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  • You might know of Organic Maps, the open source app that’s an alternative to Google Maps. Recently, concerns have been raised about its governance, with many contributors questioning the project’s transparency and direction.

    Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareholders, often without input from the broader contributor community.

    These shareholders have reportedly used the project’s donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips, raising serious concerns about financial transparency.

    As a result, many contributors teamed up and forked the project, establishing CoMaps, a new alternative focused on openness and being not-for-profit.




  • Thanks for the explanation, I was wondering if it had to do with CPU cycles.

    I guess I’ll continue to use cat for short files to sdout and less for longer files, if there is no actual repercussion. It’s just such a common “don’t do this” topic I was wondering if there was a good reason not to.

    I think the beer in the “wrong” glass might be an apt metaphor – it might be fancier to use a specific glass, knowing the history, appreciating the golden color of the beer, (it might also affect the head on the pour? Idk) but there is also nothing wrong with drinking it out of a normal glass.


  • I guess I still don’t understand why?

    The end result is that the contents of the file ends up in the STDOUT.

    For your other examples, if you use a hammer to push a screw into wood, it won’t be secure and it damages the wood. Using a board to drive a dowel through a plank might work in a pinch, but it is easier to use a hammer.

    What is the bad thing that happens if you use cat for its side effect rather than to concatenate?











  • I’m a vim novice. I basically know just enough to save files or quit, paste with formatting, and “insert” changes. I think I used to know how to find within a file, and I’m sure I could learn again in an instant, but I haven’t had to do that in a long time for my noobish tasks. I know it is way more capable than that, but I haven’t had to learn more features yet since I use it at a ‘nano’ level.

    I agree it only takes 3 minutes to learn these things, but personally it took me a bit longer to make them muscle memory.

    I get it if someone were to be annoyed that things they knew how to do in another program they had to re-learn in vim, but this kind of thing it seems like you would just accept that you’re going to be frustrated and then put in the work to learn it so you can work more easily with your coworkers or whatever. Like you said, vim has serious advantages, and it seems a little short sighted to not be willing to learn from people that want to train you up in a tool to be more effective.