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I use VSCode on Arch Linux and recommend it to others over Atom and such mainly because MS knows how to build dev-tools.

Now, there is always a limit you want a company to get under your skin.

Example where MS F-ed it up are: LinkedIn, Yammer, Skype, Nokia, Code Project, CodePlex, and many more, etc, including they sent their Trojan Horse to take over Yahoo but did not work out because some people actually cared. One of the best projects is going to die. Github. MS is pushing VS/TFS on your throat. Wait and see.

This is in their DNA, they don't know open source, they don't understand it. For that to work they would have to fire 90% of the red-mond ppl and blood sucking consulting companies around them and their top managers would have to start caring about tech not their bonuses and performance numbers at the end of 3 months sprint. They care about their mortgages and that next sports car. THERE is no open source that they understand. Every single piece of open source they built so far that had some success like TypeScript is still geared to pull you back into Windows eco-system, in a very subtle way.

They know Outlook, TFS/Visual Studio, CRM. Done. That is the future for Github. This happened and will happen, that is MS.

And for them to throw this "acquisition" up there to hit the fan is a VERY BAD and SAD move.

Also there is a reason WHY MS became platinum on Linux - they fucked-up windows too and they ran out of options.
The slide says just that people have bought stuff they found on "Social Media". Doesn't mention that these are through ads or any indication of "Facebook ads genuinely add value though".
Both of those things make a company worth more than $1 million. It's only wealth on paper, but it's legitimate to call a person a millionaire who owns a company who's done one of those.
As anyone who has used both can tell you: no.
I had no idea this was a thing until a french coworker mentioned it as one of the stranger things he noticed when he moved to the US. I've been to France and other countries in Europe/Asia/SAmerica but never noticed that the stall doors reached the floor.
Just three years ago Sourceforge got all the rage, and I do mean rage, and a lot of people were giving all the love to Github.

IMHO the cost of self hosting your projects has been too low for many years now to give control of your web presence to a third party.
Seeing the actual content of the notification instead of, e.g., "John mentioned you in a comment.".
Of course not. Neither am I working on a meaningful product. If people could just do the jobs they wanted to do, could you imagine how many cancer researchers, doctors, food distribution chain specialists and so on there would be?

Interesting technical problems are boring compared to meaningful problems - but there's hardly the money to improve society. Instead we get to put together software that shuffles money around or does the same thing as something else with some integration or blows up people in the middle east because that's what makes money.
I read most before they were deleted. Still can't remember any of them directly insulting the CTO at all. I can see how you can interpret "you don't understand" that way but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Text is a horrible means of communication as it removes any tone to the words and allows it to be interpreted how ever the reader so pleases.
I wonder if there are some people who are exceptions.

I worked with an software developer at my last job who was incredible. He seemed to have a strong interest for the technology, no matter what technology that was. At the time, it was iOS, and he was an absolute master of iOS. I was constantly impressed by his attention to detail and emphasis on quality, well written, technically challenging code.

I've loosely followed him since, and he seems to be absolutely crushing it wherever he goes. He's spanned many different roles and seems to do enjoy taking on new challenges in the form of different programming languages / platforms.

When I think back to him, I remember someone who seemed to just love programming. In a way, he was like a Robot. It doesn't appear to matter much to him what he's working on, or if it's "fulfilling" in the ethical sense.... He just enjoys the process of coding, and being damn good at it.
Have you worked inside a company and been any form of leader? There is a culture in all large companies to make things appear a certain way, internally and publicly, while people in charge carry out whatever they are told from their bosses.

Microsoft employees may also believe they are now becoming a nicer company. It would make sense to have that kind of internal communication, and it increases morale and productivity of you believe your work is positive.
Lets not exaggerate the premium level of his 2600K chip. It was $317 when he bought it. Higher than average but hardly some $2k xeon monster.
You may be interested in Gitea or Gogs, then. Open source GitHub-like things. Gitea is a fork of Gogs and has more features. Written in Golang.

Worth a look, perhaps.
I think most people will have a 'wait and see' attitude. Moving git repositories is easy and issues, etc. can be downloaded through the GitHub API.

It may well be that Microsoft doesn't radically alter the direction of GitHub and that will be acceptable to most people.

(I would prefer a fully FLOSS solution, but GitHub has huge benefits in terms of network effects.)
I've been really confused about the reaction around this. It feels like so many people are just waiting to find out how this is a scam, like this is still the same Microsoft. "Oooh, just you wait, they're tricking you with their PR".

There's just been too many things that I would never think would come to pass to think that opinion is fair, too many different faces. MS seems to have put more effort into going where the developers and customers are instead of trying to wrangle them in.
This exploit has been found and exploited before (in 2015!) to get root on Samsung devices that ran SwiftKey, that automatically updated on boot as root user through downloading a ZIP from an insecure (HTTP) URL...

See https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-4641/
> Are those things really an important part of “the” human experience?

Yes, but important in the sense of them being the most salient human experiences, not important in the sense that you should do them. E.g. I’d put going to war in the same category.
A comment on the article points out a related concept, the "paradox of thrift": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift

Summarized: modern capitalist economies are driven by consumer spending. If some people are thrifty but most are not, the thrifty ones can benefit from the general prosperity created by the spending of the rest while saving their own money. But if everyone is thrifty there's no demand to drive the economy, and everyone ends up worse off than they would have been otherwise.
Depends on where you're walking and who you are with, and of course dose but that can be hard to control. In the right setting, it can be a great idea.

I would argue that such an effect is seen more at high doses and rarely at that. If your setting is a nice woodsie stroll then you can probably safely lay on the ground and watch the leaves until the moment passes. What's interesting is you'll suddenly realize your ability to move and have striking appreciation and respect for that, and that can stay with you forever. You'll also have just spent 20 minutes with the bugs and watching the trees and have strong feelings about all of that. All sorts of thoughts and perspectives you've built up over decades of life shattered. It's a great idea to see where the experience leads you.

That said, if you are dosing high enough that you expect wild effects in general, you probably shouldn't be in a setting where temporary paralysis is going to be an issue. Yeah it would be an issue to have to lay down on a sidewalk in a populated area, but so would heavy visuals and associated strange thought processes and perspectives in that setting. You don't want to talk to a stranger on high doses, and definitely not the police or an EMT.

edit: At doses that could cause paralysis, there will likely be debilitating sensory perception and cognitive processes in general, like synesthesia and your vision turning into a recursive zoom tunnel of over saturated hues, not understanding or abiding by some social constructs and speaking in metaphors that make a lot of sense to you and no one else.
When I was a teenager, I tried psilocibin but nowhere near the amount that is administered in a clinical setting today. Despite not taking as much, I vividly recall how confident I was that I could jump from the window of a second story and land without experiencing any discomfort. I felt not just good but superhuman. Fortunately, I had some mental bearings left that kept me from performing this stunt. I never had that urge to jump from a window again, but I also never tried shrooms again either. Instead, I took a walk at night in the pouring rain to venture somewhere that I would never go to in daylight and to do something I would have supremely regretted had I actually accomplished my goal.

Because of this experience, I agree with Pollan and others that Psilocybin ought to only be used under clinical supervision.
One thing that Adam Grant writes about in his book, "Originals", is how it's a bit of a fallacy that founders often dive head first and risk it all when starting their companies. Could be somewhat of a confirmation bias but he gives some great examples of how risk averse many founders actually are when starting their companies (Warby Parker was the main example if I remember correctly).

http://www.adamgrant.net/originals
Having just skimmed the text, it seems like the difference is similar to the difference between "shall issue" and "may issue".

Fundamentally the FDA is very against right to try because they believe, correctly, that it reduces the incentive for patients to participate in medical trials - why risk being in the control group if you don't have to? My (perhaps flawed) understanding is that the FDA doesn't not approve Compassionate Use very often for this reason, although they probably use safety as the official excuse.
> If we assume this design is based off of something similar to the 28-core 8180 which has a 2.5GHz base frequency and (generous, likely understated) 205W TDP, this chip could easily have a TDP north of 300W.

300W??

http://www.legitreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/overc...

Try 800W.
We'll definitely look for ways to make the product better for readers and writers.

You can already add pictures. We are testing comments for paid subscribers on a couple of publications (you heard it here first!) And that other stuff is definitely interesting.

What will not change is that the experience for the reader will stay really simple - Sign up, and everything you need shows up in your email. Also the model will stay focused on letting readers pay writers directly for high quality content, because that's the magic.
Probably because Bitbucket is a terrible product. It has the worst interface of the group, and less-than-minimal support for pull requests (comments disappear when unrelated changes are made, aren’t easy to browse, aren’t related to a review; only options are approve and permanently close; code expansion doesn’t work past a certain point, and doesn’t work at all if the pull request comes from a repo you don’t have access to even though you could just merge the pull request and get it).

Also required users making private forks of paid-for organization private repos to pay again to give access to all team members at once last time I used it, but I guess that’s not relevant for open-source migration.
You can self-host the community edition, which is open-source under MIT.
lol.joke
Can I self host gitlab gold with my 20 opensource projects but with 2 non-opensource because these are my experiments with stuff I dont want to show and get indexed by search engines?

@sytse: congratulations on that move :)
I was wondering the same. I thought Atlassian had better rapport among devs than GitLab.
I was turned off of these due to the reported coil whine[0], any owners know if the newest batches still have that issue?

[0] https://www.dell.com/community/Linux-Developer-Systems/New-K...
You can try. I recently learned that Ethernet-over-HDMI is a thing: now that you know that, you can potentially disable it on the other end of the connection, but lots of people are connecting their TVs to the internet without even knowing.
I see, I guess the weather thing is mainly for local businesses.
It's less than that, it's in the hundreds. Roughly 4,000 people have climbed Everest ever.
"If you __really__ don't get to set the deadline, is it still reasonable to held accountable for that miss?"

Not at all, but unreasonableness has never stopped management before.
I would be surprised if Apple doesn’t throw in with Microsoft soon around mobile development. There’s a lot of symbiosis there — Apple and Microsoft don’t really compete in very many markets against eachother anymore.

Visual Studio is actually an awesome development platform (I’m including VSTS in this). There’s not much secret sauce in Xcode to threaten Apple’s App Store revenue — it’s just a bunch of signing keys that Apple controls and manages.

I do think Apple will make a strategic decision to diversify from core Mac OS soon. The ever-shrinking space allocated to traditional computers at the Apple Store has convinced me of that. They have more floor space allocated to the Apple Watch than they do the Mac these days.
Not sure it could even get the title of first technological junk on the summit. There is so much trash and so many bodies up there it's insane.
FYI: EKS is currently only available in us-west-2 (Oregon) and us-east-1 (N. Virginia)
Oh, and that option is only available on the "professional" version of Windows. We poor open source developers use the "non-professional" version that comes with the machine and THAT won't let you turn updates off.

So again, Microsoft is a corporation dedicated to making money. My time is only worthwhile if Microsoft can make money. So, naturally, in order to keep them from destroying my work I have to BUT an "professional" version.

"Nice place you got here, be a shame if anything happened to it."

The belief that Microsoft will help open source is simply naive.
It pays to signal that you’re mission driven. Employees engage more.
Thank you! If you have ideas, I'd like to hear.

To keep ground rules at front of mind, each teammate is responsible and self-directed.

* I have a teammate who likes to write the core rules on the whiteboard before each meeting, and point to them when he starts the meeting, and each time a participant needs reminding. This is amazingly effective with a good sense of humor.

* I have a teammate who uses chat private messages to coach people. This is especially effective for things like video calls when we want to try the team sign language ground rules.

* I have a teammate who does weekly one-on-one meetings with every direct report, and monthly one-on-one meetings with skip level reports, and discusses the ground rules along with OKRs (objectives and key results) and KPIs (key performance indicators).

I'm always open to learning new aspects, and also to trying new ways of working. Feedback is very welcome.
If it's any comfort, GitLab's intention is to go IPO rather than to be acquired. Granted, what they intend and what actually transpires at some point may change.
I wasn't completely serious about SAP, just meant to gesture to the the general direction of where I see commercial windows software. There are many corporate software vendors I deal with that sell windows software, for an example a suit of Office plugins that connects to SharePoint and do documents versioning.

Another area where I see windows desktop software, and I don't see it goes anywhere soon, is in industrial, medical and labs equipment control.
It's easy to forget how little time ago parapsychology was still considered open question even by top minds.

Everybody knows about Turing test and many can name and reference the seminal paper: A. M. Turing (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 49: 433-460. https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf

> (9) The Argument from Extrasensory Perception

> I assume that the reader is familiar with the idea of extrasensory perception, and the meaning of the four items of it, viz., telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinesis. These disturbing phenomena seem to deny all our usual scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

In the end Turing suggests that there is need for "telepathy-proof room" for Turing test if telepathy is admitted.

-- edit --

my favorite CIA file from project SUN STREAK. Oct 1988: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789...

The goal of experiment was to identify the picture inside a folder by psychic means. It was the picture of Albert Einstein.
Same here. We self hosted the community edition and could even auth to ldap. Gitlab CI worked well, ran tasks in docker containers, and did multi pipeline builds (although Jenkins does that now too and their Jenkinsfile is way better than gitlab-ci.yml)

I'm not sure about the people who had to admin it, but for us devs it worked really well
> When the VP sets a deadline, it’s driven by the survival of the company

Sometimes...

Other times its driven by the fact they are personally going to get a fat bonus
Oof, $150/month base cost? No small workloads on EKS, I guess.
wouldn't using facebook be a hipaa violation in and of itself? doesn't information like that need to be contained to pre-approved, secure methods?
The correlation could also be reversed.

We certainly know that scarcity and deprivation encourage negative feelings and behaviors.
John Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture
Proof of work from non-paying customers? Something that benefits the company (retweet to pay), or better yet, something that makes the world better? (eg pick up trash, socialize with an invalid, etc.)
I think if Github does one or two huge updates that are really well received post-acquisition, preferably the kind of updates only possible with a tech giant behind you, they will secure their position for a long time. For most users Github still has the best product - how people are forgetting that is beyond me.
I'm not telling you that you shouldn't care about these things, but this is how American Capitalism works. Someone owns a thing, and does pretty much whatever they want with that thing.
The step by step guide is a really great "how to become an entrepreneur"
Ask HN: Is There a MacOS Mojave Stacks Alternative?
I saw the presentation about the stacking documents/files and I think it really clicked for me, in fact, I'm not sure how is possible that this stacking feature is not widely available already in Windows/Gnome/Kde, felt really natural.
In Defense of Email – and open web standards
Yup, you are right! You win the Oppression Olympics against me.
Jekyll. Although, I would like to check out some alternative static site generators as I've never been 100% satisfied with how Jekyll works.

I like having all of my articles as self contained text files that I can run through pandoc and end up with a nice looking pdf for proofreading. I amuse myself with the idea that someday I'll write a series of articles good enough to warrant printing into a book, in which case I'm one step closer down the typesetting chain.

Also, I can use git for versioning my articles, and just back them up like any other old file instead of worrying about dumping and importing a database.
There is plenty of hate to go around. :-P

I kinda want to try Fossil now.
Microsoft does have a terrible history regarding open source.

Github felt safe before, a neutral ground for Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon all come together and share their love for code and just code.

Not so much anymore. The hate is over-blown, but it does feel weird now. With a knowledge of Microsoft products I can understand why many people would see a bleak future ahead [0].

[0]: Relevant image going around the internet: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/g/image/1528/18/152818...
> I don't think anybody does anymore

Counter-example: I use IPython in the terminal, outside of Jupyter.
I don’t really know, what will be your take? (https://serpapi.com)

I do know we have exceeded several times what we expect to spend on Adwords, for bad keywords/locations that could have been avoided if we were paying better attention.
Do you know that gitlab.com already offers free private repos ?
If you do, what are the features from this gold version that you are currently missing with the free version ?
Most (all?) current right to try legislation involves drugs that have already passed safety protocols, but are not approved for treatment of a specific condition, or drugs currently approved in other countries for treatments.

To deny a terminally ill patient a drug that may save her life and is unlikely to cause further harm is the height of regulatory hubris.
Yes, exactly. Weather will be more for local businesses, restaurant deliveries etc. CRM and Google Analytics goals/page views more for SAAS/ecommerce.
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> complete usability mess

Works fine for us at zenAud.io... anything in particular you find lacking?

I must admit though: their change to group-based issues annoys me because you have to jump through a bunch of links to get to the milestones for a project. But otherwise it's pretty similar to competitors... but hey, maybe we're not real power users.
That's not my interpretation of that comment. To wit:

There are only a few things you can know about someone clicking 'buy' as the result of an ad:

1. The ad platform booked top-line revenue

2. The seller booked top-line revenue

3. The buyer exchanged money for something they thought was worth it at the time of purchase.

That's it. Even #3 is conjecture, but it's likely enough that I'm willing to run with it for sake of argument.

We do not, and short of asking, can not know if that purchase added value to the buyer's life.
Yeah I’m not sure any of the big tech empires purchasing GitHub would be necessarily better than the others. It would have been nice to see them bought by someone who we could consider neutral and someone who didn’t have such a long history of using products to leverage market dominance in other areas. But that’s not what happened :/

Im hopeful that ms stays out of it and let’s it remain it’s own entity but practically speaking I just really don’t see that happening.
A part of this is also attempting to capitalize on GitLab being integrated with the new Xcode, as the blog post mentions.
But to answer the parent poster's question, if you were developing a new piece of manufacturing/warehouse solution, would you write it as a native windows app or would you target web or mobile? Is the claim that manufacturing/warehouse software is and will be on windows... forever?
If it is a US company that does business in Europe, but is not established in the Union, you are correct.

If the company is established in the Union, then GDPR applies to all personal data processing it does. See Article 3(1): "This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not."

The question, then, is Tesla merely a company that is offering goods and services to people in the Union, but not itself established in the Union, or is Tesla established in the Union?
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