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Including the comment in first line and blank lines there are 30 lines. If we ignore them, yes, 20 lines.


> My wife and I recently watched a two-night 7-hour PBS special “Joseph Campbell, and the Power of Myths.” Campbell, a college professor for almost 40 years, said that he always advised his students to “follow their bliss” and not to settle for jobs and avocations that are not what they truly want to do.

Follow your bliss -- Such a succint and delightful advice!


Me too. When I get a new system, the first thing I do is map CapsLock to Escape.

On Windows, I use the Uncap [ https://github.com/susam/uncap ] tool because it does not require install or restart. The tool has good documentation to map CapsLock to Escape for Linux and MacOS too.

On the flip side, I struggle to use Vim when I need to do so someone else's computer. :-D


They are called "windows" in Vim. That's why many related commands begin with Ctrl+w.


I don't think Walmart is allowed to compete directly in India due to FDI regulations.


Are you serious about these links as examples of nice things that Amazon has open sourced? Most of the projects there are development kits to work with Amazon products only.


Check out S2N, Ion, DSSTNE, Carbonado, Guzzle, git-secrets and others.


For those wondering what these projects are, here are the direct URLs to their project pages:

- https://hapijs.com/

- http://lacinia.readthedocs.io/

Here are a couple of other interesting Walmart Labs projects I came across:

- https://www.electrode.io/

- https://github.com/walmartlabs/thorax

- http://oneops.com/


A delightful thing I notice in their GitHub page is that Clojure seems to be the second most used language in Walmart Labs.

Seriously, Walmart and Clojure? Who would have imagined! I always thought of Walmart as a boring and traditional company that sells cheap goods. So when I heard about Walmart Labs, I thought all their coding must be in C++ or Java or even Cobol (who knows!).

But to see them using a dialect of Lisp like Clojure and Go more than Java and C++ warms my heart. :-)


Amazon has built a giant business on top of open source technologies. Don't you think it is natural for the open source community to expect that Amazon give something back to them out of courtesy?

The GP asked for a good thing that came out of Walmart Labs hinting at the idea that good things come out from Amazon but not Walmart Labs. Then a few commenters pointed out a few links showing the good things that came out of Walmart Labs. All of these good things happen to be open source. So it is quite natural to ask what good things Amazon bothered to open source after having built a billion dollar business on top of open source.


Again, all this is irrelevant to me as a programmer looking for challenging work. I'll chose good work over "is it going to be open source"?


FSF's pedantry in the "Emacs in Perl" joke page is fascinating:

"The Free Software Foundation does not claim copyright for this joke."


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