COMMENT___

What I actually meant was “corporate culture”. Culture != race.

Thanks for reviewing my comments, though.

Sorry, but it is not.

This is not “minor hinderance” for 99.9% Apple users. It’s absolutely unusable unless you are an “enthusiast”.

Yep, I guess you are right. But I think that some of those engineers come from Infosys-like companies, so they do exactly what they’ve been taught and what they are accustomed with. IDK, maybe it’s a cultural problem? Or is it a problem of following best security practices?

I understand that it’s useless to seek answers to such questions. Let’s leave it to philosophers. :)

I believe that the OP of this comment thread has been unfairly downvoted. It was irony, right?

Sigh.

Oh, this is great! Thank you.

PS Good old usenet. :)

Answer by GPT-3:

> How is information security in Infosys?

Information security at Infosys is implemented through a combination of technological and organizational measures. The company has a dedicated information security team that works to identify and mitigate risks. Technologies used to protect data include encryption, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems. Organizational measures include employee training on security policies and procedures.

Yeah, that's an excerpt from Wikipedia. But when I see these lines I actually read "money laundering" and "scam".

This kind of stories is one of the reason I visit Hacker News. Thank you!

It's funny and annoying to read every week or so about another epic fail of a multi-billion "multinational information technology company". Good luck with outsourcing your critical services and medical data to neurodivergents.

Thanks again for making my day.

I find myself using the `site:` keyword much more often than before when searching for quite obvious stuff using Google Search. The first page of search results always consists of some useless SEO-optimized shit or is simply missing relevant results.

A month ago or so, when I was researching some MS tech topics, Google Search results did not include any links to the docs.microsoft.com website. However, the results included some Chinese mirrors of docs.microsoft.com with weird names (blablahxyz321.GFWproxy.com or something like that). This never happened before, so something is really broken.

And it's just one example of many. I have to switch between three search engines thorough a day, and it's frustrating.

MS should at least update its documentation for admins (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-...) and give a clear instruction on how to disable all the "extra features" and choose safe settings. If I use GPO to disable four first run "splash screens", Edge uses unwanted default settings. I want to disable splash screens AND configure safe defaults. Docs mention "some of these other policies", but the list seems to be incomplete.

> Raising it as a values issue

This is about poor design and unethical decisions. MS can keep its values to itself.

> in the positive “I thought Microsoft would be better than this” way seems likely to have the most effect if enough people do it.

But how many is enough? And whom do I approach with this "positive" feedback so that the feedback is not routed to /dev/null? I'm pretty sure that MS receives a ton of feedback on this and similar topics and ignores it.

This is ridiculous. People hate how Edge is bloated nowadays and it’s a fact. You know it, we know it. But MS does nothing to fix that. Instead it pushes forward and adds new shit into the web browser.

* What's "Microsoft Rewards" in MS Edge? An award for those users who share the most amount of telemetry with MS?

* And a "Math solver" in a web browser?

* Games menu?

* FOUR unskippable screens to opt out of some useless features?

All this needs to be in a web browser?

Oh and I almost forgot. Please add support for Flash games into the web browser, add BonziBuddy and bring back my favourite AOL toolbar from IE. I'm missing all this (no).

MS's only job was to create a fast and clean Chromium-based web browser. It failed again.

Are there any official sanctions that affect non-Russian companies with Russian-born founders and employees?

Non-paywalled: https://archive.ph/bMxOV

No irony here. Just first impression.

Rambler TOP 100? MyNickName.com? WTF is that?

I would never trust an admin who puts such shit on his website.

This site looks like some sketchy Russian website with patched (pirated) Windows ISOs. While it may use MS API to generate download links, it still looks like some warez storage. I would never install any Windows versions downloaded from it.

> Git has infinite flexibility in terms of the workflow that teams of people can adopt.

IMO flexibility is just a meaningless buzzword used to describe overly complicated and poorly designed products. If a product has crappy UX, they just call it “developer oriented” and “flexible”.

When I read about “flexibility” of a software product, I think that this product is of low quality. And that I will have to spend some time to make it work for me (hours? days? weeks? years?). To me as a user this flexibility does not matter at all.

The product either works or it doesn’t. If it works, I don’t want to spend a career to learn its internals. I just want it to support my use case and give clear step by step instructions in its documentation.

I better spend my time on something more important than exploring how this or another crappy software product is flexible.

When I read about this my first question was why they use industrial machine as a chess robot. I believe that the answer is “just to show off”. But IMO this makes an opposite effect.

They could use a pair of magnets attached to each chess piece and chess board. One under the board, one attached to the piece. Then move magnets under the board and voila chess pieces move automagically.

I think that I saw a similar toy somewhere.

This one is indeed hard to label.

PS Hope they will never begin solving philosophy problems with ML.

I have three questions now:

* How much (per comment) are these "native speakers from India" paid?

* How many comments do they have to label in an hour (or in a minute)? I guess it's more than 2 comments in a minute.

* What if the comment is sarcastic and this can only be understood from its context?

I don't see anger in "LETS F**ING GOOOOO". It's just a comment that says "let's do X" in impatient and enthusiastic manner.

> In a centralized vcs, that history is always mediated by the server - you want a new revision number, you have to ask the server what it is.

I assume the most trivial case when say I contribute to e.g. MS documentation, which source is now available exclusively on GitHub. Can I say that this MS docs repository is a canonical copy?

I think that the most common daily use workflows with git and GitHub are absolutely centralised regardless of the decentralised nature of git.

* I have a local git repository, its local version history and all the great features this provides. But I have to push to GitHub, you know. Can I somehow publish my changes if GitHub is down? So how is this different from centralised version control?

* GitHib provides extra features besides version control. It has a bug tracker, wiki, whatever. I'm tied to all these features, and they are not decentralised at all. I understand that this analogy is silly, but GitHub is a well done SourceForge with Git. But it's still SourceForge, and it's centralised.

When I use git with GitHub, I usually only clone, commit and push and check my project's issue tracker. All these actions except commit require access to GitHub. So I think that the workflow is absolutely centralised even if git is decentralised by design and has local version history.

I think that's what @evouga meant in his comment above when he said > But almost nobody actually uses git the way it was originally intended, eg. as decentralized version control? Instead there’s a canonical master repository (on GitHub) everyone pulls from/pushes to.

I believe that - hypothetically - centralised version control can have disconnected local commits with private local branches.

But using GitHub as a single source of truth for git repositories makes git mostly centralised. Think of it as of SVN with local commits and a central repository on GitHub (with its UI). And with awkward git’s CLI.

I don’t think that SVN, p4 or CVS have support for local commits. What I want to say is that local commits could be added into centralised version control systems. Come on, SVN has a local working copy. Won’t it handle local commits?

> Everyone uses it the way it was intended.

"Everyone" uses GitHub as a single source of truth, but I believe that git itself was not designed with this in mind. GitHub users use git as centralised version control with "local commits, rebases or whatever".

> Any time you create a branch locally, without needing to contact the central server you are using distributed vcs. Same when you do local commits, or rebases or whatever.

I think that it is possible to add local branches and commits to centralised version control. Will it make it decentralised? I don't think so.

> From the point of view of someone stuck on subversion, all of that is freaking magic. This is what I mean about "radical departure". By analogy, there's people who think of horses as slower cars and say things like "why can't we just start using horses again" without ever considering the horse issues that are no longer relevant like: having to feed them every day, having to not ride them too long without resting the horse, what do to with all the poop, and so on because cars don't even have analogous impediments.

It's not a topic of "horses vs cars" you know. Not even close. This analogy is a plain trolling IMO.

Subversion has its branching and merging quirks, but it works and works well in most cases. Most of the usage problems can be solved by sticking to best practices and using up-to-date SVN client versions.

I believe that people just don’t want to hand out their TG accounts. BTW, what is the meaning of the bot’s profile picture?

Ha ha this is going to end up with paid advertisements formatted as code comments in underfunded, but popular OS projects. Oh god I really hope that’s not going to happen.

Just passing by, but I’d love to read a story what happened with this user’s bug report. This looks like a serious usability problem for those who delete or re-create repositories often, and I guess that it wasn’t prioritised correctly or went into dev/null due to pilot’s error. So where exactly this report got stuck?

Dying is fun in adventure games made by Sierra. Just remember to save often.

PS Try Sierra’s Quest for Glory series (VGA versions).

AFAIK, conflict resolution in Subversion is being improved:

* https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.10.html#c...

* https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.11.html#c...