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Perhaps most people in Germany would, but in USA it would be weird to be any more familiar with the name "Bayer" than with e.g. "GlaxoSmithKline". GSK have the good fortune of a name that doesn't regularly appear on the History Channel.
But the users from 20 years ago aren't dead yet. It's difficult to get a widespread bad reputation in business, but once it's obtained, it needs an incredible amount of repairing and good-doing to get rid of it again, and it's not that Microsoft is doing any of it with their recent pseudo-openness approach, they just realized that OS lock-in doesn't work any more and that they have to massively invest in cloud data/services lock-in and the race for AI, by giving their OS/VS away gratis, to prevent a world of Java and web developers and Apple after loosing the entire mobile sector. Looks like people will fall for that lock-in/dependency again because they don't understand digital, and Microsoft can buy their way out of their previously miserable situation. Wonder who paid for that, probably all the companies with Microsoft licenses because of lock-in and market dominance.
There is this readme in the original Channel<T> Stephen Toub's branch: https://github.com/stephentoub/corefxlab/blob/master/src/Sys...
And they got the FTC to not really interfere with their practices, even after they were found out.

Good luck on net neutrality with the FTC...
I hadn't heard that. That stands to reason. Business people actually detest that "flat organization" model. They really get off on hierarchy and power.
Denying people you held as slaves compensation will do that sort of thing yes. Not to mention the "medical tests" on prisoners which they bought from the SS.
500 when traffic spikes, and you have the guts to name this an alternative to GitHub? Hubris.
It was a required course in my BSCS program, and I didn't even go to a big name tech school. So, yes, I'd expect someone with a CS degree to have written a simple compiler.
Tried both gitlab and bitbucket as alternatives. Bibucket server is a-b-y-s-m-al. We use it at work and the UX is so clunky and backwards and for a solution that is intended for enterprise use, most of the logic in the UI/UX seems to not be directed towards a multi-user environment at all. Bitbucket cloud is more or less the same experience.

Gitlab is known to be unstable and i'll give it to them, the UI improved a bit lately, it's still pretty bad and i wouldn't say it's very much oriented towards multi user collaboration.
I think the main advantage of GitHub is that it was somewhat thought of as an open source hub/portal. Where you have easy access to other projects you wouldn't find without much of a hassle. They would just surface through the help of ratings (github stars).
The problem with unit tests is that they test things you know are problematic. The larger issues is then ones you were never aware could be a problem in the first place.
The "Windows sucks" meme (if you can call it that) is outdated for like 15 years.
Reverse desertification is very doable, IMHO. From the ocean shores - a combination of passive water trapping engineering, akin to what the British did here:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/ascension-island...

edit: as well as active Seawater greenhouses at the shores with humid air pumped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater_greenhouse

Attacking the sand dunes themselves - pin them down so less sand gets blown around. Solar powered rovers can roam the dunes and sinter (with concentrated light) long reams in a pattern in the dunes. This will slow down dune movement both in the short term - what is held down by the sintered reams of glass, can not blow around -

but also in the long run -

when new sand inevitably blows over the reams of glass, the reams will remain inside the dune, acting as a structural enforcement - rebar in effect, stabilizing the whole dune.

Rinse, repeat. Perhaps the roaming rovers can even etch mini-structures into the sand giving local shadow which can trap moisture.
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Would love to see that follow-up. There are so many domains, like yours, where it's unlikely (from a model selection perspective) that indicators are conditionally independent; whether it's hiring candidates, or matching companies and funding sources (as we're doing at my company, Belstone - we're hiring!), or building better dating sites, or recommending products, or implementing public policies, there are underlying hidden variables that capture aptitude/appropriateness of a subject to a certain aspect of the domain.

There's tons of academic literature on how to handle this, and accelerating industry support for the frameworks mentioned by OP... but the act of building an early-stage software engineering culture that is amenable to the large amounts of experimentation (often exciting, often frustrating, incredibly hard to time-predict against business needs and runway allocation) is something where I think the industry is still finding best practices. Were PPLs the right move, with the benefit of your hindsight, for that problem? Were they more promising than deep learning given challenges of properly collecting data at scale? The process of choosing a system, measuring it against more naive/heuristic approaches, deciding how to put it into production and integrate with existing software/pipelines - and reliably hiring the right people for those jobs, to make things a bit meta for Triplebyte! - that's a narrative in search of thought leaders.
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Bayer doesn't exactly have a good reputation either [1].

I don't think it is a good PR move at all.

There is some litigation going on against Monsanto and probably a lot more to come. In the news you will read Bayer now instead of Monsanto which is going to hurt the Bayer brand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer
"Fine"... that seems to have little to spare already.

I switched from Windows to Ubuntu last December, and it has given me a whole new appreciation for Windows. The polish (things just working well) of recent Windows versions is just amazing, in comparison to Gnome/Ubuntu.

PS. Will stick with Ubuntu though.
PPS. Gitlab is an awesome product and company.
Would sound like a cool new Instagram product (Farben = Coulors) but yeah, that's a name nobody is looking forward to revive.
I posted this earlier,
I think accessibility was a requirement for an internal google flutter app, have you had a chance to look at https://flutter.io/accessibility/
> I'm not even sure what their open source projects are.

.NET ?
> I am German and "IG Farben" means nothing to me.

How did you manage to get through German school without picking up a reference or two to IG Farben?

I'm not German and there were multiple accounts of their contribution to the Holocaust. Google 'Zyklon-B' for more info.
It typically gets covered in school when talking about the Holocaust [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben_Trial
The demise of Skype was not in the 90s. There are reasons to be vary of the news, although the immediate panic is unaccounted for.
Apple is abiding by the Dark Mode Rule:

"Developers who have nothing of value to add to their software shall release a new version with a dark mode."
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Or when Blackwater, a private military company, rebranded to "Xe Services" after murdering a dozen-plus Iraqi civillians.
> there was a large study showing the opposite on HN a while back.

Yes, sorry: I didn’t mean to ignore that part of your answer but the research I’ve linked to essentially supersedes everything else in that area. Prior studies were riddled with inadequacies in controlling for confounders and outright methodological errors. I’m assuming you’re referring to [1] and while that was an impressive study in its own right, their classification of bug sources is indirect and, ultimately, simply didn’t allow any assertions regarding the prevalence of type errors.

[1] https://paperpile.com/app/p/54ee3fdd-a6ef-0767-add5-55b60419...
It's disingenuous to hold WWII crimes against current German companies.

No one in charge at the time is alive now and pretty much any large German company that was around at the time supported/had to support the Nazi regime and used slave labor from concentration camps.
No. Software developers, doctors, post delivery personell, whatever, is supposed to do the best in their own field, and just because there are other sectors which are considerably worse doesn't mean that we should let ours ever fall to that level too. It's not difficult to see a dystopiant future in which software might help create the most horrible of all societies, and its reach could also be global.
TBH If they just said "thanks for coming everyone, we haven't got anything new for you this year, we just fixed all of your outstanding radars" I would be ecstatic.
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In English, doppelganger generally means "duplicate", or "clone" or "identical twin", with a connotation of being unexpected, unnatural or evil.

Perhaps you mean "reputation"?
This is not true. Stalin was responsible for the deaths of 3 million children in the famine of 1934 alone. There were around 6-7 million deaths in the famines of the early 30s. Then there were the purges of the late 30s. Stalin was about to start a pogrom when he died. It was his policies of destroying the Kulaks (an elastically defined scapegoat) that resulted in most of the deaths. It was Stalin's extension of Lenin's murderous tendencies that caused this. Because the system ate itself (guards became prisoners after around 18 months, and prisoners tended to die), and because the Soviet Union was never overrun like Germany some people seem to be able to ignore that the USSR was the most murderous regime in history.
I lived through the 90s, and Ace of Base was the best band ever.
There's one of those* on display in the CS building at the University of Manchester, it's the size of a forearm and IIRC stored 1 byte :)

* A CRT RAM thing. It's a refreshing RAM that takes advantage of the persistence of the the phosphor glow.
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That's pretty snarky. The natural path is towards dark themes with OLED displays. It wouldn't be exclusive to Apple.
Done or not, at least Github's wikipedia entry has already been updated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
"its name"

I wonder how effective it is since the name change is not kept secret, still, it sounds like a fresh start.
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> not the Microsoft of the 90s

Windows 10 has a lot of telemetry that's still difficult to turn off. (Which will be interesting with the GDPR). They've started pushing ads through their OS/platform as well.

Sure MS has gone a ways out into the OSS world, they have docker containers for SQL Server, .NET Core is open source and runs on Linux, etc. They've made some headway, but I can still understand why people have concerns.

It's like when Facebook bought Oculus.
>you have to factor in the cost of installation, maintenance and update.

That number is about 10 minutes a month with a one-time setup of an afternoon, seriously. I've been running my own gitlab for about 2 years. Whenever my letsencrypt certicate warnings arrive, I go update them and then do a full update sweep on the OS.

I could also automate half of that by setting up automated OS updates, but the time spent administering the system is so low it hardly matters.
Key developer talks are only revealed after the keynote, just like Google and Microsoft do.
They could probably also merge the two somehow. The one thing I like more about Atom (even though I don't use it anymore) is editing the editor settings gives you a UI instead of just a JSON file which I don't mind, but it's kind of uneeded to me to have to work harder just to check all my editor settings.
I agree that bitbucket aka shitbucket like all Atlassian products is a POS, but GitLab is far from unstable? We moved to GitLab (self hosted) and it’s been nothing but incredibly reliable for our 120~ people organisation and we use it heavily for mission critical code control, CI/CD and internal Wikis, if it was even slightly unstable - there’s no way we’d still be using it let alone raving about it.
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> ms also helped democratise computing

I find that laughable. Their client and processor licensing model is of the Oracle school.

Large OEM's are still paying the MS tax on machines supplied are they not? (MS get fee on every OEM machine sold regardless of whether it includes Windows. Buy a Dell Linux laptop and MS still get their $x)

> Unix was an ivory tower

Hmm. What of BSD+FreeBSD? Hell even MS Xenix ran on 10x the range of machines that Windows did.

Late 80s, early 90s folks like Sequent were charging a bomb because they included 4 or 8 processors and gobs of memory (for the time). Sun and SGI charged a fortune because 50% of the machine cost was the graphics and IO, and a net stack that worked. A Sun lunchbox wasn't that much more than an equivalent spec PC of the time but gave SCSI and networking. None of that plug and pray or fucking around with INT settings in BIOS, driver settings or it suddenly developing amnesia.

SunOS (usually) just worked, Windows usually didn't until Win2k finally arrived and you could actually have uptime over a daily reboot.

The expensive stuff in the Unix world was where there was no comparison in teh PC world or you scaled up. Multi processors, Sun pizza boxes where 50% of the cost was the top end graphics (always buy the flight sim CD when speccing that one), 100+ serial ports, racks full of USR Couriers etc. NT didn't scale (see Hotmail and the infamous scaling demo scam).

> Windows was cheap and open

It was neither.

I'm not going to reopen VB memories. :)
In 2016 late Pieter Hintjens (from 0mq fame) predicted that GitHub would be sold
> if I kept using it until TB became good and then migrate I've only won.

You are assuming that you have that option. Once a monopoly is established, you don't have that option anymore. Also, while you support one solution, you decrease the chances of other solutions succeeding. If you pay licence fees to Microsoft instead of buying Redhat boxes, that has an impact on whether Redhat is better a year from now.
Try https://kallithea-scm.org/ supporting not just git but also hg and svn.
Panic because "look what happened to Skype!" even though nobody here has used Skype.
I would be disheartened by any major software firm buying github. The temptation is simply too great for any company with interests in software development to leverage their control over the world's largest open-source community to advantage their own products and services.

If there's one thing which is predictable about corporate behavior, it is that they will act in their own best interest. Publicly traded companies are legally required to do so.

Also equating trust with product offerings is a false equivalency here: saying Amazon can't be trusted as a hosting provider because they were known as an online retailer is a lot different than saying Microsoft cannot be trusted because they have a long track-record of anti-consumer and anti-developer behavior.
That’s really interesting... I guess they’ve managed to repair their brand domestically? But for me, I’m Australian, and the first thing I think of is (of course) “gas chambers” when I see the name... I would assume many in the US, UK etc. would do the same.
Wow, the article actually closes itself if you scroll too far down? What kind of horrendous design is this?
And I put them in a wooden box and have a treasure hoard. Maybe one day I will bury it for future discovery.
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It's a nice to have - but not a dealbreaker - for me.

Since I've been using GitHub for years, I am already locked into a platform that's IPv4 only. If I'm moving somewhere new, I'd like to have IPv6 if possible.
Resolving is already centralized: your ISP has 100% control over what you resolve, and you can't do anything about it. This is doing the opposite - by securely implementing resolution in a user agent, in a tamper-proof way, under the control of the user.
Intel agencies also heavily recruited missionaries and Mormons due to “clean” backgrounds and language skills. That’s a big influence on the culture.
Why not games?

https://electronjs.org/apps?category=games

HTML5 and Canvas do work on Electron after all. :) I feel there was some post on HN about a game released under Electron to which the reaction was "I didn't know it was made with Electron!" not a month ago.

Edit:

Also Atom wasn't a testbed for Electron. Electron WAS MADE for Atom afaik. They only opened up Electron after Atom was out for a while, it'd be the other way around if what you're saying is the case. I think Microsoft is already heavily invested in Electron. If anything they will provide even more resources towards Electron itself.
Indeed, nor was LinkedIn, Yammer etc... there is no ‘new’ Microsoft - that’s the same old marketing spin they use every decade to try and make themselves seem ‘hip’ by blaming previous employees rather than changing their ugly business model and lack of ethics.
I'm from germany too and never heard of IG Farben. Of course we know about Auschwitz but the term "IG Farben" has never been mentioned.
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It's down at the moment, but there is a snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20180604095123/https://shop.ungle...
I think it is monopolistic. If one company has so much influence in your life that they can direct you to their own products, so that you habitually start relying on them for almost anything, then they have the ability to develop a wide range of monopolies by influencing your choices. E.g. Google has a monopoly as a trusted source of all information - what's even stranger, is that they are seen as a non-interfering third party by most users - because of this, many other monopolies can emerge, because they have the ability to control "truth" and "popular opinion".
I'm not sure if that's typically covered in school, at least I have never heard of it or anyone in german school mentioning it.
> But I'm currently visiting Turkey, and when I swipe my card Chase definitely does not "owe the coffee shop a bit more", Chase has absolutely no relationship with the Turkish coffee shop I'm sitting in.

Admittably I made some shortcuts. Obviously chase does not likely have a relationship with that Turkish coffee shop, but it does have a relationship (which may be complex, involving visa, mastercard etc.) with the bank of that coffee shop.

So practically Chase says that now that you paid your coffee in turkey, we owe you a bit less, but at the same time we as a bank have agreed to owe that amount of dollars to the Turkish bank, who the on owes to the coffeeshop owner some turkish lira. (and someone makes also the currency conversion there). The banks have between themselves some credit/limit arrangement that they do not need to actually start moving "real" central bank money [1] every time I buy a coffee. At the end of the day, most of the time the customer payments should not have a systematic drift (if there were, it would be called bank run), so banks just work within these credit limits.

It may sound like turtles all the way down, but that is exactly what the modern financial system is. Credit all the way down. There is very little else than credit in the system.

[1 ]which the turkish bank does not even have access but that is one more complexity layer I ignore here...
Bayer is a household brand in the US, for aspirin. I can’t think of any equivalency in GSK’s portfolio.
And probably to some extent people treating it more and more as a free hosting platform for all types of content.
Closed hardware. Microsoft is just following Apple's lead here.
"caters to governments"

Corporations only exist as legal constructs. I'm not trying to be pedantic. I'm just saying that it is always going to be the case that a business, any business, will work within the law and with lawful government because they ultimately depend on contract and property law.
I.e. pull/merge reviews. There is a PR for it in Gitea which is still open, though.
No people in charge is alive, but the company still is. It means at least some of its current assets are of dubious origin.
Perhaps Microsoft will open source parts of GitHub?

What better way to demonstrate a commitment to the OSS community?
That isn't really a good argument
> now they need to try every possible private key to see if they can open our encrypted SNI.

The idea was to have a single common introductory keypair which all tenants publish to their DNS, in order to encrypt the SNI. That way there is no need to try multiple private keys.

The lack of DNSSEC deployment is an issue, although there's nothing to stop such schemes being employed on an opportunistic basis. However, when DNSSEC is available for a domain, the scheme should be enforced to prevent a MITM attack.
Apple clearly has a sense of humour here. Checking the schedule, there is clearly something FISHY going on. I mean, no squidding around here...
Nobody is claiming that it does. They are indicating possible economic investment in the results and some questionable statistics. It is perfectly scientific to take these pieces of evidence and adjust the possibility of this study being fishy upwards.
This is a two-sided sword. Yes, Monsanto will disappear and that could be a good thing. Like lastUsername said before: if they continue their work ethic, then Bayer will become the new Monsanto.

Or as Shakespeare put it in Romeo and Juliet:

"’Tis but thy name that is my enemy:
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague,
What’s Montague? It is not hand nor foot,
Nor arm nor face. O be some other name,
belonging to a man!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other word would smell as sweet."
There's a huge difference between VSCode and code repository. Switching out of VSCode requires pretty much no effort compared to code repository. Also, I think we'd have seen a similar outrage and panic if it was Google instead of Microsoft.
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Wouldn't a company like Gitlab be able to sustain a decent engineering team by just selling a few dozen top-tier subscriptions for their on-premises offering to top Fortune customers who are often still too afraid to have their crown jewels hosted in the cloud?
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Sounds like something an Aristotelian would say.
Which is why you directly charge the users for it. cf. Photobucket
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Why would a founder of a start-up need 120k$/y though? Are they saving to buy a property? Renting in an extremely expensive place? Perhaps hiring servants?

If none of this happens (and I bet some of this could be set add cost of business) yore just filling your bank account with VC money and reducing the chances of success.
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How long did you go to school and when? German here and ofcourse I heard of IG Farben. They are the prime example when it comes to companies complicit with the Nazi regime.
Same for me. The first associations with "Bayer" in my head are "Aspirin" and "Leverkusen" (because of the soccer club Bayer Leverkusen).
WWDC's website feels so bland compared to the Google I/O website. Monotone design, awkward text positioning.. there's just no excitement. Ditto for recent Apple keynotes.

There isn't anything new anymore. This isn't the Apple we knew a decade-or-so ago. It feels like Apple peaked around then, sad! They just don't try anymore.

I for one, really want to see Apple do something creative (but before they do anything new, PLEASE FIX IOS NOTIFICATIONS.. THEY'RE A JOKE COMPARED TO ANDROID)!
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