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That's a rather wild insinuation of the "Dear GitHub" authors' motivation. If your constructive feedback is ignored you have to start a public discussion to get the thing rolling again. That's not necessarily as selfish as you imply. There are a lot of people who would benefit from the addressed issues being resolved.

> I own you no shit

GitHub might owe them nothing, but it's in their own interest to address and resolve those issues and not just stash them away somewhere. Their biggest selling point is the great UI and the userbase. If the later becomes frustrated because issues with the former don't get resolved, that might be a huge problem for GitHub in the future. Today, there are viable alternatives after all.
We're talking about bleeding edge features that were just created, and yes they're often modeled upstream in Illumos. However, there are other features that have been created by companies using FreeBSD first. But they tend to get pushed up to OpenZFS first and then trickle back down to vanilla FreeBSD.

When it comes to stability and performance FreeBSD == Illumos. I wouldn't worry so much about features anymore, because as soon as they're available they get pulled in. Last I looked the awesome ZFS features that are coming still weren't fully accepted upstream yet.
You can't destroy the village to save it? Quite often, especially in the western highlands, South Vietnamese villages were honeycombed with Vietcong tunnels and situated on NVA infiltration routes; if you relocated the people and leveled the village, you really would save the villagers by destroying the village. (Even if you ended up bringing VC infiltrators along in the relocation, at least they'd be cut off from the NVA's regular army and more or less out of communication with Hanoi.)

A shame the resettlement program was so grotesquely corrupt... If only the coup against the South Vietnamese civil government had come sooner, we could have won that war.

Of course, the EFF would've been on the Communist side; so the analogy works from their perspective.
The bug tracking data might be tough to replicate, but everything else is stored on each contributor's machine. I think recovery time wouldn't be so bad.
When I go to the page there's a blue popup above that says they have one...
(I'm on firefox currently)

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The money supply is fixed to 21 million. Fortunately, the coins are basically infinitely divisible, so as the coins become more valuable (assuming over the long run that coins are used for larger and larger amounts of commerce rather than speculation), small transactions simply happen at smaller units. In other words the system is steadily deflationary instead of the highly volatile inflationary system we currently have with fiat currencies.
It would take more than that. Bystanders also need to have it impressed upon them to speak up when they see inappropriate behavior as well. The onus shouldn't fall completely on the victim of harassment to report the behavior.
That user seriously gonna merge any incoming PR? What a great person with hell lot of time.
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The "again" in the title confused me. I knew that I read an article along these lines a while back so I thought this is yet another one. Turns out it was this post, which is dated October 23, 2015.
> I'm fairly certain that everyone involved in that letter (including myself), is very appreciative of Github and its impact on OSS

Well then sign this one too (:
and these master would teach random people from the street about their craft?

in sincerely doubt that...
Meta is a special subset of SO users.
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If we really followed the prescription to "First, do no harm" then really we would have to stop doing surgery completely. If giving someone a drug which hasn't conclusively been proven to be safe is harm then cutting someone open certainly is. Someone may die from an unproven drug. Someone may also die from complications from surgery or anesthesia. But surgery will certainly leave a hole in their body.
I lurk and occasionally post on a dozen or so groups.
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Consider then finding an on-line community of enthusiasts first. Like, in case of woodworking, /r/woodworking and some of the other subreddits listed in the sidebar there. Spend few minutes there, and you'll know where to find the best 5% of woodworking sources available to mankind.

Let me emphasize it - thanks to the Internet, you have access to the best knowledge and experience entire humanity has produced. All it takes is some experience with using the Internet and spending little time on filtering links.
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such a letter should include a note of thanks to torvalds for creating git in the first place.
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Aw poo...missed the date when I read it, and haven't seen it before. I'll update the title.
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Perhaps they do - if all Phase 1 is done on healthy human guinea pigs. Better question is why do we allow otherwise healthy people to be guinea pigs?
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Absolutely; common knowledge becomes scientific knowledge (or is refuted) by experiment and reproducibility. You can go too far in rejecting old wives' tales (like how, in their discovery of vitamin A, the Japanese initially ignored the popular wisdom that buckwheat noodles prevent beriberi), but you can obviously go too far in accepting them as well.
Most people good at making videos have better things to make videos on than random niche hobbies and crafts. If you step out of the popculture, you'll see a lot of videos made by those who do the work.
There are always people on the fence. I see this sort of attitude appear all over the place, from terrorism to suicide prevention and now DRM. People have already made up their minds, it's said, and they'll do what they've decided to do regardless.

It's just not true. Lots of people are pushed only weakly towards one side or the other. Making it easier to go one way and harder to go the other way will influence where people in the middle end up.
Venmo was actually acquired by Braintree, which in turn was later acquired by PayPal.
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When I read the "Dear GitHub" repo my first thought was, I agree with some of this, but my overall attitude toward GitHub is gratitude and the flexibility to create whatever repo standards you want to. I then saw the "Thank You GitHub" repo and think it's a great way to express that gratitude!

I personally do not view these as rival repos. They just express different sentiment and serve two purposes (again not apposing each other).

Does this have to be viewed as a polar opposite response to "Dear GitHub"?
Ruminate on the difference between "citing a source" and "giving credit to the author of the source". Marge is not a static document that can be reread later.
Posting this right after some good suggestions for the service was given feels like this is saying it is wrong to make suggestions for GitHub because they have done good things.

This to me, itself, is wrong.

The GitHub issue tracker does need to change. While it's great for OSS that projects can get a leg up SOONER, GitHub does introduce it's own problems by having some watered down tooling in some areas.

I'm STILL at odds with how it has shifted the equation from discuss to throw code at the problem, which generates extra code review and often, angry committers when their patches are not immediately merged or unwanted, or have to be reworked.

GitHub has done some GREAT things because it has built up critical mass, but because it has gotten critical mass and has become a defacto standard, does have some obligation to keep up with demand.

This seems passive aggressive to me.
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Can't read the full article for free, but I expect their measurement techniques are tautological. It's the reification fallacy -- create a measurement, redefine the term as that measurement, then conflate the measurement with the original meaning of the term.
Aha, so encrypted javascript is something new that I've not seen mentioned in any of these discussions!

However, does EME allow encryption of javascript? I thought it was just for playback elements in <video> and <audio>? Searching a bit, I can't find evidence that executable javascript could be encrypted.
And, possibly, the youth fetish. When the portrait of the ideal is a 19-year-old guy who dropped out of an elite school, it's not surprising to see the ethics of the over-entitled rich boy everywhere you turn.
Are all Phase 1 trials done on healthy human guinea pigs. Why do we allow otherwise healthy people to be guinea pigs? Presumably there are patients who have the disease this drug targets.
>You can criticize some of the actions that many central banks do to manipulate the economy, but I have a hard time buying the answer to bad management is no management.

Why is active, central, management necessary?

>The biggest economic problem to me has always been an unintelligent control of the money supply.

The Bitcoin paper [0] lays down the rules of control and many have been able to follow it; In what way is that unintelligent?

[0] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
That's a huge mistake you're making there. Recovery time would be in the years because github is a hub. It became a focal point for a very large amount of activity, losing that hub would be an absolute disaster.
While GitHub makes millions per year, it's important to keep in mind that "GitHub" and every other company is really just a collection of people like you and me. I'm sure their engineers are paid well, but money isn't everything, and it's nice (and motivating) to show up at the office and know there's people out there who appreciate the work you put in regardless of what you're being paid.

There's nothing wrong with showing gratitude from time to time, even if it's for a for-profit corporation if you truly appreciate what they do.
and also does not detect anything. It's placebo.
>I'm surprised you think the biggest problem is the statelessness of Bitcoin.

In fact it's the opposite I think that's its biggest strength.

If no one else sees it that way however, then it will not live up to it's potential because there is no reason for them to move over to it. Adopting bitcoin is a political decision because money is as equally political as it is economic.

It's super complex because the vast majority of people have no clue the power and complexity that sits behind the money they hold in their hands. They just see it as the next bag of groceries, or electricity payment.
The trouble is that Visa functionality already exists and it already works really, really well for both consumers and merchants.
A bug in the imsi catcher not properly relaying the info, so I was seeing the imsi catcher's location data temporarily instead of my own.
LOL. Well put. Would do the same :)
If everyone went to another solution like Bitbucket, yes, it would be quick. But if I were maintaining anything significant, after such event, I'd never consider a private solution again. In Turkish we have a saying, "he whose mouth is burnt by milk, eats yoghurt blowingly".
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Yup. They were insolvent for a year and a half, and paid out people with pending withdrawals when new people deposited new coins. How people thought it was a good idea to keep using them, I have no idea. There had been warnings about their solvency literally for the past year, starting with permanently "pending" BTC withdrawals, and slowly spreading to not allowing withdrawal of the altcoins on the site.
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> It probably isn't going to happen any more than high prices in New York failed to price out banks and bankers.
Actually a simpler fix is to hold $10 in the user's paypal account for each $0 invoice they send, and if the invoice is reported back as spam they keep the $10, otherwise after 90 days they release it back to the (potential) spammer. Doing this with funds in the account, rather than with a (likely) stolen credit card, works very well.

For accounts which keep an average balance > $minimum you could wave the $10 hold and just confiscate $10 every time someone reported their $0 invoice as spam.
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Not quite on the same scale, but maybe more relatable: alcohol can have quite an effect on the brain. Luckily most of it is reversible.
> IMO, there is a fair amount of. "Those who can do. Those who can't teach."

That applies to occupations, not to hobbies. I.e. those who can't find a proper job using their skill go on to teach that skill.

It does not however apply to the most valuable content - one made not for money, but out of love for the subject. A lot of masters in all occupations simply like to share. Our industry is probably the best example - it's almost entirely built upon masters who gave away their knowledge. But it happens in other industries too.
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People need to realize that DRM is simply a tool. Absent pernicious laws like the DMCA, forms of DRM are like fences, locks, and cameras. Such tools can be used to oppress people. The same tools could also be used to protect individual's privacy and act as a check on what organizations can do with people's data.

Those who control products and infrastructure shouldn't be allowed to set up such tools to grant themselves disproportionate power. However, individuals need to realize that such tools could help protect them as well. (Analogy: Camera phones and police misconduct.)
I don't know what code you're using, but there's actually a great piece of OSS that does exactly what you need: http://www.telescopeapp.org/
So what are the tools and knowledge required for one to tinker hardware enough to understand and build security for smart phones?
AFAIK DRM servers are very expensive, although maybe once EME is mature we'll see DRMaaS that will sway more content providers to use DRM.
> What is the single "thing" you're referring to and what is "new" relative to?

The type system and perl 5. That would have been a much more constructive response to "why perl 6?" (if it's as good as you say) than this article.

> You earlier wrote "If you want two different behaviours, write two different functions". But hahainternet had written two different functions. This suggests you hadn't then yet taken on board what multidispatch is (a fundamental innovation -- from the 80s iirc -- related to declaring and calling functions).

No need to be rude. Rather than argue over whether the cases of a multimethod are different functions or the same function, let me just clarify that if you want two different behaviours then it is clearer to give them different names.

> "In the presence of multiple dispatch, the traditional idea of methods as being defined in classes and contained in objects becomes less appealing" (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch).

That article is decidedly non-neutral. I'm well aware of multiple dispatch. I find it very bad for code maintainability, and often a sign of poor domain modeling. The interaction between two objects is an unnatural and opaque place for behaviour to live; usually the behaviour belongs to one or the other or on its own, or if their relationship is that complex it should probably be promoted to a first-class entity.
Exactly, this is why the stateless-ness is such a drawback to adoption. Because Venezuelan gov't knows that its people would prefer to transact in a more stable currency and try to convert from the bolívar to btc. And the gov't will try to do everything in its power to prevent the exchanges from happening.
You mean collecting actual evidence so it doesn't end up being he said she said?

Isn't that victim blaming? Sorry about the manquestioning and the use of micro-aggressive gendered pronouns.
It's kind of ironic of OSS, isn't it?

Someone develops an OSS platform, a corporation monetizes that platform, and it's the corporation that is now receiving all the praise.
And it works on Windows? Sign me up.
> The problem with bitcoin, as I see it, is that discussion of problems that may exist can lower the value of bitcoin- whether the problem is real or not.

This is a tautology. What you say is true of all investments (which bitcoin does not claim to be, but obviously is in practice), because that's what an investment is: an asset whose value is expected to change over time.

To the extent that bitcoin sees this effect "worse" has nothing to do with its status as an investment and far more to do with its total lack of regulation. An investment run by community consensus works well when there is consensus, and falls apart when there is none.
They don't expect you to pay for the article--hardly anyone does. It's so they can go to the institutions and say, "We'll give you an unlimited subscription for $X!" The only way that subscription seems reasonable is if the cost of an individual article is high.
> I wonder if there's any traits about engineers or programmers that creates an affinity for this sort of stuff?

Hackers don't live to just hack code. We enjoy (this is just my hypothesis!) hacking systems of all kinds!

To steal from pop culture: "I see the strings that control the system"
"Agile" is a plain english word.
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Is it important because they're GH or just because some people work there? Because in the latter case, you would have a LOT of letters to write.
> Does this have to be viewed as a polar opposite response to "Dear GitHub"?

Certainly not. My comment was in all seriousness. I expect that pretty much anyone signing the Dear Github letter would also feel comfortable signing this one.
> The problem however is that a nation's currency is arguably the primary source of it's sovereignty.

The reverse is also true--any significant currency creates sovereignty by elevating the power of those with the greatest influence over that currency.

In the case of Bitcoin, the "core" developers, in addition to the highest-volume miners, have been elevated to the sovereign position. Rather than a distributed stateless currency (which I would argue is impossible), what Bitcoin has become is a currency whose sovereigns are accidentally selected, poorly organized, and not responsible to its currency users in any direct way.

There is a famous concept called the "tyranny of structurelessness," which says that there are always political structures when groups of humans interact, the question is just whether they are defined or hidden. A "structureless" organization, rather than egalitarian, is governed by a small secret clique that assembles for unknown or possibly trivial reasons. There are no clearly defined procedures for removing or adding sovereigns, or for adjudicating disagreements.

Does this sound like Bitcoin? Based on the articles I've read this week, it does to me.

Edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne...
holocracy is crass attempt to trademark, obfuscated, and cash in on Valve's (and others) management style.
> And power is surely a big factor, too. Reading someone like Mr. Graham, you might imagine that America’s wealthy are mainly entrepreneurs. In fact, the top 0.1 percent consists mainly of business executives, and while some of these executives may have made their fortunes by being associated with risky start-ups, most probably got where they are by climbing well-established corporate ladders. And the rise in incomes at the top largely reflects the soaring pay of top executives, not the rewards to innovation.

Most probably got there by climbing well established corporate ladders? Is there a source for this? It seems "Executives, managers and supervisors (non-finance)" is rather broad and does not address whether these are corporate structures that can "set their own compensation".
It's probably earnest. An amazingly large number of people think that making your personal e-mail address public is somehow unwise.
Note that I do not think non-experts should be ignored. I think everyone should be able to voice their opinion, expert or non-expert. But there should be a final authority where the buck stops, and their word should be final, no matter how many people wanted something else.

Also, I agree that experts are not always right, but they are right in overwhelmingly more cases. Which is practically "always". The small number of times an expert is outright wrong, is a risk I'm willing to take.
The theoretical maximum money supply is 21 million. The actual amount of money in circulation can still vary wildly as keys to wallets containing bitcoins are lost (resulting in a permanent reduction of the maximum money supply) and as speculators cash out (resulting in a temporary increase in the effective money supply).
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If it can help to look at the neighbours, on my case I don't feel the ID card in France helped to reduce fraud and terrorism (why is that there in the article anyway ?), it just added more bureaucracy, processes and cost I believe.
> 1. While the situation improved tremendously in certain areas the way to participate in Open Source is still very much fragmented. Most of the major open source projects (like Linux, Mozilla, Apache and nginx, to name a few) still have their own workflows, patches are still circulated in emails and issues are still being reported in a myriad ways. Despite of the big visibility GitHub has among the new open source projects we are very far from not being fragmented.

All of the projects that you list began in the pre-Github era where the choices were essentially endure Sourceforge's significant shortcomings or roll your own contribution system (Linux and Apache didn't even have Sourceforge as an option for a long time).

OSS Projects that have begun in the Github era have a much higher probability of having an approachable contribution workflow.

So in short, Github didn't solve all of the chaos in the OSS world, but it has improved the situation going forward from its inception. It's even attracted several legacy projects that previously had more insular and opaque development processes.

Note: this is not to dismiss the issues that do exist with Github. I just don't think that criticism #1 above is very valid.
Then replace a video with books. If I want to learn something hard, I can Google for the resources on the topic, quickly get the names of books considered the best resources humanity has on that subject, and then proceed to either Amazon or my favourite pirate source. All I can do in 10 minutes to half an hour, and then I can start learning. Contrast with the 80s, where you'd have to go to your local library, which may or may not have any book on the subject, and if it has, it's not necessarily the best.
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The Visa fee of 1-3% is too expensive in the internet era. It made sense 50 years ago when cost of moving information was high, but now it's just rent seeking.