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The FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organization agency of the United Nations) doesn't quite agree with you on http://www.fao.org/edible-insects/en/:

"Edible insects contain high quality protein, vitamins and amino acids for humans. Insects have a high food conversion rate, e.g. crickets need six times less feed than cattle, four times less than sheep, and twice less than pigs and broiler chickens to produce the same amount of protein. Besides, they emit less greenhouse gases and ammonia than conventional livestock."

Comment · 5 years ago

On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet you can see:

"It was not until the Middle Ages that the letter ⟨W⟩ (originally a ligature of two ⟨V⟩s) was added to the Latin alphabet, to represent sounds from the Germanic languages which did not exist in medieval Latin, and only after the Renaissance did the convention of treating ⟨I⟩ and ⟨U⟩ as vowels, and ⟨J⟩ and ⟨V⟩ as consonants, become established. Prior to that, the former had been merely allographs of the latter."

So at Julius Caesar's time, I and J were the same letter that you could write either way.

Comment · 7 years ago

> pushing to gitlab prints out the URL to create a pull request from that branch

You can use push options to automatically create a pull request and set it up when you push:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/push_options.html

Comment · 8 years ago

There is already an "engineering" category:

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/engineering/

Comment · 8 years ago

I work for GitLab on low level things in Git, for example:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/23029

which is requested by Drupal (among others):

https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/blog/developer-tools-initia...

Comment · 8 years ago

Yeah, GitLab has been on a monthly release schedule since October 2011: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/12/17/gitlab-release-process/

Comment · 8 years ago

https://public-inbox.org/git/CAP8UFD0aKqT5YXJx9-MqeKCKhOVGxn...

Comment · 8 years ago

libgit2 has had bugs related to file locking (for example when you make some ref changes while garbage collecting) and libgit2 does not implement all the git features, so you cannot do everything using libgit2 anyway.

Comment · 8 years ago

Git refs can be packed (see https://git-scm.com/docs/git-pack-refs) so it's not just about checking if a file exists.

Comment · 9 years ago

The article on Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_calculator, looks like a much better link to me.

The following other mechanical calculator also seems to be an important step: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmometer

Comment · 10 years ago

There are companies hiring people working remotely from all around the world like GitLab for example. (I am working remotely for GitLab.)

In general you could look at open source projects that have companies hiring remote people behind them. If you find a good project with a good company behind, work on the project, and there is a good chance that you will be hired.

Comment · 10 years ago

I think many people here just don't like it when people tell them that IQ is not as important as they think.

I also got downvoted in the following comment sometime ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7977021

where I quoted researchers saying basically that creativity tests are the "...best childhood predictors we have of future real-world achievements..."

Comment · 10 years ago

In Git Rev News edition 20 (https://git.github.io/rev_news/2016/10/19/edition-20/) there are also articles about some changes in v2.11:

- Changing the default for “core.abbrev”?

- Prepare the sequencer for the upcoming rebase -i patches

(I am a Git Rev News editor.)

Comment · 10 years ago

There is work going on about external object database support that could help in the long run:

https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/1702

(I am working on this for GitLab.)

Comment · 10 years ago

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...:

> It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures (commonly known as digital rights management or DRM) that control access to copyrighted works. It also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself.