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“O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion”

510 points by EdwinHoksberg 5y ago

klausjensen 5y ago
My girlfriend is Ukranian, and we left Ukraine 2 months ago (for reasons completely unrelated to Russian threats btw). She is going to start a new (remote) job, where the onboarding was originally planned to be mid-March in Kyiv, because they have an office there. Last week, her future manager asked in all seriousness, if she would be able to go to Kyiv to pick up her new laptop...
drran 5y ago
BTW: Can a NATO country shoot a target at territory of Ukraine over the border, like Russia and Belarus do?
- kadoban 5y ago
  This is generally regarded as a bad idea. It's hard to see where that stops without a nuclear war.
  - drran 5y ago
    Turkish army shot Russian plane with no consequences.
    - kadoban 5y ago
      When and in what circumstances? There are military accidents, or what can plausibly be called accidents. Intentionally shooting down a plane, especially during a war, is another matter.
      - __s 5y ago
        Looked it up, 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shootdown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shoo...
- CapitalistCartr 5y ago
  This is involving NATO in the war and is casus belli. Don't do that.
  - tremon 5y ago
    Not disagreeing with your conclusion, but the casus belli is already there.
  - torstenvl 5y ago
    You're right in theory. In reality, though, allowing citizens to call him President Putain is a casus belli, as far as Russia is concerned, so I'm not sure what actual difference it makes. For the record, Russia also said sanctions would be considered an act of war. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    - zamadatix 5y ago
      Russia says a lot, I wouldn't believe all of it to be either honest or true. That aside Russia coming up with it's own reasons for engaging in war with a country is different than Russia having internationally recognized reasons for engaging in war with a country.
      - drran 5y ago
        > That aside Russia coming up with it's own reasons for engaging in war with a country is different than Russia having internationally recognized reasons for engaging in war with a country. Can you explain? Is there another internationality, except UN, which has authority to allow wars?
        torstenvl 5y ago
        > Is there another internationality, except UN, which has authority to allow wars? Kind of. International law is made up of both treaties and customary international law, which is (to oversimplify) basically a distillation of state practice. Think of it as almost analogous to statues vs. common law. For example, while the U.S. is not a party to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, it recognizes most of its tenets as customary international law. (This is also why it regularly conducts freedom of navigation passages in the South China Sea, to prevent China's ownership claim from becoming customary international law.) If a large number of nations (say, NATO?) agreed that another lawful basis for the use of force (LBUF) existed, beyond the right of self-defense or an UNSCR, that could become customary international law. The hot topic in this area right now is humanitarian intervention, which NATO cited in its Kosovo intervention and which the UK recognizes as a CIL LBUF. This gets meta real fast, since even though a large number of nations reached consensus on using it as justification for Kosovo, they haven't reached a consensus that there is a consensus on using it. Only the UK explicitly recognizes it as CIL, last I checked. So what you see instead is this kind of academic song and dance where, e.g., the U.S. de facto is using humanitarian intervention to justify intervention in Syria but de jure relies on a mildly stretched interpretation of self-defense instead.
- schaefer 5y ago
  NATO forces directly engaging with Russia troops, whether they’re in the Ukraine or elsewhere, would dramatically escalate the war. Right now, it seems NATO strategy is severe financial sanctions while providing arms to Ukrainian forces.
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    Crazy as things are going I am expecting Russia to declare that as kind of allied declaration against them.
    - corobo 5y ago
      Wouldn’t they instantly get stomped by NATO if they declared in any way to be at war with NATO? Or would they still have to attack a member first? I do realise the risk of nukes at that point but in the hypothetical situation that nukes remain MAD
      - pjmlp 5y ago
        Long range missiles are enough to start messing with European allies, no need for nukes on the first round, afterwards oh well. Also it is quite clear Putin won't lose his face no matter what, and has reached the point of better dead than sorry. Very sadly how many has he already taken down with such attitude.
    - bauruine 5y ago
      That's basically what was done the whole Cold War. USA goes to Vietnam --> USSR supports the other fraction with weapons etc. USSR goes to Afghanistan --> USA supports the Afghans etc. Having Cold War situations again isn't desirable of course but it's kind of battle tested to not lead to further, direct, escalations.
      - pjmlp 5y ago
        I remember those days, and somehow this now seems much worse.
- the_duke 5y ago
  Sure they can. If they declare war and officially enter the conflict. That wouldn't be a NATO action though, it's a defensive pact. And it won't happen. Although... the last few days have shown extraordinary events that I never expected. The EU approving 500 Million for weapon purchases for Ukraine, countries supplying fighters after two days delay, officiaks saying that their are fine with their citizens volunteering to fight for another state army (illegal pretty much everywhere), plans to supply troop movement intelligence... That's all just a very small step from active participation. This is the most significant shift in European politics since the fall of the Soviet union.
  - KptMarchewa 5y ago
    >And it won't happen. We'll see what happens if Russia continues to indiscriminately massacre civilians by using MLRS into dense urban centers.
  - orwin 5y ago
    I'm reading a lot about the 37' Spanish war atm, and there is some common points between the reactions of NATO and the then Alliance. Hopefully we won't have a Stalin in our rank betraying everybody.
    - RealityVoid 5y ago
      What are you reading?
  - drran 5y ago
    Why they must declare a war, while Russia and Belarus doesn't? Is there a special international law just for NATO?
    - jlokier 5y ago
      Yes, there actually is international law. It's not just for NATO, it applies to Russia and Belarus as well. But Russia is ignoring those laws. What Russia is doing is called "war of aggression": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_aggression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_aggression "A war of aggression, sometimes also war of conquest, is a military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation."
gjsman-1000 5y ago
War makes everything else quickly seem insignificant. God be with you @insky, may you return home safely and victorious.
- obilgic 5y ago
  yes, I would say both safety and health issues suddenly revise your "priority list" in life
Steltek 5y ago
I wonder if that heart emoji counter is an int32 or an int64. I guess we'll find out soon...
- TobTobXX 5y ago
  I've never seen the hearts raise so quickly in realtime...
- NhanH 5y ago
  Int32 is still 2 billions though. No way it can reach the limit
- tialaramex 5y ago
  Signed is the wrong thing here, so u16 or u32 maybe, however I expect you'd blow something up long before because this won't be architected as a simple counter.
dean177 5y ago
“Any update on this” should just subscribe you to the issue without actually leaving the comment
- belval 5y ago
  I don't know their project, but personally I don't have anything against people "bumping" a thread that has gone cold without an actual solution. I am busy and I don't take my open source project very seriously so things do fall through the cracks from time to time. EDIT: This is a small scale project and the user waited 19 days before bumping. To me that's perfectly reasonable.
  - notreallyserio 5y ago
    Bumping can also defeat the stalebot plague. I wholeheartedly encourage bumping until stalebot is improved to either a) stop existing or b) consider emoji reactions when deciding if an issue is "stale".
  - nohankyou 5y ago
    The user who bumped it just created their GitHub account a couple hours ago, that person wasn't even involved in the original request.
    - horsawlarway 5y ago
      I don't understand why that matters at all.
      - nohankyou 5y ago
        They only created the account to bump a request they had no involvement in. I could understand the original requestor asking for an update, but this is just some rando with no contributions to any project at all.
        xboxnolifes 5y ago
par 5y ago
Things like this make me love the programming community so much. <3
ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
I'm watching the emojis climb in realtime.
dilDDoS 5y ago
As if the pointless prodding of “any updates? :)” is ever called for. If there were any updates, there would be fucking updates posted. I frequently get comments like this in projects they I maintain, sometimes less than a day after the issue was opened, and it does nothing but annoy me and make me not want to resolve their issue. Why is there an expectation that maintainers have infinite amounts of time to fix whatever problem you’re having? Extremely frustrating and makes me hate working in open source.
- ilammy 5y ago
  In this case, the prod is posted from an account that was created a minute before.
- lapetitejort 5y ago
  Any updates on the pitch drop experiment?
  - Anthony-G 5y ago
    Should be any day now for my local. According to this student newspaper article from 2018¹: > With another drop not expected for at least another four years… ¹ https://universitytimes.ie/2018/03/why-trinity-prides-itself-on-a-useless-experiment/ https://universitytimes.ie/2018/03/why-trinity-prides-itself...
- blip54321 5y ago
  As someone constantly behind on their email, I like bumps for important things.
  - ziml77 5y ago
    Seriously, I will forget to do certain tasks or provide updates on my progress if no one follows up asking for updates. I think it's fair for someone to ask to hear if something is still in progress if it's been a while.
- throwamon 5y ago
yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
The previous version of this: https://github.com/fre5h/DoctrineEnumBundle/pull/12#issuecomment-33023169 https://github.com/fre5h/DoctrineEnumBundle/pull/12#issuecom...
hateful 5y ago
It's such a cognitive dissonance for me that in the same week I saw the new pictures from the James Web Telescope something like this is happening.
Jenk 5y ago
My entire team of software engineers are Ukranian, residing in Ukraine (I'm not in Ukraine, nor am I Ukrainian). For the past few weeks our "water cooler talk" has been almost exclusively about the rising threat of invasion, if not directly about the ongoing conflict in the SE of Ukraine. A number of the team signed up for the volunteer defence force and have spent countless weekends training with the army. The morning of the invasion I received early morning messages from a few of the members to the effect of "Russia has invaded. We are going to fight." I have never sent such an emotional and heart felt "Good luck, stay safe" in what is such a vacuous and empty medium (i.e., a messenger client) before. I haven't been able to produce anything since the invasion began because I am constantly watching the news and various social media feeds for updates on the invasion, and it's really hard to pick up a full (now absent, mostly) team's efforts without metaphorically dropping bits all over the place. My work, and that of my team, it just.. doesn't matter in comparison. My boss is asking for progress updates and I'm just responding "Nothing. The guys are focussing on staying safe, warm, and well stocked right now." (with a small side of incredulity.) I've brought it up with leadership and they are going to parachute in some agencies from other places and I can't help but feel we are just abandoning my team members. The people I have, on average, spent 5x8hr days working with for the past few years. My comrades. My friends. Just so expendable in the eyes of my employer.
- bigbillheck 5y ago
  > The people I have, on average, spent 5x8hr days working with for the past few years. My comrades. My friends. Just so expendable in the eyes of my employer. Makes you wonder how they'd treat you if you ended up in dire straits.
- meken 5y ago
  > My friends. Just so expendable in the eyes of my employer. This is a cold, hard reality. Good to be aware of it, and work on accepting it, processing it, rather than avoid the truth. We are expendable. Each and every one of us. And that’s ok.
- jaynetics 5y ago
  That is truly terrible. My immediate reaction was that you should quit right away. However, I also feel that it wouldn't help your friends if your bosses give up on the project or let the company fail. Maybe you can an ask for donations to the cause or other types of support such as a guarantee that your friends will be able to keep their jobs?
jve 5y ago
Looking at heart icon for that comment: increments++/sec
Aeolun 5y ago
Get back to it in a few days? That sounds pretty optimistic to me.
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zamadatix 5y ago
I didn't even know emoji reactions were live counts prior to this.
AdmiralAsshat 5y ago
Those lazy developers will make up any silly excuse to avoid meeting deadlines. /s
matsemann 5y ago
I remember many years ago, being 16 or so, playing WoW. My guild was having a raid, and suddenly one person writes "g2g, riots". It was a weird feeling, suddenly something that was so long away on the news suddenly felt much closer. At least for me, the internet and the connections it has given me, have made me much more empathetic to other's struggles around the world.
- jonathanlydall 5y ago
  Not as serious, but super surreal from the other side too. When my pregnant wife was feeling a bit uncomfortable, I sent a chat message to my Team that I need to pop out and expect to be back within a couple of hours (not giving reasons). An hour later I messaged to say our baby was arriving 10 weeks premature and didn’t know when I’d back at computer.
hatware 5y ago
Citizens deserve version control over their governments.
berkes 5y ago
Nice touch, is the demo¹ of this colorgradient-picker tool using the national Ukranian blue-yellow colors. Might have always been like this, I never looked at it until today. But still nice detail. ¹https://insky.github.io/vue-gpickr/ https://insky.github.io/vue-gpickr/
- __s 5y ago
  Always been like this, https://github.com/insky/vue-gpickr/commits/master https://github.com/insky/vue-gpickr/commits/master
lmkg 5y ago
> Hope in few days I'll return to your problem. Context sure adds a lot of meaning to these words. I hope you return, too.
CGamesPlay 5y ago
Is this staged? The pinging account was created seconds before the comment was posted and seconds later the developer replies. The developer who is of course defending against a real life invasion of his home country.
- zamadatix 5y ago
  Posting account is suspicious as it was created at the time of the comment for the comment and the username has no other trace on the internet. Very suspect, impossible to prove of course though. I'm getting 6 minutes between comment and reply though, not seconds, and unless the developer was actively fighting they'd still be getting email notifications to their phone but unlikely to be at sitting at home patching Vue. This part in itself doesn't scream suspect, just the catalyst.
  - d23 5y ago
    > Posting account is suspicious as it was created at the time of the comment for the comment and the username has no other trace on the internet. Very suspect, impossible to prove of course though. Seems pretty common to me. People frequently create accounts on sites just to ask a question or because they need something. This is probably the most common case / the long tail of most activity on social media sites.
    - d0100 5y ago
      I have a github account exclusively to post "dumb" questions
    - zamadatix 5y ago
      The suspect part is that the username doesn't have any trace on the internet not just that it was a new account. Particularly relevant in this case since it's a 17 month old project with 9 total issues/PRs (or one every ~2 months) and this is the only such follow up to ever occur and the only one with such an account. Note: suspect, not guaranteed. Again though the claim isn't it must be an impossibility to be anything else just a very suspect set of circumstances around the ping and impossible to prove one way or the other. I don't think it matters one way or another in the message, it's a good message and clearly popular, but that doesn't have anything to do with being staged or not.
zhbadya 5y ago
Hi, guys. I'm @insky from github (here this nickname is in use). I'm know many of your are IT guys, and I ask for your help. We need russian fake news and government sites to be DDOSed. https://github.com/almerico/bombardier https://github.com/almerico/bombardier Thanks forehead for your help. Glory to Ukraine!
- zhbadya 5y ago
  You can check this really me with similar post in topic PR https://github.com/insky/vue-gpickr/pull/9#issuecomment-1054496866 https://github.com/insky/vue-gpickr/pull/9#issuecomment-1054...
vitalii427 5y ago
Glory to Ukraine!
agumonkey 5y ago
https://archive.md/WekP3 https://archive.md/WekP3 just in case too bad there's no rollback on real life
anelson 5y ago
I am American, moved to Kyiv almost four years ago. My startup engineering team is 100% in Ukraine. As the warning signs mounted I urged my people to consider leaving but no one, myself included, thought it would come to this. Of course no one left. I finally agreed to take a couple of weeks out of Kyiv to calm my cofounder’s nerves, sure that I’d be back and we’d have a laugh at how it all came to nothing. So I am in Tbilisi and my team are all stuck in Ukraine. We’re doing all we can to help We can’t get the men out because the Ukrainian borders guards won’t let any men leave, and most of the women won’t leave their husbands behind. A few have joined the territorial defense forces and are defending Kyiv now. Many others are taking shelter in basements while the Russians shell their cities. Today, 66% of my 45 person team were online and working. It’s astonishing the grit and commitment the Ukrainians are showing. We’re resolved not to abandon them and to do all we can for them but the shitty reality is that’s just not a whole lot right now. If anyone can fight their way to victory in this war it’s them. I wish the west had done more when there was still time to make a difference, but now it’s up to Ukrainians to save themselves and make the Russian invaders pay for every meter they take.
- agsamek 5y ago
  It is also up to Ukrainians to convince some West Europian nations that sometimes good business is not worth it. It is sad that only blood can change their perspective and each drop of it only slightly... As in an American veterans slogan - freedom is not for free... They fight for entire Europe freedom too.

510 points by EdwinHoksberg 5y ago

My girlfriend is Ukranian, and we left Ukraine 2 months ago (for reasons completely unrelated to Russian threats btw). She is going to start a new (remote) job, where the onboarding was originally planned to be mid-March in Kyiv, because they have an office there. Last week, her future manager asked in all seriousness, if she would be able to go to Kyiv to pick up her new laptop...

drran 5y ago

BTW: Can a NATO country shoot a target at territory of Ukraine over the border, like Russia and Belarus do?

kadoban 5y ago
This is generally regarded as a bad idea. It's hard to see where that stops without a nuclear war.
- drran 5y ago
  Turkish army shot Russian plane with no consequences.
  - kadoban 5y ago
    When and in what circumstances? There are military accidents, or what can plausibly be called accidents. Intentionally shooting down a plane, especially during a war, is another matter.
    - __s 5y ago
      Looked it up, 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shootdown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shoo...
CapitalistCartr 5y ago
This is involving NATO in the war and is casus belli. Don't do that.
- tremon 5y ago
  Not disagreeing with your conclusion, but the casus belli is already there.
- torstenvl 5y ago
  You're right in theory. In reality, though, allowing citizens to call him President Putain is a casus belli, as far as Russia is concerned, so I'm not sure what actual difference it makes. For the record, Russia also said sanctions would be considered an act of war. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  - zamadatix 5y ago
    Russia says a lot, I wouldn't believe all of it to be either honest or true. That aside Russia coming up with it's own reasons for engaging in war with a country is different than Russia having internationally recognized reasons for engaging in war with a country.
    - drran 5y ago
      > That aside Russia coming up with it's own reasons for engaging in war with a country is different than Russia having internationally recognized reasons for engaging in war with a country. Can you explain? Is there another internationality, except UN, which has authority to allow wars?
      - torstenvl 5y ago
        > Is there another internationality, except UN, which has authority to allow wars? Kind of. International law is made up of both treaties and customary international law, which is (to oversimplify) basically a distillation of state practice. Think of it as almost analogous to statues vs. common law. For example, while the U.S. is not a party to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, it recognizes most of its tenets as customary international law. (This is also why it regularly conducts freedom of navigation passages in the South China Sea, to prevent China's ownership claim from becoming customary international law.) If a large number of nations (say, NATO?) agreed that another lawful basis for the use of force (LBUF) existed, beyond the right of self-defense or an UNSCR, that could become customary international law. The hot topic in this area right now is humanitarian intervention, which NATO cited in its Kosovo intervention and which the UK recognizes as a CIL LBUF. This gets meta real fast, since even though a large number of nations reached consensus on using it as justification for Kosovo, they haven't reached a consensus that there is a consensus on using it. Only the UK explicitly recognizes it as CIL, last I checked. So what you see instead is this kind of academic song and dance where, e.g., the U.S. de facto is using humanitarian intervention to justify intervention in Syria but de jure relies on a mildly stretched interpretation of self-defense instead.
schaefer 5y ago
NATO forces directly engaging with Russia troops, whether they’re in the Ukraine or elsewhere, would dramatically escalate the war. Right now, it seems NATO strategy is severe financial sanctions while providing arms to Ukrainian forces.
- pjmlp 5y ago
  Crazy as things are going I am expecting Russia to declare that as kind of allied declaration against them.
  - corobo 5y ago
    Wouldn’t they instantly get stomped by NATO if they declared in any way to be at war with NATO? Or would they still have to attack a member first? I do realise the risk of nukes at that point but in the hypothetical situation that nukes remain MAD
    - pjmlp 5y ago
      Long range missiles are enough to start messing with European allies, no need for nukes on the first round, afterwards oh well. Also it is quite clear Putin won't lose his face no matter what, and has reached the point of better dead than sorry. Very sadly how many has he already taken down with such attitude.
  - bauruine 5y ago
    That's basically what was done the whole Cold War. USA goes to Vietnam --> USSR supports the other fraction with weapons etc. USSR goes to Afghanistan --> USA supports the Afghans etc. Having Cold War situations again isn't desirable of course but it's kind of battle tested to not lead to further, direct, escalations.
    - pjmlp 5y ago
      I remember those days, and somehow this now seems much worse.
the_duke 5y ago
Sure they can. If they declare war and officially enter the conflict. That wouldn't be a NATO action though, it's a defensive pact. And it won't happen. Although... the last few days have shown extraordinary events that I never expected. The EU approving 500 Million for weapon purchases for Ukraine, countries supplying fighters after two days delay, officiaks saying that their are fine with their citizens volunteering to fight for another state army (illegal pretty much everywhere), plans to supply troop movement intelligence... That's all just a very small step from active participation. This is the most significant shift in European politics since the fall of the Soviet union.
- KptMarchewa 5y ago
  >And it won't happen. We'll see what happens if Russia continues to indiscriminately massacre civilians by using MLRS into dense urban centers.
- orwin 5y ago
  I'm reading a lot about the 37' Spanish war atm, and there is some common points between the reactions of NATO and the then Alliance. Hopefully we won't have a Stalin in our rank betraying everybody.
  - RealityVoid 5y ago
    What are you reading?
- drran 5y ago
  Why they must declare a war, while Russia and Belarus doesn't? Is there a special international law just for NATO?
  - jlokier 5y ago
    Yes, there actually is international law. It's not just for NATO, it applies to Russia and Belarus as well. But Russia is ignoring those laws. What Russia is doing is called "war of aggression": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_aggression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_aggression "A war of aggression, sometimes also war of conquest, is a military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation."

gjsman-1000 5y ago

War makes everything else quickly seem insignificant. God be with you @insky, may you return home safely and victorious.

obilgic 5y ago
yes, I would say both safety and health issues suddenly revise your "priority list" in life

Steltek 5y ago

I wonder if that heart emoji counter is an int32 or an int64. I guess we'll find out soon...

TobTobXX 5y ago
I've never seen the hearts raise so quickly in realtime...
NhanH 5y ago
Int32 is still 2 billions though. No way it can reach the limit
tialaramex 5y ago
Signed is the wrong thing here, so u16 or u32 maybe, however I expect you'd blow something up long before because this won't be architected as a simple counter.

dean177 5y ago

“Any update on this” should just subscribe you to the issue without actually leaving the comment

belval 5y ago
I don't know their project, but personally I don't have anything against people "bumping" a thread that has gone cold without an actual solution. I am busy and I don't take my open source project very seriously so things do fall through the cracks from time to time. EDIT: This is a small scale project and the user waited 19 days before bumping. To me that's perfectly reasonable.
- notreallyserio 5y ago
  Bumping can also defeat the stalebot plague. I wholeheartedly encourage bumping until stalebot is improved to either a) stop existing or b) consider emoji reactions when deciding if an issue is "stale".
- nohankyou 5y ago
  The user who bumped it just created their GitHub account a couple hours ago, that person wasn't even involved in the original request.
  - horsawlarway 5y ago
    I don't understand why that matters at all.
    - nohankyou 5y ago
      They only created the account to bump a request they had no involvement in. I could understand the original requestor asking for an update, but this is just some rando with no contributions to any project at all.
      - xboxnolifes 5y ago

par 5y ago

Things like this make me love the programming community so much. <3

ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago

I'm watching the emojis climb in realtime.

dilDDoS 5y ago

As if the pointless prodding of “any updates? :)” is ever called for. If there were any updates, there would be fucking updates posted. I frequently get comments like this in projects they I maintain, sometimes less than a day after the issue was opened, and it does nothing but annoy me and make me not want to resolve their issue. Why is there an expectation that maintainers have infinite amounts of time to fix whatever problem you’re having? Extremely frustrating and makes me hate working in open source.

ilammy 5y ago
In this case, the prod is posted from an account that was created a minute before.
lapetitejort 5y ago
Any updates on the pitch drop experiment?
- Anthony-G 5y ago
  Should be any day now for my local. According to this student newspaper article from 2018¹: > With another drop not expected for at least another four years… ¹ https://universitytimes.ie/2018/03/why-trinity-prides-itself-on-a-useless-experiment/ https://universitytimes.ie/2018/03/why-trinity-prides-itself...
blip54321 5y ago
As someone constantly behind on their email, I like bumps for important things.
- ziml77 5y ago
  Seriously, I will forget to do certain tasks or provide updates on my progress if no one follows up asking for updates. I think it's fair for someone to ask to hear if something is still in progress if it's been a while.
throwamon 5y ago

yakshaving_jgt 5y ago

The previous version of this: https://github.com/fre5h/DoctrineEnumBundle/pull/12#issuecomment-33023169 https://github.com/fre5h/DoctrineEnumBundle/pull/12#issuecom...

hateful 5y ago

It's such a cognitive dissonance for me that in the same week I saw the new pictures from the James Web Telescope something like this is happening.

Jenk 5y ago

My entire team of software engineers are Ukranian, residing in Ukraine (I'm not in Ukraine, nor am I Ukrainian). For the past few weeks our "water cooler talk" has been almost exclusively about the rising threat of invasion, if not directly about the ongoing conflict in the SE of Ukraine. A number of the team signed up for the volunteer defence force and have spent countless weekends training with the army. The morning of the invasion I received early morning messages from a few of the members to the effect of "Russia has invaded. We are going to fight." I have never sent such an emotional and heart felt "Good luck, stay safe" in what is such a vacuous and empty medium (i.e., a messenger client) before. I haven't been able to produce anything since the invasion began because I am constantly watching the news and various social media feeds for updates on the invasion, and it's really hard to pick up a full (now absent, mostly) team's efforts without metaphorically dropping bits all over the place. My work, and that of my team, it just.. doesn't matter in comparison. My boss is asking for progress updates and I'm just responding "Nothing. The guys are focussing on staying safe, warm, and well stocked right now." (with a small side of incredulity.) I've brought it up with leadership and they are going to parachute in some agencies from other places and I can't help but feel we are just abandoning my team members. The people I have, on average, spent 5x8hr days working with for the past few years. My comrades. My friends. Just so expendable in the eyes of my employer.

bigbillheck 5y ago
> The people I have, on average, spent 5x8hr days working with for the past few years. My comrades. My friends. Just so expendable in the eyes of my employer. Makes you wonder how they'd treat you if you ended up in dire straits.
meken 5y ago
> My friends. Just so expendable in the eyes of my employer. This is a cold, hard reality. Good to be aware of it, and work on accepting it, processing it, rather than avoid the truth. We are expendable. Each and every one of us. And that’s ok.
jaynetics 5y ago
That is truly terrible. My immediate reaction was that you should quit right away. However, I also feel that it wouldn't help your friends if your bosses give up on the project or let the company fail. Maybe you can an ask for donations to the cause or other types of support such as a guarantee that your friends will be able to keep their jobs?

jve 5y ago

Looking at heart icon for that comment: increments++/sec

Aeolun 5y ago

Get back to it in a few days? That sounds pretty optimistic to me.

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zamadatix 5y ago

I didn't even know emoji reactions were live counts prior to this.

AdmiralAsshat 5y ago

Those lazy developers will make up any silly excuse to avoid meeting deadlines. /s

matsemann 5y ago

I remember many years ago, being 16 or so, playing WoW. My guild was having a raid, and suddenly one person writes "g2g, riots". It was a weird feeling, suddenly something that was so long away on the news suddenly felt much closer. At least for me, the internet and the connections it has given me, have made me much more empathetic to other's struggles around the world.

jonathanlydall 5y ago
Not as serious, but super surreal from the other side too. When my pregnant wife was feeling a bit uncomfortable, I sent a chat message to my Team that I need to pop out and expect to be back within a couple of hours (not giving reasons). An hour later I messaged to say our baby was arriving 10 weeks premature and didn’t know when I’d back at computer.

hatware 5y ago

Citizens deserve version control over their governments.

berkes 5y ago

Nice touch, is the demo¹ of this colorgradient-picker tool using the national Ukranian blue-yellow colors. Might have always been like this, I never looked at it until today. But still nice detail. ¹https://insky.github.io/vue-gpickr/ https://insky.github.io/vue-gpickr/

__s 5y ago
Always been like this, https://github.com/insky/vue-gpickr/commits/master https://github.com/insky/vue-gpickr/commits/master

lmkg 5y ago

> Hope in few days I'll return to your problem. Context sure adds a lot of meaning to these words. I hope you return, too.

CGamesPlay 5y ago

Is this staged? The pinging account was created seconds before the comment was posted and seconds later the developer replies. The developer who is of course defending against a real life invasion of his home country.

zamadatix 5y ago
Posting account is suspicious as it was created at the time of the comment for the comment and the username has no other trace on the internet. Very suspect, impossible to prove of course though. I'm getting 6 minutes between comment and reply though, not seconds, and unless the developer was actively fighting they'd still be getting email notifications to their phone but unlikely to be at sitting at home patching Vue. This part in itself doesn't scream suspect, just the catalyst.
- d23 5y ago
  > Posting account is suspicious as it was created at the time of the comment for the comment and the username has no other trace on the internet. Very suspect, impossible to prove of course though. Seems pretty common to me. People frequently create accounts on sites just to ask a question or because they need something. This is probably the most common case / the long tail of most activity on social media sites.
  - d0100 5y ago
    I have a github account exclusively to post "dumb" questions
  - zamadatix 5y ago
    The suspect part is that the username doesn't have any trace on the internet not just that it was a new account. Particularly relevant in this case since it's a 17 month old project with 9 total issues/PRs (or one every ~2 months) and this is the only such follow up to ever occur and the only one with such an account. Note: suspect, not guaranteed. Again though the claim isn't it must be an impossibility to be anything else just a very suspect set of circumstances around the ping and impossible to prove one way or the other. I don't think it matters one way or another in the message, it's a good message and clearly popular, but that doesn't have anything to do with being staged or not.

zhbadya 5y ago

Hi, guys. I'm @insky from github (here this nickname is in use). I'm know many of your are IT guys, and I ask for your help. We need russian fake news and government sites to be DDOSed. https://github.com/almerico/bombardier https://github.com/almerico/bombardier Thanks forehead for your help. Glory to Ukraine!

zhbadya 5y ago
You can check this really me with similar post in topic PR https://github.com/insky/vue-gpickr/pull/9#issuecomment-1054496866 https://github.com/insky/vue-gpickr/pull/9#issuecomment-1054...

vitalii427 5y ago

Glory to Ukraine!

agumonkey 5y ago

https://archive.md/WekP3 https://archive.md/WekP3 just in case too bad there's no rollback on real life

anelson 5y ago

I am American, moved to Kyiv almost four years ago. My startup engineering team is 100% in Ukraine. As the warning signs mounted I urged my people to consider leaving but no one, myself included, thought it would come to this. Of course no one left. I finally agreed to take a couple of weeks out of Kyiv to calm my cofounder’s nerves, sure that I’d be back and we’d have a laugh at how it all came to nothing. So I am in Tbilisi and my team are all stuck in Ukraine. We’re doing all we can to help We can’t get the men out because the Ukrainian borders guards won’t let any men leave, and most of the women won’t leave their husbands behind. A few have joined the territorial defense forces and are defending Kyiv now. Many others are taking shelter in basements while the Russians shell their cities. Today, 66% of my 45 person team were online and working. It’s astonishing the grit and commitment the Ukrainians are showing. We’re resolved not to abandon them and to do all we can for them but the shitty reality is that’s just not a whole lot right now. If anyone can fight their way to victory in this war it’s them. I wish the west had done more when there was still time to make a difference, but now it’s up to Ukrainians to save themselves and make the Russian invaders pay for every meter they take.

agsamek 5y ago
It is also up to Ukrainians to convince some West Europian nations that sometimes good business is not worth it. It is sad that only blood can change their perspective and each drop of it only slightly... As in an American veterans slogan - freedom is not for free... They fight for entire Europe freedom too.