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Re:GitHub Nomic Game #3 on Saturday March 09, 2019 @06:52PM (#19349312)
My mistake. It appears that Github still doesn't have any first-party CI offering. I must have confused it with the other two.
Re:GitHub Nomic Game #3 on Saturday March 09, 2019 @06:40PM (#19349269)
I love it! I think I might pitch this as something to do with coworkers under the guise of learning more about CI tools.

We already use Jenkins, but the SRE team manages it, so us programmers don't get to play with it too much. This could be a great excuse for tinkering with the more integrated offerings from Github/Bitbucket/Gitlab.

Re:Can fake names create bias in interviewing? on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:28PM (#19332003)
I'm guessing it stands for "street cred zero" as in having zero street credibility.

Wiktionary defines "street cred" as:

> Credibility among young, hip urban dwellers; particularly important in the hip-hop and rap scenes.

Google defines it somewhat more tersely as:

> acceptability among young black urban residents

Given that the user name says the user has no street cred, it's ironic that people would assume the user is "urban".

Re:Building Fast Interpreters in Rust on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:25PM (#19306221)
Amen! But I know what my company would say. "Training devs and SRE on a new language is too expensive. And there are too few Rust devs in the job market, and the ones there are are too expensive to hire."
The person in the article started at 16 and is now 19.
I know I'm completely missing the point, but how does knowing which plane is upsetting your cat help with the situation? Are you going to report them to the FAA or something?

P.S. Coming up with examples for things in computer science that aren't absurd is hard. I had to think of an example when I was explaining junction tables for many-to-many relationships to someone the other day. After a minute or so of thinking, I just fell back on that old standard of books and authors.