Robie Basak

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@sergiusens @ubuntupodcast @marxjohnson @m_wimpress @sil Using "devel" is unfortunately fundamentally broken and fails when a new release opens: https://t.co/pkHxH5Cdoz :-/

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@Fairphone Then it worked briefly (with the correct price and showing in stock), and it went down to maintenance again after I selected my payment type :-(

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@Fairphone I still have one in my cart. But every time I refreshed the cart, the price went down. The one in my cart is now listed at €0.03.

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

Interesting commentary on switching from Go to Python, dependencies, precompiled binaries, vendoring and bundling: https://t.co/JS4caRsZuf

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@chr1sa A bunch of Ubuntu people agree. I asked for this a while ago. Now tracked in https://t.co/AKQmTrzayt

[Ubuntu @ubuntu]

Developing Ubuntu using git https://t.co/HoDOLMsZjv

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@ubuntu_updates not sure you should be providing non-HTTPS deb download links as your primary download buttons. Not safe for users!

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@ben_nuttall I already have a regular server under the stairs, so I'm using a Z-Wave USB stick instead ("Aeotec USB Z-Stick S5 controller ZW090-C").

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@stecks @theemoow @Andrew_Taylor A programmer can make libraries or add others' libraries to a program. A standard library is the one that ships with a programming language.

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@stecks @theemoow @Andrew_Taylor a library provides a program with a set of things it can do, such as "display a window", "play a sound" or "send a tweet".

[Katie Steckles @stecks]

I find this a fascinating commentary on the work of Claude Shannon.

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@devopsmanc thanks! I'll be there.

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@pwaring SRV record not enough?

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@preshing you want time.time() or better time.clock_gettime(time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC) on Python 3 for immunity to clock changes.

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@preshing https://t.co/0FiQUlBkLf has good Google juice but is misleading. time.clock() is CPU time, almost certainly not relevant for HTTP.

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@pwaring makes little difference here. I maintain (with others) MySQL in Debian too, courtesy of Canonical. Debian's opinion is the same :-)

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@pwaring if you don't like change, 14.04 is supported until 2019. You can even run it inside a container on 16.04 :-)

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@pwaring I don't think your rant is at all justified. They did exactly the right thing here.

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@pwaring which is why they fixed it in a major release. Sites should test before upgrading. Don't want? 5.6 still supported.

[Robie Basak @robiebasak]

@pwaring how should they fix it?