Tux Deluxe
tuxdeluxe.org · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Tux Deluxe is a blog by Jeremy Allison, a Samba developer, on Linux, Windows file servers, programming careers, and Google.
What HN saysHN links it for Allison's views on proprietary environments as a trap and his comments on Google, plus one commenter's critical comparison.
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Most-shared posts
- 1The way to Lisp2 people · 26 points · first shared 2007 · 3 comments on HN
- 2Why writing a Windows compatible file server is (still) hard2 people · 8 points · first shared 2009 · 2 comments on HN
- 3Requiem for Bell Labs, Unit 1127 (2007)2 people · 8 points · first shared 2007 · 3 comments on HN
- 4"A startup company is like a bicycle", said one VC to me. "The two wheels are marketing and engineering and you don't get very far without both"2 people · 7 points · first shared 2007 · 9 comments on HN
- 5"What I've learned so far about making yourself a career in writing software"2 people · 5 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 6A Cloudy Future2 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 7Learning the craft (of programming)1 people · 39 points · first shared 2008 · 6 comments on HN
- 8When Linux fails1 people · 33 points · first shared 2008 · 6 comments on HN
- 9Tivo Phone Home...1 people · 4 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 10Watching the Sun Set1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 11Jeremy Allison on why Samba is different from Mono wrt freedom1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 12Astronomy Domine1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 13Antikythera Reborn - The Hackers of Ancient Greece | Tux Deluxe1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · 2 comments on HN
- 14Working to Rule1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 15The Road to Lisp1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
bad_user · 2011-11-15
Here's what Jeremy Allison said in the following article: http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/122
Proprietary environments are a trap
I used to be a Microsoft Windows programmer, as well as a UNIX/POSIX programmer.
The knowledge I've gained about programming POSIX is still useful, even though I learned a lot of it over twenty years ago. My Windows knowledge is now rather out of date, and getting more so over the years. It isn't worth my time anymore to keep up with each increasingly baroque change to the Windows environment. Just as an example, over this time the latest "hot" communication paradigm that Microsoft recommended developers use in Windows changed from NetBEUI, to NetDDE, then OLE, followed by OLE2, then COM, DCE/RPC, DCOM, and now currently seems to be Web Services (SOAP and the like). Meanwhile, in the UNIX world the Berkeley socket API was useful in the 1980's and is still the core of all communications frameworks in the open standards world. All the UNIX RPC, object and Web Service environments are built on that stable base.
btilly · 2011-07-07
These guys remind me of William R Della Croce J, and not in a good way. See http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/107 for more.
dpapathanasiou · 2007-09-05
Jeremy Allison wrote something similar last year:
I do worry about how things will be at Google when the money gets tight. And the money always gets tight. I've played the role of Banquo's ghost at enough Silicon Valley startup feasts to know how these stories can end.
(http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/193)