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I think the best point of this article is accidentally introducing breakages into history that later defeat the purpose of git-bisect. However, in practice I haven't run into this problem, at least not in an insurmountable way.

One solution is, if you can run your tests with e.g. `make test`, you can run `git rebase --exec "make test"` which will run your test suite against every commit being rebased. I've only done it a handful of times, and because of how long it takes I'd only run it after finishing a rebase that wound up needing resolutions, instead of doing it up front and having to wait for the tests to finish at each commit before potentially resolving another upcoming conflict.

If you are very paranoid about breaking commits being pushed, disallowing rebase isn't enough: any dev could simply write a commit with a breakage. You'd have to set up pre-commit hooks to run your tests, or a pre-push hook to run `git rebase --exec "make test"`. TIL there is also a post-rewrite hook, which sounds like it solves exactly your worry with rebase, but as I mentioned, introduces long delays between rebase commits/resolutions–I'd probably forget what I was doing during each test run, haha.
While I agree, it's a problem, especially in Orlando, when the drivers are new to the area and end up driving dangerously. I've only had a few drivers that had the nav on but drove like a responsible adult. I don't know if it's an Orlando problem or what, but it's really scary using ride-share there.
Probably to inflate the valuation, do a quick IPO of WeWork for 10x the actual value it should have, get their shares sold on high price, and wave to the fools that took the bait and bought an almost worthless stock.

This whole ordeal was the best that could happen for the normal people, basically fell into the hole they themselves dug, because the economists etc. called their bullshit out loud.

If you have not already, these are good reads from one of the critics of the whole scheme:

1. WeWTF - https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf

2. WeWTF, Part Deux - https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf-part-deux
It is a problem for them, and they express it. What do you think is wrong with that? Not being able to run 32-bit applications is a deal-breaker for many people. The update is a failure for them for this or many other reasons. It might not affect you, and that is fine, but it does affect other people and it is a perfectly valid concern that they could voice. Why are you so against them voicing their problems with the update? Who are you to be the judge of what warrants and does not warrant any articles? Ultimately your opinion on whether it warrants an article or a comment does not matter, thank goodness. What if I told you that you being fine with the update does not warrant a comment? Whatever your answer is, please repeat the same thing to yourself because it seems like you have a strong dislike towards the act of voicing valid issues with the update. I would dare to say it reeks of fanpersonism.
Or weapons / military hardware.
This saga will be a great read in a year or three. Hope someone writes a long article on this. Joining the great American predecessors of corporate failure like Enron or Lehman Brothers.
I just donated $50 to their patent defense fund.
Adam Neumann will determine WeWork's fate
You're correct to do so, since git pull is designed for Linus Torvalds or one of his vice-Linuses to merge a large remote patchset they've already reviewed
Rebranding can happen, and the “charismatic leader” was the #1 problem.

The bull case for WeWork that I always heard was based on the existence of a WeWork-shaped market opportunity, and WeWork themselves being in pole position to take it. The bear case was that WeWork was run by crazy people. I think SoftBank’s decisions here are making the best of a bad situation.
Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air condition the outdoors
Celebrating 50 Years of Unix [Inventors Livestream]
Actually SoftBank is getting a good deal, using $5B to get a controlling interest of WeWork at 70%, wiping out all the commons and other LP's. If they can cut out the slacks and focus on the core value proposition, WeWork can work after 4 to 5 years. The WeWork brand is unique and valuable.

They did that to Priceline in the past. Priceline was almost dead at one point. Got sold at a fire sales. They hunkered down and executed, and look where they are now.
2002 - I was about to start university studying comp-sci, meanwhile, I was working as a security guard in Toronto at HQ of one of the largest banks in Canada. The majority of guards were laid off software developers that couldn't find a developer position. Some were actively trying to move to trades.
I do this as an advanced user with a strong mental model of git, but I find the easier recommendation to others is to just not use the command - '--ff-only' just becomes another incomprehensible incantation without understanding.
I'm curious, what's your relationship with autism? You're replying to someone who indicated theirs, and shared their experience, in a fairly dismissive way.

Suicide rate doesn't tell you what you want, as the sibling comment about the comparison to LGBTQ+ people points out. My reason for posting this comment is to suggest that anyone reading take a look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_model_of_disability
I've pretty much exclusively switched to Merino t-shirts. Various good brans out there (Woolly Co, Smartwool, Icebreaker, etc) and most can be found in simple, versatile colors. Can wear them with almost anything, super comfortable, and the real kicker is that they can be worn a few times without needing a wash. Makes packing for travel easy, and saves time/effort/water with freq laundry. Also, as someone who runs pretty hot, it's awesome having a quick-drying and wicking fabric. They aren't quite as durable as cotton shirts, but make up for it with everything else imo
i guess i was naive in thinking i was the only one!
That’s a bit unfair. We do have data pointing to vaping causing direct harm (and leading up to death) to people at regular dosage rates.

That said, caution should be observed when data points to potential issues.
As soon as it’s been transformed into a profitable business, the exit is going to become an option.
I had to do a double take on your name.

You are a genius and a god among us. Thank you for making the deepest and most beautiful games I have ever enjoyed.
Because you aren't supposed to Google search by entering in a bunch of keywords you're supposed to ask Google questions.

Not that your workflow is incorrect, I'm a DDG user and I do the same thing, but that's what Google wants people using their product to do.
> 2. He claimed to be a P.Eng, without being one.

[Citation needed]

He claimed to be an engineer. The ruling preserved license requirements to claim yourself a "professional engineer" and "registered professional engineer" [0].

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/02/oregon_engineer_lic...
Depends on your mental model. I think people expect something similar to CVS update at first, and then git surprises them by doing other things.
Searching for the Witches’ Tower
The skepticism in the PC was well dead by the 90s. I had access to BBC micros in the early 80s and my own C64 in '84. Two years later and I was using WordStar on a PC to type all my school assignments and learning MsDOS BASICA, Turtle Graphics and DB2.

Computers were very much about creativity and doing work.

I used an Apple Macintosh in 89/90 to access Usenet and it was a whole other world and the flood of information that came with the web took it to another level.

Crypto/Quantum don't really have the same impact for the average person. Quantum is just different hardware to do the same thing (though make some calculations feasible to execute in hours/minutes rather than the users lifetime)

Crypto will probably stay niche like other alternate payment methods like barter cards or the technology becomes part of the underlying mainstream infrastructure that no one sees along with all those billions of lines of COBOL.
I was at Disneyland during a heat wave and I remember waiting in line for 1-2 hours to ride the Cars ride. The sun was beating down and you were cut off from refreshments (unless you gave up your place in line). The line would eventually wind through shade and misters, but your time always seemed to be too short.

I cannot tell you how little I cared about ecological use of water near those misters.
I don't think you understand space and space technology well enough to evaluate SpaceX if you think there's no way to 'generate' gravity in space without using space magic gravity generation.
Oh man wait until you learn about machine learning where they don’t even have a real world result to compare it to
It's pointless self-identifying as a "Hacker" because the term "Hacker" has been usurped so much so that it now means "somebody who breaks into computers" and it is no longer a true label associated with the archaic "Hacker Ethic".

We need to come up with a new term to replace the way we used to use the word "Hacker".

Language is fluid. In a similar fashion to the change in the meaning of "Hacker", a more widely recognised change in meaning is of course the word "gay" which no longer means "happy and joyful" but now means "homosexual" and using the word "gay" in its original sense today leads to unnecessary misunderstanding.
There's also the argument that can be made for rapid iteration.

A company like BoA will eventually choke until this in the future.

Also, this stuff sounds great until you need improved peering, or software-defined networks or massive bandwidth improvements, etc.

... and I get that the HN community is clever but banks and other institutions like this REALLY struggle to find this talent.

$2B is a lot except when you're losing $10B a year in revenue because you can't compete in the market.

In a way this would be like Amazon arguing it should build its own bank. It's not what they're good at... Focus on your strengths.
It's also strange that devs have so much leverage and don't immediately try to unionize to lock in that leverage. I bet most software devs make a fraction of what they earn for their company. A significant fraction, but a fraction just the same. I'm surprised that given how desirable the skill set is they are willing to leave that money on the table.
200K servers to serve ~50M households? Seems rather inefficient. What were they doing with all this hardware?
Sequoia Capital: Seven Questions with Andrew Reed
Ever time I've ever heard of these being implemented, the company selling them provides the cameras and installation at no cost. That's how they justify collecting a cut. It's free money for the city.
Is that a serious question? I trust DDG infinitely more than I trust google, because google openly admits they are abusing me where as DDG states in clear writing that they are not. I mean it is possible that DDG is lying, but what could they do that is _worse_ than google?
The premise of this article: Because a super-villain like attack “could” occur, we need to solve a technology threat, with more technology... that is more likely to be hacked and misused (eventually). Don’t agree.

If the “state” can’t defend me from fanastical threats, it serves no purpose and we should abolish it? Nope, don’t agree again. I accept that my state can’t guarantee ultimate protections from a Vin Diesel-like movie threat situation. However, my state provides other benefits like: funding for education, business regulations and tax credits, lending regulation, infrastructure build/repair, funding construction projects (my industry), wildlife protection, park systems, etc.

Joke of an article.
No, it doesn't contradict it. What I mean by "doesn't require any kinetic energy to penetrate" is that the explosive doesn't need to be moving at all to penetrate. For example, you can stick a shape charge directly underneath a parked tank, detonate it, and it will blow up the tank. (This is exactly what a landmine or IED does.) You could also just drop it by parachute from a drone (this is a cluster bomb).

What the Wikipedia article is saying is that the explosive forms its own projectile out of the molten metal casing, which is expelled at high velocity from the explosive and then penetrates through kinetic energy. It's a matter of where the energy for penetration comes from: what both Wikipedia and I are saying is that it comes from the explosive charge itself, not the velocity of the projectile, and hence there's no need for recoil when fired from a drone.
Sure, but surely teams have monitoring on their usage, right? With automated rollbacks or at least one click manual rollbacks?
I hated on SO before it was trendy.
You can downvote comments once your karma reaches a threshold.

Stories can't be downvoted, but they can be flagged.
Remember the PC revolution.

Altair was a toy. Atari 2600 was a toy. TRS-80, Sinclair Spectrum, Apple II — all toys. Amiga was almost not a toy, and Aople Macintosh and IBM PC were mostly not toys anymore.

From there on, businesses started to use massive amounts of PCs, thanks to killer apps like word processors and spreadsheets.

Prices fell, home users took note, and a real explosion began.

It took mere 20 years, say, from 1980 to 2000.
Neat. On the iPhone I don’t hear sound and the hide keyboard button is on top of the keyboard.
If you’re excited by this concept I recommend the book “Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World” by Steven Johnson. Fascinating stuff!

Here’s a recorded talk and more info:
http://longnow.org/seminars/02017/jan/04/wonderland-how-play...
You know why I haven't actually used it? Because I've read enough experiences from tech-savvy people and power users who actually used it, and based on what I've read, plus all the things that Catalina would disrupt for me, my work, and how I use my Macs, I've made my cost/benefit analysis and decided that no, I'm not going to upgrade to Catalina.

It has been a perfectly informed decision from someone who has been using Macs since 1989. I haven't got out of bed on the wrong side the other day and just decided I didn't like Catalina.
Maybe not, but you can donate to the fund to help.
From what I am reading in the articles linked above, he does not seem to have identified himself as "professional engineer." Rather, Oregon's state law is unusual in restricting the use of the term 'engineer' itself to licensed "professional engineers" (as they are referred to elsewhere).

Perhaps a person who is trained as an electrical engineer and who has a history of employment as a researcher and developer of audio electronics (in Oregon) should not think of or refer to themselves as an 'engineer' unless they are licensed in the jurisdiction they happen to be in, but this is a problem with a simple fix, and it is a problem unique to Oregon.
It's not entirely about choice. It's about attitudes of medical professionals. Imagine you have a deaf child, have no experience with Deaf culture, and a professional convinces you to give your child a CI. Yeah, obviously it's the parents' choice. But what are they compelled to choose.
No trouble ticketing system to track open/known issues?

No knowledge base/wiki system to share solutions and tips?

Or you can solve all the above by just archiving the mailing lists.
I’ll see your $50 and raise you $100
As someone who's been slowly picking their way along the narrow crooked path towards free software / tinfoilhattery / unixbeardedness for the past several years, I'm interested to know which browser you use.

I assume given context that Safari and IE are right out. Chromium and variants are probably out? If Firefox and variants are out (not sure if all of them have the pulse dependency, because honestly your comment was the first time I learned about it - probably because I'm using Arch), what's left? Qutebrowser? Konqueror?

I guess implicit in the above is an assumption of certain (non-basic) functionality that many people would consider table stakes in a web browser. Given that choosing to use any software involves making certain compromises (like "if you don't use Chrome, some Google applications will likely not perform as well") I guess my underlying desire is to know which compromises you are willing to make, given that you aren't willing to compromise your desire to keep pulseaudio off your machine in order to be able to use Firefox.

On a scale I'm having trouble naming but that goes from about 1 ("my son bought me this iPad so I can see my grandchildren on Facebook") to 10 ("I wget webpages to my server then email them to my Trisquel laptop") your pulse/firefox constraint seems to me to be solidly in the upper half, which I respect, but which also makes me expect you are willing to accept compromises that I'm not (yet) in choosing a browser. Maybe I'm wrong, though, because there's a lot of browsers on this chart: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Ti...
I’m a Chinese language learner (native English speaker) and I was also kind of surprised by some points in the article. Listing out “Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton” struck me as a particularly weird example - no Chinese newspaper would ever give that full name - they’d probably just refer to her as 希拉里. I enjoyed the article but it definetly misunderstood some things.
Or physics - how to generate artificial gravity on an accelerating spaceship is literally an intro physics homework question.
For anyone doing this... look around.

Tooling has only improved.

We were able to cram a large set of applications into a group of instances using CapRover.

Instead of 2-3 instances, and a whole bunch of RDS, we ended just recreating the databases there along with minio for storage (we write a small amount of data to S3 storage).
Karma is a random meaningless number. What advantage can you see in having more/less karma?
> To be fair, true developers were not really negatively affected at least not more so than other professions.

That was my experience as well, all the weird roles got cut in companies, all the crazy extras removed, but the companies that had working business models kept on trucking and hiring competent developers, and competent developers at unsustainable businesses had no trouble finding new work.

Because at the end of the day, the dotcom crash was about the crazy financial expectations of internet-enabled companies, not a rejection of the internet itself.
I live in Beaverton and can tell you that poorly timed intersections are pretty standard - really the entire valley for that matter.
- Bring your own network and limit LOM/IPMI to a private network accessible by VPN only.

- Or, request a private network with no connectivity and a VPN device connected on that private network.

- Or, hardware disable LOM.

There's no reason you shouldn't request an ASA from your datacenter provider in this day and age.
Another example: the Chinese name for SF is Laojinshan (老金山) afaik, which translates to Old Gold Mountain and sounds nothing like Hispanic/English name. I think it dates back to the California gold rush
> Without a deadline, engineers waste time working on stuff that is fun and interesting to them and not the hard stuff that is needed to ship a product across the finish line.

Why is the threat of a deadline required to ship product?
Thanks for The Witness. I don’t play games at all anymore, and haven’t for years but I’m really glad I took the time to work through The Witness. It’s an absolute work of art. (as was Braid - literally the only other game I’ve played in years)
The title says it all.

The Internet used to be about building and sharing things. Then it turned into a giant and mindless message feed where everyone exposes everything about their private lives, intentionally or not.

Now all of the hot new opportunities that exist are to spy on and exploit that data. The latest AI hype is a consequence of the pervasiveness of "big data".

I miss building and sharing cool things instead with the online community.
That BofA had >$2B/year of IT spending is the real story here.
I'd prefer if more people read my 3,300 words and actually understood my point. :-)
probability - Odds of a project being a success at achieving it's goals.

impact risk - Odds of a project failure causing large impact to company.
It can definitely be made workable, but why do so much in pursuit of a slightly neater git log? I place a much higher value on the hashes of my commits not changing than having extra merge commits.
Predictable. This is exactly what people are trying to ensure happens when they say "Software Engineers should get certifications". They want to have this power to squelch reasonable people.
radicalise one or two people a year into a mass shooting

You undermine your point with such obvious counterfactuals. This is not in any way an endorsement of the panopticon - which is exactly what /pol/ wants, just with itself in middle.
They probably think that open doors look welcoming, you can hear the music playing inside, which might attract people walking by, and just that if others are doing it around your bar then you should do it too unless you want to appear closed.
Yeah, I just don't see a tech union functioning like that. There's no reason a union would have to enforce strict tenure requirements on salary, especially if most workers in the union don't want that.
Austrian school of economics believes that occasional recessions are useful because they destroy bad ideas (not exclusively bad ideas, but many bad ideas) and therefore free up resources for new ideas. Some of which will be good, some bad.

For a huge example: Madoff was only discovered because of the 2008 crisis. SEC had plenty of evidence against him for years before that, including the fact he did not actually trade! The guy didn't even trade securities and posted consistent double digits returns! The SEC did not investigate. Only when clients started asking for funds has the scheme collapsed.
> If Bill Gates had been born and raised in Ruanda, you wouldn't know his name today. Same IQ, same hustler. But no parents with connections, no upbringing devoid of war and violence.

same IQ, same hustler and you'd have a warlord or a revolutionary leader. There are genius everywhere, and they don't create only software.
The legacy option is to remain on an older OS. Or you could say it's Korg's responsibility to provide a 64-bit version of the software.
The thing that's ironic is that the IPO market likely would have valued WeWork at $10B, maybe even $15B, but since that was so much lower than the $47B valuation it had during SoftBank's earlier investment, they balked and walked.

SoftBank likely would have made out better in the near term had they just let the (disappointing, to them) IPO play out. WeWork would have launched with at least a $10B market cap (though of course that could have dropped on day one), would have raised a couple billion, and maybe would have even raised enough to meet the requirements for the loans they were planning on taking out. But now they've more or less gutted the company, killing anything that was even slightly interesting, turning it more or less into a bog-standard office real estate company. Which presumably will be able to turn a profit after a bit of retooling, but it hardly qualifies as "Vision Fund" material.

This is definitely just Son and SoftBank trying to save face.
If you really care about internet points, try to find and submit one or two high quality blog posts or articles a day. If one takes off and hits the front page, you can net a hundred points or so.
You've somehow managed to be even more dismissive than my own earlier comment. It's not a healthy way to view this industry.