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Clickbait. The opening paragraph contains some factual errors (you can only get kicked off a train when you do something illegal) and the whole story lives by exaggeration and miss…

Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT in the 1980s. I'm saying this for decades now: If there is one thing that Microsoft is realy bad at then it's software. Almost every pi…

What's more problematic is that Cloudflare is obviously reading and storing and analyzing passwords. So every service that uses Cloudflare on a login page is compromised. I bet tha…

That was also my first thought.

Sounds a bit like survivor bias. People who have already recovered once (and not died) are more likely to recover a second time (and not die). In the control group, people who have…

For example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36358265/when-does-git-r... This page has been viewed 230 thousand (!!) times. Because git is so easy and elegant that it lies to y…

That is exactly the point. For git you need the ecosystem to cope with it's shortcomings and in addition some experts to help you out of the pickles this software gets you into. I …

The branching in hg is actually way better than with git. The reason you are confused is probably because you learned the wrong (git) way of branches. If you want the wacky and unr…

Git is neither easy not is it really elegant. It is useful for projects like Linux™ but for the vast majority of projects way better tools like mercurial or fossil would be a much …

The git internals are good for some kinds of projects but for the actual majority of projects git is a very bad fit. Most people don't get that because they are blind for the much …

Quote: The wonder of it all is not how Fossil can manage to construct a few kilobytes of HTML by using millions of CPU instructions, but that we’ve ended up in a world where we’re …

That is exactly what I thought when I read the words "secure" and "trust". If it is not open source it is neither secure nor should anybody trust it. The word used in Britain to de…

Your logo looks like RoboVM [robovm.com].

Wow. They did never load their site in Firefox. There is at least one JS Error and some features of the site simply do not work. Neither in Africa nor in Europe.

This is oblivious a coincidence. I hope no one here would think with their right mind that there was any kind of intelligence behind that. It must have happened by chance.