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It will end up where the service provider takes it.

Don't imagine that GitHub cares about lowering barriers to entry as an end in itself.

It does this as a means to pursue GitHub's business interests.

That is a very simplistic, and incorrect, response to the problem.

GitHub provides computing resources, for free, to attract users. This is just one of the challenges of that business model. If this is intolerable for GitHub then it's up to them to find a strategy to counter it.

We don't need to ask the government to punish everyone participating in cryptocurrency.

Re:The Waste of Daylight on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:17AM (#26464549)
A change to GMT all year round would be most welcome here in the U.K.
Re:The cost of transpiling ES2015 in 2016 on Monday February 08, 2016 @09:58AM (#11058407)
Yes, I'm not sure why transpiling will ever go away. Not sure either why it would be limited to specifications.
Re:Dear GitHub on Friday January 15, 2016 @07:46AM (#10908934)
This was my first thought after reading it. I've used gitlab.com, also locally, and it is ok. Presumably people will want to stick with github due to popularity though.
Re:What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders on Monday November 24, 2014 @04:13PM (#8654772)
In my experience the phrase has the meaning that twic described.
Re:Scotland's Decision on Thursday September 04, 2014 @07:33AM (#8267616)
It's even more interesting than you think. The Conservative Party do much better under Scotland's system of proportional representation than in Westminster.

Compare these results:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_ele...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_general_ele...

Re:PHP 5.6.0 on Thursday August 28, 2014 @12:17PM (#8237998)
In this case, yes. It was definitely unnecessary to remind me of the author's name on each page.
I use LibreOffice in an environment where almost every other user uses Microsoft Office tools. I've had difficulty with some documents in the docx format. Most of the documents will turn out to be ok but when certain types of formatting are included problems start to appear.

Most of the problems come from, I think, unnecessary features. For example a footer for the author's name on each page.

Re:The Developer's Dystopian Future on Monday July 07, 2014 @05:50AM (#7997956)
"They left work and played volleyball and worked on their tuner car and went to family events and so on. They learned exactly what was specifically necessary for their job today and tomorrow. Never beyond.

Most of them were 20-ish year olds."

Any idea what happened to your colleagues?

Re:Delete your code on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @06:21AM (#7514574)
In my experience lots of commented code stays around while version control is either underused or unused.
Re:Variance on Thursday March 20, 2014 @06:29AM (#7434715)
The "Where is Variance not a good fit?" section is useful. I'm not just saying that as a long time victim/critic of pie charts.
Re:IE7 users, we need to talk… on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:38AM (#7142737)
In the case of elderly users I don't think that many of them could even identify the browser that they use without prompting from others.
The telephone is my main gripe at the moment. My line manager likes to conduct all his business over the phone. One of my colleagues likes to project her voice across the entire office despite the phone being less than an inch from her mouth. In addition to this many in the office have developed an idiotic system whereby the phones of absent colleagues are answered. When the phone is answered the caller is informed that the intended recipient is not there and a message is taken. For some reason my colleagues do not understand that they are doing exactly what the voice-mail service does.

All of this disturbs me while I'm trying to code.

Re:End of Inception decoded [video] on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @10:43AM (#6718399)
Equally there are philosophy professors who don't appreciate it. One class that I was a member of was warned that our professor had not seen The Matrix and, given the number of essays that referred to it, never wanted to see it or read about it ever again.
Re:Did these guys just reinvent the Web? on Thursday October 17, 2013 @10:38AM (#6565628)
I had a look in IE9. All I found were a couple of video demos. I was left to reflect on what it is to reinvent something.
Re:Europe's hottest startup capitals: Stockholm on Friday October 04, 2013 @07:47AM (#6494770)
Ask the Economist and it is London.
Re:AngularJS is amazing, and hard as hell on Thursday September 26, 2013 @07:00PM (#6454158)
I went through the tutorial last week and it all worked.
Not even if people vote for them?
Re:Music to Let you Concentrate on Thursday June 13, 2013 @07:54AM (#5873529)
Thanks for posting this. Silence is preferable to music but music is preferable to other voices.
Re:A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins (2007) on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @11:08PM (#5784334)
It's not that the picture is incomplete. It is, I believe, that the picture is incorrect. Sets are not relations. This is a barrier to understanding for a beginner.

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