The remainder of the staff working on SmartOS, and the remaining IP like trademarks, and customers and so on, were all bought from Samsung by MNX so they could take it over. They're doing a great job over there with it, and unlike Samsung they actually want it!
From what I learned from Podcasts, they did a massive build-out of datacenters with Joyant technology for internal use as Samsung. But I don't know if that continued. Love to hear from Bryan more on that.
It seems like it has not continued considering the Joyent tech Triton, SmartOS, et al. and engineers have been sold off to MNX.io for future care and feeding.
SELinux can be frustrating without the proper background about what it is, how it works, and how it helps you. There is a surprising amount of tooling for it actually.
A lot of people disregard the creative aspect of programming, even if you're feeling great, some days creativity comes, some days it doesn't.
In the company I work for, which is horribly ran, a lot of the projects I work on have a bus factor of 1 - which is me. So, me taking a sick day, or even vacation can throw off one of the many arbitrary or poorly planned deadlines.
I haven't found a good answer to this, but I find it helps me to have a good routine such that no matter how dead tired or sick I am, I can engage the routine and get _something_ done.
The question is what prevents someone from coming up with a digital video interface standard just happens to be 100% compatible with HDMI just with a sufficiently different label on the ports similar to "TF flash" instead of "microSD"?
Because all this shit is covered by patents and licensing, and a cutesy defense like "it's totally not HDMI, bro," would make the judge refer your counsel to disciplinary action because of how fucking frivolous it is.
My company sells systems to DMVs, during some small talk one of the folks from the DMV said that they keep having retirees come back after retiring, the main reason: Healthcare. Working at the DMV is obviously a pretty easy job (compared to say... a roofer or even retail) so they just go back to work to save on Health Insurance. The DMV gladly hires them back too, they have the experience, know how things work, show up and do their job, etc.
I feel really bad for young people out there trying to get their foot in the door somewhere.
Similar anecdote. My father worked in a supermarket before a pivot to real estate. After the 2008 crash he wasn’t able to retire on time and went back to the supermarket to stock shelves during the night shift…at 70 years old
The lack of stable health care understandably scares older people. It’s concerning to see so many seniors in jobs that have traditionally been done by high schoolers or folk in their 20s
I worked in a supermarket in my early 20s doing just that, and most of the folks I worked with were otherwise semi retired and working a few nights a week.
Those repos really need some basic high-level information about what they are and how they work, the Forge doesn't even have a README.
[0] https://github.com/Toasterson/illumos-installer
[1] https://github.com/toasterson/forge