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> Indian engineers are street smart

If we are going to generalize, I would have to say the exact opposite. In my experience they are definitely smart and capable, but usually extremely naive and somewhat sheltered by western standards.
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Good luck running it fast enough.
How does the start of consumer testing mesh with the investment timeline? Unless testing only started after the last investment was committed, the two are the opposite of unrelated.
> the more senior you are, the more averse to change you are. I doubt that senior could easily change to remote lifestyle after years of onsite.

Why not? Going from on-site to remote is strictly easier, as the only thing it needs is to stop leaving home every morning.

I don't get this "the more senior you are, the more averse to change you are" - the only thing I've seen is older people having higher expectations and less tolerance for abuse and working for pie-in-the-sky promises of future wealth. But maybe my bias is showing, I'm nearing 30, so pretty old by software industry standards.
Extrapolating from Ryzen 1800X and a 16-core first-gen Threadripper, you'd overload the LGA pins at about 50% (300W) of the potentially possible ~600W you could make the chip take without sub-ambient cooling technology (and expect it to live for more than half a year at that level), i.e. with a forced-flow nucleate boiling cooler or a powerful waterblock. I once did some calculations for this, trying to find out if it could be worthwhile to wait for the 64-core EPYC and clock that one to like 3.5~3.8GHz, possibly with a governor that throttles the clock (and voltage) if the system is under low load. But assuming from some numbers I could find/calculate for how much less power they take, the predictions were so pessimistic that I did not pursue it further. (I did dream about a high-performance machine that could live in a case you could carry as a backpack, even though you'd probably not want to carry it very far due to the coolant being heavier than air.)
That's a great idea! Once I couldn't remember the name of a co-worker and after a couple of weeks it becomes really awkward to have to ask...
I think vi -> vim -> neovim shows a pretty good model.

Neovim is an effort to modernize and remove cruft from vim, so they get to keep all the good parts and throw out the backward compatibility. If it works out it can eventually replace vim, not to different to what vim did to vi.

I'd like to see similar stuff done to much of the GNU tools. Make for instance has to worry about backward compatibility and posix compliance that makes it hard to progress. As of today there have been about 12,000 attempts to replace it with something else and I find all of them inferior for one reason or another, they've all reinvented the wheel poorly. If someone had taken the fork and modernize approach we might have something better by now.

It doesn't even have to be a "hostile" fork. The same can be done by the developers of the existing tools.
> There is no number seven. I mean there seven trees, seven stones, yet there is no number seven. It is our mental construct.

Crows, horses, and dolphins all have well documented[1] abilities to count numbers therefore as inconvenient and suggestive as it may be, the "number seven" most definitely exists somewhere outside human mental constructs and likely originates inside the abstract fuzzy designs that produce elementary consciousness.

1 - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-animals-have-...
I spend 6 months working from Sunnyvale and 6 months working from India. I have seen a remarkable improvement in quality of engineers. I think IT industry as such pretty much doomed because of automation, saturation and US immigration restrictions. The fresh graduates now I meet want to work on products. Products that are meant for Indian markets and other markets.

India can take a big lead in AI and other things if it managed to reform its higher education and get rid of government controls in that space. If India opens up higher education sector much higher quality talent can be bred there.
The cost to copy a repo over is low, but you lose all the social aspects. You don't copy over forks or stars. People who want to fork your repo and make pull requests need to sign up for a new service. Old links to your repo on GitHub won't work anymore.

I copied my personal projects to GitLab today and that was very easy to do but I'm not sure what to do about the GitHub version for the one that had a little popularity.
You couldn't prove they had a commercial stake, and they also seem to really care about github vs gitlab. It's not too different yet.
I looked, and found the limit to be a little over 300W, based on research into LGA and AMD's publications pertaining TR4.
"Save on compensation due to hiring in lower cost regions" - just NO! Sink it, please!
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both the voyage and the oasis do have a bezel, if we're using the modern usage of the word, like the iphone 7 has a bezel and the iphone x is bezel-less. The paperwhite, voyage and oasis are all touch screen e-ink kindles that I've owned (I dunno if the base kindle is touchscreen these days, I haven't owned one.)

I don't know if it's required or not, but I think previous poster was suggesting that the bezel was needed in e-ink displays, and all the kindles I know of have a bezel, even though that bezel is flush on the voyage and oasis models. Now, I personally think that poster is wrong, at least if we are using bezel in the sense that the iphone x is bezel-less; but the current crop of e-ink kindles are not bezel-less.

Personally, I think typing is okay on the paperwhite and the second gen oasis... on the voyage and on the first gen oasis, the thing wasn't responsive enough to type comfortably, in my opinion. I dunno if that had anything to do with it being e-ink, though; It could have easily been an anemic processor.
I am under the impression that it is rare for journalists in America to be murdered for their stories, is that not the case?

None of your examples are journalists being penalized for lack of due diligence or for being misleading. I think your instinct to protect journalists given their importance and the threats they face is a healthy and important one, and I share it, but I don’t think they’re above reproach. Ensuring the independence and safety of journalists is of paramount importance; ensuring journalists are appropriately incentivized to report accurate stories with healthy skepticism is of secondary importance after that (since most will innately desire that anyway), but it is still also important.
I know, but I'd much rather do it from my PC than muck around with flashdrives.
Hello world
What programming language comes to mind first when you hear 'hello world'
The author gives a very one sided picture why such investments make sense. Well, he earns a lot of money in this business.

I would be more interested how many of these acquisitions are successful?

I remember Nokia buying Navteq for €5.7 billion (US$8.1 billion) in 2007. And selling Here for €2.8 billions in 2015 (US$3.1 billion, US$2.9 billion according to another source, I didn't check the exchange rates, 200 million seem to be peanuts in the context). Inflation-adjusted the numbers would look worse.

Burning more than half of the acquisition value did obviously not save Nokia's mobile business on the way.

While we are at it Microsoft bought Nokia's mobile business just to close it down 3 years later and writing off US$7.6 billion.

Google bought Motorola phones for US$12.5 billion to sell it off for US$2.91 billion.

All this demonstrates is that corporations have immoral amounts of money to gamble with. The little droplet we can contribute to avoiding this is trying to spend our peanuts in favor of smaller businesses. (Yes, I still have a Skype, a LinkedIn and a github account)
I compared in details both rhodecode and kallithea for our org

ui is something personal i guess, both aren't perfect. For usage in 50+ users enterprise rhodecode is much better.

It has more features, and it feels this project is actually moving forward contrary to kallithea
https://www.mail-archive.com/kallithea-general@sfconservancy...

The only thing we liked more is GPL license over AGPl of rhodecode
My information was 3 Months, unless a collective bargaining agreement (Tarifvertrag) says otherwise.
AI is changing the world in a better way and yes it not replacing humans. It just helping humans to do work smartly and easily with less error and being able to deliver perfect service.
"What have I done for the company lately?"

If a manager or the company isn't aware of this then they're not paying attention; you shouldn't have to do their job for them.

"What have I done for myself?"

What? Who cares? That's my business.

"What do I want to be when I grow up? (And what do I need to get there?)"

I'm already grown up, do you think you hired children? If of course you meant what do I want to be by next review, well the easy answer is more adept and better paid, hopefully with your help.
I use my Apple Watch (LTE) as a minimal smartphone.

I take the dog for a walk at lunchtime, or take an afternoon off. I can listen to music (Apple Music is crap) and receive texts. Clients can call me.

But I don’t get the normal smartphone distractions. And going places with just your keys, headphones and watch is really nice on my pockets too.
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I think Gitlab will be bought by Google soon
Does anyone know if the banana phone has Spotify?
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The description says "Pure Javascript manually written". But it's not. It's actually TypeScript, which if you set up the right environment and install Microsoft tools - it can be compiled to JavaScript. This makes new developers believe that JavaScript is a Microsoft product and that you need Microsoft tools to develop it.
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>completely different species?

My understanding is that 'extra virgin' is process, not species. My understanding is that the first press is 'extra virgin' and the much cheaper "pure" olive oil comes from processing the same seeds- "Extra Virgin" is just the first press, while 'pure' uses more advanced chemical engineering to get all of the oil (and less of the more volatile compounds that give 'extra virgin' it's taste) out of what is left over.
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In a way AFAIK Gnome and Debian moved to GitLab, because, among other reasons, they did not have enough horse power to maintain their own solution - plethora of services. Of course if the GitLab would fold, they would maintain it, but I'm not sure they would be better off than before in case of work allocation at least.
> I really think that innovation is dead in silicon valley, its more about catering to needs of nerdy man-boys with lots of money to blow.

I disagree. I think it's about catering to the needs of normals with lots of money to blow. The only nerdy aspect here is this post. The product itself? Totally for smartphone-using normies.
This is why GH is popular it's vakue is in supporting a central hub for oss projects
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"India can take a big lead in AI and other things if it managed to reform its higher education and get rid of government controls in that space. If India opens up higher education sector much higher quality talent can be bred there."

Sadly its going to take the Indian government decades to reform even if they want to.
> The consulting firm McKinsey estimates that new tech could make two-thirds of the Indian IT workforce “irrelevant” by 2020. Indian newspaper headlines warned of an IT jobs “bloodbath,”

There was an amazing answer to this "bloodbath" fallacy during an AI/ML conference in Bangalore.

One of the panelists talked about "Manure" - During the Victorian era there used to be lot of horse carriages. More horses meant more manure. So when automobiles were introduced there was a fear that lot of people relying on manure related jobs. But that never happened as automobile related jobs took over. Same is expected to happen during the so-called "bloodbath".

> The level of offshoring of IT services has taken a massive dip since Trump got in

If this is true then the headline about "plateauing" doesn't make sense. It is more of a blip. Next elections when there is a non-Trump President things might get better.

That said, the article reads more like a history of Infosys than actual headline content. Major points are simply - Trump and AI.
> pick up new tech and tools very quickly

And then they go on StackOverflow and Github issue trackers, begging anyone and everyone to help them and appearing completely out of their depth.
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Sorry to indulge in tin foil hattery. But this all seems in conclusive.. has there been an independent audit of the components involved?
It’d be nice if apps could have a simple marker on the store saying “free trial” or something, with all the mechanics handled magically by Apple.

Instead this sounds like it’ll still just have the uselessly-vague “In-App Purchases” tag, leaving it to buyers to inefficiently figure out what an app really costs. Hope I’m wrong.
Look into Tagger News, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14394448
They could do things like create an open source programmer’s editor, buy Xamarin, release an open source version of their compilers and CLR, and contribute millions of lines of code annually to major open source projects. Oh, and they could buy some kind of dominant website most famous for hosting open source projects.
I agree with you that these multi billionaires have undisclosed motives here.

But I would like to offer a counterpoint to one of your claims. You say that Buffet has a vested interest in having the ability to buy a $20 stock for $13.

He does have this interest, but all of us do too. Additionally, he doesn't really have the ability to influence this change any more than we do.

If a public company is selling at $13 when it should be $20, then anyone has the ability to buy as much of that stock as they want. There's no secret back channel.

For example, last year, Sears was trading at $10. Now it's at $3. I shorted it and made money, because I was betting that Sears would continue to decline.

If it was such a sure bet, why didn't Buffet use his magical manipulation powers to short the stock with me?
Yes, I’m still using the Series 2 I bought two years ago, and have no desire or need for the newer series.
Everyone who would dare to criticize Holmes would go against modern empowerment narrative and claimed as misogynist, so I'm not surprised.
Does anybody knows about some alternative with homepage feature something like github pages?
> There is no number seven. I mean there seven trees, seven stones, yet there is no number seven.

There aren't trees or stones any more than there is the number seven: objects (other than elementary particles, maybe) are as much mental constructs as numbers.
Google acquiring Gitlab is very inevitable. GV (which is a Alphabet and not Google subsidiary) always stated that their priority is to be a VC that is as neutral as possible, and should a Google competitor be interested in acquiring a portfolio company they are open to that.

Of course if you have them as an investor they will obviously try to help you with their network which can definately steer a company to a more Google friendly path.
The real problem is that Walgreens didn't do enough due dilligence before signing a contract with Theranos, and that people didn't investigate where their blood was being analyzed
Unviewable without clicking "allow all cookies".

The cookie breakdown is kinda interesting:

- 24 necessary
- 279 (!) marketing
- about 140 for statistics, preferences and "unclassified"

Since it is not possible to not consent to all the unnecessary cookies, this seems non-compliant (feel free to show ads without all the privacy invasion).
There seems to be a revival of everything fermented at the moment, thanks to people like Sandor Katz and (to less extend) Brad Leone. I've recently bought The Art of Fermentation by the former, and although I've been impressed by its thoroughness, it's not a recipe book you can follow.

As with sourdough bread and brewed beers, I'm not sure if this is just a hipsterish fad that will go away in a decade, or if this slowly recovering past traditions are here to stay. As a hobby, of course.
The same goes for WWI. I'm not downplaying the horrors and scale of the Marne, Somme and Aisne, but the siege of Przemyśl, the battle of Lemberg were comparable yet not nearly as infamous.

When we think of WWI we think of the trenches in Belgium and northern France. Sure, Belgium was hit pretty hard (120,000 casualties, about 1,7% of population) but compare that to Serbia: 1 million casualties, a staggering 25% of population... and most people don't even realize that Serbia was affected by the war in the first place.
I believe only gitlab
What I’m missing from GitHub is an easy way to search for repositories by subject. Say you need to create a user admin front end you should be able to find that easily. I always end up using Google or DDG instead. Maybe MS can fix that. (insert Bing joke here.)
That is all well and good, but that is not the point. The point is the App Store is bleeding watch apps every day, and Apple needs to convince developers that the watch is worth it. Even you admit that the only reason for a developer to have a watch app is as a defensive move, and that is what needs to change.
> Google acquiring Gitlab is very inevitable.

From the rest of your post, I think you mean “...very much not inevitable.”
I don't care if they kill Github. It's the reverse. I'm worried that they will be successful.

My main concern (having spent about a decade working in MS shops) is that they will try to create a divide between "professional" developers and "hobbyist" developers. Microsoft's fear has always been that their next major competitor will be someone who comes out of their garage.
They have always tried to control the programmers so that these programmers will be dependent upon Microsoft. I was literally forced to use Visual Source Safe on more than one occasion because the company I was working for had a contract with MS which prevented us from using any other source code repository (in exchange for discounts on other MS development tools). At the same time, Microsoft did not use VSS internally, because it was horrible. Similarly, we were always playing catch up with APIs. MS would be using them for 18 months or so before any of the rest of use would get any documentation for them (Ha ha! Source code??? Ha ha!)

So my feeling is that this is the embrace part of embrace, extend, extinguish. If I see an effort to rewrite libgit2, or something similar with extensions, then I will be very worried. The reason I can imagine "Don't worry, it will support the git protocol and any hobbyists will be able to make contributions, but if you want a professional interface to Github it is available on reasonable terms (prick your thumb and sign here)" is because I've seen it many times before.

It's not that MS is the only company that pulls this nonsense. Apple is consummately skilled at it: join our fold and have a privileged place in the walled garden.

Free software is intended to level the playing field. As much as MS has improved, I do not believe for an instant that they wish the playing field to be levelled. GitHub, though proprietary originally had no position where it would make sense for them to try to control developer. Now they do.
Logic is metaphysics, only when one smuggles in one's intuitions as definitionally true; otherwise, it is not so:
"If we look more closely how it comes about that these existential statements are logical truths in these logical systems we see that it is only so because, by definition, a model for (standard) first order logic has to have a non-empty domain. It is possible to allow for models with an empty domain as well (where nothing exists), but models with an empty domain are excluded, again, by definition from the (standard) semantics in first order logic. Thus (standard) first order logic is sometimes called the logic of first order models with a non-empty domain. If we allow an empty domain as well we will need different axioms or rules of inference to have a sound proof system, but this can be done." (From Hofweber, Thomas, "Logic and Ontology" https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2018/entries/logic-on...)
Is cookie cutter running inside the docker container or on the host? The instructions imply setting up python, virtualenv, pip and cookie cutter all on the local machine...
The steam store is basically a monopoly by now. And that removes their right to be overly picky, in my opinion. They have full power to act as a censor and limit the right to free speech. If they weren't as big I'd agree with you, but now I feel like they should just follow the established norms of soceity and let anything that doesn't violate law in.
You are mistaken. TPMs these days are as tamper resistant as it gets, and a manufacturer would have severe difficulty selling one without an independent security certification proving that it actually is. Which means a state-of-the-art security lab with highly skilled experts and millions worth of specialized equipment attempts to break the chip for an extended amount of time, trying all sorts of known attacks, utilizing extensive access to information on chip internals that a real-life attacker normally would not have, _and in effect fails to break it nonetheless_.
Google for 'Tarnovsky attack' and spend an evening watching thrilling videos to see to which lengths a top-notch adversary needed to go to break into these chips even in 2010-13. As for the chances in 2018, draw your own conclusions.
This doesn't really work in organisationa with a high manager turnover. Where I work, I've had 12 managers in 15 years, so each manager doesn't really know me, or the 'goodwill' I have within our organisation and with our customers. They really are a waste of time at some orgs.
Those in the Bay Area who like olive oil should visit a Sigona's grocery store in Redwood City or Stanford.

They have dozens of different olive oils from around the world (suspiciously, few from Italy) with different varieties and pick dates and polyphenol counts.

You can squirt different oils into shot glasses and taste them!

http://blog.sigonas.com/2009/12/16/navigating-the-world-of-f...
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>> I was working with a system where server is written in Erlang and client (and another server) is written in Python. No problems with switching back and forth.

> Yes, that's a cost your brain is paying.

What cost? I said I haven't noticed any.

> new devs [...] then need to learn and understand both Python and Elixir.

No, they don't need to learn even a speck of Elixir.

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What you described is a trusim that one needs to learn two languages to write
in two languages. Yes, this is obviously true. What I'd like to hear is an
argument that switching between them used in a single system is costly,
because I haven't observed that. This is what I discuss with, not with that
learning another language has its cost.
The biggest problem i see is the weird hole circa 2006 that arranges with Sun selling to Oracle, that kind of still-birthed Java as the next great language.

That hole I can credit as giving C# the advantage in that tight niche, and stilling the development of the JVM platform in general.

By the time that the rust on JVM improvements were dusted off, all initiative was lost. Java was playing catchup to the competition.
Its 2018, normal people do not have money to blow. The "normals" are the ones delivering your food, driving you around, doing your laundry, walking your dog, cleaning your house etc.
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