourself to the IDE. Too many times have I seen projects that only build on a particular desktop with the press of a button on a particular IDE. :(
No, there is no official French announcement (yet).