no_future's comments

I thought gitlab was self hosted. Do they offer a free hosted service now?

Well SV is one of the only places where they have these wheelbarrows full of millions of dollars to throw at tech companies, so I would think that location is pretty important if you're interested in VC funding.

According to Mark Cuban(who I'm pretty damn sure knows what he is talking about), it isn't remotely a bubble, because in the dot com bubble everyone was investing - regular working people quit their jobs to become day traders, you would hear people at the coffee shop talking about the prices of stocks they bought, etc. Then when the bubble burst those who hadn't got out while they could lost everything and more. Now its VCs that are throwing money at everything, and they've got more than they know what to do with, and will be just fine if companies they invest in fail.

I've said this before, but I have absolutely no sympathy for people who think that there is something wrong with the fact that everyone in their workplace is not exactly the same as them(the author explicitly points out several times how she was the only black/female person in her workplace as if it was some kind of travesty). To me this only shows that they are the ones mainly causing the problem, not the imagined institutionalized racism/sexism that they rant about. A bunch of different people from different backgrounds working together and doing great things is what America is all about, and one of the things that makes it a great country. For these people the fact that they and their colleagues share a common interest in whatever they are working on(or I would hope so), is not enough, and they are too immature and entitled to get over the fact that there exist people different from them. There are people who come to this country and speak almost no english - think how they must feel - but you don't hear them complain about it. If you want to see more women/minorities in the workplace, by remaining in it you are being the change, which is a positive thing, but instead these people quit and then go whine on their blog while painting themselves as some kind of hero for quitting. If you are this much of an entitled, sniveling ingrate then I don't see how you could make any kind of positive contribution to your industry, so good riddance I say.

Ironic, considering "Diversity" is about celebrating differences, and not pointing them out as if they were a negative thing.

I'm not saying that prejudices are nonexistent, but I don't think they are as prominent as these people make them out to be.

>3-D buttons that don't actually depress when I click on them

0/10 closed the page

Barring the fact that Apple probably provides tools for unlocking their devices to authorities(like Microsoft's COFFEE), its a 4 digit passcode, it isn't that hard to crack.

Why is everyone so into Twitter? I've never actually met someone who tweeted.

There is a miasma of fakery and posturing in the startup world about making money, everyone pretends as if they are so passionate about what they are doing and not interested in money at all, even though they are almost certainly interested in money to some degree. I guess they feel that being at all motivated by monetary gain cheapens their image. Reminds me of an article I recently read about attitudes surrounding money in French culture, pretty interesting:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/12/no-exit-3

You can be passionate about what you are doing and interested in making money as well, it isn't either or. Personally I have no shame admitting I would be delighted to make an obscene amount of money in a short period of time, because to me money means freedom. I could spend time with people I love and do things I find interesting and enjoyable, rather than living for the next paycheck and having money end up owning me and my life as is the case with so many people who pursue high stress, high paying long term careers to "provide for their family" and end up miserable and distant. Another reason is that, call me entitled and selfish, but I don't enjoy the idea of working for someone else, likely doing something I'm only marginally passionate about, and having them take majority of the value of my efforts while giving me a fixed salary, though for many people I'm sure the stability of this is perfectly acceptable.

However, I do agree probably nothing good will come of you if you are motivated purely by profit with 0 interest or passion in what you are doing. I select projects that I am personally interested in simply because I find it extremely difficult to work on things that I don't get excited about.

After doing web for a little bit, ending up loathing it, and then checking out iOS and enjoying it so far, I couldn't hope for this outcome more. I never realized how crippled browser based web applications and the ancient, shitty tools used for creating them are before developing on a web-connected platform that uses a systems language directly for its applications. Pretty much anything you can do with a computer, you can do in an iOS/Android app, and it can connect to the web, which lets you create rich experiences far more easily. To make any modern web application for a browser, you have to use garbage like opinionated JS frameworks and a myriad of other crutches and hacky solutions because the tools for the frontend are incredibly limited and were not designed for what is demanded of them today. Plus browsers don't easily support connection protocols other than HTTP, so this leads to a whole other host of hacky backend solutions for developing so called "real-time" applications, when you could easily use something like UDP were you not limited by a browser. Only downside to iOS/Android platforms is that they are governed basically by the Apple/Google dictatorships(which is somewhat understandable, because it would be a disaster if anyone could so easily distribute applications widely capable of executing malicious code on a user's device), and it is completely up to them what is allowed and what isn't, in contrast to the open nature of the web. I don't know how this could be remedied, seeing as there is an undeniable trend of more and more consumer-facing web activities being done through mobile apps, rather than browsers. Something like a completely FOSS device OS with a decentralized marketplace; e.g. anyone with a server can host their application, similar to how it is with jailbroken/rooted phones? This still wouldn't solve the problem of people being able to execute malicious code on a user device, but I guess if you think about it it isnt much different from some idiot downloading "free cursors" from some malware site and giving themselves a virus like what happens all the time today.

Is this named after the anime character, or the Russian geographical region? If it is named after the former I'm not using it. Why do all software people have to be massive weebs?

Anyone know how much Upcoming was originally acquired for?

Didn't you hear? Google was upset about not employing enough minorities even though 1/3 of its workforce is Asian, so according to Google Asians are white now. Diversity!

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/google-releases-emp...

Why did people suddenly realize now that there is something fishy going on with a LOCATION BASED APP that claims to be anonymous and privacy-oriented?

>Anonymous profiles

You just defeated the purpose of anonymity

>Linus Torvalds

>Steve Ballmer

>Reed Hastings

>Mark Zuckerberg

What imbecile wrote this?

I don't understand why Quora requires signup to JUST VIEW the questions and answers? How do people doing nothing but viewing it affect the site in any way, aside from getting it more pageviews, which is generally a good thing? I understand having an account to contribute, but just to view?

The problem with this type of thing is that by removing one inconvenience it creates a host of others. The lock needs to be wifi connected which requires power, so I have to put batteries in it and change them every 6 months to a year, which I don't want to be bothered with. Changing batteries in smoke alarms already bothers me enough. And I don't need yet another web interface bothering me and sending me push notifications for something that should essentially require next to no thought, locking and unlocking a door.

From their FAQ page:

>What if there’s a stranger at the door, and I approach to answer, will the door automatically unlock?

>The auto-unlock feature is also optional and can be disabled at any time, depending on your behavior and use pattern. The August Smart Lock uses proprietary techniques to mitigate false unlocks from the interior side of the door.

Seems like it would be more annoying than convenient. I would rather take a simple NFC enabled lock without fancy lights and internet connected bells and whistles on it, since NFC chips consume very little(or no) power and a ton of smartphones ship with NFC connectivity. NFC, unlike Bluetooth, which this lock relies on, requires you to actually touch your phone(or put it very close) to the receiver, so the scenario mentioned above wouldn't be a problem, nor would encryption be a problem since the transaction would be nigh impossible to eavesdrop on since the communication is so close range. Would also be cheaper to manufacture, with a cost of 10c per NFC receiver tag compared with $5 for a low energy Bluetooth one.

Just something that would make it easier for my family to get in and out of the house without worrying about whether they remembered to take their keys or lost them, since they are all glued to their phones anyway.

Is this some kind of ironic/tongue-in-cheek thing? I feel like some of the people in this thread are taking it too seriously.

All this crap is easier said than done.

There are many in electrical/mechanical engineering which is I guess considered to be applied physics, to give a couple examples: Thomas Edison and Felix Wankel.