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Magit is definitely different enough from both your conventional GUI and command-line interface to make it hard to immediately see its benefits, which is why I did not only post some commented screenshots [1] (which may fail to impress), but also a text [2] which explains in what ways Magit differs from GUIs and command-line interfaces and what sort of benefits it draws from that.

[1] https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/magit-walk-through/#start
[2] https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/the-magical-git-interface/#st...

A reason why it might actually be an advantage that the interface is "text based" is that the thing the tool interacts with is also text [3]. The primary difference to git is that the "output" is "actionable", the primary difference to GUIs is that every feature of git can be exposed quite naturally.

[3] And a major advantage of that is that the barrier between writing the code and thinking of it in terms of change sets starts to break down.
Yeah, using a turnout for a tractor trailer is likely doubly hard, since some are quite short, and if not everyone has a chance to pass, some drivers will push their luck while the truck needs to merge back because there's no more road in the turnout. Dealing with the consequences of that is likely not fun.
In other news: Water is wet.
They don't load for me either, most likely a problem from when we rewrote most of the about.gitlab.com website last year. I'll look into it, I'm also interested to see what it looked like in 2012 :D

EDIT: It looks like the images are attempting to load from an old Wordpress blog which is no longer around, with a quick search I couldn't seem to find anything with similar file names in the current website repository :(
Out of curiousity, what was that first startup?
I recently went through a similar scenario. Feel free to reach out (email in my profile) if you'd like to chat.
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In a somewhat crude and related note. felix dennis (the week weekly magazine founder) once said, “If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.”

Not completely bad advice for most rich people that want to stay rich.
> an undetectable viral load on antiretroviral drugs to an uninfected person

Can you please put this into simpler terms? I am pretty confused. Because HIV transmission is not a theoretical and is not a myth. My understanding is, OP meant to say "transmission of HIV via known risky activities."

--EDIT--

Thank you for those clarifying. Often the unfamiliar technical terms can throw me off.
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Would you mind filing issues of any of these things that you noice? https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js/issues I'd love to get as close as possible, and some things I just haven't noticed yet. In other cases, there are technical limitations.
You don't even need a $500k net worth to afford a Cessna. Most guys I know that have them are firmly middle class. They have to make some compromises on houses and cars, but it's worth it to them because they love to fly.
I know you're framing this as a failure to raise, but believe it or not you're in a very fortunate position that most founders (including VC-backed ones) would kill for. You have complete control of the decision and by the sounds of it relatively firm interest from buyers at a decent price. You can either take-the-money and move onto the next venture secure in life, or double-down and swing for the fences to see if you can achieve that $400m exit. Once you take external money, you lose that flexibility as your investors will usually dictate when and how you exit. If it were me, I'd cash out now but I appreciate it can be difficult to let go of your baby.
Gitlab is great when you self host it, but not so much using their service, you can take a look at https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus see how often they have breaking problems. Not to say this cannot happen, but they have considerably higher compared to others. But, for feature wise they are also great, but I do not see how this deep integration with Kubernetes will work out, making the core product more complicated and focused on single target. Not that you cannot write your own CI, but marketing it Auto DevOps when it does only K8s does not seem right to me.
I really don't see the correlation between his product design/marketing/pricing choices and him owning a yacht? Are you saying I thought he was a closet socialist/communist? (No, I did not. (hah))

The whole thing is that being a jewelry company is intensely boring and mentally uninspiring. Not pushing things forward in any way or manner. Just making them more luxorious in order to increase the margin of the existing market.

How many iterations before we see diamond-encrusted iPhones?
I was surprised to read this post because it echoes my sentiments down to the T. Another one is when I learn or read anything, I almost reflexively think about how I might dispense that information in front of an audience (friends, a crowd) and "sound smart". That impending validation feels good. The only saddening conclusions I've come to are that "all I want is attention" and "I'm narcissistic".
MySQL has native bitcount operator (and more data types last time I checked). Using it ended up being the fastest way to implement one problem I had - I tried Python with Numpy, Java, but generating large combinations in MySQL (joining a table to itself multiple times) and using bitshift and bitcount operators to filter the rows ended up being far faster than generating the combinations either language that I knew or Postgres lacking the bitcount operator. Probably spending a fair bit more time in C or Rust would have been the real solution. But that would have involved way more time than my work were willing to let me spend on it.

Also initial setup is easier with MySQL. It is installed everywhere and setting it up uses involves less messing about. (I would imagine there are far more insecure MySQL install around as a result).
$12-14M in cash or in equity of the buying company? Is that equity liquid? Can you sell it now? How many vesting years?
Dope Discoveries – Issue 10 – Onnit Star Wars Line, Amazon Echo Dot (2nd. Gen)
They are talking about CVS Caremark here (A major PBM), this is not CVS Pharmacy the retail chain. Express Scripts (another major PBM) has already starting limiting opioids to 7 day supply (since 2 months ago), anything further requires a medical justification to the PBM provider by the prescriber. Again the Media likes to blur the lines and cause panic/confusion.
I think it mainly failed because Sun basically abandoned it. Security was not the issue I think (Flash was the same, maybe worse, still widely used) but the UX was quite terrible and never really improved: You had the jvm with its long startup times which was more than noticeable in the 90s and early 2000s. Applets always felt very alien inside a Website and using the applet simply to call into optimized code from JS was, while possible not really what it was used for.

Security maybe more of an issue today but WASM probably is not worse than JS in that regard (basically it's just another turing complete language). As others have said APIs are more problematic, which I suspect will ever get worse while browsers further and further try to transform from document viewers to application runtimes (think of such "brilliant" ideas like WebUSB). WASM is not the key issue here, it's running untrusted code on the client which, even if it's sometimes not outright harmful takes control away from the user in one way or antother. In the end the main difference is that it's now a feature of the Browser rather than a plugin which has a hard time to fit in nicely.
Man PG's style of interviewing is super annoying. I get that he was curious and seemingly enthusiastic but at times the dude could barely get out a word.
I'd say that an R44 is the "Honda Accord" of helicopters, and they're around $500k brand new. With a net worth of hundreds of millions, I'd expect that he went for something safer (with a turbine), like a Bell Jetranger.
aannnnd that is about all, which is kind of amazing really.
>> well under the value that's possible

The value of something is the amount someone tangibly offers/gives you, at the time. If you are out of time then that is the value.

You might destroy all value if you live in the fantasy of what it is "actually worth".
Using text to quiz colors is folly

https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
Meh, the thing is I don't want movies about normal people. I prefer stunts, explosions, superheros, etc.
I have a nice television, but I still prefer going to a good theater to see movies.

There are a few theater operators that have figured out that just showing the movie and selling expensive popcorn isn't good enough. They have to have comfortable seats, decent food, great drinks, rules against talking and using phones, and reserved seating. When the experience is good, I'll pay to see movies I already know well. For example, I just went to see the original Blade Runner two weekends ago.

It's a little like how I can watch baseball on TV, but every year I still love to go to the ballpark to watch live. There's more to it than just the thing you are ostensibly there to see.

So I agree with you. They should have same day streaming. For people that like going to the cinema, they will still go.

I also think that on your way out the theater, they should have DVDs and BluRays of the movie you just saw for sale.
"If it flies, floats, or fucks rent it." ~ Old wise person.
(not so) deep learning
Movies lately:

* Generic Super-Hero Movie A.

* Generic Super-Hero Movie B. Different title from A, yet actually identical plot and sometimes actors.

* A new CG cartoon "for the whole family". They haven't had an original idea since Wall-E.

* Generic block-buster action movie with robots and/or ninjas or ninja-robots, explosions, Chevrolet placement ads, and at least 2 pairs of extremely shapely female breasts.

* Generic ultra-patriotic military-hero-worship action flick where rugged, muscly bearded Alpha-Macho super-bros kill brown people, usually has the word "American" in the title, and a scene-that-lasts-too-long where Rick tearfully tells Sam to tell his wife he loves her as his guts slowly (all too slowly) fall out of his torn-up torso.

* Generic coming-of-age and beating-all-odds story about a lovable but bullied lonely/introverted/gay/black/Muslim kid from the streets/ghetto/Pakistan who overcomes all odds to be his neighborhood's/high-school's/country's star juggler/drummer/dancer/stripper/singer/refugee-turned-Nobel-laureate and gets the girl/boy at the end.

* A documentary telling me I'm fat, living in a banana republic Orwellian surveillance police-state dystopia with horrible health-care and a deteriorating environment.

* Girl-Squad/Bro-team Buddy Comedy with a bunch of 45-year-olds acting like rich, spoiled, immature 18-year-olds at friend X's wedding. Hilarity ensues.

Basically, I'm either being bored out of my mind for the whole duration, or sad/frustrated that this world is so horrible/unjust, or watching a 120-minute commercial for Pepsi/Chevrolet/Sex, or being actively recruited for the Marines.

TV is much better, with lots more variety.
They are responding to The problem is that you need to take expensive medication for the rest of your life. And that you can infect other people.

They are saying that there are no recorded instances of someone that is taking antiretroviral drugs and has an undetectable viral load actually transmitting the virus.
Mbeaudru/modern-js-cheatsheet: Cheatsheet for the JavaScript
Reminds a whole lot about remembering to use prefixes in CSS when building browser compatible sites. I use a tool to automate this nowadays but this is just flat out silly.
I would honestly say we really have no clue, and maybe add that as far as we can tell, activations play as much of a role in intelligence as a myriad of other factors.

But more generally, I am just so tied of this "brain metaphor" on deep learning. It is a funny way to wake up your students (well, at least 10 years ago it was...), but trying to stretch this metaphor much more than that is just painful. Heck, even the activating "functions" (plural, as we now know) in a neutron isn't really a set (!) of (singular, independent) functions, it's just a top level name for a mind-boggling number of things happening as neurons "fire", with a mathematical formalism to approximate what's going on. In fact, calling an activation a "function" is probably belittling the biological processes behind them.
There are loads of alternative private minicab firms in London. Addison Lee has excellent mobile site. No need to sign up or install an app. And in my experience has always been excellent service and keenly priced.
Oh Gosh... Spacewar! it was like adrenaline crack as the frustration of ship-drift into an asteroid/over-accelerating would drive you nuts...

Another insight into computing, i think, was TradeWars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Wars

Now make it LaserSocks 4-player - and have non-players call out the player who should be taken out first/betting on who will win :-)
> Performance improvements will not come magically just because they invented a new language and are re-writing everything in this language.

Good thing that's not what's happening.

None of the major Servo/Quantum features in question, including WebRender, are expected to be faster because they're written in Rust. Rather, they're expected to be faster because they've been designed from the ground up for modern hardware (in the case of Stylo, multicore CPUs; in the case of WR, GPUs).
>Nvidia graphics with the actual binary drivers are great for Linux users. What are you talking about?

Not by a long shot, particularly on laptops. Avoid optimus and nvidia like the plague. Battery drain, screen tearing, and other fun problems abound.
I dined once with a billionaire and a couple of multimillionaires. The billionaire owned a jet. The multimillionaires were envious of him because they only owned jet timeshares.

(If you own your own jet, it's always where you want it, you can decorate it the way you want, and you can leave your stuff in its bedroom and living room. It's like having a pied-à-terre in a city instead of renting a hotel room each time you visit.)

The operating cost of a jet that's actually ready at your beck and call also includes its crew. That's maybe another $200k/year, or 4% annual interest on $5M principal, so add another ~$5M to the wealth required in order not to go broke this way. (Disclaimer: I unfortunately have neither the practical experience nor finance knowledge to know if I've used the right fully burdened labor costs and multiplier, but it's going to be in that ballpark.)
I didn't see you "imposing" your views on anyone. People can adopt what they will. I don't advocate for laws against free choice, but I am for social pressures against unprotected sex. It's a good thing, saves a lot of pain and lives and there's absolutely no need to apologize if someone wants to take that out of context. As if you're advocating for the police to round up sexually active teens.
If you get your $400m exit you might own 5-20% ($10m - $80m) of the company at that time. At this point I assume you’re a large shareholder and so you need to price out what your time cost is. That’s a lot of money to take off the table and from then you’ll never have trouble raising another seed round. Do be careful though. Business development people are paid to scour a market and this could be a huge time suck with no exit in the end. If they eat into your runway then you could get to a point where you MUST sell. Be careful. Maybe if they’re serious you can ask for a $100k convertible note to enter the negotiations.
Sometimes they don't want the product at all (or the employees). Rather, they're buying customers. I worked for a company that wrote logistics software and we got bought out by a much larger company. They stopped all new development on the product, laid off half the developers, and had the other half working on tools to transition customers from what had been our product to theirs.

Tax law used to facilitate this kind of thing, too, because of goodwill writedowns. Might still be true - I don't know.
There are anonymous comments?
Winky-face emoticons: German use different than USA?
These type of articles never explore the potential results of the Rotten Tomatoes voting system. As the article mentions the RT rating is not a measure of how good a movie is, it is a measure of the percentage of people who viewed the movie positively. A 100% doesn't mean a movie is perfect or even particularly good, it means no one thought it was bad.

A movie designed to do well on a RT score needs to please everyone. The end result is something that tries to be bland, uninteresting, and inoffensive. As an avid movie goer, that is a horrible result. I would much rather see a movie that takes risks and fails than something with little ambition outside turning a profit.

If you ask people why they don't go to the movies more they will often cite the idea that there is nothing new they haven't seen before (besides the complaints you hear about prices). That is another way of phrasing this exact problem. It is becoming more and more risky to innovate and try something new. You end up with lots of sequels, remakes, and other cookie cutter projects. It is safer to invest in the next mediocre superhero movie that most people will be fine with than an innovative middle budget drama that might have a harder time finding an audience. That is what is hurting the movie industry.
On Bullshit (2005) [pdf]
Where Does Node.js and Require() Look for Modules? (2011)
Common. Why do you thing he didn't say in the first place.
"I've played with analog audio and the immediacy of alterations and infinite resolution is palpable in comparison to their digital equivalents."

This kind of statements bother me because they are simply not true. You can have "tangible" controls (physical knobs and sliders) with digital signal processing back-end and I bet you that you can't tell the difference in a double blind test. This is the same bullshit that is thrown around by designers, artists and any kind of 'aficionados'- cliches of romanticization of the analog.

Oscilloscopes went full digital in 90's not because they were worse than analog counterparts. These are precision instruments that benefit from digital processing. Don't get me wrong - I own an analog oscilloscope for different reasons, i.e. I was fascinated by how things were done back in the day which I believe is the central theme of this thread. These analog motion graphics machines are amazing - NOT because of 'infinite resolution' but the process of creating art: Oscillators, scan rates, amplification, etc.
Maybe. I only go see movies in the theater if the Rotten Tomatoes score is 90+ (otherwise I just wait for redbox). That is the reason why I went to see Hidden Figures. If it had been sub-90 I wouldn't have seen it in the theater and, frankly, by the time it got to Redbox I probably would have passed it right over (which would have been a shame since it was a great movie).
Indeed, never having to work again in order to provide yourself with the basics (home, food, car, education for your kids, etc) is already a huge thing to achieve in life. Don't let multi-billion dollar acquisitions you read about here cloud your appreciation of something as big as this.
This is hilarious. Congrats! It's a pretty big leap to discuss the future of computing but I welcome a world of social interaction, laughing and playing games in our socks. I wanna play this.
The thing is some people want super stable, improvements are great but the ability to plan is also great. That breaking change that prevents Redhat from integrating Kubernetes into Openshift is just as likely to be a breaking change for Company X using Kubernetes

That's why they pay Redhat, so they can plan.
Thinking up disastrous conclusions to a cosmetic, optional, opt-in style feature affecting a very low percentage of your audience is a bit dramatic, no?
The google servers download every image, regardless of whether or not the user later opens it or not. So since every image is downloaded, and subsequent downloads come from google cache, the pixel becomes an ineffective way of tracking open rate.
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There's a theory that modern democracy is equivalent to bread & circuses. An efficient way to keep the hoi palloi occupied while they're being looted.

I mean, we have more oversight on casinos than voting machines, and more interest in who's first-round in the sports drafts than who's standing in elections.

It takes a carefully crafted culture to keep a democracy defanged enough to not get in the way of the wealthy and powerful yet legitimate enough to defray mass revolts.
> I am for social pressures against unprotected sex

What is this if not trying to make other people live their lives following your way of thinking?
Yes, but they shouldn't.

Even though I have no ill intent and it's just an account on a silly web forum, they shouldn't and it would make me sad if they did.
Without any relevant startup experience to back it up my opinion, I concur. It's a hard pill to swallow, but unless you are working at the top of your software area with mostly theoretical bits that you've worked out, it's not really all that hard to copy most things in software (unless you have contracts in that give you an advantage, sort of like a mini monopoly).

It's bad enough that a few years ago here people were complaining that they would do a Show HN submission, and find a few weeks after that someone had taken their mostly completed idea, assigned a whole team of cheap developers to it and executed on it not only faster, but better. The question here is whether the business he's got running has aspects that can't be easily copied (and assessing this realistically might be hard), and if it can be copied, can it be done so without taking too long or taking more than the ~10 million plus the submitter thinks someone will offer?
Wouldn't that make them even more risk adverse?
Governments like these should be destroyed, completely and immediately, forever.
If you truly believe that, you are naive. There is no reasonable situation that would make any government turn on its own cabs.
Plus, a nice big chunk of it is going to Uncle Sam too. Let's say a 5 person team and they each end up with $2M in their checking account. Invested safely the returns match a typical Sr. working stiff salary. Sure you don't have to work, but you're not driving a Ferrari to your jet that's for sure.
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so Felix Dennis is the 'Old Wise Person' refereed to elsewhere in this thread with the same quote? Or is this another one of those quotes like the ones attributed to Einstein i.e. no-one know who said it.
I'm starting to have doubts about this line of reasoning. It just doesn't explain enough of the risky behavior I see.

I'm starting to think it might be the same thing that gets young developers to put up with 10+ hour days. That feeling you get when you lose yourself in a problem for hours and hours.

Being in a Flow state is seductive. Nobody gets that feeling when looking through the bug database or knowledge base, or hunting through the source of an OSS module trying to figure out how to ask it the right questions. But they do get that feeling when trying to rewrite it themselves. All that open space to run as fast as you can... in the wrong direction.

It's thrill seeking. BASE jumping for programmers.
Probably for longer than we can keep coming up with chemicals that selectively kill it. After all, if we're not killed by the chemical, then that means it's possible to survive it.
Next Up, Tesla Will Take on 7-Eleven
Or this: https://www.iconaircraft.com/home