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Dunno why this is being downvoted. If your issue with IDEs are keyboard short-cuts, I guarantee you'll find a vim plugin, and if your contention is shortcuts in general then I'd really love to buy you a beer and hear your thoughts on other programming matters.
We are experience the same issue, I have been able to reproduce the issue with the same account by just trying it repeatedly. It will eventually fail, the only solution is to sign out of Instagram, which ends up clearing your session and trying it again.

Instagram had a long period of time it went down yesterday I'd be surprised if they aren't linked.
I used to work for a company that did software development work for the local subsidiary of a multinational corporation. The corporation was their sole customer.

At some point the corporation decided it wouldn't outsource software development work anymore. They hired some of the key people at my former employer (by then I had already moved somewhere else), and almost overnight they had to close shop because they didn't have a source of revenue anymore.
So, how does this make money? Other than the Prime membership, I don't see any reference to fees on either the customer or restaurant side. Is this a freebie land grab?
I'm not exactly sure what you're attributing to Palin. The base dividend comes from the Alaska Permanent Fund, established in 1976 under Gov Jay Hammond, and started paying dividends in 1982. The $1200 boost maybe comes from Palin? But if that's coming from the treasury, that doesn't seem like the greater part of the "Georgism-like" policy (that part actually feels like poor budgetary policy if it's funded from the state budget as opposed to getting the best dollar for fuel prices for the Permanent fund in the first place...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund
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I guess I was expecting 1 copper wire to easily twist to the other end. But inside are 1000s of tiny copper wires all very delicate and I ended up accidentally pulling out a couple clumps of like 50 small wires.
This works until one company monopolizes the market. See TripAdvisor.

I've worked with seven different resorts/hotels doing web-dev and every single one of them absolutely hated TripAdvisor and wished it didn't exist and they didn't have to be on it to survive.
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"... who could replace them?"

Im hoping it's a company run by women and minorities, just for your sake.
I think you can determine how curious you are relative to other people in general by roughly keeping track of how often you are interested in other people's hobbies versus how often they are interested in yours. It won't tell you anything about a particular person, but over a year, if you're interested in other people's hobbies daily and other people never care about yours, it's safe to assume that you're more curious than the average person.

I was going to add that this only works if your hobbies are fairly normal hobbies, but wouldn't it also be safe to assume that you're more curious than normal if you have a bunch of normal hobbies in addition to a bunch of unusual hobbies that no one wants to talk about?
>The new digs gave employees a reason to come into the office. Visitors would enter a lobby modeled after the White House’s Oval Office before making their way to a replica of the Situation Room. The company also erected a statue of its mascot, a cartoon octopus-cat creature known as the Octocat. The 55,000-square-foot space is filled with wooden tables and modern art.

The Sillicon Valley episodes write themselves it seems haha. This is hilarious.
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Even then, if you're a big enough target, how confident can you be that Dell or Cisco or Intel or AT&T or Seagate aren't giving them a backdoor into your operation anyways?

It's pretty revolting, but my assumption is that if the US government _really_ wants your data, it's virtually impossible to block all the vectors they have to get at it.
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> It does all that.

Sure, I didn't mean to imply that it doesn't. I was simply illustrating how different people have different use cases for these wearable devices. While we may see some more convergence, I think that multiple categories will remain (fitness, etc).

> I use it all the time (when alone) to set reminders, reply to texts, etc.

The great thing about the iPhone and Siri is that you don't need a watch to do that. Most of the time I don't even have to pull my phone from my pocket to do a "Hey Siri". Apple seems to have done a pretty decent job with the voice recognition and hotword detection (I think that's the right term).

> Of course I'm guessing the Blaze is much cheaper.

Actually not much. The Blaze retails for $199.
I have never used GitLab, but I keep hearing lots of positive things. Is there anything they don't do as well or better than Github?
Do they only hire women and minorities? A quick google turned up their "New Hires" blog (https://github.com/blog/category/hire) and that is made up of mostly white men. Granted the latest hire is from 2015. Is there something I'm missing?
And to be honest, it's kind of working. I'm still in the Kotlin/IDEA camp for now, but at my shop we're a dual stack (.NET and Java for enterprise reasons) and MS tools and Azure are getting seriously better. Once .NET core reaches maturity and has 95%+ of .NET's standard libraries available, we might even consider a full move to .NET as our automated processes and sysadmins are more experienced with linux.
The laws of physics are.
is there a company I can mail it to and they will do this for me professionally?
I think the only answer is to diversify as best you can, build a reputation of customers who love you to get word of mouth, and save as much as you can.

For an interesting view of where this has happened before, look no further than FB subsuming publishers via Instant Articles and Google recently doing the same with Amp. They stole all the control of the audience data from publishers, and give out whatever cut they feel is appropriate from ad revenue. Publishers refused to adapt or couldn't adapt fast enough and are royally screwed as a result.
My experience with Amazon is that the documentation is always bad and unhelpful. It's not a bad idea to read them, but it's often misleading to believe they are the whole story.

This is in sharp contrast to the GCE documentation (which is exhaustive although often out of date) or the Azure documentation (imho best overall for technical use but the UI keeps fizzing around making that part of it useless).
Exactly! The article starts off trying to sell you on $12/hr. You can make $12/hr at much easier, less demanding jobs. They try and hold that carrot over your head of eventually making $70k, but even that isn't all that great, and how long before you get there?

I agree with the article in that there are plenty of jobs out there. Just not good paying jobs.

There is not really a talent shortage. Instead there is employers who pay good salaries shortage.
Got a rigorous analysis anywhere backing the assertion that GitHub's failures are due to '"inclusive" practices'?
Yes, no matter how big or complex the problem, there will always be someone promising a quick and easy fix. And there will always be those in enough pain that they want to buy the quick fix.

I'm not a big fan of magic beans though, because I'm young enough I still have to live here for a long time, I'm not cashing out of this place next year. If the problem is not enough skilled workers, it would seem that lowering the labor supply is exactly the wrong thing to do.
I can't find the blog post, but some blog wrote a while ago why VCs invest in companies like Github. TL;DR -- basically it provides infrastructure for other startups.

The business itself may not be a great business due to the amount of cost it takes to run it -- but it's necessary for the running of other ventures.

Sort of like highways and non-toll bridges.
How was Megaupload really that much different than say Dropbox or any other sort of large file sharing service? Did they actively encourage piracy?
Facebook as news curators already didn't work very well (http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-supp...), here they're going to be fact checking and we'll have to wait and see how well they manage that. Most writers use real facts to create incorrect narratives, and if they're only reviewing what is factual that still leaves a lot of room for interpretation.
It could, if you could distinguish positive and negative zero for integers.
The implication was clear enough - which is why I asked for substantiation.

1. does github in fact "only hire women and minorities" at the expense of superior, talented white men?

2. assuming #1 is true, what evidence is there that said hiring practices are at the root of their financial difficulties?

It's easy to throw out loaded statements. I don't think it's nuts to request clarification.
Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your feedback.

We have done detailed research on other products on the market and our solution is comparable on all of the core features. Perhaps this isn't articulated clearly enough on the landing page so I will definitely look into this.

We are launching our private beta in January 2017 and are already using it internally for our own task management so it is a functioning product. (Obviously needs ongoing refinement based on user feedback).

The purpose of the pre-sale experiment was to really take people who had already expressed interest in Task Pigeon and to test their receptiveness to paying for the product. As I'm sure you would know many successful founders/VC's do suggest trying to pre-sell your product as a form of validation.

While we didn't do this before starting the development work, we still thought it would be worthwhile to test our pre-launch subscribers with this campaign.

Thanks again for your feedback. I do appreciate it and will revise how we are articulating our feature set.

Paul
On the other hand, as Git is a DVCS even if GitHub went down the repos still live on local developer machines, so it'd be easy enough to move to a different Git hosting provider.
An attack on StackOverflow would be as bad or worse. These sites should probably be protected as areas of national strategic importance, like how the US protected the NYC docks during WWII.
I object to the idea that this is a gesture. These are people pledging their reputations to quit their jobs if their employers don't prevent the data they collect from being abused. It's not just possible but likely that people will quit jobs in the next couple years because of this.

The objection that the pledge doesn't solve the problem is easy to make because it's true: the pledge alone won't solve anything. But make no mistake: this isn't a petition. Whether 10 people or 1,000,000 people sign a petition, the effort fails if the target ignores it. But a single person can sign a pledge and, in honoring their commitment, do something significant in support of their cause. It's not up to the employers; it's about the workers.

I think this kind of bottom-up effort is both promising and overdue. More people should consider signing. What's the threshold we'd need to reach in our profession for a pledge like this to meaningfully impact decisionmaking? I think it's much less than 51%.
The debtor would. They can choose to stick it out until their loan is repaid or find another way to pay it.
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> This is an option in the client settings - "Enable Tabbed Conversations"

Which client? The OSX client appears to have very limited configuration options.
Hey there, there is one thing I've been wondering about with Graphcool: What's your plan for supporting BI solutions? As it stands there doesn't seem to be a way for non-developers to do any analysis on the data that resides inside Graphcool.

I also have a bit of feedback on the webiste: It looks way way overloaded.
I get it, it's cool how easy it is to use, but there are ~6 full blown code examples on very different things.
The FAQ link doesn't take me to a FAQ page that answers the questions I have, but instead takes me to a guides page (which is only a little bit better than the FAQ link in the footer that takes me to the main page again).
The competitor matrix feels really arbitrary. Fields with almost the exact same texts yield you a "++" and the competitor a "-"? Why? I feel like a dedicated "features" page would do a much better job at highlighting your strengths.
I imagine they are thinking of it being a list C document:

https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/acceptable-documents

(an unrestricted SSN is proof of eligibility to work in the US)
please guys get your shit together.
I guess I would be able to figure out an alternative but a big chunk of my life as a programmer is centered around Github. It would be a major let down to see them perish.
Why not just use the "easy" parts of Haskell as a teaching language for functional programming?

No monads, applicatives, etc. No category theory. Just immutability, laziness, pattern matching, and type classes. I feel like that makes as much sense as developing an entirely new language that most likely will only be used by a complete novice. Conversely, one can grow with a language like Haskell for an entire lifetime. Just my two cents.
The reality is that they have outreach programs to encourage applications from people who are women or minorities. But it doesn't take long for the kneejerk reaction to be that they hate white men.
How easy is it to actually turn those dials? I would expect a regular (linear or circular) slide rule to be much faster to work.
You find it a bit disgusting that people have pledged to quit their jobs in support of a cause? Are you sure you don't need to recalibrate your definition of "disgusting"?
In which case you may want to follow Udacity Com Sci 101 which includes building a search engine in python. (Free, video based https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-computer-science--cs...)
I'm hesitant to call this, and their hotel retreats and jet-setting travel 'opulence' out of a sense of decency, but...

I guess I'm just a lot more frugal, and mostly isolated from this culture.
I think it's more that hiring and coddling ~600 white men is really expensive.
The laws of physics are not centralized as governments, currency or google code / github, that aside they can and most probably are incomplete or expressed in a way that only applies to certain constraints (size, time, theory of relativity comes to mind)
(I work on Apollo)

It's hard to know exactly what will be included in Relay 2, so we'll have to wait to make a comparison. Apollo came after Relay 1, and so has been designed with a few key differentiators: (1) flexibility, since it's built in a modular way and has a lot of hooks into internals, (2) less opinions, because it works with any GraphQL server and doesn't require a particular type of schema, and (3) optimized for devtools, since it doesn't generate dynamic queries on the fly and is built on top of Redux. You can see the new dev tools we launched yesterday here: https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/apollo-client-developer-tool...

As for client/server communication in the future, it seems there are two main camps right now:

1. Lossy APIs - this is if you use a REST API or GraphQL to send data to the client. The server knows a lot more than the client does, and the API returns only what the client needs to know at that moment. This has the advantage that it doesn't impose any limitations on your backend schema or storage, so you can put a REST or GraphQL API on top of literally any backend.

2. Database replication, like Meteor or Realm. In this case, the client asks for objects and they are replicated to the server via some kind of push mechanism. In this case, the client has a much easier time predicting server operations and achieving consistency. On the other hand, the server has to be much smarter and this places a lot of restrictions on what kind of database you can use. For example, Meteor essentially requires MongoDB, Realm has its own database.

With Apollo we're trying to build towards the best implementation of approach (1) because our main goal is to enable decoupling between the client and server.
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You'll likely have the easiest time looking at an industry you've already worked in. Your years of 'X' experience in a given industry means you'll know all the jargon and have a leg up on the competition. Good luck with the job hunt.
I think the category of "wearables" does a better job of describing them, but you're right, I'm not sure I have a better name. Honestly, I don't think I'd really care if mine didn't even tell the time. Then again, I've just never been one to wear a wristwatch.
Their CEO looks like he comes right from the show.
The features that github has would be pretty hard to migrate even to something that has almost 1:1 feature parity like GitLab. I don't know of an export tool they have for all the data associated with github.
I agree with that. Garmin has been improving their execution lately - they are aggressively targeting their competitors on both features and price, while retaining their core feature strengths. I think they have a great future, especially if they continue to beef up their engineering teams (and don't disruptively ask them to move!), and maybe continue with new features/markets like satellite data. My Garmin watch is a lot more compelling than an Apple watch - long battery life, does not require a smartphone, always on sunlight-readable display, well thought-out workout tracking features.
Site responsiveness, though they're working hard in that.
Isn't the answer to "will the customer get better service" a definitive "yes"? I mean, obviously it depends on the UX of said security feature(s), but generally speaking, more secure == better. Right?
Why should it? They weren't responsive to user demands for years, routinely break features (checkbox saving is broken right now), and have terrible discovery and search.

If anything we should be cheering for gitlab. Atleast we can modify it locally.
So many words, of vague meaning (e.g. "inherently"), and confusing levels of quoting (e.g. first vs "first"). What's wrong with just saying "Unfortunately we don't start with 'zeroth'"? Can't discover more meaning in these paragraphs.
We're forgetting the biggest offender, Twitter.

Speaking of them, I think we're overdue for the next cycle of them killing off API access...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10427530
Historically the big three agencies make money by charging a fee to the companies/entities they're rating. My understanding is that it's always been that way & things have not materially changed since 2007.

A good question to ask here is to what extent institutional debt buyers continue to rely on these ratings.

More background: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/10/09/impact-of-the-dod...
None of my friends' brother-in-laws are cofounders at Doordash, so I'm less attached :-)

But this is a great example of the lack of customer lock-in. Even the slightest improvement over Doordash, and I'd easily switch to Amazon or just bounce between the two. There's a thai restaurant just a bit out of Doordash range -- that would do it. Pictures on the menus -- that would do it. A "re-order" button -- that would do it.

I like DD, but all I think of it is: "I order food and it gets here."
The usual trick is for each side to cache the last value of the other side index so you only need to refresh the remote value when you "catch up".

Even without caching, padding is still a win as the shared to exclusive transition is less expensive than a request for ownership of an invalidated cache line (aka "single writer principle")
Yeah, but you lose a lot. Issues, Wikis, Github Pages, CI, Reviews, Projects etc.
I moved a bunch of repos to bitbucket, since they support free private repositories (which I need for a small organization that I'm part of). It was, as your comment alludes, extremely quick and easy thanks to the "D" in DVCS.

That said, we don't use issues, the wiki, etc.
No, not it's not. It has never been.
This site needs five megabytes to display about four sentences' worth of text.

It's an odd kind of minimalism that contains so much cruft.

EDIT: I'm refering to the parent link, the material.io site.
obviously this is not a serious comment

Yes I'm serious

Pick one, please.

they can go on Hacker News, open a blog, announce a new project, raise funds for it, and become rich.

I think you should be more explicit here in step two.
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vs3uuPUiQXM/VzRg9MDf2kI/AAAAAAAAJ...

I don't want to shut down all inequality, but you're bullshitting when you handwave away all the other factors to business success. It's kind of insulting, to put it mildly.
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Yes, and they actively engaged in piracy as a way of attracting users.
We need some more Telecom competition here in the US to improve their services. I live in San Francisco and I've been waiting for a good while now for webpass to become an option in my building. Comcast service is really subpar. Meanwhile all my friends in northern europe have crazy gigabit connections.
Added 50%... still got no one.

-- based on a real story
Yes, the fine is quite small for WFC and a fine of 18 billion dollars definitely would get their attention. It's still something WFC could survive (it's about a year's worth of profits), and totally different from putting WFC into bankruptcy.

I'm not convinced you can compare personal law and corporate law. The fact that it's a fixed fine in personal law, regardless of income/wealth doesn't seem fair. Also, if you want to extend the analogy maybe it would be more appropriate to take 20% of profits? 20% of revenue it much easier for Apple to stomach than Walmart, because of higher margins. But then what do you do with companies that don't make a profit...
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As I say, although I grew up about an hour west, there are probably at least a dozen cities in the US I know better than Philly :-) Not sure if I've ever even been to City Hall.

Again, it does come back to the context though.
Unlike @jetti and @mindcrime, I would use the opportunity of a green fields project to switch to and learn a more suitable industry-accepted language such as Python instead of a declining language that I happen to know better like the ageing Apache Groovy, which was originally optimized for scripting but badly retrofitted with static typing and for building systems, which other languages built from the ground up for such stuff are markedly better at, such as Java, Scala, and Kotlin on the JVM at least.
> And don't get me started on the bullshit pushed by pharma a few years ago that people in pain can't get addicted to opiates. I loose it almost every time.

Watch out though. Pain comes in broadly two types - long term and short term pain.

Opiates are great for short term pain and the risk of addiction is low.

It's when opiates are misused for long term pain that they become a problem.
I'd say watches are a subset of wearables.

Thing like the FitBit I had (which you could clip on your belt, keep in your pocket, etc.) was well described by 'wearables', but we have a more accurate term available for the Apple Watch or Moto 360.
The reddit comments pointed out that there was a previous (unofficial) contest last year [0]. Manishearth had a fun solution with lots of ideas: [1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3hb0wm/underhanded_ru...

[1] https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=cadcbee43557e8e3bbe0&versio...
I did not meant DGPS. The satellites themselfes transmit longer sequences for the "professional" users which allow for a higher precison through the correlation process.
Although it's made a lot of progress the past few version the design/UX of Gitlab is a bit lacking.
I agree completely. Informational infrastructure is not taken as seriously as it should be.
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