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Looking at that picture, it looks like some kind of backroom place in some store where employees gather to have lunch.

I couldn't find it either. Neither on their project pages nor that specific blog article and not even the "Search" option (where I searched for inkscape) on the gitlab.com/ site.

Thanks TranquilMarmot for posting the link to the repo.

Dupe. The other one here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530797 has some comments already

This whole naming of Skype app for linux is confusing. This announcement is just that they are retiring their older version of the app and they are asking users to switch to the newer beta version which is missing some features. Ultimately there's still going to be an official app for Linux.

Thank you.

I like all the new things coming in iOS11, including this. I recently got my first iPhone and it's on iOS10. Do users like me get to upgrade just the OS on the same handset when they release iOS11? I haven't found the answer to this on some of the apple articles I have browsed.

>> Microsoft has been informed, but at the time of publication has not told us when or if the problem will be patched.

Doesn't a bug like this one deserve a responsible disclosure and wait for a patch to be available? The report doesn't state when Microsoft was informed about this, but given the severity of this issue and the fact that they haven't heard back, I would suspect it wasn't too long back.

This post is like reading a CNN kind of site which posts latest "what we know so far" every few minutes about some breaking news :)

Have been using DuckDuckGo as primary search engine for more than a year. It's OK for many cases but the search results aren't yet there in terms of quality or relevance in many cases. Even searching for AMP shows the AMP spec page after some almost useless dictionary sites, in the search results.

Or as a start, maybe a browser extension/plugin where it renders it for certain configured sites.

What's going to be interesting is if browsers can at some point render a APM version of a page natively. What I mean is render the original page on the source website as APM content. That will stop the monopoly and hijacking (or rather the rationalization of it) of target websites in Google results.

A bit OT - does anyone know what tool was used to create those slides? They look very light and clean and something I might experiment with for technical presentations.

I use git and github regularly for my hobby/side projects and even for contributing patches to some open source projects hosted on github. My typically workflow is using git command line for commits and the usual things and then a git push to my remote github repo and use their website to submit PRs, respond to reviews etc...

I am curious, how people use desktop app for github and what value it adds when compared to just using github website.

I have been using Mercurial for some years now and before that was on Git. Github used to be one of our remote repositories. The thing that Git excels is feature/bug-fix branches, which can literally be considered throw away branches. You work on one or more feature branches, independently and then submit a review request (github is just one option) and then have it merged against the actual release branch - all this without polluting the history of the release branch or without juggling with too many complex version control commands/tricks. Github wrapped around a lot of end user tooling around this concept (pull requests for example) and showed to the world how easy it is to accomplish this level of "parallel" feature work or bug fixing.

Coming to Mercurial, now that I have been using it for more than a couple of years, my experience is that, this workflow (which is now considered standard and well known through git and github) isn't possible to achieve. Mercurial's concept of branching doesn't fit into this scheme of things. They stamp each commit with a branch id and there's no way to erase that which effectively leads to a lot of issues if github has to support the model that I mentioned above - a model which is well known and popular at github. Mercurial recommends bookmarks for cases like these, which based on my experience and some of the discussions in mercurial dev list, doesn't work either. I hear they are working on a "evolve" plugin in Mercurial to sort out some of these issues. But overall, it's still very complex and requires a deep understanding of the mercurial concepts/commands to achieve what can be achieved in git pretty easily.

Given all this, I personally don't think it adds much value for github to support mercurial in such a way that the workflows remain (almost) the same irrespective of what underlying version control system you use.

What a mess! Came to this thread to read about Rust and its progress and this has devolved into a useless discussion about some person's website, who seems to consider that he/she is doing all the right things and the rest of the technical community is stupid.

Completely lost track of what thread I was reading.

A few days back there was a HN thread here talking about this tweet from Tavis[1] which involved Natashenka as well. I think it's related to this very issue.

[1] https://twitter.com/taviso/status/860679110728622080

Everytime I read about such constructs, it makes me realize, as a regular developer, how complex web application security is and how difficult it is to think about and cover your application against each and every such potential problem.

Don't know about "most" OpenJDK devs, but Red Hat is heavily invested in OpenJDK and has an entire team of employees working in it.

Is this meant as a joke? It's just a javadoc of the java.util.Future.

One of the comments in that medium blog puts it right:

>> I’ve been hacking Capri Suns since I was 5. >> I am a hacker

When I read about Juicero yesterday[1] I thought the product was worthless. People however do sometimes chase after things which they feel to either make them rich or they have passion about.

But this statement by their CEO:

>> So when I saw this week’s headlines about hacking and hand-squeezing Produce Packs, I had a one overriding thought: ”We know hacking consumer products is nothing new. But how can we better demonstrate the incredible value we know our connected system delivers?

is not just ridiculous but even mocking their own customer and investors. Squeezing a pack of fruits is hacking? Someone here yesterday mentioned, in a lighter vein, Juicero adding DRM tech to their juicer. With statements like this from their CEO, they might very well make it true.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14148216

I don't know if it's the team I work with or a problem in general, but a lot of my time these days I spend on getting annoyed with developers who just keep reporting "it's not working". Hardly any effort in looking at logs/stacktraces and then mapping it back to the code - all of which they have access to. When asked for more details about the issue, I almost always get answers like "here's the place where we have the log files, can you look into it and tell me what's wrong".

>> an internet-connected device that transforms single-serving packets of chopped fruits and vegetables into a refreshing and healthy beverage.

Wow, internet connected? I just can't understand this craze to connect anything and everything to internet.

Highly inaccurate title. The article is about security issue in some tools used for transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6

>> the security holes come as a result of IPv4 to IPv6 transition tools.

I'm pretty sure their decision to drop Unity was already done (internally) even before Dustin started the suggestions thread. So this conclusion isn't necessarily accurate.

This is going to be interesting. The whole reason I moved away from Ubuntu, which was my goto linux distribution, around a decade ago was because they moved to Unity. I switched to Linuxmint and have been on it ever since.

Now that Ubuntu is going back to Gnome, although I may not switch back to it immediately, it will at least be in my mind as an option whenever I keep upgrading Linuxmint.

The article states he received those options as a contractor. Is this common? I was under the impression that only employees are entitled to stock options. If it's possible to get these options as a contractor, what really differentiates the two practically?

It's like getting a foot in the door, which is a big thing in itself.

Reading the article it just feels like the author and the company just drifted apart over time. Something that happens very often in life. When the number of people involved in a certain thing are few, their goals and purpose typically are aligned. Over time, as more and more people get involved, it's practically impossible to have all of them aligned to the same goal and expect their purpose to be the same.

After a while, some of the early passionate team members have to compromise with the situation or move on to something else.

>> I left out acquisitions on purpose because GitLab is not really suited for an acquisition, due to the remote-only work model.

Didn't know remote work would play a role in this matter. Is that true?