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Honest question. I love some of the additional capabilities and specifically the dependency commits, virtual branches, and JSON output... BUT why not just work with the git communi…

ad hominem? Please explain what makes the regulatory burdens onerous instead of impossible.

It might be just my perception, but it seems like every single time anthropologist make statements to the effect that complex human development didn't start until XX they are prove…

Remote attestation requires a great deal of trust... I know this comment is likely to be down-voted, but I can't think of a Lennart Poettering project that didn't try to extend, ce…

It seems to be, for most users who switch, that the driver is if they are primarily a consumer or creator. Unix systems have always been a preferred platform for some creators, but…

There is some strange irony in this. Apple initially used the khtml code-base to build Safari but it quickly became impossible to back-port the changes from the Safari branch of kh…

The vote will definitely demonstrate how seriously the employees are considering unionization but, in my experience, there are a certain sub-set of people that constantly push for …

There is a cost associated with collective bargaining as well as benefits. While most of these costs (though not all) are carried by the employer to the benefit of the employee; I …

I'm in the fortunate position to be at a company that is quickly growing from small/startup size to mid/large size. Unfortunately I've seen too many "startup" CTOs that have diffic…

There are literally two in my office right now under my bookshelf. If you have them, you don't find one of these, you find dozens.

Can someone tell me what possible value this has?

Fine particle pollution is entirely different from CO2 emission and would not be included as part of any carbon tax I've seen.

No this is simply bad implementation. As has already been mention, for internet services that also have websites for those services the www. subdomain makes total sense. > How will…

I have to second this. CouchDB has a much better native interface than Mongo (pure HTTP/REST JSON) and automatic syncying. Honestly, most of the time I think the real problem is de…

Thank you. I always getting a little angry at these "We should..." posts that are posted by a modern philosophe who has some idealized way of seeing the world and is more than happ…

Or grunt, npm, gem, etc... etc... etc... I don't know about brew and the MacOS ecosystem.

Why the obsession about energy consumption from mining bitcoin? It is because many people still consider it imaginary or non-productive? It is because, unlike many other markets, i…

I know Dev shops don't like processes and forms, but that "checklist" is exactly that. It simply shows that processes and procedures are tools that are useful if that use can be li…

As several people have already pointed out, there is almost no argument that can be made against giving it to him that isn't invalidated by Obama receiving it. That is the problem …

Same here, out entire dev shop is X1 Carbons on Linux.

I cannot imagine that is is a good plan. I just don't see enough innovation coming from the processor space to justify the overhead of design, development, testing, and manufacturi…

If something is carcinogenic is always a matter of volume. Most things are carcinogenic if consumed in quantities large enough. Most things carcinogenic if aerosolized and inhaled.…

Yes, because the government has such a spectacular record for protecting privacy and NOT spying on its citizens. Of course, Facebook cannot come into your home with guns if they th…

Laugh all you want, but I just got done talking to one of these NC pig farmers yesterday and he is in the process of converting the sewage into methane gas for electrical productio…

While I generally applaud the idea, I cannot help but notice that the most likely abuser of users personal data is the governments of the EU itself.