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I thought it was because people seem to like changing their product plans midway through development. Seen an awful lot of scope and feature creep in project management, usually either because of a 'client' who keeps wanting more or design by committee.

Though I guess that often ties into project management and planning failures too. Seen a few projects where no one seemingly asked what the client/customer/business needed or how they actually worked, which then meant a ton of refactoring further down the line.
Please for the love of all that is good in this world, don't use Woocommerce.

I maintain a WooCommerce site - it is a fucking nightmare. Oh, as for "saving money" by choosing Woo over Shopify, in the end you pay for plugins bringing you the same functionality already built into Shopify.
Please note that FileCoin doesn't provide any guarantees. It only provides incentives for other people to host your data.

It's like paying a centralized service, except you don't have any recourse (legal or financial) if the people hosting it decide to stop.
At my job? Nope. And I'm totally okay with that. I've worked on interesting technical problems in the past, and I've worked at companies with a huge social impact. I'm pretty have those behind me. Those things will eat me alive every time.

It's not that I don't care about my current job or that I don't do it well. It just doesn't involve anything even remotely interesting technically or socially. I work for a company that makes money. That's it. And I'm quite happy with that. I show up in the morning, do my job, and go home.

I don't have a wife or a family, but I do have me to take care of. And after years of neglecting myself physically and mentally, I'm taking the time to get some balance in my life. Get some exercise, spend more time with relatives and friends, more time with my girlfriend, and develop some of my own pet projects (both technical and musical) that I've been putting off for a long time.

You don't need an excuse to have a boring job that leaves you with extra time on your hands. It doesn't have to be because of a wife or husband or kids or a sick parent or anything. Taking care of yourself is a good enough reason to pull over into a slower lane or enjoy the one you're in now.

Most people are not really doing anything that interesting in the technology world. Many people who think they are doing interesting things are just hyped. The vast majority of the world's problems that can be solved by tech, have been solved. The only thing that's left is to implement them, and that's not super exciting a lot of the time.

If you feel the need to do more, you're going to find that need best met on your own or with a small group of friends working on projects. Most likely not at work.
+1
Snipcart looks neat. Actually I was just showing it to a teammate.
If I'm reading that right,

"I want a hosted service which is free-libre and free-beer, and don't want the provider to charge or be acquired by a company, and don't want to do anything other than consume their service."

How exactly is that a sustainable model?
>>but we’ll have to wait at least a couple of decades for the changes’ effects to become really visible.

By that time the world could be completely different and hence too late to make any changes.
It's literally archived in the 'article link' above.
Thanks for the detailed response.

I think a lot of companies have some portion of their code that's been avoided for a variety of reasons. I think adding unit tests, simple automated tests and quick CI processes can really alleviate that fear...so eventually that section can be refactored (or moved to a service, etc).

I appreciate what you're saying about needed to be more deeply connected with the code for truly valid tests. What I'm wondering is if there's a happy middle ground where code shops just want basic coverage around their code.
What is it you think is "nonsense" or inaccurate?
Not only that. But when I was a student and I live in a third world country where college won't give you an email address. GitHub was more than happy to accept my student certificate. It was very helpful of them. If we talk about countries like mine, then going through the administration way to get such thing is sort of fictional. We can barely make the administration handle our real absolutely necessary stuff. There are a lot of motivated students in my country and others that love this kind of things and if you are requiring the intervention of institution for setup, you might just not have offered it in the first place.
If it has a US subsidiary (which is fairly likely for tax etc) then that entity has to give you your data.
>TFVC would have scaled just fine

is pretty contradicting to

>TFVC like CSV/SVN has a harder time branching because it is branch-as-path/copy-on-write, for one instance. Scaling a repo that size requires intricate lock systems which TFVC supports

heavy branching and locks is exactly the things which make system less scalable, in all dimensions like devs number, repo size, parallel product versions being developed etc.

>Windows developers wanted git for many of the reasons that most of us use git: cheap branching, distributed/lock-free code development, etc.

exactly my point - they hit scalability limits of TFVC. You just said it using different words. We all using Git because it is [architecturally] the most scalable VC out there (i did development of a major [back then] VC almost 2 decades ago - we were starting to develop bunch of ideas back then which ultimately came out to the wide public in git)
Man, don't be giving a corporation kudos for NOT doing shit they OUGHT NOT do in the first place.
Depends on the terms of the sale, maybe 'if you want to tell the buyer what to do with it, get that in writing, and expect the sale price to reflect term you've added, and to maybe kill the deal altogether'
Everything except 2 and 8 is good advice that doesn't hurt of life much or at all.
Yea, I think that'll be one of the future steps if this thing goes anywhere.
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I feel like part of this minority. I find GitLab's UI less clean and more difficult to process, and miss the social interaction features like the feed.

I preferred GitHub's UI because it was cleaner and much faster to load.
Isn't ECS the AWS optimized version and EKS the more basic stuff?
I expect this depends a lot on where you were living in the decades before 2000 and what you mean by "phone calls".

In much of the US, in the 70's, 80's, and 90's a telephone had a fixed monthly fee and 'free' calling to any other phone in the local area. Phone penetration was over 90%[1] in 1970 and rose to over 95% by 1980 suggesting that even those at 50% below the poverty line in 1980 (roughly 6% of the US population) had access to a telephone.

So for many living in the US they have probably experienced being able to talk with all of their friends for "free" as long as they want, and if they were old enough arguing with siblings about who got to use the phone longest.

Further, in the "current" epoch, the article suggested that WhatsApp was profitable at 99 cents per year when it was acquired. I would not be surprised if that it is still the case that such a messaging service does not require advertising revenue to be cash flow positive. It just needs enough subscribers.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/189959/housing-units-wit...
"Business model wise think with 1bn users an annual $1 fee would have been fine for WhatsApp."

If you've worked in the mobile app business you might get that this could mean almost 0 in revenues.

People. Don't. Pay. For. Stuff.

Moreover, WhatsApp is huge in places like S. America where people don't have credit cards, or for whom $1 is even too much.

"He also turned down hundreds of millions of dollars"

He took $17 Billion and is now publicly complaining that what FB is doing is immoral. He doesn't seem to have a problem taking money from that immoral business model.
People do this all the time. Look at what Toyota went through -- drivers were claiming "sudden acceleration" but in reality they were slamming on the accelerator.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/its-all-your-fault-the...
"Planet Without Laughter" by Smullyan

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/smullyan.html

> Once upon a time there was a universe. In this universe there was a planet. On this planet there was virtually no laughter. Nothing like ``humor'' was really known. People never laughed, nor jested, nor kidded, nor joked, nor anything like that. The inhabitants were extremely serious, conscientious, sincere, hard-working, studious, well wishing, and moral. But of humor they knew nothing. All except for a small minority who had some feeling for what humor was. These people occasionally laughed and joked. Their behavior was extremely alarming to everyone else and was regarded as an obviously pathological phenomenon. These few people were called ``laughers,'' and they were promptly hospitalized.
None of the things you listed are focused on usability, which is what OP complained about. Liking some isolated features of a product doesn't mean it's easy to use/understand or well-designed.
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Yup, and the process has been crystallized in a book called The Lean Startup.
Having seen too many companies raise millions in venture funding and burn through it to generate millions in revenue (at a loss) with the founders ultimately walking away with nothing, I think that's absurd.
Fortunately, acquisition of GitHub and the bread and butter income of todays's Microsoft (Office365) do not conflict. In fact, they probably can be brought together, usefully and economically, for Enterprise customers and Microsoft itself.

It could work well. We'll see how it goes. I am optimistic.
Is this drama being made public intentionally as a form of brand recognition campaign? While questionable, this seems like an effective way to have a lot of media coverage (of course assuming that my hypothesis is true)
> It's conceivable that an enemy could locate most of them and hit them with nuclear torpedos or similar.

By 'conceivable', you mean 'I am able to think this thought, regardless of how tied to reality it is', right?
For those who understand the technical details, is this article legit?
Well they can't unless there are no other groupthink comments present. By definition a controversial comment isn't getting upvotes from a significant portion of the group so any regular "good" comment will quickly push it down to the bottom.

If the majority of your group is rational, a rational comment will not be controversial even if the view is unpopular. However, the vast majority of the population is not rational when it comes to reading unpopular opinions and that shows in every subreddit.
The problem is greedy attitude of people. As long as one can earn more by selling user information, there is no incentive for reasonably priced subscription model.
> For the first person to try the drug, it's a big gamble, but as each additional "right to try" participant takes the drug, everyone else gains knowledge as to its effectiveness.

The plural of anecdote is not data. We have come to understand what it takes to run a good study for effectiveness of a drug: double-blinded, randomized, high-power control studies, with further guards against p-hacking (did you fail a phase III but find a subgroup that was responsive? great, do another phase III on that subgroup; turns out it's mostly spurious). The data that comes from right-to-try is mostly not useful because it's not going to tell you how much of the benefit comes from things other than the drug (such as the placebo effect).
The move is already done. The big companies can't host their projects on their main competitor, they will start migrating soon enough.
I also have a dev account, but, as a rule, wait until at least the first public beta, and usually the second. That's probably a few dev betas away at this point.
They are also paying people to Tweet. That's the only way for people to get a discount.
(I promise this will turn out favorable for gitlab)

When gitlab first came out, I found the amount of shameful copying of github distasteful. I thought, man these guys have not done an ounce of anything original, so what's the point in even encouraging this kind of slimyness?

But then Github stagnated, and stagnated some more. And gitlab went past the initial copying and started innovating and adding more features.

And now with their CI/CD, and fully integrated pipeline, they seem to be way, way ahead of Github, whereas Github seems to have focused more on handling the infrastructure needed for their sheer level of scale.

In Github's case, I bet they felt their hands were tied because they had a whole ecosystem around them (like all the CI/CD companies that tightly integrate). Gitlab didn't have that issue, and was free to integrate to their heart's content.

To be honest, the only reason I moved back to Github after trying Gitlab a couple years ago was the performance. But again, Gitlab seems to be the little engine that keeps chugging. They have a certain hunger about them to improve, that they're constantly and relentlessly chipping away at the software's flaws. And sytse is always active in all these threads armed with great answers to pretty much every single criticism leveled at them.

So at least for now, they seem to be a lot more hungry than Github, so kudos to them.

Once all this hubbub dies down, I may move all my repos to Gitlab, but mostly for the CI/CD pipeline.

Github has totally earned their success, but they did seem to be stagnating for a while there.
Urgh.... thanks for pointing out. This is what happens when a C++ dev creates a website!

UPDATE: temporary fix -- I removed the offending section.
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You're right! The phone model of pay-for-use has made telecommunications available all over the world to all kinds of people.

Yet, it might be worth contemplating a few details about that. First, it took decades to do so. During almost all of that period, phone use was very expensive for most people, making it something reserved for the rich. It's taken from 1876 to today for almost the entire world to have phone service.

Second, expansion of phone services was often controlled and directed by monopolistic companies. They invariably acted in incredibly greedy ways and had no compunctions about abusing their position(s). Extortionate long distance rates, asserting that only company-owned systems could touch the networks, and more were normal.

I understand why you view phone access as a good model, fundamentally different from an ad-based or subscriber-based model. Yet, it's possible that this approach historically had some rather significant drawbacks that might be worth contemplating.
For those trying to spin it up while the docs aren't available, I ran into some issues with the IAM role.

Basically, create a new role with a trust relationship to `eks.amazonaws.com`, with the AmazonEKSClusterPolicy and AmazonEKSServicePolicy attached to it, and you should be good.

Thank you AWS, for having consistent naming schemes.
The use and functionality you get from ECS and EKS can be quite different. ECS is tightly AWS-integrated, EKS is designed to be cloud-independent. You can pick between ECS and EKS based on your needs and use Fargate as the interface to either.
The bike light had more value than Theranos' actual "product"?
+1. It's hell.
It's got several things that employers might like:

* It attracts younger applicants

* It doesn't have to be factored into raises or bonuses

* It goes away eventually

But what about people who didn't need student loans at all? Can they negotiate a higher salary instead, or do companies without this benefit, but higher salaries attract them instead?
Update:

Here [1] is an example of why DNA should be shared with care, given that you can not easily change your DNA and it says a LOT about you and your family members.

[1] - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqyvx/myheritage...
The only explanation I can imagine in my mind is a pretty flawed incentive system with these OEMs. I guess some people are rewarded in some way, by bringing in some additional thing into the laptop's default installation that brings another dollar per piece.
Hacked: 92M Account Details for DNA Testing Service MyHeritage
Why are we singing his praises here? He sells a hangover drink, and in order to not have to get FDA approval he calls it a dietary supplement. Chances are this does not work at all, and he's selling something with false promises and no regulation. Are we praising snake oil salesmen for their businesses acumen now?

The Tesla connection seems like nothing more than click bait since it's not related, except maybe gave him connections to be able to raise $450 000 from angel investors.
Elizabeth and Sunny are incredibly corrupt and dishonest people. They simply saw and easy mark in this guy and tried to fleece him. I mean, they've already fleeced millions from investors, whats another con job for them?

The work environment was incredibly toxic as well:

For example, Balwani took it upon himself to keep track of how long employees were working. In one encounter, Balwani brought up security footage that showed a software engineer only working an eight-hour day. He told the employee, "I'm going to fix you." The engineer promptly resigned and left the building, even as Balwani sent a security officer to try and stop him. Balwani then called the cops on the employee.

http://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-former-president-sun...
I think the exact opposite is true. The problem with the “one click free” universe of tons of free content is that the reader naturally will search out - or be sought out, by algorithms - material he or she agrees with. That consumer takes less time to investigate alternative views and has less patience - something less mentally taxing is just a click away. When you pay, you’re making a commitment, and I think people both have higher expectations and are making a more reasoned, careful choice. We’ll see how it goes, but I think the subscription model is more likely to produce cool/experimental material than any model that tries to game Google/FB algorithms
Oh yes, and I've used those.

It just seems ridiculous that an organisation as big as the LA Times can't manage a develop a solution on time. It doesn't provide a great deal of faith in the quality of their technology department.
It takes more than not being an MLM to be a legitimate company. Many you named overspend, spread massive hype, and acquired funding with a story that doesn't match their product and its quality. All traits they share with Domo. As a Utah native I hope we can all start thinking a bit more critically about the companies we work for. Domo's collapse will be felt.
When watching Silicon Valley I found some lines to be too over-the-top, only to find out they were quotes from real people.
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Anyone else getting an expired https certificate? The one I’m getting expired on 4/15.
i think (IANAL) that CA moonlighting law protects the [small] guys in both cases.
"independent" is a bit strong. They've accepted money from Microsoft for some time.
This is literally exactly the scenario you're talking about: The drug looked like it would work, so much so that someone decides to spend $6 billion to buy it before it completed stage 3 trials.

Now it turns out that not only does it not work, it also actively made things worse. So your "terminally ill patient" and the "drug that may save her life" turns out not to be "unlikely to cause further harm".

The existing regulatory regimes allow for the patient to end up in a trial for a drug like this, but the "right to try" law now means the subject can be 1) charged for it and 2) not provide useful information for other patients because they're no longer in a blinded trial environment.
the Notes app native to Apple devices -- given that pretty much all my main devices (phone, laptop) are iCloud-integrated, the Notes app is just convenient, synchronized, and simplistic enough that the barrier-to-creation is very very low.
No, ECS is a homegrown container orchestration service that has no relationship with Kubernetes.

EKS is the optimized-for-AWS version of Kubernetes.

There’s also AWS Fargate, which is a more managed version of ECS.
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They are mostly listed in the project documentation but if I remember correctly, you still needed to sit around with the animator and review the animation for the effects that would translate into something costly.

Some are also trial and errors. Sometimes simple animations create jsons that take ages to load. If you can't preload them you might need to randomly tune the animation or go into the json yourself in order to end up with something more svelte.
Ok, Great, i saw the other comment, JupyterHub is about to be released in version 0.9 – so if there are changes you like to go in, there is still some time. Feel free to send PR that add Canvas to the list of known Authenticators[1] for other to find it easily.

I know there've been some work to have instructions on how to deploy on AWS, and work on the k8s helm charts to do so[2] if that can be of help. If any work could be consolidated to both decrease the workload of you (and us), that would be good. Are any of you attending JupyterCon in August ? In person feedback is always welcome (Sturday August 25th is open, free, Community Day/ hackathon / sprint/ open studio, where the Jupyter team will be there)

1: https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub#authenticators
2: https://zero-to-jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/amazon/s...
That whole sentence where the WhatsApp guys have bigger desks and toilets than the Facebook guys.

Really feels like it is coming straight from a dystopian future, where the workers are kept happy with little candies, and the promise to work for a better world, while also policing each others to see who got it better next door, while the big bosses are in their towers planning their next move.

If you don't feel like a "sheep" or "token" after realizing that you are fighting over the size of a toilet or a desk, then you are deep deep into it.
ECS is their entirely custom container orchestrator. EKS is just hosted Kubernetes with AWS integrations.
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In defense of Linux, motherboard manufacturers often sit on the ACPI standard and are satisfied with only having Windows working correctly.
I would absolutely say that, especially if they turn around and refuse to release the data on other occasions for supposedly "privacy" reasons.
> only options are approve and permanently close

You can also mark it as «Need work».
I think it's likely that there are fair number of people who were already thinking "I should probably move to GitLab one day", and have taken the recent announcement as a reason to actually get round to it (rather than being directly motivated by disgust for Microsoft or similar).
Of course, there must be plaintext at some point... I don't understand this line of reasoning.

WhatsApp tells their users and more importantly the US Gov they do not have any access to the message content itself. For this attack surface to be an issue, that would mean WhatsApp is telling a bold faced lie, secretly exfiltrating the plaintext to a 3rd party, and doing so without getting caught by any black-box auditing.
I mean, that seems like a pretty open and shut case for insurance... What is the purpose of needing the additional data from Tesla?
The author's conclusion stops short of calling her a sociopath but "there is no question that her moral compass was badly askew...Her ambition was voracious and it brooked no interference".

One of the main themes of the book is her worship of Steve Jobs. Ripping someone for having a side project, instead of full dedication to the company, does sound like something Steve Jobs would've done.