Not the same thing at all. It would be more like the burglars breaking in and stealing stuff you had stolen and let the world know about it. Most people could get behind that sort of "burglar."
On the contrary, the US could have a strong leader without a fascist government - but it's not going to happen when you have such disparity between the current oligarchy and the masses. Economic inequality keeps increasing, the financial benefits of government policies flow increasingly to those who need it least, and you want people to get behind you? Ain't gonna happen unless you drug the water supply.
As well public opinion should have been swayed. If you don't want to piss people off about your "public policy for the masses" and "private policy for wall street and the banks", don't give speeches about how you do that sh*t. Problem solved.
They won't because it's well documented that the US has interfered in elections all over the world. A quick search turns up dozens of them just since WW2.
If the Russians have the capabilities to dance circles around the US in terms of cyber crap, then why would you even threaten them when they can shut you down?
The answer is simple - the whole thing is bogus. Even if Russia were behind it it's nothing compared to what the US, via the CIA, did to their ally Japan. With friends like those, who needs enemies except as a distraction from your own corruption?
Oh, how naive you are. When the sh*t hits the fan, an SLA isn't going to make a difference to your customers when you tell them "yes, it's broken but we have an SLA."
Salesforce brags about a 99.9% uptime. So I guess that being off-line for 20 hours, and being unable to recover 4 hours of customer data, is okay because hey, you have an SLA.
BTW, 99.9% uptime is shitty - that's more than 8 hours a year. Would you be happy with your toilet or fridge if it went down for 8 hours, never mind 20?
When you include the overhead and sales costs, github is indeed selling below cost. And they tried to make it up in volume with a huge increase in sales staff (which costs lots of money). The associated increase in sales increased their overall loss. Read the article, it's all there.
We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack.
Torvalds, Linus
How many retards are going to be using github anyway? You seem to be under the impression that retard still means the same as intellectually challenged. Not in the 21st century - it generally means someone doing something stupid (like taking offence at words that have changed their meaning). And retard still has accepted uses, such as relative levels of mental retardation
the terms mild retardation, moderate retardation, severe retardation, and profound retardation
Or would you prefer that we go back to the previous terminology, which included moron, imbecile, and idiot as descriptors for the various levels of below-average intelligence.
People use these terms all the time to refer to others with average or above-average intelligence. Quit being a moron:-)
They're losing money because of the high sales costs. And when they cut sales staff, they'll lose market share and customers. That's the problem when you sell a commodity that anyone can compete with you - you don't have any real differentiator except cost - so you create the market, and someone who has less overhead steals it from you because they can charge less. They are pretty well hosed.
Hey dipshit, I never said that anyone was entitled to have a repository hosted for them. Don't put words in my mouth.
And I didn't advocate against it - I was very clear - if you're offended, stand on your own two feet and advocate for yourself. That include the fools who are offended that someone else is offended. I made it very clear that SJWs are parasites, and that people should grow up and defend themselves.
It's the same with "safe spaces." One group is advocating for safe spaces for people with mental illnesses "to help avoid the stigma". Pretty damned stupid, because by making "safe spaces" you're telling them that they should expect be stigmatized to the point that they need a "safe space", rather than trying to get rid of the stigma and confronting the ignorant head-on. Safe spaces stigmatize and infantalize people, taking away their personal agency.
We're talking about people securing the local server that would now run the repository - something that their customer IBM should be able to do instead of using github, if only to better position themselves with yet another sales option to their customers.
Read the article (I know, heresy here but still) - they make their money from large corporations, the ones who (like their customer IBM) should be able to eat their own dog food.
They are NOT making $95 million a year - they are LOSING tons of money. They've spent $108 million on salaries in the last 6 months alone (February to October). You can't sell stuff below cost and "make it up in volume", and if they cut selling expenses (which is the biggest chunk of salaries) their revenue will also drop, same as any other business.
Their $2 billion evaluation is stupid money talking.
So when you decide to mitigate the risk by bringing it all in-house, you can't. Pretty stupid excuse. For large projects at large firms such as those mentioned in the article (Walmart, Ford, etc), you need these types of people on hand anyway. Farming out shit "for convenience" isn't an excuse for being lazy.
Sure it might cost more, but if you farm it all out your business will consist of workers who are jack-of-all-trades and master-of-none. Perhaps this trend explains the mediocrity of today's products.
Threatening to close down a repository (your second link) because someone used the word "retarded" is retarded.
People who are offended can stand on their own two feet if it's that important to them. SJWs telling them that SJWs need to defend them is just infantilizing them. The whole SJW thing need to die, as do the people milking it for money.
So they make money selling private code repositories. If you want something really private, why use a 3rd party hosting service? So that you have a neck to wring when it leaks? Your private repository is just a NSL away from giving everything up without you ever knowing. Or a hack away. Or just a password-reuse user fail away, as happened 6 months ago.
i think that there are still use cases for non-smart watched. Diving is one of them. Areas where you can't bring a smartphone are another. And let's be honest - smart watches are fugly. There's no way these are fashion statements - more like shouting "I can afford to waste money on the latest fad even though it's nowhere near ready for prime time because I'm a sheeple"
Look, you can't criticize Bush II for adding $5.8 trillion to the deficit and then give Obama a free ride for adding $7.9 trillion. The hypocrisy of the alt-left has now easily matched the stupidity of the alt-right. The problem is, the alt-left is now far more mainstream than the alt-right ever was.
You're all idiots.
Last night I spent a while looking at comments on slashdot from 2005, and the change pretty much explains why the site is dying. In 2005, posters were complaining about how some people were taking fake news seriously, and worried about how this might become the norm. Here it is 11 years later, and that's exactly what has happened. News has been replaced by gossip, speculation is more valued than proof, opinion is now figuring more prominently than facts even in main-stream media.
We're talking here about arranging to die when your quality of life is too low. The law requires that if you refuse treatment, your wishes be obeyed even over immediate family. Carrying around a signed and witnessed Do Not Resuscitate order on your person is one way to assure your wishes are met without putting any decision-making stress on the family.
Here we have universal health care, so you can include such advanced medical directives with the database attached to your health card number, so anyone accessing your health records will see that you have refused treatment in advance, and is required by law to withdraw treatment, with the exceptions you indicate. Usually, you order that when you are no longer capable of recognizing people, or that treatment is futile, or that you are terminally ill, have serious brain damage, advanced dementia, Alzheimer's, or in a coma with a larger likelihood of dying than of living, all treatment, including nutrition and hydration, be suspended. You can also demand that pain killers be administered even if they are likely to hasten your death.
It's one way to achieve euthanasia even in places that prohibit it.
A lot of us did that with coding. It was fun, it was exciting, it was new. But it's become toxic, and only people who are co-dependent stay in a toxic relationship.
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
-Marc Anthony
Until the day it's no longer something you love. Then you'll be like in a bad marriage, resenting your choices, and with nothing you love to fall back on. You'll also have become so invested in what you do as being a central part of who you are that the loss of enjoyment will seriously damage you. Depression, lower self-esteem, lack of direction...
Work should never define who you are. Unfortunately, when it's something you got into because you enjoyed it, what do you do when it's gone? Who are you? You're not a programmer, designer, whatever. You're nameless. Useless, since you no longer have a job defining who you are.
Slashdot Mirror
Not the same thing at all. It would be more like the burglars breaking in and stealing stuff you had stolen and let the world know about it. Most people could get behind that sort of "burglar."
On the contrary, the US could have a strong leader without a fascist government - but it's not going to happen when you have such disparity between the current oligarchy and the masses. Economic inequality keeps increasing, the financial benefits of government policies flow increasingly to those who need it least, and you want people to get behind you? Ain't gonna happen unless you drug the water supply.
As well public opinion should have been swayed. If you don't want to piss people off about your "public policy for the masses" and "private policy for wall street and the banks", don't give speeches about how you do that sh*t. Problem solved.
They won't because it's well documented that the US has interfered in elections all over the world. A quick search turns up dozens of them just since WW2.
The answer is simple - the whole thing is bogus. Even if Russia were behind it it's nothing compared to what the US, via the CIA, did to their ally Japan. With friends like those, who needs enemies except as a distraction from your own corruption?
Oh, how naive you are. When the sh*t hits the fan, an SLA isn't going to make a difference to your customers when you tell them "yes, it's broken but we have an SLA."
Salesforce brags about a 99.9% uptime. So I guess that being off-line for 20 hours, and being unable to recover 4 hours of customer data, is okay because hey, you have an SLA.
BTW, 99.9% uptime is shitty - that's more than 8 hours a year. Would you be happy with your toilet or fridge if it went down for 8 hours, never mind 20?
When you include the overhead and sales costs, github is indeed selling below cost. And they tried to make it up in volume with a huge increase in sales staff (which costs lots of money). The associated increase in sales increased their overall loss. Read the article, it's all there.
We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack. Torvalds, Linus
How many retards are going to be using github anyway? You seem to be under the impression that retard still means the same as intellectually challenged. Not in the 21st century - it generally means someone doing something stupid (like taking offence at words that have changed their meaning). And retard still has accepted uses, such as relative levels of mental retardation
the terms mild retardation, moderate retardation, severe retardation, and profound retardation
Or would you prefer that we go back to the previous terminology, which included moron, imbecile, and idiot as descriptors for the various levels of below-average intelligence.
People use these terms all the time to refer to others with average or above-average intelligence. Quit being a moron :-)
I did not imply that I was entitled. You're projecting. Do that much?
They're losing money because of the high sales costs. And when they cut sales staff, they'll lose market share and customers. That's the problem when you sell a commodity that anyone can compete with you - you don't have any real differentiator except cost - so you create the market, and someone who has less overhead steals it from you because they can charge less. They are pretty well hosed.
Hey dipshit, I never said that anyone was entitled to have a repository hosted for them. Don't put words in my mouth.
And I didn't advocate against it - I was very clear - if you're offended, stand on your own two feet and advocate for yourself. That include the fools who are offended that someone else is offended. I made it very clear that SJWs are parasites, and that people should grow up and defend themselves.
It's the same with "safe spaces." One group is advocating for safe spaces for people with mental illnesses "to help avoid the stigma". Pretty damned stupid, because by making "safe spaces" you're telling them that they should expect be stigmatized to the point that they need a "safe space", rather than trying to get rid of the stigma and confronting the ignorant head-on. Safe spaces stigmatize and infantalize people, taking away their personal agency.
We're talking about people securing the local server that would now run the repository - something that their customer IBM should be able to do instead of using github, if only to better position themselves with yet another sales option to their customers.
Read the article (I know, heresy here but still) - they make their money from large corporations, the ones who (like their customer IBM) should be able to eat their own dog food.
They are NOT making $95 million a year - they are LOSING tons of money. They've spent $108 million on salaries in the last 6 months alone (February to October). You can't sell stuff below cost and "make it up in volume", and if they cut selling expenses (which is the biggest chunk of salaries) their revenue will also drop, same as any other business.
Their $2 billion evaluation is stupid money talking.
So when you decide to mitigate the risk by bringing it all in-house, you can't. Pretty stupid excuse. For large projects at large firms such as those mentioned in the article (Walmart, Ford, etc), you need these types of people on hand anyway. Farming out shit "for convenience" isn't an excuse for being lazy.
Sure it might cost more, but if you farm it all out your business will consist of workers who are jack-of-all-trades and master-of-none. Perhaps this trend explains the mediocrity of today's products.
Threatening to close down a repository (your second link) because someone used the word "retarded" is retarded.
People who are offended can stand on their own two feet if it's that important to them. SJWs telling them that SJWs need to defend them is just infantilizing them. The whole SJW thing need to die, as do the people milking it for money.
So they make money selling private code repositories. If you want something really private, why use a 3rd party hosting service? So that you have a neck to wring when it leaks? Your private repository is just a NSL away from giving everything up without you ever knowing. Or a hack away. Or just a password-reuse user fail away, as happened 6 months ago.
The plan is to suck up all this data so that eventually their fleet of self-driving trucks can take over the profitable runs.
i think that there are still use cases for non-smart watched. Diving is one of them. Areas where you can't bring a smartphone are another. And let's be honest - smart watches are fugly. There's no way these are fashion statements - more like shouting "I can afford to waste money on the latest fad even though it's nowhere near ready for prime time because I'm a sheeple"
Or implied. Learn your law.
Look, you can't criticize Bush II for adding $5.8 trillion to the deficit and then give Obama a free ride for adding $7.9 trillion. The hypocrisy of the alt-left has now easily matched the stupidity of the alt-right. The problem is, the alt-left is now far more mainstream than the alt-right ever was.
You're all idiots.
Last night I spent a while looking at comments on slashdot from 2005, and the change pretty much explains why the site is dying. In 2005, posters were complaining about how some people were taking fake news seriously, and worried about how this might become the norm. Here it is 11 years later, and that's exactly what has happened. News has been replaced by gossip, speculation is more valued than proof, opinion is now figuring more prominently than facts even in main-stream media.
Who ever thought that the sort of "reporting" that paid shills like Maureen O'Gara engaged in for SCO would become the new normal?
We're talking here about arranging to die when your quality of life is too low. The law requires that if you refuse treatment, your wishes be obeyed even over immediate family. Carrying around a signed and witnessed Do Not Resuscitate order on your person is one way to assure your wishes are met without putting any decision-making stress on the family.
Here we have universal health care, so you can include such advanced medical directives with the database attached to your health card number, so anyone accessing your health records will see that you have refused treatment in advance, and is required by law to withdraw treatment, with the exceptions you indicate. Usually, you order that when you are no longer capable of recognizing people, or that treatment is futile, or that you are terminally ill, have serious brain damage, advanced dementia, Alzheimer's, or in a coma with a larger likelihood of dying than of living, all treatment, including nutrition and hydration, be suspended. You can also demand that pain killers be administered even if they are likely to hasten your death.
It's one way to achieve euthanasia even in places that prohibit it.
More likely obese from all that soda. :-) That's why he is willing to give up $1000 a year for free soda.
Then again, 250 days a year, there are plenty of Americans who go through $4 a day of soda.
A lot of us did that with coding. It was fun, it was exciting, it was new. But it's become toxic, and only people who are co-dependent stay in a toxic relationship.
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. -Marc Anthony
Until the day it's no longer something you love. Then you'll be like in a bad marriage, resenting your choices, and with nothing you love to fall back on. You'll also have become so invested in what you do as being a central part of who you are that the loss of enjoyment will seriously damage you. Depression, lower self-esteem, lack of direction ...
Work should never define who you are. Unfortunately, when it's something you got into because you enjoyed it, what do you do when it's gone? Who are you? You're not a programmer, designer, whatever. You're nameless. Useless, since you no longer have a job defining who you are.