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Why is a Debian developer a better gatekeeper against supply chain attacks than the developer of a popular Rust library?

For me the alternative to Crates.io/npm/PyPi is a "platform release" like Android where a bunch of stuff is signed off by a corporation.

It just turns out you can't always do that in a real codebase. For example see here:

  https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/23efd8e5b1aa96ef01640fec03a5fedc945ba8b9/src/couch_mrview/src/couch_mrview_http.erl#L228

I've written some Erlang and found the syntax awkward. One example of this is that variables can only be bound once. This means you end up writing:

  Val = SomeFunc()
  Val1 = Func2(Val)
  Val2 = Func3(Val1)

Yes I know you can use the functional style to minimise having to do this but you still end up seeing this pattern in real code.

Kubernetes has done a good job of replacing OTP.

That said I think Erlang is still an interesting language to learn just because of how different it is.

As the engineering manager you should implement an automated code formatter in your CI checking. I think clang-format will do this for C. Doing this simply removes this whole class of conflict from your team.

This is a program that you run which will deterministically re-format your whole codebase. The CI checks on a PR should not pass until the PR diff matches what the formatting program says is the correct formatting.

Plyable | Graduate Research Engineer, Full Stack Engineer | Oxford, UK | Full-time | ONSITE

At Plyable we are automating to the composites manufacturing process. We have started by automatically pricing and designing molds from a part design. We make parts which go on superyachts, electric cars and aeroplanes.

We have found a good product/market fit and have the ambition to take our automation to the next level.

See https://www.plyable.com/careers for more information.

An "isolate cloud" is exactly how Google App Engine worked 10 years ago. It was a good idea then and is still a good idea now.

I haven't worried about SSH keys in years since moving everything to GCP or AWS. One less thing to worry about.

Mouldbox | Frontend | Oxford, UK | Onsite | https://mouldbox.com

Mouldbox are adding automation into the composites manufacturing process. Our technology helps to make moulds for parts which go on superyachts, electric cars and aeroplanes. Founded in 2018 Mouldbox have raised venture capital funding in 2019 and has received government grants. We are a team of 6 and expect to double our headcount in the next year.

Feel free to reach out directly to me if you have any questions (I'm the CTO), a.lofts@mouldbox.com

* All open roles: https://mouldbox.workable.com/

Try out dart or typescript.

Dart is a sane language with great tooling. It has its own version of Angular which works great. It is available today!

Adam.lofts@gmail.com

I appreciate the question. I totally agree that bitbucket is the main competition in the free git hosting space.

My best answer to that is that Repo0 is only limited by the amount of storage you have on your Google drive account. I have 1TB of space on Google Drive which is a lot more than you can store on bitbucket. There is also no limit on number of users, teams or sharing.

A different answer is that with Repo0 your data is not walled off on a server. You can see the data, download it and see when the app makes changes to it.

Thanks! Its only recently released and I'm beginning to work on marketing now so the user numbers are really just friends of mine (like less than 50).

Ah the correct url is: https://repo0.com/app.html

I will push a fix shortly.

Thanks! Did you try to sign up? I would appreciate any feedback you have.

https://repo0.com/ - Unlimited Git hosting using your Google Drive account.

Just getting started on marketing.

I think best practice here is to run the whole test in a transaction and then roll back the transaction at the end. This is the approach Django uses.

The proposal for square brackets List[int] in generics is the weirdest thing. There is a standard un-surprising way to do this and it is angle brackets List<int>. What is the reason for forcing developers to use this jarring syntax?

Dart has great autocomplete.

Note the irony of the situation. Writing an init.d script is actually really hard. A post attacking Systemd is actually a pretty good argument for using it.

I thought that a forking init script was supposed to wait for the service to be active before exiting. Otherwise you run "service apache2 start" and apache has not yet started after the command terminates.

This is the same requirement systemd has for the "forking" type daemon.

I've had a quick browse through the LibreSSL commits. There is some comedy gold in there.

Check out:

http://freshbsd.org/commit/openbsd/e5136d69ece4682e6167c8f4a...

http://freshbsd.org/commit/openbsd/c862290df5533966091ded390...

http://freshbsd.org/commit/openbsd/a35e815be16befe27ee3f7623...

On document store indexes the article says:

> If all order data is lumped together, the user will be forced to retrieve the entirety of each order that contains a relevant order line - or perhaps even to scan the entire database and examine every order to see whether it contains a relevant order line.

Both of these are untrue. Author needs to read up on secondary indexes.

A lot of satisfaction, inspiration and personal growth in life comes from leisure time. Enjoying a glass of wine with a friend, meeting a new person. In the end its the people in your life you will remember and who will remember you. Not your achievements.

I was at a talk which explained that twitter has recorded every user event since it was launched e.g. Follow, Tweet, Unfollow. They calculate their metrics by processing every event in bulk from start to present. So yeah - they never throw any information away.

Computers are fast. Go is just one of the ways to use them.

Django can be easily adapted to write static pages using the template api and writing to a file. Works well for me.

A lot of negativity in the comments. I for one really like this. No loss of focus when scrolling and no flicker from clicking 'next page'. Great idea.

I have been using dart for a couple of months now and am extremely happy with it. Code completion on the DOM API is a different world to the classic javascript edit-test-fix syntax error cycle.

The language and the vm are a distraction. The huge win with dart is what the IDE will do for your productivity.

All projects and companies need a vision and clearly for a lot of designers, developers and product managers this vision is more integrated simpler to use, touch enabled devices. Part my comment was to say it is not yet clear that this is the right long term solution but its not like there are any compelling alternatives.

Microsoft is not entering the space because of envy(?!?) they are entering it because that is where they see the future of computing.