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Disappointing to see that they're taking a centralized approach to this problem. There are alternatives out there, but I guess they're not interested.

Agreed... seems like the bottleneck is the cost and time to run the CT scan, not to have a doctor look at the results.

Nice! I feel like this project is mirroring the development of the internet itself. :D

Same here! I can't remember if I did the moving mouse thing, but I definitely opened the CD drive to unfreeze the computer.

It's a little depressing how long it takes to complete projects like this, but encouraging that they're even trying. So... I guess I feel neutral about this on the balance. Anyone wanna take bets on how delayed and how much over budget they'll be?

To me, the most surprising factoid in this article is that Estonia offers 86 weeks of maternity leave! That's so much! And with such a low cost of living... goodbye, Bay Area.

So true. It's also interesting to me that many companies have switched from "Unlimited" PTO to "Flexible" PTO...

I had a co-worker recently who started counting up the time they'd taken off in the last year, realized it was much less than the industry average, and took off for Australia. Seemed like a very reasonable response to me.

Such a great idea. Glad to hear GitHub itself is working on this problem, but OctoLinker fills a gap for sure. Just need Scala support now for it to be really useful...

All the incentives are in all the wrong places. No surprise, self-regulation isn't working. (But still very disappointing.)

As a few people have pointed out, this feels a lot like an attempt at solving one environmental problem (proliferation of waste plastic) by exacerbating another environmental problem (burning more fossil fuels). But if it took off, it could potentially serve as something of an intermediary step between our fossil fuel economy and a renewables-based economy. After all, the switch from horses to automobiles took 50 years. (https://thetyee.ca/News/2013/03/06/Horse-Dung-Big-Shift/, https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/horses-h...) A similar shift to renewables could easily take as long or longer.

I think this seems pretty cool. I can see using it for all sorts of projects with minimalist needs, e.g. quick prototyping, interview coding assignments, admin consoles.

Don't worry folks, I'm sure this won't hinder the CBP and other related agencies from continuing to roll out systems that capture ever more of our data.

There are plenty of benefits that don't apply to me that I'm getting shafted on. If I didn't commute, for example, I would be missing out on commuter benefits that I otherwise have no way of getting. Same thing for vision care if I had 20/20 eyesight or parental leave if I have no plans to have children. Benefits don't benefit everyone equally.

I do think there are going to be more and more use cases where having more than one or two replicas is necessary, even if there aren't that many right now. IoT strikes me as an example. But even so, I'm with you. I'd much rather have two companies that I know will maintain the software long term than a plethora of competitors that might die out at any time. And while being open source is helpful in that regard, there's no guarantee that the open source community will maintain it after the backing company is gone. Databases are too important to gamble on imo.

On the other hand, a little competition to make sure the big guys stay on their toes is a good thing.

That would make sense. It's a pretty common practice for acquisitions to start out with a business partnership to see how well the two companies work together. This could simply be Twitter and Medium testing the waters.

Split (https://www.split.io/) works pretty well for us

I feel a lot better that I only have 123 passwords in my vault now, and some of those are definitely duplicates.

This, so much. It's where review comments like "why don't you just do X?" come from, where "X" is a systematic change. Condescension coming from a place of strength doesn't make it okay.

Gah, naming! It feels like a sign of a lack of empathy to not at least give some semi-meaningful name to a variable. "x" is only acceptable if you're literally writing a function to perform algebra.

Alternate title: "Bee finally declared winner of world's longest running game of hide and seek!"