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If you know exactly when you'll die and the sequence of future expenses you'll incur between now and then. Having money is useful insurance.

It's all about asking the marginal benefit of saving or spending each additional dollar. At some points, you derive more out of spending -- such as when you're spending them on basic necessities, or when you have a large pile that can already cover those 99th percentile emergencies. And, of course, being able to estimate your own utility for those. Which is hard.
Well, clearcase is a horrible monster and it would benefit just about everyone on Earth if it dies.

How many drivers on the road would be less likely to cut someone off or road rage if they didn't have to deal with ClearCase again? I'm sure that number is greater than zero.

I'm only being partially facetious. ClearCase truly is the worst.
The distinction is between being so pathetic that you couldn't misbehave if you tried, and actively behaving.
Is this comparable to nim https://nim-lang.org/ ?
Netlify is great! I also found them via HN at some point and use them for a couple customer projects. Totally moving my personal stuff to them too now.
Definitely, investors don't give you money just for kicks, they want a payday. It shapes the community... people who take that money get a head start, crowd out competition. Everyone needs to grow huge, get bought, or die.

What could change this? People refusing money? Some encouragement to stay mid sized? Wonder if that will ever happen...
I never use server-side external packages when writing web apps (well, except the bcrypt crypto package, which is an official package but not technically part of the stdlib yet).

Dependencies are evil.
Many US residents also said they would leave to Canada if Trump gets elected. I didn't see that happen..
It’s not out of sight, not by a long shot - GP’s comments are not hyperbole. IMO the problem is people think it’s a simple home affordability issue when it’s like you said a mental health issue.

I think the term “homeless” does a grave disservice to that population, the term itself implies that it’s the home that’s a problem and not the zillions of underlying causes.
Tomdoc?
It felt like for a while, FF was lagging behind. But it’s great these days. So far my only problem with Quantum is that they killed grouped windows.
Just after acquisition, Linkedin started systematically shutting down available API resources, and removing CRM support. Microsoft reigns in eventually.
source:https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/linkedin-state-of-crm-2014/

redacted: i mistook the acquisition date
"We're sorry!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4
> gives X Code away for free

Free with the purchase of Apple hardware. Not exactly "free," is it?

VS Code works on Mac, Linux, and Windows.
The post acts like Microsoft will mess up GitHub and has specific plans for Github already, which they likely do, but Gitlab isn’t in the know. The post is just saying things.
we must kill this horrible project - it is wasted effort.
TRR doesn't read or care about /etc/hosts
There's no way to exclude or white list specific domains

Sigh. This is aggressively breaking normal DNS behavior (and will be an absurd hassle for a very large number of organizations, but in terms of extremely normal split-horizon and orgs with regulatory obligations to catch HTTPS traffic).

Applications should not contain their own encapsulated resolvers, let alone resolvers that default to sending all of my DNS traffic to for-profit companies that have previously experienced massive data leaks (and fun CF fact, they invited the then-CTO of Cambridge Analytica to talk at their Internet Summit event in SF last year).
If she worked at a Bay Area tech company and cant find a decent tech job in Austin she was probably a shit engineer.
Harford County.. Bel Air, Fallston .. Baltimore County like Hunt Valley and many other similar areas that are suburbs not city.

Buying a house in PA on almost Silicon Valley (working remotely) salary you can buy two and other investments.
Denying a simple dying request for an important sacrament seems like a terribly cruel thing to do given the religious context. I suspect the locals thought so too. I don't know if anyone expected him to be freed, but denying the request seems to undermine the religious nature of the event.

That act may have been the straw that broke it. The religious justification for the whole thing may have fallen apart right there if they're not going to grant someone a sacrament just before their death.
Your dream of “neutral” VCS is misfounded. Websites like GitHub are massive bandwidth and storage hogs and needs huge cash burn just for dev ops. Unfortunately they can’t be reasonably profitable as well because revenue sources are rather tiny. This means every vcs company out there offering free for all plan is bound to be sold or go bankrupt.

For GitHub I would have wished Google bought them because there is huge synergy both ways. With Microsoft, eventually some CVP there will realize that there is no profitability and they will leave it to rot.
It's common when it's my (the speaker's) dead body, not someone else's body, particularly when you refer to them by name.
For us (sqlitebrowser.org), self hosting the code, comments, and similar should be achievable with something like Gitea (Open Source GitHub clone).

Hosting our downloads though... hmmm... that could be more tricky.

Our releases generally have ~180k downloads a month, with each being (very) roughly 15MB in size.

That's only 2.5TB/mo, but the downloads aren't evenly spaced throughout the day.

We'd probably need a small cluster of servers with unmetered bandwidth or something. Scaleway might suit.
Well that was worrying. Now I'm sitting here in my air-conditioned office building wondering what the CO₂ level is and wishing I could open a window.

Got to buy a CO₂ meter: https://www.amazon.com/s?field-keywords=CO2+meter
There is https://searchcode.com which searches over public repos from all the big providers.
Any idea how they could possibly make GitHub profitable? It seems more likely that they want to attach the Microsoft name to GitHub to build up positive sentiment among the open source community. Something like keeping GitHub alive without wrecking it could cause some people to hate Microsoft a little bit less.
As I said elsewhere the term “homeless” is a bit of a misnomer that describes the ultimate consequence of a ton of underlying illnesses that result in eventual (actual) homelessness. Mental illness (I file addiction under that umbrella) is the root cause that should be treated.

Those people dumping needles on SF sidewalks won’t get magically well by handing them the key to an apartment. We need to treat the whole problem.
That's what I was thinking. The warming and climate destabilization effects will be worse (ugh), but this is perhaps easier to describe.

"You know that feeling of a stuffy meeting room? That's what outside will be in 2100 if we don't reduce. Inside will be worse."
*30%

Microsoft's revenue split for the Windows Store is an identical 30%[0] (in most cases). There is, of course, the benefit of not having to pay any annual registration fees on Microsoft's platform.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/windows/agreements/ap...
Good riddance to an awful business model. Hopefully he'll disappear and never be heard from again.
Saw this on another post related to gitlab proposal for federation support. That would bring us closer to a much nicer ecosystem

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/4517
Sorry about that. I think they may have switched the link to an html.
The day Linux goes MIT/X11 is the day it's gone. Lord help us if they ever succeed.
Is it right to assume that this is because so much of their hosting is for free, open source projects?

And if so, then were open source to move toward GitLab with their even more permissive policies, how could they avoid the same fate?
It is a similar idea, yes.
Adding machine ids [MAC address] to telemetry [.NET Core] (2016)
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fuck github. all your projects are owned by the Fed now. At least not the fuckin chinese hallelujah
I think good AC is actually ok, since it's based on venting indoor air out. Definitely depends on the building though.

But my CO2 meter reads lower with AC on. (With windows closed. Windows open is power still)
It should also be noted that the Catholic teaching is that the physical body will eventually be resurrected to its perfect form on the last day, not just in a spiritual sense, but physically too. To desecrate it further would seem to risk the possibility of that happening, effectively ending eternal life.
This is creepy as fuck. These fuckers ought to be held accountable
It’s run more like the movie special effects industry. Watch the 30-minute “Life After Pi” documentary on YouTube.
Indians (note the Indo- of PIE) also consume significant amounts of milk as well, so not just northern Europeans.
Sure they can't "kill" it, but a huge fraction of the work on Atom comes from full-time people employed by GitHub. They can handicap it to the point that VSCode becomes the better editor.
Still seems down for me. Getting a 502
The link goes to html now. Same author, but it's a 2017 working paper.
Often.

But either way I don't get why that usage has triggered you. It's not like he's advocating for someone's death; he is clearly conveying his view about Ballmer's desire to influence Microsoft and the degree of conviction he believes Ballmer has in this regard.

Perhaps if English is not your first language, this word usage might seem strange or unpleasant. I assure you it's not.
Exactly. I can’t search my own tweets on Twitter. Facebook doesn’t know how to rank people when I do people search there. Search is terrible across the internet except Google.
The children I know are now playing online games with their friends. Instead of going to the park and still playing, they're at home talking on mic/chat and doing things online. Are things like 'resolve disputes' and 'planning time' still possible? Seems like it'd be even easier to communicate and discuss with the added benefit of less violent/aggressive confrontation.
The big platform companies see engagement and growth metrics for all startups, not just the numbers they are pitched. The public didn't expect Instagram to be a success - Facebook had more information.

This information asymmetry is a big issue. It means big platforms can detect competitors early and know when to offer generous acquisition deals to neutralise them. The people working in these competitors don't have this comparative basis to tell how well they're doing.

As a small player, it's very hard to see how successful your competitors are. For example, Google and Apple only provide vague statistics about number of downloads in their appstores, rounded very loosely. But they internally can track detailed metrics. Facebook and Twitter are used as distribution mechanisms, for login, and as sources of contact info. They can glean insights from that.

Facebook has even better insights through the Onavo VPN, which as it tunnels traffic from other apps, can even show which features are doing well
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/facebook-starts-pushing-it...
What I want to know is how one would access these pockets in a time when a skirt high enough to show the ankle of a stocking was scandalous.
I'll add that while COL is high (i pay $2,500 a month in rent alone), I have still been able to save up that $90,000 out of college in 2 years so it is a pretty good place to bootstrap your financial savings if you don't have kids/need a house.
> While Barbarian is a Greek word, it's also important to note that in the Greek context it didn't have the Roman implications of lack of civilization: it simply meant a non-Greek speaking people.

That doesn't seem to be true, given the 'etymology' of the word. The Roman sense of 'barbarian' was simply 'not Roman or Greek' while the Greek one was 'not Greek'.
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Yeah DB migrations are a pain in the bum. I do them manually because I still haven't found a tool that handles them properly.

But by the time there's significant data to migrate to the new schema, any schema change is usually due to a major version change or feature implementation, and the migration is part of a wider pain-in-the-bum situation.
That could not be more true. Mai 68 is now considered in some thought circles to be the first “color revolution”. The main figureheads come from French upper middleclass bourgeoisie (Cohn-bendit, Sauvageot, Geismar, Goupil) and derailed legitimate blue collar upsets to push their liberal/libertarian agenda in order to shake up the conservative government led by General de Gaulle.

At that very moment, losing ground, de Gaulle flees France for Baden-Baden to regroup with General Massu. After that meeting de Gaulle decides to resign, leaving the room to the banker Pompidou, much more open to the Anglo-saxon “weltanshauung” that the General spent his life fighting.
> but I do not recall an explicit prompt about Google collecting my location history in this way.

Weird, I'm pretty sure with my new Android phone, upon booting it up for the first time, I had to opt in to location services and a little popup explained exactly what it was doing.
Not really. My uncle had to spend quite a time curing the OneHalf virus that I have brought with a game copied to our 486 DOS PC from a friend once when I was a child.
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SF wasn’t chosen by the tech industry. South Bay was. Most big Tech firms’ HQs are outside the city itself, precisely because of lower real estate costs.

The move to SF has been much more recent and mainly fueled by the desire of younger workers to live/work in more densely populated areas. And then most startups started basing out of SF proper to be closer to these workers (and appear “cool”) so now you have all the big startup successes based in the city proper.
I agree. Spare the rod, spoil the child. It works.

Parents need to get off their phones, computers, TV's and spend time with their kids. I live on a street of maybe 30 or so houses. And I have two small children. I know there are other families with small children and I have never once in the 4 years I've lived on this street seen them outside playing with their kids. I play with my kids outside everyday, when weather permits. It is sad. Technology, especially TV and computers, and cars have destroyed community. Not totally, but almost.

Don't even get me started on teenagers with phones. My children will be getting flip phones for calls only and very limited texting.
I agree that the first-person usage is more common, relatively speaking.
Pretty dope. Downloading these. Might have them wide format printed to hang at my house.
The slippery slope argument seems to come out quickly against Socialist policies. The danger of any populist/mob revolt is the unsavory type that wins out and the tactics they use to consolidate and retain power.
The problem is that virtually all startup wants an exit. They have employees sitting on stock options for years while forgoing their market rate. They have investors wanting 10X return. This would work out for insanely profitable businesses like Google but for the rest they have built huge expectations on business models tha t are unworkable so buyout by a sucker is the only viable outcome for them. Coincidentally Microsoft has recently decided to become that sucker with LinkedIn and now GitHub.
For me, it's Laravel + Git(hub) + Bootstrap/AdminLTE/Whatever frontend.

But I already know this stack and I already have a server setup that can just let me fork a new app into one of the subdirectories or subdomains. If you want something public facing, there are only so many corners you can cut as being pwned is much more embarassing than having a prototype crash and burn during a demo.

Frameworks are good in that they let you make something fast + powerful without having to worry about alot of the details once it is setup. The problem is you have to tackle the learning curve for the setup. Finding something with good documentation is the best way to handle this even if it takes more work to learn than you want to spend on a "throwaway" project.
I'm not convinced they are -- the models are entirely different. Google receives the vast bulk of its revenue from advertising based on mining what they know about you. Microsoft receives the vast bulk of its funding from companies using its systems and paying them to run them well.

MS do not tie an analytics product (on most sites around the world) into the world's largest personal-data-mining and advertising network.
That's true. Some of the ancient Greeks at certain time periods anyway.
China just executes the CEO. Mindless ambition. Mindless consequences.
Abstract:

> "As atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide continue to escalate and drive climate change, the issue of CO2 toxicity is not recognised as a global risk. The toxicity of CO2 for breathing has been well defined for high concentrations but it remains effectively unknown what level will compromise human health when individuals are perpetually exposed for their lifetime. There is evidence from the few studies of long-term low-level exposure that permanent exposure, to CO2 levels predicted by the end of the century, will have significant effects on humans. Other studies of slightly higher CO2 levels may offer clues to effects that may occur when humans experience lifelong exposure. Unhealthy blood CO2 concentrations have been measured from people in common office environments where reduced thinking ability and health symptoms have been observed at levels of CO2 above 600 ppm for relatively short-term exposures. Although humans and animals are able to deal with elevated levels of CO2 in the short-term due to various compensation mechanisms in the body, the persistent effects of these mechanisms may have severe consequences in a perpetual environment of elevated CO2. These include threats to life such as kidney failure, bone atrophy and loss of brain function. Existing research also indicates that as ambient CO2 increases in the near-future, there will be an associated increase in cancers, neurological disorders and other conditions. Research is urgently required to clearly identify the severity and proximity of this risk, associated with the primary human function of breathing, being a potential major aspect of climate change."

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Every day, I grow more and more convinced that we are just utterly screwed. Global warming (I am starting to favor the Stallmanism "global heating") has us fucked left, right, and sideways. And the leaders of the world do little about it.

It's already too late to reverse course, hasn't been possible for a while. Even then, mitigation isn't coming, not fast enough. There is not enough political will, and a magic carbon-reducing invention is... unlikely (if unpredictable).

From whence cometh hope? (Because I'm almost out of it.)
It’s further complicated by the fact that a lot of this stuff functions more like a public utility than a line of business. It may well be that nationalizing the firm makes more sense than cracking it up.
Git != GitHub, fyi.
Yes, major corporations have moved off of AWS for precisely this reason. (edit to clarify: They moved out of concern about a competitor hosting & having too much knowledge about their business.)
> Similarly, detailed knowledge about advanced statistical methods is a great thing.

We have to keep in mind, though, that nothing in the article is advanced statistical methods. They're the very, very beginning. Being able to run a simple linear regression or bootstrap a data set is equivalent to being able to write fizzbuzz for a programmer.
Do you mean that as a reference to Stranger in a Strange Land?
so who needs to worry about an agressive lawsuit funded by them right? Im sure they are cool now /s
What do fruit flies usually die from?
Do you publicly document your performance improvements? It would be cool to have a chart showing time to push or something, and let people see that trend go down as you are working on it. It would inspire confidence. Like others have said, you have had dealbreaking performance issues for a long time now.
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. Only a few privacy activists were concerned. Others reactions went from "meh" to "it's actually smart!" (Remember when Obama's campaign was praised for its innovative approach profiling voters?).

It took Cambridge Analytica for people to realize that they did not want this.

I have been paranoid about Facebook since day one, but there is something I won't do: blame them for coming up with a business model that is legal and did not seem to concern users ethically either.

The hearings of Zuckberg have been shameful. As much as I love seeing him on the grill, I have more contempt for the lawmakers in front of him, who actually enabled Facebook to become such a monster by either facilitating or simply not understanding what it was doing.

Facebook is a problem, but the ones responsible for this situation are not to be found within the company.
You think regular end users having to set up and maintain server software in order to force a name for an IP is going to become a widespread pattern? That's horrifying. I don't want to live in that world.
Although it doesn't relate to the acquisitions, I'd definitely agree, that's anti-competitive behaviour. Was not aware of that policy.
The gut bacteria findings go against the previously held view that antibiotics were the solution to every health problem known to mankind.
I'm happy to see them "held accountable" in a number of senses, but this is mostly just Cold War security culture stuff to try to mitigate the impact of Soviet spying on U.S. spy agencies. It doesn't seem to be encouraging the viewer to be more aggressive, ambitious, extralegal, deceptive, or whatever.

The mission patches that Trevor Paglen has collected are like 80 times creepier to me. They remind me of "His ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono; / imperium sine fine dedi."
I use DosBox with a single set-up for all the games and store them all in a single DOS/GAMES directory (with sub-directories of course) that I mount under C:\ root in the DosBox autoexec. Of course I have a backup but I can't even remember where :-]
I agree but I think Github and Atom are special cases.

A light IDE is not rocket science and this project is known (and loved) by many open source developers.
I absolutely think you're on to something here. I as well as other people I know in my circle have observed the same thing. In the past 20 years or so it seems like people have gotten angrier and angrier. It feels like no one minds their own business anymore and constantly assumes the worst about any given situation when they do not know the circumstances or intentions of the occurrence.

One of my friends got CPS called on her because her kids were playing in their own yard barefoot. Yes. It happened more than once too. It was surreal. What is wrong with people today?
The alternative is to think of each cell as an individual conscious intelligent being which knows what it is doing. It knows how to modify its own DNA, and does it creatively, similar to a programmer, just a very smart one. Our sense of "I" that encompasses all cells in the body is an illusion - this "I" is really the consciousness of a single specialized (and appropriately zombified) cell. Every organism is a symbiosis of conscious beings.

This doesn't explain where the "very first cell" comes from, but I find the theory fascinating anyway. Unfortunately those who share this view are not very vocal about it (who wants to be called a crackpot? :)