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Noticed this too recently, makes me more wary to import my projects there. Just browsing a repo is painfully slow. Although I've noticed the same on github for large source files or large repos.
At least it wasn't Oracle.
I can't believe Microsoft isn't aware an exodus (at some level) will occur and Github will no longer be what it is if they buy it.

But apparently they don't care. Demonstrating they have not changed as so many claim but are still the same old M$.

I'll be closing my account as soon as this is official. As for clients who decide to stay, sorry, I won't be able to help them as I won't have a Github account. But I will walk them through moving if they like.
I really like Microsoft, but this is a TERRIBLE idea for GitHub. Some rich bastard needs buy GitHub and then make it community owned. Why is GitHub a for-profit? It should be considered a utility.
Here we go again... it feel like there's no way to break out of this cycle where companies routinely go unpunished for bad behavior. Facebook, Equifax, Wells Fargo...
It’s cool that there are alternatives, but github is still the only one providing a search engine over billions of lines of modern code. It’s an irreplaceable software development tool and I hope Microsoft treats it well.
Not sure about the performance aspect, but your mention of them changing architecture to send all data through their own servers is well known.

It went from seemed like a ~reasonable security architecture, to outright enabling the monitoring and forwarding of all user conversations. Ugh.
Nowadays they do seem more content with absolutely destroying the usability of every product they own. Except visual studio code, but then they have always tried to appeal to developers through their tools. They just forgot about it for a bot.
Yes, I didn't quite understand that. Apple had this to say:

> An Apple spokesman said the company relied on private access to Facebook data for features that enabled users to post photos to the social network without opening the Facebook app, among other things.

So is this like what connecting your Facebook account in Settings does? Allow you share pictures through the share sheet in Photos or whatever? What does Apple get to see, and what stays on the device?
The tech industry chose the (South) Bay because it was dirty cheap. A bunch of orchards and ugly factories, so they could build up their (silicon) factories etc. there.
> I'd much rather more people lost some money than more people were physically hurt/killed.

Ahh but no one has to get hurt, it's about intimidation. One robber uses a gun to intimidate the victim with the threat that they will feel pain or lose their actual life if they stand up.

The other type of robber uses employment to intimidate the victim with the threat that they will lose their livelihood if they stand up.

> There are scope effects here - I wouldn't necessarily trade 1 armed robbery for 1,000 thefts or something.

I think that's a fair qualifier.
Seems like a knee-jerk reaction. In reality it will probably be more than a year before anyone even notices any change to GitHub associated with the acquisition.
100K is near entry level for tech salaries in Austin so there is absolutely no chance you would clear 400K at a similar job in the valley. You are living in a dream.
In-app payment policies are a major restriction. Apple and Google have unlimited access in offering digital goods and payment methods. Third-party apps are limited in scope and taxed 30%.

If two songs are sold on an iPhone for $1 each, one by Apple and another by [insert music sales app], the small app makes 0.70, while Apple makes 1.30. Lets say each has to pay 0.50 to the label for the sale. The small app profits 0.20 while Apple profits 0.80. That's a 4x advantage for essentially the same purchase.
All I'm getting is a blank page, it seems to be 404ing on https://sit.fyi/bower_components/webcomponentsjs/webcomponen...
I’m sure they paid a good chunk of change but this looks like more of a soft landing than an acqusition. Even the language: “Microsoft agreed to acquire” dampens the enthusiasm. I wonder how this worked out for investors.
Music for the church (often written by the same composers) is a counterpoint to this. I doubt too many people are dancing during requiems and masses. :) Also, there is music as the background to a theatrical performance (opera being the classic example of that).

However if we really want to compare the most popular pieces of each time, we really can't look at the "art classical". Most "art classical" wasn't even the most popular back then, from what I gather (though occasionally an "art classical" composer did make a popular tune that became well known).

It's difficult to find "top sales" lists of the old sheet music songs (which is probably the best parallel to modern record charts), but one someone put together for the US (https://thetop100songsofalltime.com/top-100-songs-of-the-189...) has, for the link example of the 1890s, mostly popular short tunes (in the 1890s, "tin pan alley" style).

Of what I recognize (there's a lot of songs on this list that frankly seems to have disappeared over time), there's some that probably would be the dance of its time. I wouldn't say all I recognize is "music to dance to" mainly because there are definitely some ballads among the tunes, as well as some Sousa marches, and songs which are probably more "sing-alongs". I'm guessing that most of these songs aren't exactly "works of art" in the way the original poster intended. :) But they were light entertainment for the time (ala pop today), and that's fine. Modern pop music also has some ballads that do not necessarily function as dance music, too.

I think the biggest difference between music then and music now, is that the dominant way to make a living was to compose sheet music for other musicians to play. Recordings quite literally changed all of this.
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Weka has recently open-sourced their no-GC library Mecca: https://github.com/weka-io/mecca

Here is Shachar Shemesh's introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNWRgEHxOhc&feature=youtu.be...
That's like saying that php is a good choice because so many sites use it. Php is never a good choice. Neither is Rails.

Shower me with downvotes. IDGAF; Ruby is rubbish.
Or then I could just host it myself using their open tech and everything would be fine again. :)
I think for a lot of businesses this isn't a huge deal because they're already targeting a specific market. If you know your market then you should know what will appeal to them and be able to advertise as such... High quality content plus high quality recommendations.
That's true, and I want to add that usually it's the company's fault for not guiding the project into the hands of the community (be it intentionally or because of incompetence).
Rust is a great example of a "company's project" that reached (or is reaching) a nice spot in autonomy.
This is total nonsense. If you live in a trailer park that may be an issue but it would also be an issue at trailer parks in California.
Have to start somewhere! ^_^
Literally, "without eyes". Without working eyes, anyway.
I think the most fascinating thing that Ruby 3 could approach is an approach similar to Dart 1's optional types. That way a fast unchecked mode could be available for developing, and REPL usage, and then a separate switch could be flicked for building a release.

Seeing the Ruby devs take compatibility so seriously is such a confidence builder for me, either way. Ruby is such a joy to program in, and for certain projects, Crystal fits the "square enough to go in a square-ish hole" role, but I really miss some of the ease-of-use that Ruby has to offer.

require 'Something'

Something.new.methods.sort

I use that every single day. Crystal can't do that. Yet.

Little things like that make Ruby such a human-friendly language.

Now that we've learned our collective lesson that naive dynamic types are too slow for big projects, I am glad to see Ruby-thinkers begin to explore the type system space and search for something that will benefit all Ruby hackers.

I suspect that if we arrive at the point where Ruby has a gradual or optional type system available, that refactoring some of the old Ruby tools will be very pleasant. If or when that day comes, I know I'll devote a chunk of my own time to try and catch the tools back up, and the rest will follow if only there are hackers who want to hack badly enough.
This is very true. Paid consumers as well... if I have a problem with a Microsoft product I can call an 800 number and talk to a human and generally get a resolution in a matter of hours at the max. Can't really do that with Google.
Probably only avaolable though MSDN , I would guess. When MSDN is extemded to cover Linux as well (not so far fetched with the Linux support in Windows and Visual Studio) this move would also make sense in a weird Microsoft kind of way.
I'm blocked from the PDF link. This may be the same article, although it's dated 2016: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Carbon-dioxide-toxicit...
Depends what the discussion is about. For someone deciding whether or not to move to the Bay Area, stock price appreciation should be excluded because you can't predict the future and if you could you'd be just as well off putting your cash into FB stock without working for them. For someone discussing the causes of Bay Area housing unaffordability it's very relevant, because having several thousand people earning a million a year who are all trying to buy up limited housing stock is going to seriously affect prices.

This discussion thread seems to be a mix of both, so...YMMV.
The equivalent would be saying that I met some racists in a trailer park in upstate New York so therefore New York City is obviously a backwards racist podunk town...
In fairness, it's a bloody gorgeous book. (Or rather, set of books—I believe there are six.)
I'm moving to the bay area from Baltimore for a lot of reasons. First, the salary increase means I'll be putting away more money every year, housing costs considered. Second, Baltimore is a mess. The roads are horrible and there is an insane amount of crime. Third, the weather is better and there are fewer bugs.

Baltimore is cheap, but I want to live somewhere that I can ride my bike without the fear of getting killed for it.
Whoops, that was a mistake on my part. Sorry!

It's fixed now. Thanks for responding so politely.
FORTRAN is also still more broadly used than you might guess.

The suggestion of Java is a good one.

Python and C++ are strong candidates, if for no better reason than that they're broadly used, including in enterprise, and have been for decades.

PHP might be too, given how widespread its use is. Even JavaScript is coming up on 25 years now, and there's no way it's completely gone in another 25.
They started enforcing this pretty strictly in the last few weeks. It's a massive turnoff as a service, but considering they're a "social network" now and not just a reddit-specific image host, it's not a surprise.
Please explain. I still don't understand the use-case for docker...

How is docker going to make my life easier in this example?
The only “axe” I have to grind is the one I clearly stated: Gitlab is salting the earth for dev tools. You can’t build a business competing with someone who is using VC money to give away their product. This is all going to end badly when the music stops.

”can something be non-profitable for a decade and still be called a business?”

This is such a bizarre talking point...do you honestly believe that Gitlab is a better business? Their model is “just like Github, but with even more stuff given away for free!” And let’s not forget that Github has to compete with Gitlab cannibalizing the low end of the market. I’m sure that hurts margins.

Someone has to pay those Gitlab engineers who are writing the bulk of the code. At the very least, as soon as the dumb money dries up, the velocity of development on Gitlab will drop like a rock. In the worst case, you’ll get an conflicted corporate hydra, like mysql.
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maybe another Zuckerberg nationwide tour that he'll chronicle on Facebook if we're lucky.
What isn't commonly known is that GitHub was never profitable and was getting closer and closer to insolvency every day.

Microsoft rescued them.
Well to be fair this is a random assortment and not a cherry-picked list of the most interesting ones.
We do. I used to live in Pleasant Hill which is east of SF and about an hour by BART to SF, and housing is far less expensive.

Now I live in Morgan Hill which is a great place for families. I drive in to SJ, about 45 minutes in rush hour each way. Caltrain is an option as well, although it takes longer. A nice, newer 2k square foot house runs about $1mm so not “cheap”, but 50-70% less expensive than most of the peninsula.

My unscientific opinion is that the Bay Area skews younger (for people on HN who are bummed about housing) and most young people don’t like the ‘burbs. Anything outside the Real Bay Area (bounded on the north by SF, east by Oakland and south by SJ) is out of the running for a lot of people.
Just for example, among the EU's criticisms of Microsoft were some of the documented (as in civil judgments in the hundreds of millions of dollars documented) abuses of some of its notable customers like IBM and Intel.[0]

"Oh, but that was way back in the 80s and 90s, and different people run the company now. They're more mature and responsible these days." This is the only argument I've been offered when pointing out Microsoft's very shady history. It doesn't suffice.

[0] http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepape...
Yes they could, since they already have reasonable code search for VSTS [1].

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/project/search/code-se...
I am getting a 502.
> Underlying issues are partly commercialization, but also - 'visualization'. Remember 'video killed the radio star?' - well YouTube is the new MTV and 'how it looks' is as important than 'how it sounds'. Pop stars now generally are more attractive.

You had opera and musicals long before MTV and Youtube. And people mostly didn't hide their faces during live performances before or during the current period of recorded music.
> "In interviews, Facebook officials defended the data sharing as consistent with its privacy policies..."

Facebook's EULA pretty much gives them carte blanche to do whatever they want with the data you've provided them. Of course, who actually reads EULAs or cares about privacy anymore?
Part of the challenge is that for issue tracking to really work for non-trivial projects is that there needs to be some web interface that allows newcomers to report issues without first obtaining commit access to the main repository. If some of the solutions can get this bit of functionality then they stand a chance of doing some really awesome things (I'd love to be able to work on and update issues while totally offline).

Right now they do still unfortunately come off as toy examples once you get to the point where their distributed nature would normally come in handy. It's a shame that the interest in the problem died down a few years back around the time you noted.
> No, absolutely not. There is nothing in that statement that is true.

A union where joining is a costly-optionality will have no members. Thus any union that has any strength whatsoever will be able to restrict work one way or another.

> That is the most wishy washy way to wave away theft that I've ever heard. It basically sounds like you're saying, "It's going to happen, so just accept it, and don't try to change it."

More like suing the cow for spilt milk. If a company is going brankrupt in a disorderly manner (fast and in a short period of time) there is no justice.

> Except the companies doing this are benefitting from it, at the expense of their employees.

Yes but now the unions will join in on the pillage!
> we're so righteous we won't take Pentagon contacts.

I think you mean "won't renew". They already took them.
Clearcase is a much more advanced tool than git. It is designed to do radically different things from the mere patch relationship management that git performs in its ultra glorified ways.
These are amazing. So many to choose from.
I do actually live here. Hence the mention of the things I like about it. I was just using nice round numbers as an estimate and trying to say cost of living matters but the #1 thing I pay for here vs another American city is rent. Groceries, gas, consumer goods, etc. do not differ enough to be worth factoring into the equation. I think the big ticket is buying a house. THAT feels really out of reach because I can't do the mental gymnastics to pay around $1000 a square foot...
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Their "corporate DNA" was established when the desktop was supreme and they could steer the direction of the industry based on thier Windows dominance.

Times are different, mobile is more important, cloud hosting is a real thing and technology changes. They had to evolve or die. Saying you can't trust MS in 2018 based on the way the world was years ago is like saying that Netflix could only ship DVDs to people's houses, Amazon can't be trusted to do cloud hosting because they only sell books, and that a minor niche computer maker should never be trusted to sell phones.
Chrome made a big thing about unit testing at the beginning of their development. I'm not sure if their definition and my definition of "unit test" matches up, or even if they still have that drive, but I've often wondered how much that has made a difference in their development process. My own experience has been that an early commitment to unit testing can make a massive difference to sustained development pace (pays off more as time goes on). My inner confirmation bias would love it to be true :-)
Just got back from a road trip throughout Ireland, and occupied Ireland. I wonder what will happen to those two countries post brexit.

As I refer to my first comment: interesting times.
Your numbers are quite a bit off.

4500$ a month will rent a nice 2 bed apartment right in San Francisco.

That's still high, but it is affordable for the average techie.
Is there a comprehensive list of "alternatives to GitHub" out there? Of course, source control hosting is only one part; who has features for process, project management, issue tracking, etc that truly rivals what GitHub has?
It's unfortunate because it leads to the impression of a "strong negativity bias", which is true in a Cunningham's law sense but gets complicated because people also negate the negativity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16677130. It's quite typical for top comments to be objections of the form "I can't believe the comments here are so negative!"

The contrarian dynamic is particularly visible in political threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15701584.
Well, if you want to have your social network app preinstalled on a lot of phones, I guess there's either paying for it or offering up your users.

iPhone doesn't have it preinstalled, no, but if memory serves, there were integrations built in. At least for a while.

Why would they need this data though, really? Once you've bought the device, they could get at the interesting data outright if so inclined?
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Yea, joke is on us, because they'll still develop the thing they told the pentagon they would develop, all while appearing to be 'good guys' to people (which is apparently quite a few people) who don't understand how contracts work.
The public transit is the problem. Too many fiefdoms - Amtrak, Caltrain, VTA, ACE, bart, muni. If Bart served all those corridors instead, the South Bay as far as hollister would be reasonable to commute from. Plus the eastern towns.
Would it kill the profession to use "unknown purposes" instead of "ritual purposes"?

The rant comes from my years as a re-enactor, when we were trying to faithfully re-create historical finds and explain them to the public. "ritual purposes" was a huge problem.
Depends on what you're looking for. Charlotte is 90% finance-related jobs (I used to work there myself). I live in the Raleigh/Durham area, and it has a decent amount of engineering opportunities, especially in biotech.

It's not the Bay Area, but it's pretty comfortable.
Ivan is an atheist, you see. This way we all know we aren’t soviet.

I’m reasonably convinced that explains a fair bit of the “we are very publicly religions”part of the 1950s.
http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/how-i-came-to...

Thank you, Walter. I guess this link about Tiny Pascal was posted after that story?
"dont talk yourself to death"

https://i.imgur.com/nEh2rIU.jpg
A remarkable review, this. (It's so rare to see Lakatos quoted!)

One of my favorite reflections out of this period belongs to Werner Heisenberg:

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

If we have a dilemma (two theories), it's 'Not nature itself' at fault.
You know the weird thing about CPS is that well they won't arrest the people who are going to kill their kids by running them off a cliff but they'll sure as hell bug you if you leave your kids in the backyard without watching.
>If you want nice things, you have to pay for them.

Why the hell do I have to pay for something that has already been offered for free? That's called bait and switch. And maybe this is a stretch, but I think that should not even be legal. In my mind it it is a form of false advertising. If you don't think it will sustain itself as a free service in the future then don't offer it as a free service in the first place.
With these types of idioms the subject is always going to be a person's name, or a personal pronoun. If there's no name attached it's most likely referencing an unnamed pet or wild animal.
Good point :)

But if a digger says that a find was used for agricultural purposes, they're expected to have a reasonable idea how it was used. This is not required for ritual items, and it really should be, because otherwise "ritual" becomes an easy opt-out.
I’m surprised by how many people don’t know this history. SJ used to be a very affordable place, it was orchards and farmland.
What social network? The stars and follows? Does anyone actually care about them? Why? I've never seen the point.
This really is the sweet spot for software engineers right now IMO. I'm doing the same in Colorado and making about the same as you in both salary and equity comp. Quick bike ride to work, housing is expensive but still attainable out here and I can literally walk to the mountains from my apartment.

I grew up in the Bay Area and have zero desire to return.
What Microsoft acquisition has been a "success"? Because there are quite a lot that got worse under MS. They have a long track record and it'l take years before they can begin to counter all the stuff they've done.

Would have rather seen an investment or partnership in github than a purchase. Recognizing the desire for github to stay neutral but supporting it to continue would have been a much better received move and done far more to build up reputation.