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Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by toyg »

mehrdada wrote: post #437
toyg wrote: post #420

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> Following the form does not make you “somewhat democratic,” In practice, there have been elected presidents that the religious element did not really like. They did not last, and were sabotaged at every turn, but they existed. Iran is a big country and it contains a number of different power-centres, unlike, for example, North Korea. > In addition, “the secular executive branch” comment is flat out wrong. Uh, no it…

> Uh, no it isn't You are absolutely incorrect[1]. There are no ifs and buts. They absolutely positively require the candidate to assert they'd abide by Islamic law--there is not even a pretense of secularism. Which Islamic Republic lobby group did you get your propaganda from? I lived there for 20 years. If you think you know better, please cite a reference to your egregious claims. Even Khamenei himself does not ma…

Current affairs are still mostly mundane - as much as sharia law is prescriptive about some stuff, it won't cover how to set up a database of taxpayers or how to make a nuclear plant work. That was my point - the elected side of things takes care of that, obviously under the supervision/control of the religious element, and depending on who you elect things will be carried out differently. You can't tell me things were not different when Ahmadinejad was in office compared to when Rouhani was in office.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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fishtacos wrote: post #66
stelonix wrote: post #55

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I do agree we're living an eternal september for the past months and comment quality has gone down to reddit-level, but I also agree with the commenter about this specific post from GH's founder.

Curious as to why you think this is an "eternal september" vs.... anything else/your standard.

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Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by mschuster91 »

SuoDuanDao wrote: post #426
mehrdada wrote: post #402

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This characterization is ridiculous. Following the form does not make you “somewhat democratic,” nor does calling oneself Democratic People’s Republic. In addition, “the secular executive branch” comment is flat out wrong. The executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicitly obligated to believe and follow Islamic and Sharia laws.

>The executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicitly obligated to believe and follow Islamic and Sharia laws. Oh come one. Is the US not a democracy because the executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicity obligated to believe and follow the constitution? As a Canadian I've personally benefited from the US hegemony and if I had to pick a least-rapacious global hegemon historically you'd…

> I can't help but feel like the US might have 'Earned' the same kind of 'Democracy' its three-letter boys brought Libya.

Libya was especially an affair of France, Italy (the former colonial power) and the UK.

If you ask me, the Italians are the reason why Ghaddafi was outright executed - there were numerous dirty deals done between Italy and Ghaddafi's Libya, mostly to have Ghaddafi do the dirty work for the EU in keeping migrants away.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by SuoDuanDao »

mschuster91 wrote: post #453
SuoDuanDao wrote: post #426

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>The executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicitly obligated to believe and follow Islamic and Sharia laws. Oh come one. Is the US not a democracy because the executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicity obligated to believe and follow the constitution? As a Canadian I've personally benefited from the US hegemony and if I had to pick a least-rapacious global hegemon historically you'd…

> I can't help but feel like the US might have 'Earned' the same kind of 'Democracy' its three-letter boys brought Libya. Libya was especially an affair of France, Italy (the former colonial power) and the UK. If you ask me, the Italians are the reason why Ghaddafi was outright executed - there were numerous dirty deals done between Italy and Ghaddafi's Libya, mostly to have Ghaddafi do the dirty work for the EU in k…

Interesting, I hadn't heard that theory - are you saying the Italians had him killed because he knew too much or that they failed to protect their clandestine ally from France and the UK?

Or is it more that factions in Italy that benefit from human trafficking got the upper hand on those that were working with Qaddafi to limit it? Italy is #3 in the world for trafficked humans after all, presumably some powerful people profit from it.

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

adev_ wrote: post #446
geofft wrote: post #400

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I don't understand. Is your claim that ATMs are running Windows XP because Microsoft did get buried under a pile of ash in the early '00s and released no further OS upgrades, and therefore it would have been better for the ATM manufacturer to use an open-source OS because they, unlike Windows, survived to 2021? Nobody in this thread is arguing that everything in the world is perfect. There are a lot of bad things in…

> The specific argument in this subthread is about whether it's okay to build your business on proprietary software or whether there's too much of a risk that the vendor will stop producing updates It has everything to do with that and I think it's a way too narrow view. In this case Microsoft indeed did not go bankrupt. They did however stopped to provide updates to solution "Windows XP", without giving an alternati…

> They did however stopped to provide updates to solution "Windows XP", without giving an alternative compatible on the same legacy hardware (the old ATM hardware).

Hang on there… Microsoft never did stop making updates to Windows XP Embedded - they kept it on super-extended support as “Windows POSReady” (I think the pun was intentional…) and it’s replacement in “Windows IoT” is reasonable.

Your argument is valid only if ATM manufacturers were being missold XP Embedded by Microsoft on the basis that the support lifecycle of XP Embedded would outlive the ATM hardware - but I put it to you that is not the case. The support lifeycle of MS products is (surprisingly) well-documented and transparent - and to my knowledge (and saying that as a former blue-badge myself) MS has never represented XP Embedded (or other NT-family OSes) as being suitable for a 20+ year lifespan. The blame lies squarely with the systems-integrator who built the ATMs.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by safaci2000 »

makeitdouble wrote: post #381
thom wrote: post #218

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It's just extremely low friction. Push some YAML in an existing repo, done. I've enjoyed using TeamCity in the past, and tolerated Hudson/Jenkins, and I do keep expecting to hit something that makes me want to go back, but it hasn't happened yet.

Another way to put it: any CI properly integrated to Github will be #1 CI by sheer market size. Gitlab has a similar YAML system from more than a decade, it's low friction, pretty polished and highly reliable. But it will always be a more niche product by the effect of Gitlab being way smaller that Github.

I've used Gitlab before, I have found it to be more complicated than I'd like. Not sure why but it feels harder to use.

These days Drone CI is my current favorite for OSS projects, I'm forced to use gitlab at work so that's what we use for internal projects.

I think Drone appeals to me for its simplicity, golang choice and docker everything. Not that it doesn't have its own set of issues as well.

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by safaci2000 »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #232
safaci2000 wrote: post #139

"GitHub Actions has become the #1 CI service, used by popular open source projects and enterprises alike." I must be missing something. For whatever reason GH Actions just never appealed to me. Am I missing something? I've used Drone IO more, granted it's better than travis but the #1 CI services seems like a stretch.

i assume he means #1 in usage (measurable) rather than in quality (an opinion, which he may also have, but which he probably wouldn't say as simply as "has become the #1"). When you say "seems like a stretch", I read it as you thinking he meant "quality, as a matter of opinion". I would not be surprised if it's #1 in usage, getting there by being integrated in github and free and actually pretty darn good.

I'm honestly surprised by quantity even. I'd question the quality from my brief experience with it I didn't find it that impressive.

The quantity aspect is also a bit surprising since it hasn't been that long that it's been released, so seeing a #1 leader is impressive in itself, even if it's free and integrated.

I mean I have a bunch of TravisCI projects that I really don't want to migrate over unless I have a good reason. The "if it works" leave it alone.

If there's enough motivation for people to switch it's impressive (or it shows how much people hate travis/jenkins/whatever CI they ARE using)

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by ghuntley »

mritchie712 wrote: post #343
ghuntley wrote: post #282

In case people missed it. There was two promotions today. A new CEO at GitHub and the person GitHub reports to a MSFT also got promoted. Here’s the internal msft email https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29098640 This person at MSFT who got promoted is the one that caused the problems in the dotnet community where features that had a go-live RTM license (as in merged and ready for long term support) were removed fro…

What do you mean by Python being under them?

From: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/k0s8qw/vs_code_devel...

“Microsoft doing shitty/shady things is nothing new, especially here, but seeing as they've recently started advocating for open-source, this seems like quite a step backwards. Some background first. Microsoft has been working on an open-source Python type checker called pyright for some time now. The first public commit dates back to 2019-03-11. It seems quite promising, though I haven't tried it myself yet, with them advertising "speed" as its main characteristic. All fine and good so far. Then, in October of this year, they released PyLance, a VS code extension that serves as a language server for Python and uses pyright for type checking. PyLance is not open-source”

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by maqqerone »

orliesaurus wrote: post #30

If person's legacy is a list of all the good things (or bad things) they've done during their time, Nat's legacy as the CEO of GitHub can also be summed into a list. Let me get started...I only remember this one thing but other users of HN can help add more I supposed: - That one time when Nat spoke against DMCA law and said taking down youtube-dl was wrong and he actively pushed for their reinstatement. [1] [1] http…

Great post!

Re: Thank you, GitHub

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Post by shabazahmed »

908B64B197 wrote: post #337
type_enthusiast wrote: post #333

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> the people of Iran can end these sanctions at any time Sorry to bite on this off-topic thing... but, _how_? Overthrowing their government? I guess that would be technically true, but "at any time" seems like a weird phrase to use for that.

Yes. Just look at Libya during the Arab Spring. Democracy is never given, it is earned.

I wouldn't say never. ex Bhutanese Democracy[1] was given by the monarchs though lot of population wanted the monarch to continue. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutanese_democracy
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