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Ask HN: Why does Gitlab's top-right logo now say “Gitlab Next”?

I've been a convert to GitLab for around 8 months. But I guess I missed something, because as of today there's a big green "Next" label near the regular GitLab logo. A skimming of the blog and a Duck Duck Go search don't immediately reveal an answer. I've checked it logged in and while logged out and it's still there.(Quick shill: Github is great for discovering and sharing open source...

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Re:BBC Producer: 2018 Douma Sarin attack was staged propaganda on Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:09PM (#19164224)
Basically everyone knew this, apart from US war mongers of course.
Re:Steam Is Banning Sex Games with Young-Looking Characters on Saturday December 08, 2018 @06:45PM (#18638202)
Thank god!

I had a conversation with one of these kiddie porn paddlers on Twitter. They bought Twitter ads to advertise their Steam-sold child porn game where not only were their underage girls, but you took pictures of them in change rooms without consent and so on. I said something to the effect of "how can you sleep at night selling clear images of child sexual abuse" and their reply was literally "it sells".

Reporting it to Twitter went nowhere and I continued to see ads for the game for some time. Thanks ad algorithm.

While it annoys me that Activision, EA and Ubisoft all have their own stores instead of using the neutral Steam store, I totally understand that few would want their games on such a pedophilic cess pool. I'm sure revenue sharing is the bigger cause, but god damn. Make a fucking Half Life game instead of being a host for interactive child molestation. Fuck.

As discussed elsewhere, both companies enjoy large tax breaks that give them huge advantages. However, I think only Amazon sells so many items online without sales taxes across the US.

Apple still makes a good deal more revenue.

For quite some time, Amazon made almost no profit and just spent everything they earned. I believe they recently started taking in more profit, and this has probably excited the stock price a lot.

Amazon also seems to do things Apple isn't willing to. Amazon hosts the NSA's data, while Apple fights for privacy. Amazon has notoriously poor working conditions and unethical sources, while Apple leads in creating an ethical supply chain, using green energy and making recyclable products.

Apple's strategy means they're virtually the only ones who can sell phones, tablets and computers for a decent profit margin. Amazon's strategy shows they're willing to be cut throat. Both are attractive to traders in about equal measure, it seems.

Re:Show HN: A tool to balance US political news on Friday July 27, 2018 @08:48PM (#17630783)
Of course this seems to "unite" folks under a neoliberal, capitalist status quo and doesn't represent anything very Marxist, which is about uniting workers.
Re:Slack channels are a waste of time on Thursday July 26, 2018 @10:13PM (#17622977)
> Remote workers can’t participate

Maybe not the correct headline at least, they mean folks in other time zones. But a little sleep hacking fixes this, for me.

> Channels rapidly devolve into GIF posts

Sometimes I wish they would. I've found recent Slack orgs I'm in to be dead. And you try start a topic and no one replies for hours or days, and I sometimes delete posts out of embarrassment that I said something wrong or just boring.

Last I looked at Zulip they were using the web-app in a "native" wrapper approach to desktop clients. I wish them the best, but wish just _one_ enterprise chat competitor would take a different approach. I know the appeal and I'm a JS developer myself, but even if you have to make a Mac-only solution, there is a market for that cause nearly every small-to-medium office seems to be all Mac.

Hi,

Strictly applied, I've followed a "ketogenic" diet by definition. My body operated on ketones for prolonged periods over about a year.

This came from intermittent fasting. This did not come from a strong meat-based diet with high fat. I believe those are very bad ideas.

The process was roughly Mon to Wed/Thu/Fri with no food whatsoever. I used keto-sticks to ensure my body switched to ketones as fuel.

Each day I stepped on the scale, I lost 2/3 - 1 whole KG a day. It was amazing.

Psychologically, there was a sort of buzz that I felt enhanced focus and was pleasurable. I was also amused at how I conquered hunger. It stopped ruling my life and I decided when to each and how much.

Physically, I did not feel like I could climb a mountain or anything. I felt light and floaty, but also slow and somewhat weak. This was not necessarily a bad thing at all. I did _not_ feel heavy and sluggish or lethargic, but rather capable of focus and walking around, just perhaps slower, but more comfortable.

Heads up: the first 3-day session was very hard. Headaches were an issue. From there it became easier. Then second nature.

I lost 20+ kilos over the year, but most of that was during the 3+ day fasts. I took many weeks off throughout the year and easily switched from normal eating to fasting throughout.

I have also tried meat/fat based keto diets and I think they are bad. They did not work for me in any way, and I have red of people damaging themselves from this harmful diet fad. I tried many other diets as well, but fasting was all that worked.

Some of the weight was regained, but I still fit into the clothes I bought at the target weight I reached through this method. I happen to believe this diet is perfectly natural and even medically beneficial.

Ask HN: SR&ED – Can I use it for my goals as a dev?

There is a Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit in Canada that my employer wants to use.I want to create more open source libraries. Is there any benefit or penalty for developing open source tools with respect to getting this tax credit?Would they look at the organizations NPM/Gitlab/Github contributions favourably when deciding whether a company is eligible...

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Looks sick.
Re:The Mind Meld of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @12:06AM (#16263012)
Ew.
Re:Microsoft Israel's R&D Center Names New 34-year-old CEO on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @12:03AM (#16263001)
Boycott Israel.
Re:Are You a Target for Nation-State Propaganda? on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @12:02AM (#16262996)
All who visit the New York Times are.
Re:ATT CEO: Consumers Need an Internet Bill of Rights on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:49PM (#16262965)
Counter-intelligence.
Re:Julian Assange Thought He Was Messaging Sean Hannity on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:48PM (#16262964)
Another JA smear. Seems uninteresting.
"But Apple is just good at marketing"
Cryptocurrencies are extremely slow, have high fees and are destructive to the environment. They also eliminate many consumer protections in place for both banking and investing, leading many to financial ruin and suicide.
A better idea than a race to the bottom. Needs some front-end work.
It's a problem that a billionaire not knowing something is a problem.
Re:Twitter Says Russian Bots Retweeted Trump 470,000 Times on Saturday January 27, 2018 @05:56PM (#16248575)
If only they were as honest about everyone else's tweets.
Re:Google Clips – Now available on Saturday January 27, 2018 @04:42PM (#16248232)
Google getting in the standalone camera game in 2018... wow.
Another in Steve Wozniak's long list of failures. Which all started with his fateful decision to leave Apple. One of the biggest mistakes of all time, I'd say. But I guess he's happy, he took his shares and then stopped contributing anything to the world.
I think this does a better job of showing how similar the mainstream media outlets are.
Re:Apple Supercycle, It's Happening on Saturday January 27, 2018 @02:16AM (#16245213)
What is a super cycle
Re:Promising Billions to Amazon: Is It a Good Deal for Cities? on Saturday January 27, 2018 @02:10AM (#16245196)
The sick part is Amazon is asking cities to fight over the privilege to kiss it's ass. So the bidding goes higher and higher as the people get robbed more and more.
Re:So you’re a feminist who works at Uber? on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:39PM (#16243804)
User trying to repair their image.
Re:Prepare for changes to macOS Server on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:37PM (#16243796)
Apple has captured the consumer market extremely well. They have something like 90%+ of the market share in dollars. The middling response to the iPhone X suggests there's little room to grow on the high-end consumer side. So I'm cautiously optimistic they'll move into enterprise and servers more. But it's more likely they drop Server.
He was a super villain already.
Manage in what way? Like Zeplin?
Re:Ask HN: Moving to Tokyo as a software engineer on Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:57PM (#16236475)
Is there anyway we could get in touch? I'd like to have someone I could ask questions once I do this myself.
Re:Knife-threatening app banned by Google on Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:56PM (#16236470)

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