EuAndreh

Yep, no way close to PouchDB.

They have CI within gitlab.com even for private repos :)

I believe that their profit comes from selling the Enterprise Edition of GitLab and support. gitlab.com and the Community Edition are all free, and I believe they intend to keep it this way.

Try using SciHub.

Is the repo open? There's no trace of it in your GutHub profile. I'd like to contribute to it.

Many people in fact rely on WhatsApp. But that's not like they own the only road available.

If for some reason WhatsApp suddenly vanished, people would switch to the competitors, like Telegram, Messenger, Viber, etc.

There would be chaos during the change, but that's just because the change happens suddenly. If it happens slowly (if the government continues to block WhatsApp, people will rely on an alternative), then I see no harm.

It's funny to watch it, actually.

A company gives you their card information and there are a few things on it: the website URL, maybe an email, the address and a phone number, with the WhatsApp icon on the side!

When there are two numbers, they put the WhatsApp icon in one of them. They literally put another company's logo in their own contact info, because of how WhatsApp is so widespread!

IMHO, the biggest selling point of WhatsApp for brazilians is that it works as offline as it is possible. All received data is stored locally.

Even if you're offline and send a message, it stores it locally and send it when connection becomes available.

Since the majority of WhatsApp users in Brazil have access only to low quality internet connection, this becomes a major issue.

Yes, from anywhere in the world, actually.

https://about.gitlab.com/team/

I'd like to note that GitLab not only is doing an awesome job with the FSF, but they are also themselves embracing free software tools for their internal work.

They're switching from Slack to Mattermost[0], from Google Analytics to Piwik[1], looking for a free software commenting software to replace Disqus[2].

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/08/18/gitlab-loves-mattermost/

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/11/27/gitlab-switches-to-piwik...

[2]: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/05/20/gitlab-gitorious-free-so...

The point of "doing your computing" is the concept of freedom within the Free Software movement.

According to RMS, "freedom is having control over your life". "In a computer system there are just two possibilities: either the user controls the program or the program controls the user".

So, "doing your own computing" is "having control over your life", and thus, having freedom.

Precisely.

I'm from South America and I didn't know this either, and I also pronounced like English word "mate", lol

Wasn't he just trying to isolate the variables?

I believe that is what he meant by "all other things being equal". They are equal in library availability, speed, etc.

Well, we should all be glad that the exemples from US are spreading to the rest of the world! If only more countries stopped being copycats and started actually copying the US model. God bless America. Humpf

The title is also really bad, as if China was at a given time a whole nation of copycats (although the article itself doesn't insist on this point).

People reverse engineer your product/company. So what?

François-René Rideau has done a lot to evolve ASDF, the Common Lisp build system, and lots have been done since, also, like an implementation manager[0], an assets downloader[1] and compiler[2].

[0]: https://github.com/roswell/roswell

[1]: https://github.com/eudoxia0/rock

[2]: https://github.com/eudoxia0/asdf-linguist

One of the coolest parts is how Roswell with scripts: you can run a local file, or in a custom directory just for scripts, and even better: you can install scripts from libraries.

This way, if a library needs to expose some functionality to the terminal, just add a Roswell script =]

I'd suggest using PouchDB[0] if on a web client, and Cloudant [1] as the backend. Spin up a simple heroku app using Superlogin[2] and you have full Auth, an offline database, sync and now the possibility of conflicts resolution.

If developing on mobile clients just use Cloudant Sync for iOS[3] or Android[4].

[0]: http://pouchdb.com/

[1]: https://cloudant.com/

[2]: https://github.com/colinskow/superlogin

[3]: https://github.com/cloudant/CDTDatastore

[4]: https://github.com/cloudant/sync-android