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Re:GitLab 6.0 Released on Sunday August 25, 2013 @05:28AM (#6271467)
Thanks. Yes the upgrades are much better now.

I think Gitlab kind of suffers from the Ubuntu syndrome when they were still pushing the non-LTS release as default. Many things were not tested long enough and would cause issues for many people while they were using it.

For example after one upgrade browsing the repos didn't work because apparently the Git version hat to be a specific version. I think this was neither tested nor is the Git version mentioned anywhere as a requisite.

Or with v5.3 the Git satellites would get into an unclean state sometimes and had to be cleaned out manually.

I took quite some time to find this out too.

So my suggestion: more polish and testing and less new features.

Re:GitLab 6.0 Released on Sunday August 25, 2013 @03:44AM (#6271278)
Thanks for creating Gitlab. It helped us a lot internally. We were using plain Gitosis before. Now nobody gives a hoot about that anymore :)

My only request would be to focus more on stability. We run it for 1 year now and there were many problems with upgrades and various changing issues with the different versions.

So for us less new features but a better tested Gitlab would be great. Maybe some kind of "stable" release? Not sure...

Re:Is democracy overrated? on Sunday August 11, 2013 @04:45AM (#6194363)
All systems put their form of rule on a pedestal worshiping it, saying: "there is none like it".

It will fall apart as all the other systems have and be considered "silly compared to our knew awesome form of rule"

Re:Ubuntu: One OS, one interface, all devices on Saturday July 27, 2013 @09:15PM (#6115136)
Or DSL.
> do not believe in evolution

exactly... you need to believe in it because there can't be any proof as long as we can't travel in time.

get over it and recognize that everything that goes beyond the scientific method is mere speculation.

Re:Gmail now features ads that look like emails on Saturday July 20, 2013 @05:55AM (#6074788)
adblock?
Re:Intel In Bed with NSA? on Sunday July 14, 2013 @08:41AM (#6040742)
Basic Assumptions:

> You have activated Intel vPro technology on the PCs through configuration of the Management Engine BIOS extension (MEBx).1

http://www.vnc.com/products/viewerplus/ViewerPlusUseCases.pd...

Re:Ubuntu 13.04: Getting Excited About Ubuntu Again on Sunday July 07, 2013 @07:01AM (#6001709)
same thing for me with GNOME 3, I really wanted to like it but I just can't :)

I'm on Debian so Unity is far away for me...

Re:Microsoft's developer crusade on Saturday July 06, 2013 @03:34AM (#5998258)
> But the company has adapted to the new developer world, embracing the cloud and open source and contributing important new technologies to the developer community.

Ok, don't make me laugh.

I wonder how much they pay him for writing this stuff.

Re:HKSAR Government issues statement on Edward Snowden on Sunday June 23, 2013 @08:42AM (#5927352)
don't you realize that the european governments are very much under US influence still?

US = good, China and Russia etc. = bad

But of course only the other countries are the evil ones.
>Fine, install mg, it'll do 90% of what I need.

oh no, mg is pretty crappy. I use a lot of emacs features and the ones I just need on that file are usually not available.

If I need to choose between mg and vim I'll always use vim, it's far superior than any of these cheap emacs clones.

Use a real Emacs or use Vim... that's it.

as far as I remember this is a feature, the wifi connection stack on osx is trying to connect to recent wifis first with the mac address because that is much faster than trying to get a new lease and so on
Re:The Design Bankruptcy Of iPad Mini Clones on Saturday May 11, 2013 @10:50AM (#5690738)
ipad mini - Release date November 2, 2012

nexus 7 - Release date July 13, 2012

> Why was it up to Apple to create a thin and light tablet with asymmetric bezels?

> Why couldn’t someone else have done that?

because they have done it before Apple? (see nexus 7)

Re:Let's Make GitHub Better, Together on Saturday May 04, 2013 @08:43AM (#5654873)
yeah, it's kinda weird that they "promote" open source using closed source SW. at least they could have issues. I think to make the github code open source would have been something they should have done years ago. now gitlab has rewritten almost the whole functionality from scratch.

if you look at what happens with gitlab, just imagine how much it would advance github itself it they would have a repo for which people could open PRs

Re:Sleep: Everything You Need to Know on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @03:00AM (#5593685)
ok, but your shouldn't make it look like rocket science. it's pretty simple for me and maybe I'm lucky, but I guess the most important thing is to tell people to experiment with their sleep. i would say most of these sleep issues have a rather simple cure and you don't need sleep apps, wrist devices, zeos etc.
Re:Sleep: Everything You Need to Know on Monday April 22, 2013 @05:28PM (#5591875)
no no no, i don't even need to read any of that. 6 hours sleep. perfect for me. not tired, almost always in a good mood. very simple and effective. i don't need no recipes, to know about deep sleep and all that.

you should not forget that people are very different. so don't try to impose all these rules on everyone just because it works for you.

Re:Google is about to learn a tough lesson on Saturday March 16, 2013 @03:51AM (#5384822)
all of this (I think) is Larry Page in action. for a long time there was no clear strategy with Schmidt. "products" would pop up everywhere with no clear relationship. now Larry is cutting the wild growth. while it hurts some people I think in general it will strengthen Google.

> Oh, and I’m pissed with Google Reader going away. I used it 3-10 times a day to consume about 100+ feeds.

look, if you want to have a more effective RSS reading habit, use rss2email http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/ and plug into the power of email-filtering. you don't even have to go to some "reader" to get updated.

Re:Google Reader shutting down on Thursday March 14, 2013 @03:58PM (#5377322)
- apt-get install rss2email - add some feeds - be done with it
Re:How SublimeText Bodybags vim+Terminator on Sunday February 03, 2013 @01:00PM (#5160426)
> I'm a bit bitter because sometimes (often actually) I wish Emacs was multi-threaded

Tony> - Is multi-threading coming to emacs 25?

I don't know about Emacs 25, but I did manage to merge trunk to the concurrency branch today. If you're interested you could try it out.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-12/msg004...

it looks like Emacs should soon (?) support concurrency

Re:How SublimeText Bodybags vim+Terminator on Sunday February 03, 2013 @12:25PM (#5160272)
it's funny how people praise Sublime Text when plain old Emacs can do most of the things that Sublime Text can:

> 5. vim compatability!

evil-mode - a very advanced vi layer for emacs, probably much better than vintage, I hear only good things about it although I use the standard emacs mode

> 4. Powerful Keybindings in JSON and Plugins in Python

powerful keybindings

  (global-set-key (kbd "<f2>") 'split-window-vertically)
  (global-set-key (kbd "<f3>") 'split-window-horizontally)
  (global-set-key (kbd "<f4>") 'delete-window)
  (global-set-key (kbd "<f5>") 'delete-other-windows)
and modes (plugins) in Elisp

> 3. Package Manager and the More Centralized Community

since Emacs 24 a package manager is included and there are awesome repos for all of your needs:

    (setq package-archives '((     "elpa" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
                             ("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/")
                             (    "melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/")))
after that run

    M-x list-packages
and choose from around 1000 packages

> 2. Project Sessions

there are many modes that support that if you want it. I personally don't like it though. "projectile" is pretty nice though: https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile

> 1. Ctrl+P - GotoAnything:

helm is what you would use on Emacs: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm

it's awesome