rctay89's comments

Key takeaways:

- Chess.com "present evidence in this report that Hans likely cheated online much more than his public statements suggest" - "While Hans has had a record-setting and remarkable rise in rating and strength, in our view there is a lack of concrete statistical evidence that he cheated in his game with Magnus or in any other over-the-board (“OTB”)—i.e., in-person—games."

Puzzles and puzzle storm is down on Lichess:

> Due to a fire at one of our data centres, a few of our servers are down and may be down permanently. We are restoring these servers from backups and will enable puzzles and storm as soon as possible. > > We hope that everyone who is dealing with the fire is safe, including the firefighters and everyone at OVH. <3.

...you were saying? :) https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/google-to-grab-one-year-late...

Do you have a source for this? The closest I got to was this book, "Mission Abroad" http://www.csms.se/upl/files/142648.pdf where a standoff at a hospital in Bakovici was mentioned. Stewe Simson was quoted as Platoon Commander, but there was no mention of orders from higher ups nor ignoring orders.

Is there a way on Android/iPhone to both listen to a podcast and music at the same time? Unfortunately, earphone time is limited for me, and too often I choose one over the other at the expense of my learning, no prizes for guessing which...

I wonder if you could include all keystrokes like Ctrl-x in the screencast, maybe even a timeline of the keystrokes; I imagined it to be "running" along the screen like in Guitar hero. Nevertheless this is a great effort in distributing latent/implicit knowledge, which I think coding to be heavy on; for example, how would a terminal user know that Ctrl-R is reverse-search? (don't get me started on finding out about going back to a previous match...) I remember how I found out about Tab by accident... While being ignorant of these epistemes are not barriers, they do slow down/kills joy.

Compare this approach with Google's - github sticks to the git-compatible 'loose' repository format on vanilla filestorage, while google uses packs on top of their BigTable infrastructure, and requires changes to repo-access at the git-level [1].

[1] https://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/sites/eclipsecon.org.2013/fi...

Interesting how Github is sounding like Google and Amazon. They're probably hitting the scale where it makes sense to build internal APIs and infrastructure abstractions to support their operations, eg. Bigtable and S3. In fact, DGit sounds like another storage abstraction like Bigtable and S3, albeit limited - eg. a git repo must be stored fully on a single server (based on my cursory reading of github's description of DGit), but in Bigtable, data is split into tablets that comprise the table might be stored on different places, which would allow higher utilization of resources.

Apart from myself, anyone else hoping to see downloading straight into an S3 bucket? (Seeding from a bucket has been around for some time, you could imagine my disappointment when clicking the link)

Where's the glory in winning if you cheat?

+1 for rbenv + bundler.