8 comments

  • garciasn 46 minutes ago

    Almost 20 years ago now I worked for a company that sat a group of about 25 of us down to talk about their latest survey named...CRMPIES.

    Everyone looked at me like I was insane as I sat there chuckling. Thank you for bringing back that unfortunate memory.

    • tete 1 hour ago

      Everyone needs to have made a web framework. Everyone needs to have made a programming language. Everyone needs to have made a supervisor. Everyone has to have made a container manager. Everyone needs to have made a text editor.

      • killerstorm 28 minutes ago

        What's the value of making a supervisor? It seems to be mostly about gluing together some system APIs.

        • binaryturtle 1 hour ago

          Absolutely. I recently wrote my first compiler to get it off the bucket list… brainf*ck compiler/interpreter #100010134 or such? :-) Well… it was a fun half hour.

        • arjie 1 hour ago

          One release every 4 years. So this is like monit or systemd-supervisord and so on, a process manager. I have to say the thing I most enjoy about it is the fact that it's got the classic GNU trend of "here's an obviously pronounceable spelling; let's say it a different way".

          • stackghost 1 hour ago

            The only thing missing is a recursive acronym e.g. Pies: Pies Is Experimental Software or something equally cringe like Hurd

            • stevekemp 53 minutes ago

              Pies is eshewing systemd?

              • calvinmorrison 54 minutes ago

                how about "Active Development" without any progress in 3 decades

            • Alifatisk 44 minutes ago

              Are the collection of components run in some kind of namespace? Say I run a Pies for Gitlab (which in itself had lots of components), and I run a Pies for Frpd, do they share the same space or are they isolated from each other? Am I maybe overthinking this? Perhaps its just a program manager.

              • written-beyond 1 hour ago

                Is this the gnu version of systemd?

                edit: I know it's not a monolith like systemd but service/unit files are a core component of systemd

              • relaxing 1 hour ago

                > pronounced "p-yes"

                Absolutely not.

                Apologies to the Slavs, but there’s already a utility pronounced like that.

                • evilmonkey19 1 hour ago

                  Pies it means "foot" in spanish

                • asa400 1 hour ago

                  If you have to explain the pronunciation of the name of your tool in the first sentence, you've already lost.