craigcabrey

> Can we please get standard battery form factors, voltages and connectors: like AA, AAA, C, D, 9 volt, etc, but in a larger size similar to lantern batteries and car batteries?

This exists already. 18650 is in widespread use and now 2170 is gaining traction. Each cell is already a standard voltage, 4.2V at the top end, 2.75V on the bottom end (or lower depending on whether you want to risk permanent damage).

> Can we please get batteries with built-in protection circuits? I want to wire them in series or parallel at any voltage and have them "just work" and never explode. Bonus: please do this with solar panels as well.

These also already exist. Tesla will never use them because the BMS handles that job, which is more effective and cheaper.

Misleading title, from the article:

> We are not rewriting GitLab's frontend entirely in Vue.

You make it sound like they've never done that before (Universal binaries).

Err, my Z3 didn't get Marshmallow until more than half a year passed from the release date.

Marshmallow was released in late October 2015 [1]. Meanwhile, the Z3 only just started rolling in early April 2016 [2]. That's pretty mediocre if you ask me.

[1]: https://android.googleblog.com/2015/10/get-ready-for-sweet-t... [2]: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/04/09/marshmallow-update-r...

Because having a one size fits all mindset is a narrow view to hold.

Use cases should drive engineering decisions, not a grand vision of the world in someone's head.

You're absolutely right, of course. But I never implied it was. I highly doubt this would be an OSI approved license.

https://opensource.org/faq#unlisted-licenses

>Internal Use Only License Grant. TIBCO hereby grants you a limited, non‐transferable, non‐exclusive license to use the software solely for your internal business purposes.

"open source"

You haven't needed a full FB account to use Messenger for over a year now [0].

[0]: http://lifehacker.com/you-can-now-use-facebook-messenger-wit...

Agreed. The irony here is their first human response sounded more robotic than the initial CLA bot response.

Not invented here syndrome.

Care to provide a source to back up that claim?

Is it just me or does this article twist the (rather simple) idea of meritocracy?

What you contribute and the quality of what you contribute defines the respect and influence you receive as a result (in a given community, of course). I don't see how that can be tied into "normal" social statuses as this author is trying to imply.

Thoughts?

As a college student, this is my first time donating to a FOSS organization like the Gnome Foundation, but damn does it feel good.