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by ralph84 5y ago
Engineering is the art of tradeoffs. When there's a two orders of magnitude difference between the needs of one user of the system and all other users of the system, it's not laziness to decide the tradeoffs needed for that one us
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by ralph84 5y ago
> The U.S. stock with the second-highest share price, home builder NVR Inc., is trading just above $5,100 a share. Exchanges have a minimum stock price requirement for a stock to be listed. Seems reasonable that they should have a maximu
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by ralph84 5y ago
Enterprise Config for Git might help: https://github.com/Autodesk/enterprise-config-for-git
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by ralph84 6y ago
Visible is $25/month with Party Pay for a 4-person party. The key is each party member gets their own bill so there's no risk to forming a party with random people. Easily done on Reddit.
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by ralph84 6y ago
We already tried this. After 40 years of this policy towards China, China is an environmental disaster and burns more coal than the all of the rest of the world combined.
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by ralph84 6y ago
lol @ FIFA trying to position themselves as the moral high ground
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by ralph84 6y ago
More likely the Chinese investors needed a way to evade capital controls in China and this was the vehicle.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Sounds great in theory, but in practice end users suck at key management. Just look at how many Bitcoin wallets are gone forever because the wallet owner lost the private key.
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by ralph84 6y ago
> It's really hard to make out which of the abusive behaviors here are Google's, and which are Modis'. Which is exactly by design. They can each blame the other and hope the employee doesn't complain.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Landlords are now dealing with tenants who haven't paid rent in a year with no end in sight as to when they can evict them. It's certainly understandable if this has caused landlords to prefer to wait until there is recourse for n
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by ralph84 6y ago
This version was developed by Asobo Studio, which is independent and not owned by Microsoft.
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by ralph84 6y ago
> If employees want to work from home beyond Sept. 1, they will need to formally apply for a max of 14 days annually Somehow this sounds to me like: "Oh, and remember: next Friday... is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want
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by ralph84 6y ago
The US media was never trustworthy, i.e. worthy of trust. Pulitzer named prizes after himself but he was a propagandist for the democratic party and pioneered yellow journalism. It was just easier for them to get away with lies before mass
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by ralph84 6y ago
> What does ups and fedex do? Drivers learn which places on their route have facilities that are easy for guests to use and get friendly with the gatekeepers.
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by ralph84 6y ago
His stay in solitary began in Florida in 1992. The governor of Florida at the time was a democrat. Maybe you weren't around then, but the democrats of the 90s (Clinton, Biden, etc.) were "tough on crime" types.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Hosting is trivial. Copyright less so, but forking a project when you don’t agree with the direction of the copyright holder is a long-established tradition in open source. FSF and GNU will forever be associated with rms. If maintainers don
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by ralph84 6y ago
The comments are filled with GitLab employees, including your CEO, blaming the low quality of the post on it being "unfiltered", i.e. the employee's fault. If you value your employees, give them the tools they need to be succ
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by ralph84 6y ago
> While the sentiment of the feedback was mostly negative for the reasons below, the fact is we were able to get to the top of Hacker News - something we attempted in a previous OKR but were not successful with. So while I agree that thi
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by ralph84 6y ago
No, it reflects poorly on GitLab . The competitor comes out looking just fine.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Calling it "user-generated content" when it's generated only by employees not actual GitLab users is quite disingenuous. Besides, disclaimers like that don't even legally work. Employers can't disclaim responsibilit
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by ralph84 6y ago
The place for employees to post their personal opinion that doesn’t represent the company is their personal blog, not “about.gitlab.com/blog”. After you’ve raised almost half a billion dollars in funding, you can afford a PR person to
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by ralph84 6y ago
> The real problem is going to be all the stashed encrypted data that US and China have stored on each other of a sensitive nature While there's no doubt they've stored lots of encrypted messages sent by each other, would it re
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by ralph84 6y ago
> licenses trying to protect the business built on the open source code A fundamental aspect of open source is that there is no limit to the number of businesses that can be built on it. If a single company wants a monopoly on building a
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by ralph84 6y ago
Unless you are in a rural area, trying to use an 80 MHz channel in 2.4 GHz almost guarantees your radio is going to spend far more time waiting to transmit because of interference than doing anything useful. Finding the least congested 20 M
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by ralph84 6y ago
> This revolution will generate enough wealth for everyone to have what they need We had enough wealth for everyone to have what we need a long time ago. No matter how much we have humans always want more. AI won't change that.
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by ralph84 6y ago
The full story of Git* trademarks is here: [0] TL;DR: GitHub applied for a US trademark 5 years before the Git project did, so the initial application from the Git project was denied as confusingly similar to GitHub. Rather than litigate wh
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by ralph84 6y ago
Strongly disagree for tech companies. At tech companies there is almost always significant lag between when value is created and when profits on that value are realized. The employees who worked for Amazon for the first 10 years generated i
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by ralph84 6y ago
> not necessarily with such valuations Well yes, if you remove the "unicorn" qualifier you can find lots of companies that don't give employees equity. In many European countries the tax treatment of stock-based compensati
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by ralph84 6y ago
Wow, this should be the headline. Bootstrapped unicorns are somewhat rare. But bootstrapped unicorns with no employee equity is a whole other level.
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by ralph84 6y ago
NSA used to push pretty hard for moving to elliptic curve from RSA. There was some speculation they already knew better factoring methods that worked for breaking RSA. But then the Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor came to light, so maybe they were jus

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