This article suffers from major bias and is pure conjecture from the authors perspective.
I could counter argue with many reasons why git/hg/perforce/cvs is superior but it misses the core point about any VCS. It's about team collaboration and different tools suit different teams.
Git Fusion is worth a checkout for those programmers who want Git with a mixed repo. Only discovered it this week, but it allows me to pull from a Perforce repo as a git origin :)
I find docker is quite good for integration tests where you need to test against a third party bit of software. Lots of images exist in the hub for this.
I'll kick of the discussion, the existing government gateway system can be a bit troublesome for those with forgotten details and deadline tax returns.
I helped out a collegue today login to their tax return and avoid a £100 fine.
The verification is based upon identity documents (Passport/Driving license), bank transactions (given payment in month X) and other sources of data.
+1 for these too, I've had mine for over a year now.
At first they were a little un-comfortable on my ears in terms of listening but they're now perfect.
The tagline for the post is assuming a cup of coffee, i.e a physical product has the same value of a virtual one.
To that end, is software value not dependent on the crowd which buys it? However, I cannot share your cup of coffee you buy from Starbucks.
My point only further raises the question: Do consumers see Apps as shared content? Or, Do they equate physical and virtual App products as being worth the same?
I presume the context of this post is that it's Ada's birthday?
Is this a new HN trend? Karma for dead programmer birthdays? I don't dispute Ada's great contributions and example for women but I have to jump on the non-news bandwagon.
Square have still yet to break into the European market despite claims from their vanished blog that they were planning to in 2012. This was at the same time as taking Branson on board.
It might stand that they're trying to strengthen their core business in the USA, Starbucks could be a good gateway for them moving forward into other countries.
At first glance the intention of TestPAC isn't too clear, seems a bit grey in the area of what the campaign is all about.
It's great that an Internet community has come together to rally funds to help fight such an opponent such as Lamar, however the message with the billboard (https://imgur.com/a/egngk) and the supporting website isn't too clear.
The average Joe if they understand the billboard and visit the website won't make the connections an Internet savvy user might.
I've been following the SOPA/PIPA/CISPA developments closely, but I had no idea about TestPAC and when visiting the website http://www.testpacpleaseignore.org/unseatlamar/ it doesn't link me with the candidate name on the billboard (who if I was a citizen in that state I'd need to vote for).
Unless the intention is just to make people vote for anyone but Lamar?
There's lots of talk about the survival of the Square reader under heavy demand, certainly another more durable reader needs to be produced.
However is the market for square at this price point really for anything above one or maybe two point of sales?
Using this setup in some bar environments would require some hardware to protect the iPad, I've worked looking after hardware in busy student union bars where the staff just destroy the tills with spillages.
My impression of the earlier square products for POS were that it's intended for giving the small business something, not for running your local branch of Starbucks.
After a bit of research the 380's do indeed seem to have a good rating. I believe both the 280's and 380's are collapsible but the 380's have an easier to replace cable.
Very good reviews online but a bit hard to get in shops (UK), most places seem to order them in.
One of the points nearly covered in the article is not going off track, as soon as people get comfortable and start discussing things off topic then the meeting is over as it is no longer productive.
The ethos of standing meetings is pretty good, nobody can get comfortable and decisions are made quickly. To this end meetings ARE useful in some situations, topic for discussion should be circulated prior and agreement made in the meeting. As you don't want to fall into the trap of long email threads between co-workers which could be solved with a few minutes of discussion.
This line of thought very much touches on how students are badly taught, I doubt MIT are as bad as where I studied which had the scribe lecturing approach.
Students should always be at the lecture with the content in advance to discuss in some form such as peer instruction. My University didn't even release a reading list of Mathematical or Computer Science material prior to the course beginning.