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> Seems like with GVFS they are making DVC to be a CVS

> just to give cool kids access to cool tools

Yes. DVCS with the huge code bases, large binary objects and large teams is hardly the optimal approach. But the "cool kids" are just used to use what they use. And now they can pretend to do it even when they have to be always connected, because the files are virtual and remain on the server until really used.

If Microsoft is giving the solution to the "cool kids," no reason to complain about the fact that Microsoft is willing to care for them.

And if you'd ask the "cool kids" why do they need git at all for such scenarios, have fun with the amount of arguments you'll get. Why this one "needs" vi and another "Emacs" etc. The same reasons. You'll find the arguments also in the comments here. Including mentions of Mercurial, the competition, just like "vi or Emacs". Because. Don't ask.

And no, as far as I understand, Google doesn't primarily "use Mercurial", they use something called Piper, and before they used a customized Perforce just like Microsoft did.

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand...

"Piper spans about 85 terabytes of data" "and Google’s 25,000 engineers make about 45,000 commits (changes) to the repository each day. That’s some serious activity. While the Linux open source operating spans 15 million lines of code across 40,000 software files, Google engineers modify 15 million lines of code across 250,000 files each week."
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> I don't have time to read the whole thing, but it sounds like it works by breaking down a "super repo" into small "sub repos".

They're explicitly not doing that. They have a massive, monolithic repo, and then tooling for interacting with that monolithic repo without having to grab the whole thing. They are not using Git. You just read the section titled "Alternatives".
I know very little about this kind of thing; how does one -avoid- representing one's self in foreign affairs? isn't being the government basically that in entirety?
Petty history aside, the project needs to be more open in communication. There's too many secret mailing lists and mystery discussion, which is a common thread in all the problems the list describes.
The classic .NET framework is available at Reference Source:

https://referencesource.microsoft.com/
https://github.com/Microsoft/referencesource

It's under a proper Open Source license now too (the MIT license).
Considering that Iran has been, without the least exaggeration, in active cross-hair of the "great game" of the Anglo vs Russ for the past 150 years, saying that Iran is playing the "great game" is rather bizzare.
The whole "it is due to an accepting Hindu attitude" used to be a popular way of framing the situation that is no longer in use because experts have decided that it was indeed the protectionist policies causing this. It's also a bit offensive.

It is an interesting point about what protectionism prevented. I agree. It did prevent something worse. But it didn't need to extend for as long as it did, and it still did cause harm -- as a "lesser of both evils" situation it still is not a good situation to be in (and the discussion is about whether it is a good policy to apply in absence of a "worse evil" like in the US)
Another reply to your post added the quote.

I sincerely hope that posting such a quote isn't cause for a ban - since it's pulled directly from the film, and does a good job of emphasizing the point you're trying to make.
Docker != OCI. Please don't confuse the two.
Also, you don't have to route traffic over tor in Qubes.
I remember using this site to watch the projected path of the last hurricane that happened (I forget it's name). It was an amazing visualization tool. Forgot about it since then.
GCHQ cyber-chief slams security outfits peddling 'medieval witchcraft'
I strongly recommend watching the documentary "Hypernormalisation" by Adam Curtis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation).

The main focus of the documentary compares the styles of Trump and Vladimir Poutine, but has interesting recap/point of view on the evolution of terrorism in the middle east.

(his previous documentary, Bitter Lake, was on Wahhabism from Saudi Arabia, also interesting, but the visual/narrative style kind of annoyed me)

I think it's easily misleading to look at these things only by the numbers. We need a better understanding of the background. Numbers can support your argument/context, but you need a better argument.
Per the wiki article:

> "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake."

I hadn't heard of Sayre's Law. It seems like a much more eloquent expression of the concept of bikeshedding.

Edit: I thought about this some more. I think bike shedding and sayre's law are slightly different - Sayre is like the law of gravity, bike shedding is like saying “and this is what gravity actually is caused by”.
This all seems likely to be true, but the source being Duck Duck Go calls the results & methodology into question. I'd love to see an independent researcher confirm these findings.
Yup. I remember when git came along the field was already pretty crowded (DVCS, Darcs, Bazaar, BitKeeper, Mercurial...). I've always suspected Linus wrote git in a panic simply to sidestep the months of flames that switching VCS again would have inevitably generated, once BitKeeper stopped being viable. I also remember people jumping at the occasion like they would have never done to improve someone else's tool.

The story of git is a good case-study for people interested in group dynamics.
Wow, I always shied away from academics for similar reasons you mentioned, but I just realized that my main hobby, game development, parallels what you say a lot (and creative hobbies in general, including writing).

"You should expect to invest years of your life into making progress on some meaningful game with little encouragement in the meantime...sometimes even after you release a game that took a lot out of you, it may take many years before people appreciate, let alone play, your game, and the vast majority of games aren't going to be played." "To compensate for this you basically play the popularity game and give as many interviews and talk up your game when you meet people, so there's a lot of salesmanship involved there as well."

"The career path is so twisted you have to either be insanely good or just hate yourself enough to sacrifice your best years working essentially in the metaphorical darkness well outside the spotlight and most likely alone and poorly paid." <- My experience working in the game industry, except I wasn't completely alone, I did have coworkers. However I did feel like I never had time for a relationship.
My early hacking days were primarily on FreeBSD, and though I idealogically agree with RMS and therefore GPL, which is why I push myself onto GNU ecosystems, I must admit the one thing that often tempts me back to bsd land is the consistentcy in system tools and functions, even across other BSD's. I have seen GNU/Linux abused just like I feared BSD systems were going to be, so for practicality purposes I'm seeing less and less of a difference, but oh what I would give for a GPL focused BSD like ecosystem focused Linux effort.
In the centuries since, you're failing to live up to your reputation, Sweden.
No reply, but I'm still think about it.
If iMac has PCI-E 3.0 x16, It's 16GB/s throughput divided by 120MB = 136 frame per second. Of course the values are theoretical and the question is what happen in GPU.
Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year
'given' to whom? The only way I can construe this is that the Chinese government 'gave' hong-kong on a 100 year lease and the UK held up this deal. Unless you expect the UK to avoid the deal, which while I wish they could, they aren't in a position to say no to china
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Bit unrelated, but there's a working way to get rid of FB addiction. Just start unfollowing everything that you see in your "news feed". It's not visible to anyone, and you will gradually (a couple of weeks in my case) phase out of FB, just because there's nothing to see there.

But the very first step, for sure, is to admit that you have the addiction.
The society part is tough and frustrating. I get so tired of arguing with clerks that want my email, zip code, phone #, etc. I don't want to give everyone that, and it really slows down the checkout process in general. Just take my damn money.

A few weeks ago, I walked away from a purchase because the store wanted to take my photo at POS. This was my first encounter with the store, I probably would not be a repeat customer, I just wanted to do a single purchase. Just take my damn money.

The stupid part is, I typically use the same credit card for every purchase. I know they could use that to query info product and know everything about me - and, I don't really care about that (I've given in to it). It's the constant asking for info by companies that I have no ongoing relationship with that I really hate.

Edit: Also, it makes me feel like some weirdo freak when I don't want to participate. It starts to cause a scene. Other customers are staring. My wife is embarrassed. Everyone is thinking, "just let them take the photo" or "the clerk is just doing their job".
More expensive cars. Also, competition in other markets have made cars safer and more efficient. A monopoly doesn't have those incentives.
> If LWN had fewer articles like this, and more articles actually communicating useful information to me, I might actually read it more.

As a occasional reader of LWN, I like the fact that they cover other topics apart from LWN. It's always good to learn/see how other communities operate.
Yii (PHP) www.yiiframework.com lets you set up CRUD very quickly with a database, it handles all the relationships too.
> no-one is publicly admitting to using many small repos.

Amazon. They built an entire system around managing versions so that they can make it work.
Do you mean to implement this with Docker or just to use Docker with this OS?
Labor, at least in manufacturing is also very much down overseas. I agree with your sentiment, but forcing jobs to exist when it's not efficient lowers everyone's quality of life. Instead, tax the gains and uplift the people who lose to innovation.
It's impossible to be "relevant" without giving away your privacy these days. Doesn't help that there are dozens, if not hundreds of parties with supposedly private information like your SS number, and the odds that all of them (or even a significant proportion of them) have strong data security measures are next to nil.
This exists for use cases that require fixed-length strings from various CLI utilities. Hopefully a package manager picks it up and installation will be easier. Until then, have fun and be dangerous.
If @realDonaldTrump deletes a tweet, it's against the Twitter ToS to republish it using a bot.

When it does happen I've seen people post screenshots of the old tweet. This doesn't prove anything more than trivial knowledge of the Chrome Web Inspector.

I've thought about distributing a program so people can keep their own local archives of important tweets. There are plenty of ways to achieve this already, but that's besides my point.

How can we make it obvious when an important figure deletes a tweet without breaking Twitter's ToS?
It would be interesting to see if this could be extended to images? Can't Windows DRM be used with certain image formats? It's just a thought.
If you break down where the parts of a iPhone is made. You have some relatively high wage nations in there. I'd like to see a breakdown of how much of the price of the iPhone actually ends up in the pockets of workers. I'd wager like most other goods it's fractional compared to the cost of materials, taxes and regulatory compliance. I suspect making products overseas is more to do with environmental and labor regulations than wages.
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You can't just cherry pick one example and say everything is fine under a protectionist system.

India:

GDP per capita: 1,498.87 USD (China is 6,807.43 USD)

GDP: 2.3 trillion USD. (China is at 11T)

The World Bank, in 2011 based on 2005's PPPs International Comparison Program, estimated 23.6% of Indian population, or about 276 million people, lived below $1.25 per day on purchasing power parity.

194 Million People Starved for Food in India in 2014-2015, Maximum in the World According to UN Report. India is home to the highest number of hungry people in the world, at 194 million, surpassing China, according to United Nations annual hunger report.

According to the World Bank, India's under-5 child mortality rate in 2012 was 56 deaths per 1,000, far short of the country's goal of reducing child mortality to 39 per 1,000 by 2015. By comparison, the child mortality rate in 2012 in Bangladesh was 41; in Brazil, 14; and in the United States, 7.

Infant mortality rate: total: 40.5 deaths/1,000 live births. This is some of the worst in the world and its only 15 in China. 4.2 in EU nations.

As of Nov 2016, India is the second-most unequal country in the world .[1] The richest 1% of Indians own 58.4% of wealth. The richest 10 % of the Indians own 80.7 % of the wealth. This trend is going in the upward direction every year, which means the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer [2]

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So no, things are clearly not fine under a protectionist system that damns so many to poverty and inequality. Also, the only reason Apple is coming to India is because rural Chinese labor costs more than Indian labor. That's not a good sign for India's economy.
> No other group since 9/11

So no other group since the largest terrorist act in the history of the United States?

If that's not a convenient choice in timing, I don't know what is.
Prior approaches to mixing architectures in one system (and actually moving applications at runtime dynamically, as in big.LITTLE,) were ...
In addition to what the others said, it could be used to correlate you across multiple e.g. public wifi hotspots. Imagine some dissident in a repressive regime leaking information and law enforcement checking the logs of the routers for various public places. If they find a MAC at all locations, they might be able to check security cameras and see what individuals were present at that time and correlate that MAC with an individual, and then further use that information to track their movements.

Yes it can be spoofed and someone could potentially be framed, but it's just more information that can be used in conjunction with other data to help deanonymize a person.
This one, uh, I point-blank refuse to believe. The moral principles about how you can treat other people are so widespread and uniform (made it into the bloody bible, even; the only bit that everybody knows from that MLK speech is about this), that you're gonna have some serious convincing to do, before I believe that people "have different morals". It seems more believable that people have just the same morals they always did, but are applying them very selectively without proper justification (as it always is with prejudice).
I.e. without persistence
Protectionism can hurt a country as well as lead to new local jobs. It depends what sort of jobs you want. Here's a random one in India for a graduate web dev with > 2 years experience https://www.saralrozgar.com/index.php?route=seeker/jobDetail...

$233/ month.

I don't know if bringing in protectionism in the US when unemployment is under 5% makes much sense.
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Hey there, DuckDuckGo employee here.

Would love to know why you feel our affiliation calls that into question?

In the the whitepaper we disclose the full methodology, and each statistic has a margin of error calculated and added in. Feel free to review it - we're happy to answer questions!
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Let say UK population is 65M so 65 * 145 makes a grand total of £9425.000.000.
Forget to calculate the cost of rubbish TVE, the government does not allow it, even we pay for it.
There's also a scene in The Sopranos that covers this. Tony is talking with his therapist and they basically come to the conclusion that he thinks Italians aren't white and won't ever be truly accepted by what I think he called "Mayonnaise Americans" (basically WASPs). Growing up in a large Italian family there was definitely some family members that felt this way as well, particularly the older ones.
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As a <White>Italian</White>, I surely feel demonized by the Guardian style of 'journalism' and American leftists. Too bad no one is calling them out. I guess Fascist tendencies too are acknowledged out of convenience, not rationality.
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Technically you can use the latest version of Nodejs in lambda by bundling the binary with your lambda package and use the handler script to run the binary. The binary need to be compatible with Amazon Linux though, so you'll probably need to compile the binary on an ec2 instance running Amazon Linux.
>Why do you need to do it multiple times if the bit being written is independent of the actual contents?

There is a concern that the write process is not perfect, so the old value of the bit might still be visible under a microscope.
There are a lot of obligations of owning a home, such as ongoing maintenance that some consider enjoyable (and promptly forgotten) but some do not. To each his own.
Ask HN: What are the higest paying technologies which have remote opportunities?
I want to get into web dev because as far as I can tell nearly all remote jobs are web dev jobs and it seems pretty easy to learn.

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Thank you for taking the time to reply. It was just a bit of a surprising read from my point of view, as somebody who's not directly involved in the project (like you are) but who's been observing it since around ~2004.

There are three main points in this article: the issue of version control, the "Dragonfly BSD incident", and the GamerGate garbage fire.

Regarding the first issue, while it was sad to see a good dev like Matthew Dillon leave the project, what do you think should have been done better by the leaders of the project? Clearly there was an incompatibility here, maybe having Dillon work on his own project (and then sometimes have a back and forth between Dragonfly and FreeBSD) was the right solution? Would Linux for instance have dealt with the issue better? I recall many personality clashes amongst the Linux "elite", some not so long ago.

The migration away from CVS sure did take a long time, but as you mention yourself the technical challenge was pretty high. Lest we forget, Linus ended up writing his own version control system because the existing solution were not deemed satisfying. And FreeBSD is significantly bigger than linux's codebase. Regarding the test suite, testing operating systems is notoriously difficult (you can't easily abstract away from the hardware to run well contained unit tests). I don't recall Linux having an extensive test suite either.

The GamerGate thing I won't touch with a hundred kilometer pole. How an operating system project got dragged into that I still can't fathom.

So in the end, I don't think those issues are that big of a deal on their own. IMHO the main "trouble" with FreeBSD is simply that its market share is tiny compared to Linux. I'm a big fan of FreeBSD but my IRL job is linux kernel dev, not FreeBSD kernel dev. More and more first party vendors support linux, not any of the *BSDs. "Netcraft confirms it - BSD is dying". There's a momentum problem and I'm not sure switching to github or adding a test suite are going to solve it.

FreeBSD is betamax, linux is VHS. FreeBSD is mercurial, linux is git.

That being said, I don't have a solution either.
> doesn't prove anything more than trivial knowledge of the Chrome Web Inspector

That might be generous. They could have used Photoshop as well and had no technical knowledge at all.
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Using this as a criticism of Trump's travel ban is a false equivalency.

There have literally been a rash of terrorist attacks in Europe perpetrated by radicalized Syrians, Somalians, and Iranians. Not to mention the knife attack from Somalian refugee (who was getting a free ride) at Ohio State.

Read through these lists and tell me there is nothing to be worried about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in...

Yes, being a victim of a terrorist attack is as likely as getting hit by lightning but that doesn't mean you should wrap yourself in aluminum foil and go outside in a thunderstorm. You usually protect yourself and take shelter.

Its ok to protect yourself when there is a conceivable threat.

That being said, I do feel the travel ban was hastily rolled out without much coordination and caused some people to be detained that shouldn't have been but to completely disregard the principle of it as misguided or racist in some way is just disregarding the truth of the state of world.

In fact, many pundits are saying this going to create more propaganda or create more terrorists.

First, I disagree with notion that we should care about ISIS's propaganda. People don't become terrorists because a country bans them. They become terrorists when foreign power drops bombs and puts boots on the ground in a country they feel is theirs. Others become terrorists because they are forced to or naive minded people looking for some purpose in life.

If all we care about is their propaganda we will be frozen to inaction because anything you do can be spun against you.

Furthermore, the things ISIS hates the most is the cultural imperialism imposed on them. They don't like western values and don't want to adopt any western ideas since they are a threat to the foundations of their belief system. A threat they are willing to kill for. So really you are damned if you do and damned if you don't with ISIS. It's an ugly and complicated mess and comparing to Italians or Japanese is a gross oversimplification.
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This sounds extremely dangerous. How can a company integrate this many new people without bringing the rest of the organization to a standstill?
> history remembers him as a buffoon rallying against a now-obvious scientific truth

Well, some of that, but mostly he's remembered for being a powerful populist politician that delivered the "cross of gold" speech.
At least one of these immigrant-panics was on to something: the hillbillies were coming to ruin our political culture, back in the 1700s. (http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-see...)
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