I don't see any indication that pdftotext has been discontinued [1]. It looks like a Mac-specific installer available via Homebrew Cask has been discontinued [2], but pdftotext is still available through the normal…
It seems like a likely explanation is that these are primarily done by children and that this is a human universal / instinctual behavior during child development. Looking at google scholar there are at least a couple…
What I find interesting about this explanation is that it suggests a much more limited scope of decision-making than is often attributed to humans. A practical example of why this could matter is that instead of…
Indeed. It seems possible that there’s something about the red ochre hand motif is hardwired into human brain and is related to language development. But on a time scale of tens of thousands of years, even if we somehow…
Rock art is really weird because there are exactly same motifs using the same materials (usually red ochre) all over the world and separated by tens of thousands of years. People act like it’s no big deal, but it sure…
> import a second backend into your main backend This is not typically how the term "backend" is used in this context. Most mature apps will use a variety of tools and services built in a variety of languages, but this…
That is obvious (it's in the name). The way your comment is phrased reads to me like you are saying that one can't use Rails and has to switch to a full JS backend for SSR. If that's not what you are saying, then it's…
> if we're talking about building an SPA you're typically going to be building a worse solution if you can't SSR your client views, which you need a js backend to do. I have not used React with Rails and maybe I'm…
To be like hacker news it would have to be filled with actual insurgents, including some who managed to make their own countries.
It’s entertaining watching these threads pop up and then quickly disappear off the front page, all the while attracting the same stock, bot-like comments expressing indignation.
Names change all the time. Leader / follower and primary / secondary are better for a lot of things, anyway. Even ignoring the social issue, master and slave are not great terms for how they are used. Frankly, I find it…
3000-2500 BCE is such an interesting time period. Civilization and technology somewhat inexplicably pick up throughout the world within just a few centuries. For example, coinciding with the Gilgamesh time period…
No, the people who want this change literally built the tech. [1] All of you getting triggered and crying from the peanut gallery need to develop some perspective and go back to work.…
> I picked the names "master" (and "origin") in the early Git tooling back in 2005. > (this probably means you shouldn't give much weight to my name preferences :) ) > I have wished many times I would have named them…
Nope. Any third party software that assumes a “master” branch always exists and is always the main branch was already broken.
It’s not a breaking change.
Obviously, all of you bitching and moaning about your precious master / slave terminology are the most triggered. If you can't handle a name change, then software is absolutely not the career for you.
Yes. Software evolves as the environment evolves. Software that can't evolve gets replaced.
If people are offended by "git" and want to advocate for a name change, they are free to do so.
Obviously people feel otherwise, and it's changing regardless of whether you are able to understand or not.
It's not. This is more like a swear word. No one would expect that calling it the "fuck" branch would be OK. Just because more people are OK with "master" doesn't change the fact that it bothers other people who are…
I’m asking if you could please share links to the information you saw about about the widespread subscription cancellations that you referred to.
They reported at the beginning of May that subscriptions are at a high: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/business/media/new-york-t... Scanning the google results for “nyt subscribers” I see them reporting 5 million in…
Blues exist along a range of brightness values and blues work great in dark terminals and editors all day every day for many many people. I'm typing into a browser window surrounded by probably about 4 or 5 terminal and…
The way we fix most legacy software systems is by replacing them with newer, different ones.
I don't see any indication that pdftotext has been discontinued [1]. It looks like a Mac-specific installer available via Homebrew Cask has been discontinued [2], but pdftotext is still available through the normal…
It seems like a likely explanation is that these are primarily done by children and that this is a human universal / instinctual behavior during child development. Looking at google scholar there are at least a couple…
What I find interesting about this explanation is that it suggests a much more limited scope of decision-making than is often attributed to humans. A practical example of why this could matter is that instead of…
Indeed. It seems possible that there’s something about the red ochre hand motif is hardwired into human brain and is related to language development. But on a time scale of tens of thousands of years, even if we somehow…
Rock art is really weird because there are exactly same motifs using the same materials (usually red ochre) all over the world and separated by tens of thousands of years. People act like it’s no big deal, but it sure…
> import a second backend into your main backend This is not typically how the term "backend" is used in this context. Most mature apps will use a variety of tools and services built in a variety of languages, but this…
That is obvious (it's in the name). The way your comment is phrased reads to me like you are saying that one can't use Rails and has to switch to a full JS backend for SSR. If that's not what you are saying, then it's…
> if we're talking about building an SPA you're typically going to be building a worse solution if you can't SSR your client views, which you need a js backend to do. I have not used React with Rails and maybe I'm…
To be like hacker news it would have to be filled with actual insurgents, including some who managed to make their own countries.
It’s entertaining watching these threads pop up and then quickly disappear off the front page, all the while attracting the same stock, bot-like comments expressing indignation.
Names change all the time. Leader / follower and primary / secondary are better for a lot of things, anyway. Even ignoring the social issue, master and slave are not great terms for how they are used. Frankly, I find it…
3000-2500 BCE is such an interesting time period. Civilization and technology somewhat inexplicably pick up throughout the world within just a few centuries. For example, coinciding with the Gilgamesh time period…
No, the people who want this change literally built the tech. [1] All of you getting triggered and crying from the peanut gallery need to develop some perspective and go back to work.…
> I picked the names "master" (and "origin") in the early Git tooling back in 2005. > (this probably means you shouldn't give much weight to my name preferences :) ) > I have wished many times I would have named them…
Nope. Any third party software that assumes a “master” branch always exists and is always the main branch was already broken.
It’s not a breaking change.
Obviously, all of you bitching and moaning about your precious master / slave terminology are the most triggered. If you can't handle a name change, then software is absolutely not the career for you.
Yes. Software evolves as the environment evolves. Software that can't evolve gets replaced.
If people are offended by "git" and want to advocate for a name change, they are free to do so.
Obviously people feel otherwise, and it's changing regardless of whether you are able to understand or not.
It's not. This is more like a swear word. No one would expect that calling it the "fuck" branch would be OK. Just because more people are OK with "master" doesn't change the fact that it bothers other people who are…
I’m asking if you could please share links to the information you saw about about the widespread subscription cancellations that you referred to.
They reported at the beginning of May that subscriptions are at a high: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/business/media/new-york-t... Scanning the google results for “nyt subscribers” I see them reporting 5 million in…
Blues exist along a range of brightness values and blues work great in dark terminals and editors all day every day for many many people. I'm typing into a browser window surrounded by probably about 4 or 5 terminal and…
The way we fix most legacy software systems is by replacing them with newer, different ones.