Same unexpected worlds colliding for me while drinking coffee from a Lost Art Press mug this morning and seeing this article's author on HN.

The mug is as close as I get to woodworking on most days, unfortunately.

I feel like there are a lot of wood workers around here.

We had the same problem. Our VM's are now back up. Log in to accounts is still spotty.

Are you saying Cliff's claims are too...

one-sided?

I'm a trustee on the board of a very small village in Illinois. There was a vote to allow the gaming before I got on the board, and only one vote since then to approve a new license for an establishment. I argued the income-vs-sleaze ratio was lousy, but was out-voted. I wish I'd had this article and its facts to back up my more emotional reasoning for not liking it.

Video gambling is indeed a blight, even if it is profitable, but this article only makes it more depressing to see just how worthless (or actively punitive) it is to all but the companies that apparently wrote the original legislation.

That's what I thought too - I mean this is interesting, but dang -- BT was the bee's knees.

In case you aren't aware, the full original trilogy was recently remastered (that is, I and II thus far, they're still working on III), and they released a 'Part IV' with a whole new game engine. I haven't played the new one yet, but have heard it's good-- just a bit buggy, which they've already made some progress on rectifying.

Without context, working for free requires careful thought. But in the context of this conversation "free" means without monetary compensation, but you're still receiving the benefit of the mentorship (and thus not free).

TLDR; No one's advocating working for free. The Warren Buffett approach is "trade money for time with a good mentor."

The person above literally said "work for free". Those were the exact words said.

And I don't know about you, but I can't buy food or pay rent with "time from a good mentor."

I think you're missing the point, but maybe I'm missing yours.

Perhaps I could use some mentorship from you. =)

I'm saying that, when working for free becomes the norm to advance, the only people that can do so are those who can afford to work for free. If you're someone who isn't already rich, or someone who doesn't come from a wealthy family, you can't afford to work for free. You still have to pay for rent and food.

Um. Can't the same be said about college?

As someone who comes from a poor family, couldn't afford college, and went the mentor-with-free-work route instead, your comment is particularly and hilariously myopic. :)

No, it can't. For one, college has massive amount of financial aid that can come along with it.

And tell me, how did you eat while going the "mentor-with-free-work" route? How did you put a roof over your head? If the answer to those is "family", then you're not one of the people that my comment was about.

I moved into an overpriced shithole apartment at 19 while working at a NOC in the city. Before moving out, I was doing a 5hr/day commute and paid rent to my parents. Pretty sure I'm one of the people you're talking about.

Are you advocating against mentorship as a principle?

I'm advocating against free work. If you do work, you should be paid for it.

I don't see Gitlab explicitly listed as a supported service, but wonder if that would be supported or require google or gitlab to make the integration happen. (This is on a GL EE instance we manage).

And what about public-facing web apps developed in-house? Can we add SAML integrations that would work with this for employee access?

These are probably basic questions, but I couldn't seem to find the details on the site.

Gitlab already has several plugins for auth, for example you can use OmniAuth to have users login with an external identity provider: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/omniauth.html

No extra products needed if they're already using one of those supported providers. OpenID Connect makes things much simpler than traditional SAML unless you need all the extra enterprise provisioning features.

Ah - cool. That makes sense!

I think you meant "redacted" vs "retracted". But yeah, there are a lot of stories out there of people assuming a black bar over black text is high security.

There was a document released by the State Dept at one point where the redactions were just black box over the text. You could just select, copy and paste to see it.

I compared documents and maybe not surprisingly, they seemed relatively minor points.

Will second the #2 recommendation above - I have a fair amount of sidewalk in front of my house and the front of my office that I bought the snow pushers for. They're fast and move a lot of snow with minimal heavy breathing. 4 years and zero heart attacks. =)

Whatever mechanism makes it likely you'll keep posting is the right one. Thanks a bunch for highlighting some thoughtful approaches to basic design decisions that often get overlooked. The effort is appreciated.