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Yes, it is a cultural thing.

Squares and parks are supposed to have people meeting and using the public space, not for making a space prettier or as a just a transient area, if that was the case then pedestrian streets would be better to make it denser while having the same features of meeting and traffic.

Benches, chairs, steps are necessary so people can sit relatively comfortably for some time while doing other activities, I don't understand how a flat, paved square is a good thing except for displaying flower beds.
GitLab engineer here: our CEO has responded to exactly that concern in https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1003415290368028672 and https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1003337681668005888. To quote:

> We'll have a liquidity event. We're aiming for an IPO https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/#goals but we can't rule out an acquisition.

And it's worth pointing out that you can run GitLab on your own server, so even if GitLab.com ever ends up disappointing you, you don't need to go through the trouble of migrating to the next best thing.
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For one, Facebook obviously had access to contacts and photos, without any way for user to disallow it.
I can't think of a worse way to get your point across.
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A good GFCI, safety equipment and respect go a long way.

Especially the first one saved me more than a dozen times at this point. Yay for required-by-law GFCI on the house-level.

I also do recommend to get some Schuko (CEE 7/3 and CEE7/4) or UK plugs and sockets, even if you're in the US just so you can avoid the safety nightmare that is the US plug. (Thuogh I'm not sure if you can do them as permanent installs in the US... they're still neat for lab equipment)

edit: you should have respect for anything about 50V or so, after that point it can be quite dangerous. 120V is way above where i start using safety equipment.
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Several small countries have "dollarised". Ireland for decades ran an "independent" currency that had the same value as the pound and decimalised on the same day.
> I really don't see how "pop rax; jmp rax" is going to be faster than "ret".

As I mentioned earlier this is due to jump predictions. jmp rax (or any register really) uses the indirect jump prediction, while ret uses a special dedicated predictor that uses a stack (the Return Stack Buffer or RSB), populated by call instructions, to predict the return address. In the coroutine case, the ret does not jump to the address of the last call so it will be mispredicted many time. The general indirect predictor, while not guaranteed to get it right, has at least a chance to predict the target especially when you have a small set of fibers calling each other in a deterministic sequence. In the general case with dozens of fibers calling each others from random locations, there is no chance of successful prediction in any case.

In principle a CPU could have a meta predictor that would chose between the general indirect predictor and the RSB, but this does not appear to be the case for current CPUs (the only switch to indirect when the stack buffer underflows).

Fibers are generally problematic for the return call predictor, even if the pop/jmp sequence is used, the call into the coroutine switch function will permanently damage the RBS, so any subsequent ret will be eventually mispredicted. For example:

Fiber 1:
call foo:
call coro_switch
jump fiber 2
Fiber 2:
call coro_switch
jump fiber 1
Fiber 1
ret // return from foo call, always mispredicted

In my coroutine library I have been experimenting with writing coro_switch in inline assembler, so there is no call to it (this only works if your target language support inline assembler). So if a fiber switches to another fiber (from any function nesting depth) which then switches back from the same nesting level, the predictor is not damaged. I think this is worth doing to optimize for coroutines used as generators.

BTW, I measured these effects multiple times.

Regarding populating the register well ahead of the jump, it is an interesting idea, but I do not think it matters much in practice. First of all, jumps and call are 'executed' at the fetch stage in the pipeline, this is about 10 clock cycles earlier than the stage that would execute the pop; because of OoO execution this might even be much earlier. Also performing a jump never has a dependency on anything as it is always executed under speculation, so 'pop rax' being completed or not has no impact. The register is only used much later to confirm or rollback the speculation.
Microsoft used to be bad (M$) but if you haven't noticed you can now run Linux on Windows and sql server runs on Linux.

We're in the twilight zone bro; all bets are off.
Or Specifically Active Record. Are we going to get Turbo Record soon? :)
That would align with Red Hat, as would the open source.
How about the alternate reality where GitHub is desperate to monetize and/or is acquired by a company that is... don't think it could happen? Let me tell you a little story about SourceForge...
Of course not, however people of color is not a voluntarily made up group that represents an idea, since race is an attribute. You can criticize ideas a voluntary group stands for. I said this in my previous comment. If you cannot make observations about a voluntary group of people and their ideas, there's no point of them being associated with that group. Them being in that group is supposed to signify something. Opinions may differ as to what exactly it is supposed to be, I just offered my observation on that, that's all.
Okay, I think I see where the misunderstanding is. I'm not imagining an on-chain and fully decentralized solution. You're right that that sounds difficult.

I'm imagining a contract with a bank. As in, you literally go and talk to Chase bank and draw up a contract and give them Bitcoin and they promise to give it back to you later plus interest.

Such a system is very possible today, and in that sense Bitcoin _does_ support fractional reserve. Fractional reserve is not a feature you explicitly add, it's an emergent property of a banking system, you really don't need to do very much to "support" it.
Windows 10 is really recent though.

That said, since I like controversy: I'm happier to see Microsoft buy Github than I would be to see Google or Facebook buy it.

And also! A big shoutout to Linus for helping to make source control distributed and open, which means swapping between git providers (for the code at least) is simple, easy and impossible to block. The amount of good Linus has done for the world is incredible.
> We didn't forget that our community was called a cancer

This is disingenuous. He was referring to the licensing model of certain open-source projects, where the introduction of a single line of code coming from an open source project would require the whole of the Windows stack to be open-source, effectively "contaminating" the rest of the stack. To this day this is still a problem to many companies and legal department must carefully review the licensing of the libraries used by their devs.
Assuming GitHub was actually losing money and couldn't fix that problem quickly enough it's fair to assume they had to sell, and it's reasonable to believe there aren't that many companies who could have bought them if you think an understanding of the domain is important, then you're really limited to Facebook (user surveillance, adverts), Apple (bad at software, not developer friendly), Google (user surveillance, adverts), Microsoft (history of extinguishing things) and maybe Oracle (very hostile).

Regardless of who GH sold to they'd be facing a ton of negative reactions. Microsoft's actions recently make me thing maybe they're actually the least bad as far as their dealings with developers go.
Related - Slack is also widely used as a communication mechanism in many large companies. This seems fine but I wonder how attitudes would change if Slack got acquired.
>The idea that some companies must be forever tainted by their misdeads in the past seems odd to me.

Are companies people?
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This is a highly problematic article because the basis of his claims revolve around two iffy concepts:

1) That interest rate movements follow the economy, not the other way around. This is false if you simply consider a different time frame for action. If you look at the graphs next to one another it may appear that his theory is correct, but if you consider a longer term causality ... then he's wrong and the bankers are right.

2) More disturbingly - he basically looks at post-war China, German, Japan and Korea as examples of where you can achieve 'high growth' without the neoclassical market liberalism type approach.

This is ridiculous. It's very difficult to find value creating projects in mature economies. When your country is flat on it's back after a war - it's dam easy - especially if that country needs to 'rebuild what was already there' after a war (i.e. social/governmental institutions intact) - as opposed to 'building what was never there on the back of nothing' i.e. African countries.

Heyzeus everyone knows this. Germany had no factories for gosh sakes. Maybe build some factories? Some roads? Power stations? etc. etc..

Most civilized nations rebounds sharply after disaster and it can be done with 'government intervention' because the investments needed are generally fairly obvious and lend to that governmental kind of stuff anyhow, i.e. infrastructure.

So basically, his primary claims are false, the second one, surely so.

Surely there are other options than having Central Banks - and they could feasibly operate more mechanically etc. - and surely we could just have stricter rules about money ... but if we want monetary policy of some kind, well then there's going to be a 'Central Bank' however you want to call it, 'committee' or whatever. Even if we go crypto, if there is flex in that crypto, then someone will have to decide how that algorithm works and evolves, and that team will effectively be 'the central bank'.
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It's not like GitHub was the perfect open source place anyway. The platform itself is not open source in any way and it has been plagued by a few scandals.

'i've deleted my account' seems very pedantic and most of the arguments brought up are rather old. However, i do agree on the skype thing - man it got bad after MS bought it.

Don't think any company that can afford to buy another company for well above 1.5 billion (i understand the worth of GitHub in 2016 was around 2 billion) has a pristine past.
Not commenting on the acquisitions rumors;

> The acquisition of Skype, after which all the peer-to-peer traffic was routed through Microsoft, essentially allowing them to snoop on the conversations. To pre-empt the technical counter argument that this was done to improve the service: It only improved the service for some edge cases, for everybody else the service got worse because of the extra round-trip latency. So if that was the real reason then you’d have expected to see the traffic routed to the central servers only if one of those edge cases was detected.

IIRC the main reasons this was done are (i) due to the complexity of porting P2P code across many platforms and (ii) for resource consumption on mobile devices. These are hardly edge cases.
Agreed, this is ridiculous.
Running Linux on Windows solely benefits Microsoft and Canonical, not the Linux community.

We're not in the twilight zone, we're in the zone where Microsoft realizes it's more profitable to leech off of others' efforts.
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The pay is industry dependent as well. If you work in Investment Banking IT the wages are typically higher.
How is Apple not developer friendly?
Bitcoin exchanges certainly can "print more bitcoin" in the same sense as fractional reserve banking - the exchange doesn't have to have a stash of coins that exactly corresponds to the sum of bitcoin-denominated customer accounts. Mtgox blew up by being a fractional reserve "bank" destroyed by a "bank run".

Heck, bitcoin exchanges can even print ""dollars"" in the form of USDT.

> should the economic system be based on credit and interest or not

This is almost unavoidable - remember that every not yet paid invoice is a form of credit.
It is not a very good nickname anyhow
> For someone in their 30's, investing even 100% of current savings is still likely to be less than 10% of their lifetime savings

What does that mean? Isn't the point of compound interest such that the more you invest early on, the more you'll get back decades down the line?
not only that but i would be more willing to accept the change as hones if it did not came out of the previous failed attempt at "Embrace, extend, and extinguish", but to me this honestly feels just as another attempt with different strategy, they are taking a play from googles book.
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Good regression testing is a nice way to keep unit tests honest. If you never catch anything with your unit tests but boat loads in regression testing - you are inclined to pause and ponder.
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Not really.

With most cryptos, there is really a strict pre-established monetary policy baked into the algorithm with really no flexibility at all.

"A better question would be not if we need central banks but rather should the economic system be based on credit and interest or not."

I think a better way to say it: "Do we need monetary policy or not" - and I think the answer is 'yes' - so whether it's crypto or not ... there will have to be some kind of group/committee making those rules, and that's de-facto the central bank.
He's implying he is at least 2x smart than we are.
Another recent example: lockdown of ARM-based Windows machines, preventing the installation of other operating systems.
Thanks for the links, I only ever used DMD and GDC (when I had some odd issue with DMD on some distros) but never LDC definitely checking it out. I'm glad there's a Snap package for it, seems to be the cleaner approach to installing dev tools for me.
Well yes, Windows 10, finally a practically usable Windows in my opinion. Finally working, with a lot of polish and Dev tools available. (Like wsl)
We were in Germany last summer and I was amazed that they had a 5m diving platform at a public pool. (along with 3m & 1m springboards).

I had my (then) 10 and 12yr olds go for it, because I had no idea where else they'd ever get the chance to try.

(OTOH, I tried the 1m springboard and got water in my ear that took days to get out. I'm not as young as I once was)
Tainted for the past? Did you see what happened with windows 10 or that they are not able to fix skype? To be honest there are screens popping up every day from one stupid mistake after another from ms. They have more dead products in their portfolio than anyone else they embraced change on the xbox to do a 360 afterwards. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE should put any hope into MS doing the right thing or be a reliable partner for a business. They just burned way to many bridges. Don't get me wrong if you are going for core business stuff like windows ltsb or azure you gonna be fine but never jump on anything new and hype from ms.
Thanks! Captive portals are indeed truly complicated beasts to handle and they offer challenging obstacles for browsers (and others). We keep working on trying to improve how Firefox detects and works with them.
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They are, just not to the FOSS crowd that tries to use macOS as if it was GNU/Linux with a pretty face.
Github harassment in 2014, Microsoft potentially (at time of writing) buying Github.

Mountains, molehills.
The biggest surprise to me was that Github was running at a loss for a considerable amount of time. Given their roots as a bootstrapped company, I would've assumed that they would be more disciplined in their spending. I'm disappointed that they've decided to sell rather than go public, I would've happily been a shareholder of Github if given the choice.
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The Google Drive Files export endpoint is failing for me for all Spreadsheets exported to application/zip:
https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v2/reference/files/export

I've tried both v2 and v3, in my own app and in the Try this API and Playground.

In all cases, I receive a 200 OK response with an empty response body.
Exporting to application/pdf does seem to work.

I've been in contact with G Suite support.
They're taking it very seriously, but they are suggesting that this is a localized problem.

As it's happening for my on both business and personal accounts and also for colleagues, I'm wondering if the problem is more wide-spread.

Thanks in advance!
I'm surprised noone mentioned ASP.NET yet.
With Visual Studio Code + .NET Core you have a completely free environment/framework that can run web applications on both Linux and Windows in minutes.
XCode is a clunky horrible mess of an IDE, iTunes Connect is worse, and they charge $100/year for a developer account. Also, they try to lock you in to buying Apple hardware to develop for Apple devices (though you can get around that using, among others, Microsoft's Visual Studio App Center).
Is there any reason it's so empty? Wouldn't a small coffee shop make any money?

There are some bare stations in the UK. I'd be interested to know if any of these are used for transfers / changes.

Stonehouse is pretty minimal, but I think any changes would be made at Cheltenham or Gloucester or Swindon.
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Any links to artciles that describe it in more details?
Leeching off of others' efforts is standard practice to many so called FOSS contributors, so why should Microsoft be singled out?
Gitlab is a 100% remote company so everything they do is communicated online and a huge chunk of the time they publish their communications and decision making. You can read all the things the considered while working out if they should remove the CLA for example and see live feeds of what is going on when they are trying to fix an issue.
authentic? Why would it look any different if you did a transform in software?
Well, it benefits developers who use Windows machines and develop applications for Linux.
Halfway clever is an aspiration for me.
Could you give some details? I’m no longer intimately involved with either technology but from what I can see Microsoft has been doing a lot of good things in .NET Core and with TypeScript. What are the shenanigans you’re referring to?
So a company that has a bad product launch or problems should be avoided?

Would you avoid all google products (and indeed most other tech. companies) on that basis as well? they've had their fair share of things gone wrong, products killed etc.

I don't see that as a strong argument against an MS acquisition of GH. Microsoft have had quite a good story in recent times in the developer tools arena (e.g. Code)
> the shenanigans I've seen recently from MS employees in the .NET Core and JS space

Do you have links? I Havent heard MS doing anything malicious recently in these spaces.
> The last time they did some more extend/extinguish on Skype was earlier this year.

They haven't extended/extinguished Skype at all.

They made the UI / Experience worse, for sure, but that has NOTHING to do with 'extend & extinguish'.
I have noticed the same as well (father of two).
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I think he is just warning people he thinks should be warned of something that matters deeply to him.

I suspect he assumes that anyone reading his blog / HN is already All-the-way clever and one can read it as "everyone should delete their account"

Personally i am more sanguine
Anyone with any morals would never want to be associated with the Microsoft name, so anyone who does is untrustworthy by default.

And besides, the current CEO was the one who went from Scroogled to mandatory telemetry, while focusing on renting out servers at a ridiculous markups. Don't forget the new focus on the Windows Store either. Or the locked-down ARM laptops.

So it's not like the current management is innocent either.
> The Austrian school overall disavows empiricism as the means by which to infer economic laws and instead views economics as a field closer to philosophy

Empiricism is a philosophical approach; Austrian economics isn't any closer to “philosophy” than empirical economics is, it just is closer to the particular (and widely rejected in most of modern Western philosophy though it survives in a form within some schools of Christian theology as well as Austrian economics) philosophical belief that claims about material facts can be justified a priori by deduction from axioms alone without reference to a posteriori knowledge.
This is a great point that kids don't want AstroTurf and climbing walls -- ultimately they just want to play.

Its the same in the UK. Schools close within 15 minutes unless you pay extra to stay.

On the plus side: the over population and diversity in London specifically means that kids here are actually quite good at behaving / communicating as they tend to be in transitional groups.
I wonder if part of it is that psychologically people want expensive glasses because they value their vision and want to look cool? I use a 99p pair of reading glasses from the pound shop and they actually work surprisingly well and look ok.
I think MS made mis-steps on the Windows 10 privacy setup for sure, although they've largely fixed it in later releases with improved visibility of Privacy options and better docs on how to disable most of the telemetry stuff.

Personally I like Windows 10 as a general purpose client OS, WSL is great and stability for me across a number of devices has been very good.
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There is human shit and needles all over the streets and you're arguing there may be no public health consequences?
Yeah, this is so disingenuous, Balmer had really no other words to use. This was totally appropriate, and as a FOSS lover and somebody that was able to make half of my carreer thanks to those licences, I should not be offended. No matter how much of my free time I spend on projects protected by said licence.

Espacially since the economical model of microsoft is to lock you in by using softwares and formats that call for getting the entire stack with it, hence infecting your business. But it's ok because they make you pay for it.

And I note that you choose the most important points of all my comment to focus on.

I'm glad some people still defend them. It's good honest people take care of those innocent little guys.