Oh for sure! When I worked as a contractor I worked with many departments but even the groups I worked with didn't represent the entire department they were in. But it was a very common theme with every single one that I worked with.
I'd love to see some data on FOSS usage across the DoD but that type of audit is likely impossible.
I didn't say it was someone random but it's from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It's a non-profit, which is good, but they do other things so getting press for the Doomsday clock is highly beneficial for them.
I'm not saying they update it _just_ to get press but I'm sure they highly enjoy the press they get every-time they touch the thing.
Their reasoning seems sound to me but I'm amused that someone built a clock that shows what their current guess is for when "doomsday" will happen and they get free press every single time they change it.
I feel like I'm missing out on doing something silly that I can periodically change, call a press conference for and get some attention.
> The motto seems to be: "Open Source is BAD! How are we going the get support?! Let's just buy a product or solution from a vendor"
Not really accurate anymore. Maybe it was true a decade ago but when I worked in the DoD space almost every single project was attempting to use ONLY FOSS where possible and to try and move off of companies proprietary stuff.
Unfortunately most of the projects I've seen ended up failing and Palantir usually sweeps in and gets a contract because the users really like it.
There is a huge want inside of the DoD for FOSS, it's just mortally wounded by others who want systems like Palantir or through simple incompetence.
I own a Surface Book 2 and a Surface Laptop 2. Both are amazing but I find the Laptop 2's keyboard better because of the fabric on it (which sounds bizarre).
Either way, except for some Windows annoyances I really don't miss my MacBooks.
I also get this quite frequently. I setup a Facebook page for a side project of mine that I hope to turn into a sort of side business and I wanted to make sure the name didn't get taken. I get notifications almost EVERY SINGLE DAY that my page won't be visible unless I add more stuff to it. I literally got 3 emails a few days ago, in the same day, saying the same thing for my page.
I feel forced to use Facebook to keep up with friends and family but I absolutely hate using it the entire time and I try to avoid it where possible. It's just amazing how spammy it's gotten and how their popularity continues to just go up.
While I too am anxious to hear the outcome after Microsoft investigates the author still shared something they were interested in of which holds a value to the HN community as many of us love digging into a system and finding issues. This was the main purpose of the article.
Regardless the author may not know how critical Microsoft has classified this issue. It could be something they don't resolve for years. Since the Microsoft investigation and possible patch has no barring on the content of this article I wouldn't expect it to be held until such a time.
I'm sure we'll get a follow up on HN when or if it gets patched. Even better maybe posting this article helps get it fixed sooner :)
Considering every phone I've tested (iPhone 5S, iPhone 6+, Samsung Note, Moto X, Nexus 6P) with 7 different bluetooth headphones (ranging from cheap Amazon ones to expensive LG) I have NEVER found a phone, paired with headphones, that stayed connected especially when the phone is in my side pocket and I'm walking in an open space which seems to make connectivity significantly worse.
For instance getting on the BART being an enclosed space? I never have an issue. All of the headphones I've tested stay connected the entire time without issue. The SECOND I walk out of the station, even in the city, every pair of headphones I've tried work most of the time but typically cut out once every 30 seconds or so. But it's crazy inconsistent because I managed to walk to my office, once, the entire way without it disconnecting.
Seeing as bluetooth 5 helps with range I'm hope I can finally using it to keep my phone in my side pocket and actually listen to my headphones, uninterrupted.
Neat though its code could have been significantly simplified through the usage of some focus events and using tabindex to iterate over each field (to a degree; some items would require a little bit more fancy-ness but not much).
Also this page has the biggest html table I've seen in years :)
> would memory have been an issue with the amount of callback chaining required?
Unlikely; you gotta hit a really deep stack to really kill something with callback chaining.
It could have used a start button that sets focus to the first one and then each focus change makes it go to the next but without the setTimeouts it would go by so far it wouldn't be nearly as fun.
Fair enough. That probably goes for almost everyone on HN as well I would think but obviously we're an edge case.
> Their goal with these features is not to retain existing users but to acquire ones who wouldn't have otherwise used Twitter.
Hmm, how would this attract new folks? Like Facebook tries to show you things you care about but this I'm not sure how it's really sold to perspective users. Since it's a social network I'm guessing much will be word of mouth but that requires support from existing users.
I wonder if things like increasing the character amount and offering a better, maybe threaded conversational way of interacting with folks would bring in more people. Granted those may not be the best choices philosophically but I wonder if they've done any A/B testing where certain areas got different features like more character counts and how it turned out.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted; their head count was absolutely insane. Yes Twitter has some insane needs for scaling but 4,100 employees for a 140 character service with some basic ads? Absolutely far too many.
Completely agree. "Moments" just has that damn indicator showing stuff is unread on it and it drives me nuts but NOTHING is EVER relevant to any of my interests or even the people I follow. I don't even understand what the point of it is; shouldn't it just be displaying things it thinks I want to look at? At least that makes the most sense to me...
Oh well, I don't think Twitter is going away any time soon but I don't really understand some of the steps they've been taking...and 4,100 employees? Yikes!
> Surgical would imply killing off specific teams and products. This is across the board.
Perhaps I missed it but no where did I see any specific mention that this was either surgical or across the board. Care to elaborate? If they didn't specify it certain could go either way.
Wow, I was literally looking at this today to see if Android was announced yet. I'm working on a little side project and I was using C++ as the common language across both iOS and Android platforms. While I do, in fact, like C++ it just doesn't have the same support as more dynamic languages to do even basic things (even string splitting or trimming requires separate libraries or rolling your own code; how does a standard string library not include such things?). This looks pretty good.
I'm going to look into this. I'm mostly curious about how building works and how easy it is to setup, say, a single (or two) build script(s) that can package for either platforms and grab the necessary, common JavaScript. I'm also curious as to how easy (or difficult) it is if you wish to create custom UI components for either platform.
The most things in JIRA I need to click probably at least 5 or 6 things to do something. So I didn't necessarily mean it's slow as in clicking on something takes forever to load (though I've seen that happen on self and Atlassian hosted versions of JIRA) but that it just simply takes way too many clicks to do anything in JIRA (except maybe creating an issue since that's always at the very top). In my opinion at least.
While this is typically how it's been done in my experience I really don't agree. My take on JIRA is that it can literally do anything project-management wise but everything it does is cumbersome and slow.
I wish there were more alternatives that had SOME similar feature sets (certainly not all of the features; most of the JIRA ones can be interchanged with its other features) and was significantly faster to use.
I'd love to see some data on FOSS usage across the DoD but that type of audit is likely impossible.