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> Most stuff on platforms like GitHub and GitLab are public anyway and shouldn't include any private stuff.

GitLab offers free private repos. I expect that's a factor in many people choosing it.
ahem not anymore. Thanks for the pointer.
Apple open-sourcing Swift doesn't really do much though. Sure, Swift is a nice language but allowing IBM or others to start using Swift for making mainframe or web frameworks doesn't make a difference to Apple from a sales perspective. Now if they either open-sourced iOS or started a program by which OEMs could sell devices with iOS then that would be huge -- but that's not going to happen because Apple has been rather up-front that they are a consumer electronics company now so anything that diminishes their ability to sell hardware is counter to their prime directive. Google, on the other hand, makes money by having more information to index, analyze, and develop marketing profiles. They would be just fine with Microsoft putting Android on a Surface Phone as long as hooks to Google Cloud products remained... otherwise they wouldn't be able to call it Android (eg: why Amazon's Fire devices don't officially run Android even though 99% of the APIs are the same).
Honest question to those attending. How do you pick which sessions to attend from the schedule list? They all sound so vague... https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/schedule/#!/
Why is hating Monsanto stupid? Or are you just saying people bandwagon on hating them?
I’ve seen a few too many documentaries on the terrible things they do in the farm industry that put consumers’ and farmers’ wellbeing at risk.
Monsanto milk isn’t even allowed in Canada because of the hormones they (are/were?) putting in cows. They’ve basically cornered the soybean market through litigation.
Let the hate live on, IMO.
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Also, here are the short links to the other experience levels:

Senior (~6 years experience)
http://bit.ly/senior-frontend-engineer-splunk

Principal (~10 years experience)
http://bit.ly/principal-frontend-engineer-splunk
When i was growing up, my parents kept the loose change from their travels in a little wooden treasure chest.

As a small child, I found it one of the coolest things ever.

I would keep them in case I ever wanted to teach my children about the nature of nations and money (indeed I've currently got a little tin doing just that).
We only have the published examples to go on, but unfortunately they all seem to assume that type means class.

If that’s borne out I could never use this library. It’d be the antithesis of duck typing and object messaging.
So HN officially surpassed any slashdot traffic that we had so far - could say we just got hn'ed.
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I wonder what the reaction would have been with Apple being the acquirer. Microsoft still receives lots of hate, sometimes justified, but often just baseless. On the other hand, whenever Apple fucks devs (or users) over, they're just "protecting users" or "making business decisions". I feel there's a strong bias in the dev community.
Maybe it's a rate ratio. 14% more green but 50% more toxic particles ?

Not knowledgeable.

Anyway, I could tolerate a lot more green anyway :)
I'm not moving away now, because I already moved away years ago.
Is BTEC suddenly a notable qualification? And isn't A1 the lowest level (up to 5?). Last thing I heard was that Pearsons BTEC system was a gateway to University in the UK; akin to GCSE or A-Level depending on the level taken. And A1 would be year 10 (14-15 years old) ~ GCSE level grades.. no?

If this is no longer the case my BTEC's are going to get a prominent position on my CV.
To my knowledge early life most likely used RNA not DNA, the difference being that RNA is capable of doing some basic chemistry and protein stuff so you get away with a lot less RNA than DNA (to my knowledge)

The Bacteriophage MS2 encodes only 4 genes (4 proteins, in about 4000 basepairs). That puts us down to 1067 orders of magnitude instead of 349236.

Since we know that meteorites carried water and basic prebiotic compounds we can increase the chance that a random functional RNA organism forms.

For very basic life to form, you don't need cell walls luckily. warm A puddle with the right compounds and RNA with self-replicating capabilities is sufficient for this.

Additionally it should be noted that mutation and biogenesis aren't fully random processes. Things get tried and evolved or discarded.

We didn't get to humans by randomly attaching hairy arms to a fish, rather, at some point a fish got better at breathing surface air than the others and obtained a survival advantage from it. And then this random "minor but useful advantage" mutation process continues for every generation since about 4.5 billion years ago. If you took a picture of every child and parent, you will never find a picture where you can clearly call "inbetween here we went from ape to human".
Okay, I've done some more research and I'm much less sure than I previously was. I mean, I'm now pretty sure you're right: at the time of the transaction the only thing which is transferred is an IOU.

It still seems to me, however, that at the end of the day there's a net settlement process which happens at the central bank and moves real central bank money between the banks as a result of your transaction. (I'm can't figure out what the international equivalent is but assume there is one)

Do you have any links I could read which say otherwise?

> 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)

I don't think this would constitute a run, I think it just results in the banks shipping central bank money to each other to settle the difference.

I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to Google this, would love any pointers you can give.
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Also from the article:

Some device partners can retrieve Facebook users’ relationship status, religion, political leaning and upcoming events, among other data.

Are those public?
Akin purchasing one of the new butterfly-keyboard Macbooks, treat it as an exciting and expensive gamble.
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The 'increases depression' bit is only linked to online dating because a Match.com survey revealed that people found online dating 'addicting'. And according to studies, people with addictive behavior have greater rates of anxiety and depression. So, because it's addictive, therefore it increases depression.

That's a ridiculously weak link (even if true) and practically non-news. They might as well have just immediately followed with 'Gambling leads to increased depression', 'Binge eating leads to increased depression', 'Video games leads to increased depression', 'Facebooking leads to increased depression' (oh wait, they love this one and do it almost monthly), 'Internet use in general leads to increased depression', or the totally-undesired-by-everyone 'Passionate sex leads to increased depression'.

Worthless article. Only written to poorly justify a clickbait headline.
Eh if it were focused on developers and living up to its name, then there’d still be plenty to discuss.
Would be interesting to see what kind of hard facts you have to back the 'coming home' statement up. Not necessarily doubting, just interested in scope and volume.
My take is simple: if you need grouping that means you are getting way too many notifications. I leave only the most essential on (like the very important, or very rare).
No the world will not fall apart if you are not notified about something the second it happens.
There are 6-core 32gb laptops showing up in geekbench, who knows if they get announced today though. If the move to OLEDs on the MBP it might convince me to upgrade my aging beast though...
Yeah Yeah FUD you say... the same company that killed Gitorious.
This is generally covered in school because Nazi history is a rather depressing topic for Germans. Doesn't really stop the documentary channels but those don't have high exposure (Football and News have high exposure. European Football that is.)
I understand your sentiment but I switched from iOS to Android 2 years ago and the first thing I noticed was how powerful Android's notifications were. I still own an iPhone which I primarily use for testing web apps etc. and I keep notifications off on that device purely because I hate how it works on iOS. Once you get used to the Android way, you start to realize everything you're missing on iOS.

Here are a few things I like about Android notifications:
- Grouped notifications and notification channels make swiping away unnecessary alerts a breeze
- One tap to clear all notifications
- Reply to text messages through the notification
- Ability to take action on a notification without additional swipes (for example, you can "Archive' an email from Gmail's notification without having to swipe left like in iOS - this small UX improvement makes a huge difference if you get a barrage of notifications)
- Notification priority - system notifications like alarms etc. are smaller indicating that it isn't as important. You can always expand if you need to.
- When you play a song on a music app, the notification changes color to match the most prominent color in the album's artwork. Little fun stuff like this adds some character.
- Swipe to mute notifications from an app for a few minutes, an hour etc. without having to poke around settings.

I am sure I am missing a few points but in general, the UX is just a LOT better than iOS's one-style-fits-all design. I know this is a matter of personal preference and that there are surely iOS users who prefer a simple notification list. Worst case, it'd be nice if iOS had the option to toggle between simple listed notifications and a more advanced version that works like Android.
I don't know - I can imagine that instead of consuming people spend money on investment - i.e. buying machinery etc. - companies produce machinery instead of consumer goods and the economy works as if nothing happened.
Your GitHub Alternative.
Not free.
DoS'ed since published in Hacker News.
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This is not an alternative, as this is paid. Both github and gitlab offer free versions.
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Ads are definitely present in Pro. Perhaps you're just not calling them ads. In the start menu you get "recommended apps", explorer pops up "recommendations" for OneDrive, and when you switch your default browser to Chrome it nags you that you should really give Edge a chance, to name a few things people are referring to when they talk about Windows 10 having ads.

Fortunately, there's free third party software that fix a lot of Microsoft's bullshit: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10.
This is not even an article, it is an ad for a company (ungleich.ch) that provides github-like hosting services.
I didn't know about the history of Fanta until just now looking it up on wikipedia. Very weird that such a drink would still be marketed (even with a "75th Anniversary Edition" special formulation). There really is no shame in profiting from just about anything.
And,
Contrary to claims by the New York Times, friends’ information, like photos, was only accessible on devices when people made a decision to share their information with those friends. We are not aware of any abuse by these companies.

Parsing:
friends’ information, like photos,

I have a friend named Tammy. Tammy has photos.

was only accessible on devices

Someone/thing can access these photos

when people made a decision to share their information with those friends

I decided to share information with Tammy. I now have access to her photos. I open some silly fb app. That app now has access to my friend Tammy's photos. According to this, Tammy may not even know that those photos have been compromised. She may have a son who is gay, but not out yet, and Tammy (being the understanding parent) is sharing with people she trusts. Now, unbeknownst to her, everything is out in the wild.

This is the problem.

We are not aware of any abuse by these companies.

Were you looking? Did you care? Do you now?
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Which is your first choice of data serialization?
My opinion on XML v/s JSON v/s MsgPack v/s Protobuf v/s Thrift v/s Pickle is posted here: https://enqueuezero.com/data-serialization.html

* JSON is usually your first choice. It's simple, human readable, and has most widespread support.
* Use MsgPack instead of JSON if performance is an issue.
* Use Protobuf if type check and schema check is essential.
* Use Thrift if you're developing RPC services.
* Use language built-in serialization functions or methods if the use case is only limited in a single language, and you don't care security that much (not good).
This thing has been having trials since at least 2009, yet apparently hasn't gone mainstream yet. More suspiciously, the scope seems to have shifted from "provides a means for people to 'see'" to "helps people reacquire motor control in tenuous and difficult-to-assess ways". Has it actually been shown to do anything or is it just modern snake oil? A quick Google search finds lots of hype but nothing conclusive...
My 7y kid has ASD, and managing his behaviour is a constant battle. I'm by no means a perfect dad (when exhausted, I'll give in to his requests for screen time just to get some peace and quiet..) but at least I am able to take him mountain bike riding on a semi regular basis - since a very early age (2 .. on balance bike)

Learning to fall off the bike, get hurt a bit but then to brush it off and get back on has been f*g invaluable. He's able to make judgments on physical risks at a very impressive level. His skill levels are steadily increasing, which is great for his confidence.

And he's also learnt to push past comfort points sometimes, when those legs are dead tired. There's obviously a balance here, but I certainly think a little bit of hardening up can't hurt.
this is far from professional... the website has multiple test objects activated, dummy shop items, is poorly optimized, spelling errors all over the place. also this is far away from a github alternative... all you do is start a vm and run the installer script
It is, for macOS and iOS developers, not GNU/Linux developers using Apple laptops.
Ofc it has to support it you can’t loan more bitcoins than you have unless you use some other tools like say options by even that isn’t straight forward unless you have a clear secondary settlement process.

If you want to do fractional reserve in say crypto you need to have a blockchain where the “bank” can print crypto like they do with current currency until then it’s off the books accountign or a ponzy scheme like MtGox.
And how are lethal injections, with a failure rate approaching 10% not cruel and unusual?

Lethal injections are used because they tend to make for a good show, not because they're anywhere near the easiest or most humane option available.
That may be true for gitlab, but it's not the case for all the development tools. Like good luck running a selenium grid with 10min of maintenance per month.
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I’m not always convinced Google, Amazon, etc can start a product and compete in a new market and have it work 100% of the time. These companies have plenty of their own flops. Many things come to mind: google plus, amazons smart phones, MSs acquisition Skype...

Certainly they have scale advantages, but there’s also diseconomies of scale that can work against them.
Ofc they can’t which is why I said that the crypto needs to support it for it to work properly otherwise the only thing you are left with is some odd options based scheme or a MtGox type ponzy racket.
GitLab is built on Ruby on Rails and a sprinkle of Go.

We have no relation to Oracle.
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That's directly from Rene Girard mimetic theory.
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Everyone is leaving this platform because Microsoft is a spyware OS (NSA OS). To be honest, they are going to put Malware tracking in your code. Something big is coming inside your machine..... Warning : stay away from any acquired platforms of Microsoft (LinkedIn (Resume tracking), github (project code tracking), Skype ( Voip tracking), etc.......). They can't innovate anymore, and the weak dev work for money instead of building the next big thing..... Anyway.... Gitlab is the answer
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It feels good, if you can set your own low-points, to redefine when you will peak next.
> That is the problem with developers exclusive in MS stack, they are not flexible and they don't want to be. They want everything to be done "the MS way".

And unix developers complain endlessly about any dev environment that isn't identical to what they use. Powershell gets shit because it isn't bash/core-utils (even though it's better in just about every conceivable way), Windows API gets shit for not being posix (even though posix is a crappy API), etc.
> technological progress is advancing at a rate never before seen in human history.

I think over the last 20-30 years, the useful and helpful-to-society technological progress as a fraction of the technological industry is fairly low. Most of Silicon valley is figuring out how to extract as much ad value from consumers as possible; except for the single percentage renewable energy fraction, most of the advancements in the energy industry is a net negative for humans; medicine is stagnant because of the increase in complexity and economics; and the list goes on...
> The problem is that "bad behavior" is a concept in flux. Facebook never hid what their business model was: sell your personal data to third parties.

So not to interrupt the outrage mob here ... but facebook did not sell data to these companies. And actually I'm not aware of any case where people are outraged where facebook sold peoples data, including the Kogan case.
You don't have to look back too far though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
I managed to get through school just fine, thank you. Zyklon-B is well known to me.

How does one company name from 70 years ago matter in the big picture anyways? Please don't assume that the rest of the world uses the same history syllabus like your US school might have. Did they at least also teach you who fabricated Agent Orange if they focused on manufacturers so much?
Now is the time to move to Fossil https://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

Issue tracking & wiki built in.

You can use its git integration to ensure recruiters/employers can find you.
Newer Android version do bring a lot of control, you can disallow applications to send specific types of notifications and set up how the notification will be made notifiable; vibration, tone, none at all, blink LED, etc.

You can set priorities too IIRC.
That's just a small piece of the history. MS was extremely active in that field. For example, they were asking Gartner to bash Linux, but forgot to remove their small print: http://lwn.net/1999/1021/bigpage.php3
How would a different type of leader improve the state of the Linux kernel? Honest question, I'm not that much into kernel development, just a happy consumer of their work.
There is a cosensus protocol that can be used to propose and approve a change the crypto, this is no more difficult than changing a monetary policy it’s just different.
The code changes isn’t the hard part the policy itself is.
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Good point. We may be in this position because private investors on average are naive buzzword chasing sycophants while Google etc have scale, leverage and knowhow to direct and control the market over the long term.
I suspect most researchers fear that mining this particular vein would be career suicide. Prof Werner seems likely, based on his bio, to have made a lot of money in the financial industry - he can probably afford not to give a damn.
I hope you did not vote for this Afd Nazi and his bird poop madness. I am frankly shocked that a German politician - elected into the Bundestag, not some crackpot from the NSU - could state something like this: https://apnews.com/35a927e3ae954fa386a9e2406ae4439a
90% of those are dummy e.g. "This one will bring you out of your shell".

It's so new products/technologies aren't pre-announced.
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ActiveSupport also monkey-patches to_json with a recursive Ruby function, completely nerfing JSON performance by 50x in a lot of cases. Unfortunately, it's what makes 'render json: @model' just... work.
Emails also need brevity. The phrase "I would have written a shorter letter but I didn't have time" applies 10x to emails. People are busy and if you cannot distill the essence of your email to a single thesis and communicate it with Spartan efficiency you run the risk of causing people's level of interest to timeout before your email is read.
I generally agree with you that this piece is a bit sensationalistic but...

> [...] they’re just engineers trying their best to do the right thing.

What makes you say that? Beyond potential abuses of data by third parties (or whatever), I would expect that most FB employees are trying their best to get paid. Whether or not all or any single one of them cares about “the right thing” is mostly unknown to outsiders. I have always assumed, based on FB’s overall business model, that there is a general disregard for any particular interpretation of “the right thing” at least when it comes to the privacy of the platform’s users.
Except, I'm sure grace DID spend money on food.

Additionally, grace's savings, not spending money on things she did not need, increases net savings and decreases the cost of debt for those wishing to access her capital to invest in things they desire.

If grace went further still and didn't just passively SAVE her money, but actively invested it in things that made a positive contribution or spent that money only on things which made her desired world happen while discriminating against goods and businesses that made the world worse, either to fulfill her own desires for a better world or investing in such for others, she'd actively be choosing to use that money to build up capital in areas of the economy and reward sectors that supplied those things, lowering the cost of supply, and potentially creating employment in those sectors.

Either way, there are generally better things to do than consuming for the sake of consuming. And its primarily not about spending or not spending, but choosing where to spend and choosing where to invest, for an economy that keeps everyone employed but produces nothing of value (or actively produces harmful things) is not an economy anyone should be aiming for.

If we are so far down the path that we are advocating spending and consumption merely for the sake of spending and consumption to keep the economy turning over, then surely it would be better by far to advocate conscious directed spending and investment, rather than consumption.
I have had the dubious pleasure of getting ethics classes in multiple schools. I don't think I've ever had one where that wasn't basically how the class went. I'm sure that is doing it wrong, but that doesn't mean that it's not the norm.
As soon as SQL Server isn’t an inescapable trap for your data, my impression of Microsoft will improve on the developer side.

Right now the idea of doing things that every other major Relational DB can do, like hook directly to ElasticSearch or feed live data into an outside system is crippled. It’s hard to see that as anything other than a business decision that negatively impacts my codebase.
You are absolutely right from the technical perspective, but I guess these decisions are based on buzzword matching rather than any sound technical design.