The Opinion Dominion - Episodes Tagged with “Development”

Episode 63: What's a professional?

JT Pennington — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Jt asks Jeff what a professional is.

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Episode 62: One does not simply become a manager

JT Pennington — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Jeff ponders how someone makes the move into Management.

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Episode 61: Getting back into the swing of things with feedback

JT Pennington — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT discuss some feedback.

Links

https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/31171023.html
https://www.smart-energy.com/industry-sectors/smart-cities/toyotas-woven-city-a-future-smart-city-prototype/

https://www.arkitekturupproret.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Salingaros-–-Anti-architecture.pdf

https://github.com/adobe/node-smb-server

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Episode 60: Why do Designers ruin everything?

JT Pennington — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0400

JT asks Jeff why it is that Designers want to ruin everything.

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Episode 57: Does the Desktop need to be reimagined?

JT Pennington — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Jeff and JT discuss how some people really want to redesign the Linux Desktop Paradigm.

Links

An example of the Android Spacing Issue JT raised: https://twitter.com/q5sys/status/1232094851031687168

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Episode 55: Exploiting Log4j to rant about Management

JT Pennington — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500

https://github.com/starship/starship

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Episode 50: Open Source Software projects we wish existed

JT Pennington — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT discuss software projects they wish existed.

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Episode 49: Jeff's Attention Budget

JT Pennington — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff asks JT about how he manages his attention budget, and JT is confused by what this is.

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Episode 47: Jeff doesn't ask for much... just Everything... and Temporal Data for Everything.

JT Pennington — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff raises the issue of the temporal nature of data and why that annoys him.

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Episode 46: Discussing Imposter Syndome

JT Pennington — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT discuss various aspects of the industry wide Imposter Syndrome Problem.

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Episode 45: The Herbert Problem

JT Pennington — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT vents about people he has worked with in the past in his IT career.

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Episode 44: 1 Year AMA

JT Pennington — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT do an AMA to commemerate 1 Calendar year of TOD.

Links

Playlist about JT's House: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLKCd6WyCApvs-Ew51zQg8ismdk72mJNU

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Episode 43: Digging into the depths of Cryptocurrency Development

JT Pennington — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT are joined this week by Michael Carter, aka BitsBeTrippin to talk about Cryptocurrency development. Carter is a long time Crypto enthusiast and has been producing crypto realted content for approaching a decade.

Links

https://www.bitsbetrippin.io
https://www.youtube.com/c/BitsBeTrippin/videos

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Special Guest: BitsBeTrippin.

Episode 42: The view into the Linspire Saga

JT Pennington — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT have a guest this week to talk about Jeff's favorite topic... Linspire. Chris Waid of Think Penguin comes on the show to talk about his experience at Linspire.

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Special Guest: Christopher Waid.

Episode 34: Viral FUD about Linux

JT Pennington — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about why some companies are scared to use Linux.

Links

Charlie Reisinger Interview on Open Source Voices:
https://www.opensourcevoices.org/4

SuperMicro:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/08/22/why-super-micro-computer-stock-plunged-today.aspx
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/10/04/why-super-micro-computer-shares-got-completely-des.aspx
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/super-micros-stock-set-to-be-delisted-as-filing-deadline-wont-be-met-2018-08-22

PornHub Links:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all-unverified-videos-content
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k94be/mastercard-will-stop-processing-payments-to-pornhub

The Hippocratic License 2.1: https://firstdonoharm.dev/
As mentioned on TLG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50AVP0rsd9Q
Freedom 0: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Episode 31: Rogue Feedback

JT Pennington — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Links

Eon Storage:
https://eonstorage.blogspot.com/2008/11/eon-storage-embeddable-onopensolaris.html
https://sites.google.com/site/eonstorage/

Oracle $39 Billion in 2020 https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ORCL/oracle/revenue
Google $171 Billion https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/revenue
Facebook $85 Billion https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/FB/facebook/revenue
Apple $274 Billion https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/revenue

Episode 27: Apple Takedown: Part 2

JT Pennington — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0500

JT and Jeff continue the "The Apple Conversation".

More grimey crap from Apple:
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-labor-supplier-3-years-cut-costs-2020-12
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/lens-technology-apple-uighur/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-uighur/

Episode 25: What if RedHat goes Rogue?

JT Pennington — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0500

JT raises a concern he has over Red Hat's future and what it means for the rest of Open Source and Linux Community.

Episode 22: Community Feedback! Part Deux

JT Pennington — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 03:00:00 -0500

Jeff and JT cover more community feedback.

Episode 21: Listeners give us their two cents on CentOS

JT Pennington — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0500

JT and Jeff go over the community feedback about our RedHat/CentOS episode.

Episode 19: RedHat... i am disappoint.

JT Pennington — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 12:00:00 -0500

JT and Jeff discuss the recent CentOS Linux 8 drama.

Episode 18: The Dev/User Relationship

JT Pennington — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 03:00:00 -0500

Jt and Jeff talk about the Developer/User Relationship, bad examples of such, and how it can be better.

Episode 17: The Unix Philosophy

JT Pennington — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0500

Jeff and JT discuss what they like about the Unix Philosophy.

Links

Univ of Rhode Island Course Reference: https://homepage.cs.uri.edu/~thenry/resources/unix_art/ch01s06.html

Episode 16: Does Openness of AI Algorithms matter?

JT Pennington — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0500

JT and Jeff dig deeper into the Open discussion this time focused on AI... and then go wildly off topic.

Links

Reverse-Engineering Deep ReLU Networks ( University of Pennsylvania ) : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.00744.pdf

Microsoft invests 1 Billion dollars in OpenAI: https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/22/microsoft-invests-1-billion-in-openai-to-develop-ai-technologies-on-azure/

OpenAI gives Microsoft exclusive access to GPT3: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/23/1008729/openai-is-giving-microsoft-exclusive-access-to-its-gpt-3-language-model/

Original Google Research Paper: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

Episode 15: Unlicensed Listener Feedback

JT Pennington — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0500

Jeff & JT finally get to listener feedback and end up debating the merits and proper boundaries of copyright protection, intellectual property, and their value to a productive society.

Links

License Discussion: https://www.theopiniondominion.org/8

Episode 14: Should Algorithms be Free and Open?

JT Pennington — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0500

JT postulates to Jeff that the algorithms that feed us data from internet sites should be open just like what we expect from every other piece of software we run.

Links

Gaurdian article about Facebook:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-users-emotions-news-feeds

Douglas Rushkoff's book: Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
https://rushkoff.com/books/program-or-be-programmed/

Episode 13: One does not simply learn linux

JT Pennington — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:00:00 -0400

Jeff asks the question about how one "Gets Gud" at linux... and as usual... the conversation goes off in a tangent.

Links

Scratch: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/scratch-3-resource-upgrades/

Episode 12: AI KillBots in the Sky are not a problem, journalists are the problem.

JT Pennington — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 03:00:00 -0400

JT gives a perfect example of the pathetic state of Tech Journalism using AI Killbots from the sky.

Links

Crazy VR Motion Chair JT referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KnS3aESNk0

Episode 11: LUGs in the Time of Corona

JT Pennington — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT are back after some emergency home repair, to talk about LUGs in the time of Covid-19.

Links

UCLUG: http://www.uclug.org/index.php/Main_Page
PLUG: http://www.phillylinux.org
CharmBUG: https://www.meetup.com/CharmBUG/
CharmCityLinux: https://www.meetup.com/CharmCityLinux/
LancLUG: https://www.meetup.com/lanclug/
Fair Hill Photography: https://www.meetup.com/FAIR-HILL-MD-NATURE-PHOTOGRAPHY-meetup-group/

YouTube Video that our Listener ComputerKid found which relates to Episode 10:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Gd9t7FQqI

Episode 10: What's in a name?

JT Pennington — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400

To quote Shakespeare, What's in a Name? The answer... when it comes to Linux release names... quite a lot.
JT quizzes Jeff on his Release Name Knowledge, and Jeff fails in spectacular style.

Episode 9: Your Distro doesn't suck

JT Pennington — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 04:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about everyone's other favorite argument... How your distro sucks.

Whatever your stance, Distro discussions can be a hot issue in the Linux world.

Episode 8: Begun... the License Wars have

JT Pennington — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 04:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about everyone's favorite issue... FOSS Licensing. JT goes into detail about one concern he has for the future of Software Licensing. Surprisingly overall this was a polite and calm conversation... but we expect some spicy feedback from the community. Confucius say, 'Licensing is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.'

Whatever your stance, Licensing discussions are one of THE hot-button issues in the FOSS world. Only three things are certain in this world: death, taxes, and FOSS licensing arguments.

Episode 7: Much ado about Thumbnails

JT Pennington — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff listens to JT rant about Thumbnails in Linux Desktop Environments and gives his thoughts.

Episode 6: Kernel Compiling

JT Pennington — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 05:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about the first time they compiled their kernels, and Jeff reflects back on how it used to be an achievement.

Episode 5: Jeff isnt inspired by Linspire

JT Pennington — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:00:00 -0400

Jeff opens up about his love/hate relationship with Linspire.