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The FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organization agency of the United Nations) doesn't quite agree with you on http://www.fao.org/edible-insects/en/ : "Edible insects contain high qu…

On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet you can see: "It was not until the Middle Ages that the letter ⟨W⟩ (originally a ligature of two ⟨V⟩s) was added to the Latin alphab…

> pushing to gitlab prints out the URL to create a pull request from that branch You can use push options to automatically create a pull request and set it up when you push: https:…

There is already an "engineering" category: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/engineering/

I work for GitLab on low level things in Git, for example: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/23029 which is requested by Drupal (among others): https://www.drupal.org/…

Yeah, GitLab has been on a monthly release schedule since October 2011: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/12/17/gitlab-release-process/

Here is the related thread on the Git mailing list: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAP8UFD0aKqT5YXJx9-MqeKCKhOVGxn...

libgit2 has had bugs related to file locking (for example when you make some ref changes while garbage collecting) and libgit2 does not implement all the git features, so you canno…

Git refs can be packed (see https://git-scm.com/docs/git-pack-refs ) so it's not just about checking if a file exists.

The article on Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_calculator , looks like a much better link to me. The following other mechanical calculator also seems to be an i…

There are companies hiring people working remotely from all around the world like GitLab for example. (I am working remotely for GitLab.) In general you could look at open source p…

I think many people here just don't like it when people tell them that IQ is not as important as they think. I also got downvoted in the following comment sometime ago: https://new…

In Git Rev News edition 20 ( https://git.github.io/rev_news/2016/10/19/edition-20/ ) there are also articles about some changes in v2.11: - Changing the default for “core.abbrev”? …

There is work going on about external object database support that could help in the long run: https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/1702 (I am working on this for GitLab.)

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A... : > It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circum…

The responsibility of GitLab and GitHub is not to investigate if those 1000 sites are indeed running malware and how dangerous the malwares on these sites are, and who could be har…

I just uploaded a presentation I gave last February called "Git back on your feet": http://www.slideshare.net/ChristianCouder/git-back-onyourfee...

In https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation there is: "Santos-Dumont later added ailerons, between the wings in an effort to gain more lateral stability. His final desig…

In https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation there are the following: * Sir George Cayley was first called the "father of the aeroplane" in 1846... Among his many achieve…

Yeah, David Turner has been working for Twitter. But his work is based on previous work on an "index-helper" daemon by Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy who is not working for any company as fa…

The same kind of work is being done on Git these days: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/29510...

> Also ,recent industrial chips are using 28nm, and going beyond that is extremely expensive Yeah, so ASICs that are not produced in big enough volume will not move to 14nm or less…

So Git for example doesn't scale and is impossible to keep clear of spam?

Instead of "git reset --hard stuff", I recommend "git reset --keep stuff" as it will not delete uncommited files in the working directory.

There is this script I worked on to help doing that: https://github.com/whyrusleeping/git-ipfs-rehost