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What I take greater issue with is that the author had to explain how it was impossible for him to accidentally delete the bucket (the files in it had to be deleted first) before DO admitted they had an issue.

I had a similar experience with moving my Ubuntu 16.04 image over to Debian. My Debian reimaging, where it warns me all data will be destroyed for an untouched Debian installation, had it's repos configured to use Ubuntu's, on my Debian reimage, which of course failed. At first they blamed me, suggesting I did something I can not remember, and then I changed the repos as they suggested and demanded an answer when it did not fix it. They admitted their repos have an issue that I can not solve and I have to destroy the machine completely to be able update or install to my Debian machine and lose my IP address that my DNS is set to.

They said this issue only happens when you reimage from Ubuntu 16.04 to Debian. Which I believed at the time since I was tired from this. I do not know if I believe them after the above post.
This would be true for any industry other than tech. It feels like every single tech IPO follows the same formula of going public while posting large losses. See dropbox, box, twilio, spotify, snap, or any other high profile S1 of the last 10 years and you will find that almost none of them make a profit at the time they went public.
The purpose of central banking is to protect private banks from bank runs. Free banking operated prior to the introduction of central banking and it was less stable. In free banking a bank either had the capital to pay its depositors or it didn't, and if it didn't it failed. Although this was a less stable situation it meant that credit couldn't expand indefinitely because each time one of the periodic bank failures occurred it would would reduce the money supply.

Another way to prevent credit expanding indefinitely would be to eliminate fractional reserve lending. But that wouldn't work out well for governments who often borrowed from banks to finance wars and other actions that were not supported by their citizens.
Yes, and configure each app on each computer separately, instead of DHCP or RA, and if you miss some app, it will masquerade it's resolving among the rest of https traffic. Great. That's progress /s.
Monetarily sovereign Governments (US, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, etc. but not e.g any Euro countries) never default on bonds/securities in their own currency.

(Well, technically they could choose to, but only out of incompetence or malice, never by necessity.)
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I too felt this pain. UI feels "heavy" in comparison to Github.

There are obvious, simple updates that could be made to the UI to fix significant pain points. This one [1] brought me much pain every time I installed a new package via yarn.

1 - https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/7086/add-the-abilit...
I am sure. That was via Microsoft Support chat and email.
Better integration with Microsoft's existing ecosystem would be a good outcome (for developers working in that ecosystem) as well as more investment in general. As others have stated, VSTS is excellent so they definitely know what they are doing in this space.

"Nothing good coming from it" seems a bit of a stretch when we don't even know the terms of the deal yet - or indeed whether it's actually happening at all!
While the resolver is in glibc, it is in the form of nss modules. This is one of the primary reasons, why you cannot compile statically with glibc.
Used to seeing these kind of reactions on HN. Saw this during FB React licensing issue. Angry Engineers moving to Vue or whatever was non-react, only to move back to usual in few weeks.
Just to be clear, you mean that the database would be running externally as opposed to embedded, right?
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> Lookup MariaDB MaxScale.

This is like a scavenger hunt.

I've looked up MariaDB MaxScale ... and found an optional / add-on product that is aimed at Enterprises, seems to require an Enterprise support licence for the Enterprise edition of MariaDB ... and I completely fail to see how any of this demonstrates that the 'MariaDB story is a bit of a fuck you'.
Apple is user-friendly first. Developers for Apple technologies come next and all other developers who like the Unix environment of OSX come next. The only reason I use a Mac is because the computer is very well built, fast enough, and runs an OS that's Unix-like enough for my needs.

The fact it's not Linux is the reason I routinely use two other laptops, one with Ubuntu, one with Fedora (and a big Lenovo box that runs about a dozen VMs).
Atlassian would have pretty much no reason to buy GitHub, unless it's to shut it down.

They have Bitbucket and I think is pretty safe to say that they don't care about people hosting their open source stuff.

Of course you can use Bitbucket for free but where the big bucks are for Atlassian is the enterprise market. I don't have market data but I don't think there are many big corps using GitHub as opposite to Bitbucket together with other Atlassian products.
If they don't it can always be forked though. I think that's why they eased up - they realised that GNOME would just fork GitLab if they didn't release this issue.

GNOME already planned to self-host and have enough of a community to maintain a close fork.
> the senior leadership aren't the same people and I'd imagine neither are the staff.

And what about their clients/cash flows? Microsoft still sells to enterprises and governments, so their incentives are to keep adding backdoors and Orwellian telemetry to everything.

At least in the late nineties I felt that Microsoft was merely unfair to their competitors. Now they're openly hostile to their end-users as well.
It was pushed down the throat of customers, using dark patterns and “better ask forgiveness than permission” ethics. It also took away choice from the vast majority of users, and started sending opaque and vaguely described telemetry.

The problem with Microsoft wasn’t that their software sucks (some does, some is great).

It is that they have been bullying users and companies for the past 30 years. Many people point to a “new Microsoft”, and the win10 rollout is a stark counter example to that claim.
It's much better than the Windows app store though.
But companies dont change shareholders much. They are the real bosses in the end of the day.
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Microsoft is not a company that ever contributed my life as a Linux user and open source contributor for years. In fact, it always made life harder for me.

Here is a recent example; because Microsoft made a deal with Lenovo, now new Thinkpads are designed for just Windows. If you're a Linux user, good luck in your new adventure. People say "isn't it like IOS or Android?"; it's not. We had this freedom of using Linux, and Microsoft has been taking it back.

Microsoft doesn't appreciate freedom, this is why they used to fight open source and make open source communities look like bunch of marginalized geeks. It's sad to see they now own Github.
Wsl is getting scarily close to Linux performance in benchmarks and improving fast. I don't see extend being too far away...
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Is GitLab Java based? How does Oracle feature in this?
Sure, system-wide DNS resolver using DNS-over-HTTPS (and the autodiscovery using DHCP/RA!) would be a good thing; each app going rogue and piercing through your policies/DNS/firewall is not.
Yeah, his citations are mostly his own papers, seems like a giant red flag.
> and better docs on how to disable most of the telemetry stuff.

How about disabling all of the "phone home" stuff, telemetry or whatever else? There is still only two options "Basic" and "Full" options without any "None" option and really most of the relevant options are scattered all over the place, making it a chore to disable them (and you need to redo that stuff every big update). This is either extremely dumb (which i doubt) or done with malicious intent so that people will miss stuff and/or get tired of them.

Unless they provide the means to completely stop all communication with their servers with a single switch, there is no reason to give them any benefit of the doubt.
Could a 'concrete floor' get more women into power?
Maybe try Elementary OS? New version coming soon. Really focuses on simplicity and UI/UX and being more intuitive for Mac / Windows users.
Sounds like a replay of the events of a century before, during the French revolution of 1848 and the subsequent June Days.
That's… completely false. At least for me. You should really stop and think before accusing people to have noob workloads.

Even cronjobs work… The performance is sometimes better than on native linux, as a few of the syscalls are better implemented on windows. The file performance is abysmal, but that only hurts if you're using npm (and there you're in a world of pain already anyways).

The only thing lacking, is that some debuggers don't work, which is a pity, but then I just start a docker container and mount it on my filesystem.

I am using services on it too actually, everything works as expected. I can actually create windows bat files to redirect to linux binaries, which lets me do for example OCaml development, with the linux toolchain, on a system that actually works reliably. (my experience is, that as of windows 10, desktop linux environments crash way more often than windows ones)
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that's exactly what their CI is. An open source CI system that you can deploy on your own server (and plug to either gitlab.com or your self-hosted instance of Gitlab).
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To be fair, github provides a lot of value-add on top of plain git. Having UI for access control and integration with issue tracking and CI tools gives you a lot that you would not get out of the box with git.

That said, I have always been uneasy with one central player hosting a huge percentage of open source projects.
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Why and how you should use Docker with Symfony 4
I really dislike how you get downvoted (your message is faded out) here. Do people really applaud removal of control of their own devices?
Apple places users first, developers next, hardware makers (direct competitors) last.

Microsoft places competitors (people who develop operating systems, databases, etc) on an entirely different list.
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The fun with malware will only start, once it starts finding it's command and control centers using DNS-over-HTTPS to a shadow DNS served by botnet and you won't be able to filter out it's traffic.
I also see GitHub profile playing well with LinkedIn profile. I've been asked to share my GitHub profile several times during interviews.
Yea, the telemetry one was kind of shady at the beginning, when it got turned on again after every update. That's changed a while ago though, and you can actually look through all the telemetry you're sending.
it's still bad.
Complaints should be respected and violating repos should be taken down.
Yeah but they reset your privacy settings with every update. Thats what we call dark patterns.
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I have been around since Microsoft's core product was Basic under CP/M. It was not so bad. Later, Microsoft had one of the best debuggers for Unix. I used it every day for years.

Then Microsoft became bigger and bigger and they did that by becoming increasingly Evil.

The problem with Microsoft today is not that all their technology is bad, sluggish and annoying. They still have some competent developers working there. The problem is that although they put on a lot of lipstick - they are still dead Evil. They want your data. They want to do all the bad things Amazon, Facebook and Google (data mining) Apple (exclusive sales of Windows applications trough their store - and forcing you to have their music, xbox and other crap installed on your computer).

The only reason Microsoft is not generally regarded as Evil today is share incompetence. They don't know how to make an instant messenger - so Skype is useless and people use other programs. They don't know how to make a large website - so Linkedin is just as useless as Skype. People leave.

Nokia is the best example of Microsoft's incompetence. They buy the most successful phone brand in the history of the world - and in just a few years it's over. The employees are fired, nobody wants the phones, and their appstore is a wasteland of useless crap nobody wants (that's what happens when quantity (number of 'apps') is the only measurement for 'success').

Microsoft wants your data. They want video-cameras in your home. They want to listen in to what you talk about in your bedroom. They want to sell that data to 'Partners', advertisers and law enforcement. They want to be Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook - but they have no idea about how to make anything that people actually wants. So they buy successful enterprises, redeploy their army of managers from hell there, and turns it into dirt. That happened to Nokia. That happened to Skype. I think that was what happened to Linkedin (I don't know the inside story, just that it quickly became useless). Now they want to do the same to github. So sad.

For developers, it's not a question about to leave or not to leave. It's just a question about when. No matter how much you love or hate Microsoft - they will for sure turn github into dirt - like everything they touch - and then at some point you will leave. Eventually you'll have to leave in 2 years when the shut it down.
> If MS were selling those devices as general purpose computers

They are computers, regardless of what sort of dress they wear, and users should have control over their own computing devices.
- Most channels by IDW (Intelectual Dark Web) people, though when you know all the arguments, due to overwatching, it can get a bit tiring.

- Tom Scott, igsquared, JunsKitchen, Alex French Cooking Guy, New York Times, Great Big Story, Strange Parts, TED, and a few philosophy ones from Brazil.

Some examples:

JunsKitchen (Japanese cooking), homemade tofu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdNqWcUdm6I

Lateral (Tom Scott's new game show)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xS-BIcu4ew

igsquared (Brave New World vs 1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31CcclqEiZw

If anyone knows any good Italian channels I might like, based on the above, let me know please. Grazie.
Indeed. "I'll leave if they dare comply with the law" seems like a strange argument, even if you disagree with the laws in question. What if it's your copyrights / patents that are being infringed?
Those may be norms for IT professionals, but the needs of IT professionals are very different from those of standard users.

Realistically most people (numerically) don't want a computer, they want a thing that lets them communicate, create and consume content.

Lockdown isn't a problem for them, and walled gardens like iOS are generally the best way for them to stay secure.

If you provide a method to escape the sandbox, it is likely that attackers will work out how to exploit that. For example try going to facebook.com and open the developers tools. They've had to put a warning in there to stop people from "self-XSS" ...
You can, for now.
Very probably they actually do.
> Microsoft don't have a competing product in their portfolio to extinguish Github in favour of

Actually they did (VSTS, TFS), but it was so hilariously bad that they started moving to git a couple years ago.
You can't sue for libel over accurately reported news? The bar for successful libel actions is extremely high in the US, as well.
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> I’ve deleted my GitHub account, I’ll find a way to replace it and if you’re halfway clever so should you.

Is this satire?
Hi guys, thanks for your comments. Actually I do have backup in elsewhere so my website is still able to run, but surely this incident taught me never use DO services again.
Hmm golden handcuffs...

It seems like you feel the work you do, should always be engaging.

What would you do if someone paid you a meager salary to follow what's interesting to you?
Windows is still doing a lot of bullshit with ads in the start menu and forced updates. A bunch of their open source stuff which has included spyware has been less than upfront about including spyware.
GNOME turned down Phabricator in favour of GitLab partially because it is not easy to upgrade.

My own company is moving to GitLab - attempts to upgrade Phabricator have failed:

`git pull` is not a modern upgrade strategy - it ought to have an RPM.
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What feature of Windows justifies the performance hit and the odd idiosyncrasies of running Linux on top of the NT kernel persisting data on NTFS?
No worries :)

I've moved to silicon design and verification so quite a stretch from my previous work!
Whether OP has backups or not, this is a very poor response from DO - they screwed up, not OP, and the compensation they've offered is nowhere near commensurate with the size of the screw up. Deleting customers data in an unrecoverable way is breaking the number 1 rule of hosting - it's not like a drive went out, DO specifically sell Spaces as a Backup solution!!
If you're moving from GitHub to GitLab, create an issue if one doesn't already exist [0] and send me a message (here, @JobV on GitLab.com, Twitter). I will make sure it ends up in the product.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/new
Grep 150,000 source files on Linux and on WSL and come back to me. That's a pretty standard console load. It kills git operations, package managers, compilers, the lot. ALL the tools I use it for. Well USED it for.

Real data:

linux -> 1.3 seconds, all from buffer cache on a cranky old 10 year old HP desktop with 8 gig of RAM and bottom end SSD.

wsl -> over a minute on a 12 core i7 with high end m2 SSD, every time.

This is because of NTFS's awful performance on small files. The whole of Unix is file based and uses huge numbers of small files, as does source code generally so this is an end game scenario for the platform. It simply sucks!

This goes back to when we had SVN which would take 6-7 minutes to check a repo out onto NTFS versus 20-30 seconds onto ext4 on the same rust disks. SVN was treated like cancer by the organisation for what is fundamentally a platform limitation.
You are right, racial is not what I was trying to say.
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A DuckDuckGo search for 'mariadb maxscale license' gave me this in result #3: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3109213/open-source-tools/...

Basically - their formerly GPL proxy for doing HA deployments is suddenly not open source.

They can of course make this decision - it's their code to do with as they wish. But it's quite fucking rich for Monty to claim Oracle will close source MySQL, create a fork and company which then uses that fear to grow in popularity, only to do the very thing he accused oracle of doing: closing an open source product.

Edit:

Also, if you think only "enterprise" customers need database clusters that survive individual node's being offline, you're in for a big shock.
And the people who reached the top now are the ones who lived and worked happily in Toxic Microsoft of the past 20 years. I dont buy in their change of nature either.
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> I admit that this revelation made some wily political thoughts cross my mind. Could this be the chance to finally break free from the shackles of cloud computing? It always felt like such an affront that our data had to snake through a tangle of corporate servers in order to reach the devices right next to us. We used to happily share files across applications and even operating systems, and now everything was funneled through these monolithic black boxes. What happened? How did we let computing become so darn undemocratic? It had gotten so bad that we actually expected our content and workflows to regularly vanish as companies folded or got themselves acquired! Our digital assets—some our most valuable property—were entirely under management of outside, disinterested parties.

This was such an enjoyable read!
I'm genuinely curious as to what drives a developer to run Linux on Windows rather than just booting into a Linux environment.

Is that software support? Is that hardware support that's not available on Linux?
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They're the largest corporate contributor to open source projects on GitHub :)
Glad to hear it, I've been a big DO cheerleader and this is definitely making me re-think things, thanks for the write-up.
A generation of employees in tech? That's like 3 to 5 years
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This would make a good example of bad reporting on bad "studies" in an Intro Stats. Reverse causality & self-selection come to mind. But, here is the best line:

> Although the survey wasn't scientific, the results were revealing.
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Investor != owner. Very different in terms of control and influence even if they are the largest investor. It'll be the Google VC and not corporate.
It is difficult for me to see how fractional reserve lending could be eliminated given the current level of technology and economical incentives there are for fractional reserve lending. I mean, of course, you could say that regulated financial institutions are not allowed to do fractional reserve banking, but only result of that would be unregulated shadow banking institutions doing the same.

(Which, as a side note, is something I would be more than curious to know from cryptocoiners, how they are going to stop fractional reserve banking to flood crypto currency supply, as for sure there is no regulator that is going to stop that.)
Only for as long as initial investor money lasts I guess. There's just no money to be made in 'free' image hosting without starting to do some nasty tactics, mostly involving direct (hot) linking.
Has there even been any kind of official confirmation that the sale is going ahead? Or the terms of the sale?

Sabotaging a pivotal part of your own development workflow entirely based on internet speculation doesn't seem "clever" at all to me.
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Ruby has the advantage of 'duck typing', due to its strong OOP foundations. Not quite sure what Python has that reduces the demand for static type declaration.

I think part of the popularity of TypeScript could be down to a large proportion of javascript coders that have a background/preference for static typing. It could also be that certain classes of bugs are more prone to happen in JavaScript or it's harder to debug when bugs do happen?
1. Despite a massive increase in traffic, deaths have stayed flat. So whatever you are interpreting here, it’s not based on the reality you claim it is.

2. This will be highly variable depending on area, but, nearby us where it looks from the door to be devoid of green/open space, are 3 parks within short walking distance, a nature preserve, and 100 miles of interconnected isolated paths for cycling which then connect to many, many other greenspaces. And that happened largely by accident (and partly by occasional spikes of local effort to fill in the gaps.) Maybe you need to look more closely to see just how much opportunity there is for play.

And 3. That can’t possibly be true, given the MASSIVE decrease in all crime and especially violent crime in the last 30 years. Please back up your claims with citations or you just contribute to the same hysteria that is ruining future generations.
Nature already invented those and they kill off 30% of life in the oceans every day (of course, by the end of the day the bacteria on the other end of this battle have replicated again).

Bacteriophages are what you want, you just need to find the right strain.
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Not his first rodeo either, see his talk page at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rawjapan