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2020-04-23 | European programmers take an extended lunch break as GitHub goes TITSUP* again • The Register

"Big sack o' source GitHub is having a hellish week as the Microsoft tentacle suffered wobbles aplenty even as it tipped the scorn bucket over the emissions of the US administration."

'The issues come after GitHub made all core features of the platform available for everyone, declaring that "every developer on earth should have access to GitHub. '

'Until, of course, the next time. ®Sponsored: Webcast: Build the next generation of your business in the public cloud'

'Certainly, new owner Microsoft has famously struggled to meet the recent unprecedented levels of demand on its own cloud. '

'Stability, on the other hand, does seem to have presented the house of code with a few issues recently, raising the unpleasant spectre of scalability. '

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2020-03-10 | Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit • The Register

'Then last November, it sold its enterprise business to Mirantis, leaving its corporate husk somewhat lacking in revenue options. '

'Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration software initially developed by Google, is known for being baffling. '

'In recent years, after popularizing but not proportionally profiting from software containers, Docker sold itself as an enterprise business. '

'Docker, he said last year, will focus on developers and reducing the complexity of applications, developer tools, and open source. ', "It's still always a challenge when you're dealing with open source."

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2020-03-04 | Microservices guru warns devs that trendy architecture shouldn't be the default for every app, but 'a last resort' • The Register

'Overcome this, though, and many organisations "would be better off" with a modular monolith than with a microservices architecture. '

'Explaining the benefits of microservices, Newman said: "There are lots of reasons why we might pick a microservices architecture, but the one I keep coming back to is this property of independent deployability."'

'The distributed monolith has the deployment complexity of a microservices architecture, but without its benefits. '

'QCon London Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices and Monolith to Microservices, told attendees at the QCon developer conference in London that "microservices should not be the default choice."'

'The implication is not that microservices are no good, but that developers have adopted them too readily, persuaded by the benefits. '

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2020-02-27 | Total Inability To Service User Pulls: GitHub wobbles with a good old Thursday TITSUP • The Register

'We have asked GitHub for an explanation of the ongoing issues, and will update this piece if one is forthcoming. '

'Source shack GitHub has taken a tumble today with many users finding pretty much all of its services either degraded or borked beyond belief. '

'In the meantime, keep on coding – but maybe go easy on the pull requests for a little while. '

'Todays issues have come a day after CEO Nat Friedman boasted of the arrival of multi-line suggestions. '

' We all know what happens when you pull on a thread a little too hard… ®'

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2020-01-27 | What is WebAssembly? And can you really compile C/C++ to it? And it'll run in browsers? Allow us to explain in this gentle introduction • The Register

'Consequently, executing WebAssembly code is much easier for the browser than executing JavaScript, since the translation distance from source code to machine code is greatly reduced. '

'If we want to run WebAssembly outside of the browser, it’s only going to be useful if it can access basic things like files and network in a platform-independent way. '

'They had no idea of what was to come, of what would be possible in the browser in the future. '

'Despite the incredible amount of infrastructure and applications built with JavaScript, no one could say that it’s a perfect language. '

'Consider all of this, along with the rise of the Single Page Application (SPA), and it’s easy to see how critical browser performance is to the modern web. '

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2020-01-21 | 'I am done with open source': Developer of Rust Actix web framework quits, appoints new maintainer • The Register

'Actix Web is based on Actix, a framework for Rust based on the Actor model, also developed by Kim. '

'The web framework is important to the Rust community partly because it addresses a common use case (development web applications) and partly because of its outstanding performance. '

'Actix Web was developed by Nikolay Kim, who is also a senior software engineer at Microsoft, though the Actix project is not an official Microsoft project. '

'The maintainer of the Actix web framework, written in Rust, has quit the project after complaining of a toxic web community - although over 100 Actix users have since signed a letter of support for him. '

'The project is open source and while it is popular, there has been some unhappiness among users about its use of "unsafe" code. '

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2019-12-19 | JavaScript survey: Devs love a bit of React, but Angular and Cordova declining. And you're not alone... a chunk of pros also feel JS is 'overly complex' • The Register

'There is also notable interest in Brave. '

'Svelte is top in the survey for “interest” and neck-and-neck with React for "satisfaction". '

'According to a sizeable group of coders who responded to a new State of JavaScript survey, the React framework is not only the most used front-end framework, it also has the highest satisfaction rating. '

'The same chart illustrates the rise of the Jest JavaScript testing framework (click the Testing button), with an impressive 96 per cent satisfaction ranking, placing it well ahead of Mocha. '

'JavaScript devs are also enjoying graphql more than Redux for the data layer, and Express ahead of Next.js for the back end. '

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2019-12-06 | WebAssembly gets nod from W3C and, most likely, an embrace from cryptojackers online • The Register

"While some developers insist WebAssembly doesn't really change the viewability of web-oriented source code, most of those using WebAssembly at the moment appear to welcome greater inscrutability."

'Web applications that arrive as binary blobs will probably prove to be more resistant to meddling. '

'The approved specs include: the WebAssembly Core Specification, which defines the virtual machine; the WebAssembly Web API, which defines a Promise-based (asynchronous) interface for interacting with wasm files; and the WebAssembly JavaScript Interface, which explains how JavaScript code can interact with WebAssembly functions. '

'A study published in June 2019 from researchers at Technische Universität Braunschweig (Braunschweig Institute of Technology) found "over 50 per cent of all sites using WebAssembly apply it for malicious deeds, such as [crypto] mining and obfuscation."'

'Web Assembly is a binary instruction format that runs on a stack-based virtual machine, so it can operate on multiple chip architectures. '

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2019-11-13 | John Carmack - Starting this week, I’m moving to a... | Facebook

'Starting this week, I’m moving to a "Consulting CTO” position with Oculus. '

'I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence (AGI). '

'Runner up for next project was cost effective nuclear fission reactors, which wouldn’t have been as suitable for that style of work. 😊'

'I will still have a voice in the development work, but it will only be consuming a modest slice of my time. '

'I have sometimes wondered how I would fare with a problem where the solution really isn’t in sight. '

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2019-11-21 | Update Docker: Fun bug involving file paths and shared libraries turns out to be a security hole • The Register

'"If one of those files is a symlink, it might inadvertently be resolved under the host root."', "Essentially, this is something developers and other folks using Docker containers just need to be aware of rather than panic over: it can't be exploited remotely over a network, or similar."

'"When root is not strictly needed, I highly recommend running containers as a non-root user," the researcher explained. '

'The container also needs to be run as a root user, which is the default. ', "Miscreants can potentially hijack Docker users' computers by tricking them into running malicious containers and waiting for them to kick off a simple copy command – thanks to a critical flaw."

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2019-11-09 | Senior GitLab exec resigns over plan to stop hiring engineers in China and Russia • The Register

'In an email to The Register on Friday, a GitLab spokesperson said, "GitLab can confirm that Candice Ciresi has resigned from GitLab. '

'Individuals participating in the discussion who appears to be located in China and Russia mostly object to the proposal. '

'Ciresi went on to argue that China and Russia were not selected because of legal requirements, risk analysis, or other legitimate criteria. ', "It's suggested in the discussion that an enterprise customer asked specifically for a guarantee that admins in China and Russia could not access its data through GitLab and GitLab has no technical means to prevent that."

'Pilloried on social media and internally for embracing amorality and censorship, the company reversed its ill-considered policy the next day. '

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2019-10-30 | GitLab pulls U-turn on plan to crank up usage telemetry after both staff and customers cry foul • The Register

'GitLab customers and even some staff were not pleased. '

'On 23 October, an email was sent to GitLab customers announcing the changes. '

'Further, GitLab will commit to not implementing telemetry in our products that sends usage data to a third-party product analytics service."'

'VP of product Scott Williamson announced on 10 October that "to make GitLab better faster, we need more data on how users are using GitLab". '

'GitLab has swiftly backtracked on plans to add telemetry services to track usage of its products. '

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2019-10-11 | Microsoft has put dedicated Office and emoji keys on its new keyboards - The Verge

'Office key + W opens Word for example, while Office key + X opens Excel. '

'Microsoft’s latest keyboards now include dedicated Office and emoji keys. '

'Alongside the Office key, there’s also a new emoji key on these new keyboards. '

'While Microsoft is pushing these new Office and emoji keys, it’s not clear whether other third-party keyboards will ever adopt them. '

'The Office key replaces the right-hand Windows key, and it’s used to launch the Office for Windows 10 app that acts as a hub for Microsoft’s productivity suite. '

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2019-10-04 | Surprise! Copying crummy code from Stack Overflow leads to vulnerable GitHub jobs • The Register

'Even so, the researchers developed a Chrome extension to help developers be more mindful of security when copying and pasting Stack Overflow code snippets. '

'"Basically, what we tried to show is that using Stack Overflow without reviewing it carefully can lead to potential vulnerabilities inside applications," said Sami. '

'The boffins relied on a Stack Overflow data set called SOTorrent data-set Version 2018-09-23. '

'"The people who are using Stack Overflow, they shouldn't trust it fully," he said. '

'It covers posts from 2008 through 2018 and contains some duplicate code snippets. '

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2019-09-04 | After banning adverts in command-line terminals, NPM floats idea of Patreon-style donations to open-source devs • The Register

' The current 'open source' system has to end, and it must be replaced by a more fair one." ®'

'The unfairness of it all has not been lost on individual open source project maintainers who face demands for continuing code improvements without monetary recognition. '

'As long as software developers improve open source projects at no cost and allow companies to exploit their labor without compensation, perhaps not. ', "NPM, Inc., the overseer of the widely used npm JavaScript package registry, hasn't been particularly supportive of worker complaints, but the would-be enterprise biz wants to lend a hand to open source contributors."

'While at least one NPM employee has said, evidently unbidden, that he's "stoked" about the project, those outside the company sound a bit more skeptical. '

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2019-08-30 | Clutching at its Perl, developer community ponders language name with less baggage • The Register

'"So long as 'Perl 6' has Perl in its name, the rancor will continue inside the Perl community, the confusion will continue outside the Perl community, and everyone is going to suffer for it," he said. '

'Another Perl developer, Damien Conway, has argued in favor of "Raku," in reference to the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler. '

'Some Perl devs describe Perl 6 as a different, though related, programming language to Perl 5. '

'"Routinely I see in numerous online discussions that people refuse to even consider Perl 6 because they hate Perl," he said. '

'Poe, in a comment on the issues post, urged the Perl community to act quickly. '

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2019-08-27 | Female-free speaker list causes PHP show to collapse when diversity-oriented devs jump ship • The Register

' As PHP Central Europe's Twitter account put it, "After Crell's action [blog post] our sales stopped completely…."'

'Under the heading, "Diversity Matters!" the website for the PHP Central Europe developer conference (PHP.CE) says, "PHP Central Europe Conference is committed to creating a conference that is as inclusive as possible."'

'He said he had emailed two other conference speakers who, like him, had multiple speaking slots to gauge interest of giving their second slots away to female presenters. '

'Yet public posts about the absence of women at a conference can affect ticket sales. '

'Garfield expressed sympathy for the conference organizers, saying he knows it can be challenging to arrange a diverse, inclusive lineup at tech events. '

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2019-08-06 | Captain, we've detected a disturbance in space-time. It's coming from Earth. Someone audited the Kubernetes source • The Register

'In an email to The Register, Chris Aniszczyk, CTO and COO of CNCF, expressed satisfaction with the audit process. '

'Underscoring these findings, Kubernetes 1.13.9, 1.14.5, and 1.15.2 were released on Monday to fix two security issues in the software, CVE-2019-11247 and CVE-2019-11249. '

'"I don't know of any other open source organization that has shared and open sourced the whole process around a security audit and the results. '

'The CNCF engaged two security firms, Trail of Bits and Atredis Partners, to poke around Kubernetes code over the course of four months. '

'"We view it positively that the whole process of doing a security audit was handled transparently by the members of the Kubernetes Security Audit WG, from selecting a vendor to working with the upstream project," he said. '

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2019-07-29 | GitHub builds wall round private repos, makes devs in US-sanctioned countries pay for it • The Register

'Teams with developers spread across the globe will find it a little hard to collaborate should they have coders in the affected countries. '

'Creative users will doubtless publish workarounds, but with GitHub now pulling down the shutters, affected users would be advised to look at alternatives. '

'Actually getting hold of the GitHub Enterprise Server in the affected countries would, however, be a challenge due to those pesky restrictions. '

'GitLab warned of problems for some countries due to "legal restrictions" following its migration to Google Cloud last year. '

'Affected users were presented with a yellow warning message with little or no warning last week as access to private repos on the service were summarily blocked. '

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2019-06-29 | Delphi RAD tool (remember that?) gets support for Linux desktop apps – again • The Register

'FmxLinux is a toolchain for compiling Linux desktop applications using Embarcadero’s Linux compiler for Delphi, which is also part of the RAD Studio bundle. '

'Configuring a Delphi application for Linux support is a matter of taking a multi-device project and selecting an “Add Linux platform” option. '

'Cantu said on Twitter that “we’ll consider” Linux support in the community edition, which may make more sense now that desktop applications are included. '

'Linux support is currently a feature of Delphi but not C++Builder, the related product which uses the C++ language. '

'Hands On Texas software house Embarcadero Technologies has said it will license FmxLinux for Delphi, allowing developers to compile desktop applications for 64-bit Linux. '

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2019-06-17 | Greatest threat facing IT? Not the latest tech giant cockwomblery – it's just tired engineers • The Register

'Not the one containing all the live customer trial data?'

'Naturally, there was an old system with data that had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the new world. '

'We'd been working 60-70 hour weeks for three weeks straight in an attempt to get this new platform ready."'

'Don used the phrase "gut-swooping panic" [I like that a lot – Ed] to describe the sensation of realising he'd just nuked the production cluster from orbit, with no way of rolling back the damage. '

'Don, who described himself as "the lead database bod on the team", had the task of making the migration work. '

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None | Microsoft throws lifeline to .NET orphans in the brave new Core world • The Register Forums

'As long as my C and C++ projects do NOT have link up with ".NOT" or CORE or whatever they wanna call it, I'll just not care what new/shiny bandwagon MS excretes now and in the foreseeable future... '

'I still like the idea of being able to let people download a single EXE file, copy it to 'wherever', and just run the application as-is without installing a boatload of "other stuff" and polluting the registry, etc. and requiring elaborate install and/or uninstall processes.dynamic linking and shared frameworks are SO highly overrated'

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2019-06-07 | The best and worst of GitHub: Repos wiped without notice, quickly restored – but why? • The Register

'I'm running 30 linodes as game servers, download servers and other types of servers, and they all update automatically using git pull," said Rohrer. '

'The incident raises questions for developers about the safety of their GitHub code. '

'GitHub CEO Nat Friedman noted that support restored the account even before he noticed the incident on Twitter, and apologised personally to Rohrer. '

'Updated Game designer Jason Rohrer has had a bad week, discovering that his 23 code repositories representing 15 years of development and community contributions were wiped from GitHub. '

'Account hijacking is another issue, but where this is suspected, deleting years of work without notice does not seem the right approach. '

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2019-05-31 | Refactoring whizz: Good software shouldn't cost the earth – it's actually cheaper to build • The Register

'"You couple that with project managers and customers who don't know anything about building software and that is only reinforced. '

'"Countless times I've talked to development teams who say 'they (management) won't let us write good quality code because it takes too long'... '

'"Even small changes require programmers to understand large areas of code, code that's difficult to understand. '

'When asked what can be done to fix the problem, Fowler says: "Recognise that that mindset is incorrect. ', "People say

'If you’re a startup you've got to go fast, you can't afford to have quality code. ' Well, it depends on your time horizon."

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2019-05-16 | Tangled in .NET: Will 5.0 really unify Microsoft's development stack? • The Register

'Even after the arrival of .NET 5, which is the successor to .NET Core 3.0, these three .NET frameworks will still exist. '

'Another is that two popular parts of the .NET Framework will not be in .NET 5. '

'"It's more like the .NET Framework except you can have multiple .NET Cores side by side even at the system level. '

'Although .NET Framework will continue, you can also compile Windows desktop applications with .NET Core 3.0 (currently in preview) and higher. '

'These frameworks are now open source; but note that it is only the .NET Core ports that are open source. '

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2019-05-03 | Mystery Git ransomware appears to blank commits, demands Bitcoin to rescue code • The Register

"Programmers say they've been hit by ransomware that seemingly wipes their Git repositories' commits and replaces them with a ransom note demanding Bitcoin."

'The netizen added that the ransom note they received referenced gitsbackup[dot]com, and demanded about $560 in crypto-currency to un-fsck the repo. '

'Gabos added that he was "using SourceTree but somehow I doubt that SourceTree is the issue, or that my system (Windows 10) was compromised. '

' See the updates on this post for instructions on how to recover your repos if they are wiped by the ransomware. ®', "In an edit, he added:Atlassian, maintainer of Sourcetree, had not responded to The Register's inquiries at the time of publication."

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2019-04-23 | Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for 'defective' cyber-revamp • The Register

'A spokesperson for Accenture told The Register: "We believe the allegations in this lawsuit are without merit, and we intend to defend our position. '

'Accenture told El Reg on Tuesday this week it believes Hertz's lawsuit is "without merit."'

'"By that point, Hertz no longer had any confidence that Accenture was capable of completing the project, and Hertz terminated Accenture," the car rental company complained in a lawsuit [PDF] lodged against Accenture in New York this month. ', "Hertz bought the licenses, however, it turned out that Accenture didn't actually know how to use the technology and the quick-fix took longer than it would have done without it."

'Car rental giant Hertz is suing over a website redesign from hell. '

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2019-04-23 | Fed up with 72-hour, six-day working weeks, IT workers emit cries for help via GitHub repo • The Register

"The handful of unnamed techies said another reason it's necessary to stand with the protesting Chinese workers is that multinationals firms have a history of labor exploitation."

'"In response to these events, we, the workers of Microsoft and GitHub, support the 996.ICU movement and stand in solidarity with tech workers in China," they declared in a GitHub post on Monday. '

'A protest by tech employees in China over the expectation of 72-hour work weeks has this week attracted the support of 30 workers from Microsoft and its GitHub subsidiary. '

'The 30 Microsoft and GitHub workers who voiced their support for 996icu expressed concern Chinese authorities might try to pressure their employers to stifle their protest. '

'Back in 2013, GitHub was briefly blocked in China, but protests from the Chinese technical community forced authorities to relent. '

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2019-04-13 | Trolls are harassing a scientist who helped photograph a black hole - The Verge

'Online trolls are harassing a scientist who helped take the first picture of a black hole Black holes don’t suck, but sometimes the internet doesIt’s so easy to be excited about Katie Bouman. '

'The next day, the Times published an article called “How Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project”. '

'She’s the 29-year-old computer scientist whose utter glee at seeing a black hole for the first time was captured in a picture that warmed hearts around the world. '

'The trolls focused in on one of her colleagues, Andrew Chael, who was listed on GitHub as the primary developer for one of the algorithms that revealed the black hole, and started circulating his picture instead. '

'Today, that image was released.” The account linked to a 2016 story about Bouman developing an algorithm for the project. '

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2019-03-28 | Cloudera's machine learning head honcho: Collaboration? Data scientists have heard of it • The Register

'"Things get a little complicated," she said, because some of the features are engineered by a machine learning system. '

'These customers tend to have a data lake investment and want to build a machine learning application on that. ', "Related to this is, of course, a business plan for Cloudera's machine learning team."

'"One opportunity we see is to create one end-to-end workflow for data scientists to be able to go from data engineering, through the experimental process, through to deployment."'

'But [data scientists] might say, well I just do math."'

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2019-03-06 | Microsoft open-sources its Windows calculator on GitHub - The Verge

'Microsoft is making the source code for its Windows calculator available on GitHub today. '

'While it might be a relatively minor part of Windows, the open-sourcing of the calculator follows years of Microsoft embracing open source. '

'The source code is now available on GitHub and it includes the build system, unit tests, and even the product road map for the calculator feature in Windows. '

'Microsoft’s calculator source code will help Windows developers more easily integrate calculator logic or UI into their own apps, and developers can also report or fix bugs, participate in discussions around the future of the calculator, and help design and build the app with Microsoft engineers. '

'Microsoft even open-sourced the original File Manager from the ‘90s to allow it to run on Windows 10, and just recently made 60,000 patents open-source to help protect Linux. '

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2019-01-30 | Boffins debunk study claiming certain languages (cough, C, PHP, JS...) lead to more buggy code than others • The Register

'Tempting through it may be to believe that certain programming languages promote errors, recent research finds little if any evidence of that. '

'For the first proposition, they found small differences in the numbers of bugs associated with particular programming languages, but not enough to matter. '

'Berger said that looking beyond this specific study, the broader question question is whether programming languages make a difference. '

'"Our intent is not to blame, performing statistical analysis of programming languages based on large-scale code repositories is hard."'

'The original study purported to establish a correlation between programming languages and errors, one that people misinterpreted as a causal relationship, he said. '

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2013-10-21 | Should Journalism Schools Require Reporters to 'Learn Code'? No - The Atlantic

'When I started journalism grad school in 2009, I couldn’t wait to finish so I could begin my reporting career. '

'No matter; the details would surely work themselves out later once I became a Zuckerbergian programming genius. '

'I’m not sure how, in my sleep-deprived, terror-stricken mind, the rest of the plan was supposed to work. '

'And after I had what felt like my hundredth freelance pitch rejected, I grew downright panicked. '

'I would sail in ahead of the hundreds of other applicants, I thought. '

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IBM: Co-Op Insurance talking direct to coding subcontractor helped collapse of £55m IT revamp project • The Register

'As part of the £55m contract, IBM would have licensed "certain software products" to the insurer for £7.966m. '

'Earlier this year the Co-Op Group reported a 25 per cent fall in insurance sales to £331m. '

'Bizarrely, IBM claimed that had the upgrade gone to plan, "it would not have resulted in any increase in the [Co-Op]'s profitability or revenues". ', "IBM has denied the upgraded software was unusable and alleges, in brief, that the project's disintegration was the Co-Op's fault."

'IBM has blamed ex-customer Co-Op Insurance for the crash of a £55m project centring on Agile software development, but admitted the systems it built "would not have" boosted the insurer's top or bottom line anyway. '

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Why Silicon Valley is worried about US plan to curb Chinese funds | Technology | The Guardian

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Macs to Linux fans: Stop right there, Penguinista scum, that's not macOS • The Register

'However, we can report that Ubuntu runs an absolute treat on a Dell XPS.Microsoft also has a Secure Boot implementation. '

'The problem is that, according to a posting on StackExchange, changing the Secure Boot option "makes no difference". '

'In the past, Linux fans were able to make use of the Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011. '

'The knickers of the Linux world have become ever so twisty over the last few days as Penguinistas fell foul of the security hardware in their pricey Apple hardware. '

'However, for a PC to be certified for Windows 10, it "must allow the user to completely disable Secure Boot". '

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Supreme Court refuses to take up challenge to Obama-era net neutrality rules | TheHill

"The Supreme Court on Monday put an end to a legal battle over the Obama administration's net neutrality rules, refusing to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that upheld the 2015 regulations."

'They fear that any legislative compromise on net neutrality will be too weak and watered down. ', "But Republicans and industry groups behind the repeal of the net neutrality rules downplayed Monday's order."

'In addition to implementing the net neutrality rules, the FCC had also used that authority to impose strict data privacy rules on internet providers, though those regulations were later overturned by Congress. '

'The net neutrality issue is far from settled, however. '

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US draft bill moots locking up execs who lie about privacy violations • The Register

'They will be required to submit an annual data protection report to the Federal Trade Commission, which describes whether they have complied with the rules. ', "The rights proposed under the bill chime with those granted under the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation and California's privacy law."

'The Democrat has proposed a new privacy bill for the US, with the short title of the Consumer Data Protection Act (PDF), which aims to address the hole in national rules. '

'Twice as many staff will be hired in the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, with the remaining 25 being recruited to the Division of Enforcement of the Bureau of Consumer Protection. ', "But the senator goes further than this, mooting jail time for execs if their companies don't play by the rules."

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Pirate radio = drug dealing and municipal broadband is anti-competitive censorship • The Register

'Which naturally enough explains why the "free speech gala" wasn't actually about the First Amendment or free speech either. '

'"Earlier this year, I noticed an article in an uber-small Colorado publication discussing the existence of a local pirate radio station operating nearby," he noted. ', "Which is why what O'Rielly had to say about municipal networks is more mind-boggling than even his pirate radio meanderings.", "While O'Rielly's obsession with pirate radio is odd, it doesn't impact many people."

'His speech [PDF] at "The Media Institute" last week as a keynote during its "Free Speech America Gala" was not one of those times. '

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Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms • The Register

'In 2014, Drupal, after some argument, swapped the terms "master" and "slave" for "primary" and "replica."'

'Last week Victor Stinner, a Python developer who works for Red Hat, published four pull requests seeking to change "master" and "slave" in Python documentation and code to terms like "parent," "worker," or something similarly anodyne. '

'The same year, Django traded "master" and "slave" for "leader" and "follower."'

'And when Python 3.8 is released, there will be fewer instances of these terms. '

'"I'm not super-excited by the idea that Python has to change its behavior based on secret comments," lamented Larry Hastings. '

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Vulkan is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple | Ars Technica

'Apple has thus far shown no interest in offering the modern Vulkan API and instead has pushed its own proprietary API, Metal. '

'Expected within the next few months, a similar translation layer is being developed that will enable Vulkan applications to use a DirectX 12 back-end. ', "Apple's OpenGL drivers have long been criticized, both for their poor performance and for Apple's refusal to support the latest versions of the specification."

'Today, that gap is being substantially filled, with the open source, royalty-free release of MoltenVK—a runtime for macOS and iOS that offers an almost complete subset of the Vulkan API implemented using Metal. ', "Released under the Apache 2 license, MoltenVK will enable developers to build their Vulkan applications for Apple's platforms, allowing for a single codebase to span Windows, Linux, Android, macOS, iOS, and more."

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Zuckerberg Doesn't Care About Publishers; Media Firms That Don't Work With Us Will End Up 'In Hospice': Facebook Executive - Slashdot

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Git365. Git for Teams. Quatermass and the Git Pit. GitHub simply won't do now Microsoft has it • The Register

'We asked Microsoft for its opinion and were told: "The current name will do just fine, thank you very much."'

'Two letters are all that stand between an amusingly snarky story and a grovelling apology following reader castigation. '

'Poll In all the furore around the acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft, no one has asked the obvious question: what should the service be called after its Redmondisation?'

'At Vulture Central, we live in constant fear of mixing up GitLab and GitHub. '

'Giving GitHub a more distinctive name would certainly help us sleep easier. '

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Et tu, Gentoo? Horrible gits meddle with Linux distro's GitHub code • The Register

"The Linux distro's officials sounded the alarm on Thursday, revealing someone managed to break into its GitHub organization account to modify software and webpages."

'All Gentoo code hosted on GitHub should for the moment be considered compromised."'

'Basically, if you downloaded and installed materials from Gentoo via GitHub, you might be compromised by bringing in malicious code. '

'"Also, the gentoo-mirror repositories including metadata are hosted under a separate Github organization and likely not affected as well."'

'"Today, 28 June, at approximately 20:20 UTC unknown individuals have gained control of the Github Gentoo organization, and modified the content of repositories as well as pages there," Gentoo dev Alec Warner said in a bulletin. '

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Microsoft will ‘lose developers for a generation’ if it stuffs up GitHub, says future CEO • The Register

'But with the acquisition still months away from closing, just what Microsoft will do and how developers will react remains open to speculation. '

'Asked if Microsoft plans to do anything to the Atom text editor, given that Redmond’s Visual Studio Code is a competitor, Friedman said “we want developers to use any editor they prefer with GitHub. '

' Then, we’ll look at what alternatives are available, and importantly, the costs, benefits, and risks of each option.” ®'

'That means no ads in public repos, because Friedman said Sourceforge became “a swamp of banner ads and pop ups and delayed downloads to expose users to more ads”. ', "He added that “GitHub's clean interface and developer-centric approach can be seen in part as a reaction against Sourceforge” and suggested GitHub’s ascendency shows a no-ads approach has proven the correct approach."

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Nadella tells worried GitHub devs: Judge us by our actions • The Register

'And while Friedman was talking, slides showing Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud with equal status to Microsoft Azure were shown in the background. '

'The moment Nadella or Friedman stopped talking about how much they love open source, the very next thing was about how the deal was going to present "opportunities."'

'"We love developers, and we love open source developers," he said on a call formally announcing the deal on Monday morning before promising, repeatedly, that GitHub will remain open and independent. '

'He reiterated, again, that Microsoft was "all in with open source."', "Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is at pains to reassure developers that its $7.5bn purchase of GitHub won't turn the code repository into an Azure-only space."

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GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language - Slashdot

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Tesla inches toward GPL compliance in low gear: Source code forcibly ejected into public • The Register

'As recounted in an email message to concerned members of the open source community, Tesla has published its still incomplete CSS candidates via GitHub repositories. ', "The company acknowledges that the release does not include the source code of any of the proprietary applications Tesla built on top of the open source code, such as its Autopilot software stack or Nvidia's proprietary binaries."

'In theory, Tesla could be sued for flouting the GPL, but even the SFC, which backed the controversial GPL claim against VMware, prefers resolving compliance issues outside of court. ', "Following five years of hectoring, Tesla has released a portion of the open-source code it's obligated to provide under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)."

'"We always follow the Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement when we work on compliance," said Karen M. Sandler, SFC executive director, in an email to The Register. '

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Software development slow because 'Most of our ideas suck' • The Register

'Speaking at Continuous Lifecycle London* on Wednesday, Mike Roberts, co-founder of consultancy Symphonia Cloud, employed less Orwellian terminology for tomorrow: continuous experimentation. '

'"Most of our ideas suck," he said, attributing the quote to software consultant Jeff Patton (though any cynic, unbidden, will say as much). ', "Perhaps you've heard of continuous delivery, the trending software engineering practice that aims to accelerate development cycles while making them simultaneously speedy and boring."

'"There's no point in having continuous experimentation if we're not continuously learning," Roberts said. ', "And there are safety challenges: making it safe to fail; ensuring budgets don't get busted along the way; and protecting data and security."

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Agile development exposed as techie superstition • The Register

'If you use care in framing your hypothesis and in designing your small, frequent tests, she suggested, your organisation will improve over time. '

'"How many looked at the randomized controlled studies that provided evidence that agile was better than your current process?" she asked. '

'Rising, a consultant, author and COO of The Hillside Group, asked for a show of hands from anyone doing some flavour of agile development. '

'At DevOps-focused London conference Continuous Lifecycle* today, Linda Rising challenged the superstition of tech professionals, a group that ought to have some affinity for science. '

'Rising encouraged those exploring new ways of working to involve others, to tell stories about their small experiments. '

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Android devs prepare to hit pause on ads amid Google GDPR chaos • The Register

'However, obviously if you are not requesting ads using the Google Ads SDK then you should not have need to ask for consent to serve Google ads. ', "Google promised a new Consent SDK, but warned it couldn't actually be tested until after GDPR was in place.", "Android developers are reluctantly considering putting Google ads on ice because of uncertainty over whether they'll be GDPR-compliant, cutting off what in many cases is their sole revenue source.", "If you are requesting ads and you have not collected consent using the Google Consent SDK, then we advise that if a user's consent state is unknown and an ad request is made, Google will still serve personalized ads.", "Adding further confusion, a Google rep said in the Mobile Ads forum that the company couldn't guarantee that apps using the Consent SDK would actually be compliant."

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Hey cool, you went serverless. Now you just have to worry about all those stale functions • The Register

'Beyond the infrastructure inside our functions, managing the functions themselves also qualifies as infra-management. '

'These costs mean you only deploy code that is worth deploying, providing enough value to justify the price. '

'As FaaS rises in adoption, and functions get deployed en masse, these functions can grow stale and vulnerable. ', "Depending on the functions' permissions, attackers can exploit such vulnerabilities to steal customer data, steal CPU cycles for Bitcoin mining, or penetrate deeper parts of your network.", "However, while you're not managing servers you are in fact still managing infrastructure."

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You're in charge of change, and now you need to talk about DevOps hater Robin • The Register

"If that system can't be changed, you can't change the incentives and rules of the game, meaning you can't change how people behave.", "Change is tiring, especially if every five minutes you have to change again because the old system didn't work."

'Here you are, doing the DevOps so hard you've broken the spine of your DevOps Handbook, but Robin won't get with the whole "culture thing". ', "Ultimately, it's best to first be empathetic and humane, even using people like Robin as a canary in the change coalmine."

'Sure, DevOps (and the broader meatware of agile and lean software) emphasise continuous learning, change, and adaptation as part of the process. '

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Microsoft programming chief to devs: Tell us where Windows hurt you • The Register

'Will Microsoft continue to have three separate products – Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, and Visual Studio Code?'

'Actually Visual Studio for Mac and Visual Studio on Windows already share a lot of components. '

'Going back to Windows desktop development, there are a confusing number of frameworks available, with Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Universal Windows Platform (UWP). '

'So Windows developers will get all the advancement we have made in our .NET Core framework and runtime."'

'Build "We're going to reinvigorate Windows desktop development," claimed Julia Liuson, Microsoft's corporate VP responsible for developer tools and programming languages. '

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Fork it! Microsoft adds .NET Core 3.0 including Windows Desktop apps • The Register

'Performance of .NET Core is generally better that .NET Framework. '

'It is a fork of the Windows-only .NET Framework, and Microsoft has continued to develop both versions since the first release of .NET Core in June 2016. '

'Porting existing .NET Framework applications to .NET Core will be “straightforward enough that moving to .NET Core 3 is an easy choice for you,” according to Microsoft’s Rich Lander, though developers will be sceptical. '

'We haven’t locked the OS matrix for .NET Core 3, but we don’t have any specific plans on changing it.", which sounds like yes. '

'Desktop applications would continue to use the .NET Framework. '

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Microsoft reckons devs would like an AI Clippy to help them write code • The Register

' Despite using a dimilar name, Visual Studio for Mac and the cross-platform Visual Studio Code are entirely separate products. ®'

'The supported coding tools are Visual Studio 2017 on Windows, and Visual Studio Code on Windows, Mac and Linux. '

'Build Microsoft has used its Build developer shindig in Seattle to rip the wrapping off IntelliCode, an AI-assisted development for Visual Studio. '

'That said, there is an IntelliCode preview extension that developers can try out today. '

'One tool not currently supported is Visual Studio for Mac, the integrated development environment that Microsoft acquired with Xamarin, though the company hopes to add this in future. '

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Cookie code compromise caper caught and crumbled • The Register

'As a result of its investigation, NPM removed the account of dustin87, associated with the malicious code, and unpublished , and . '

'Last month, it acquired ^Lift Security, the group that developed the Node Security Platform and included Baldwin. '

'However, if a developer created an Express.js application and included one of the malicious modules, that application could be accessible through the backdoor. ', "In January, NPM mistakenly removed a developer's account due to a failure to review sanctions suggested by an automated anti-spam system."

'Baldwin claims no packages published to the NPM registry incorporated the malicious modules in a way that would have allowed the backdoor to function. '

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Programmers debate rules to behave respectfully, code of conduct - Business Insider

'They are arguing about whether they should have to agree to a community code of conduct that requires them to behave respectfully. '

'The latest battleground for those who loathe the "SJWs" is to take issue with the seemingly innocuous Community Code of Conduct. ', "Lattner is still heavily involved in the LLVM community, in part because he's the husband of the LLVM Foundation's president, Tanya Lattner."

'Earlier this week, a software engineer publicly quit a very popular open-source project and set off a firestorm of debate within the programming world. '

'The Linux Foundation also adopted a more formal Code of Conduct for its events, saying that harassment is not ok. '

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