What benefits do you see for your approach over verdaccio or built in package repositories in the famous code hosting sites?
I am mostly because “How does this project compare to X” pages are basically indicators of quality and it’d be great if this project had one (I can basically imagine when I’d use this over run-forever verdaccio or locked-in gh packages)!
> GitLab was the first code host to add more products (CI, security, ops, helpdesk, analytics, etc.) and create a whole suite, and GitHub followed.
Disclaimer: I've worked with Sid and his team in the past.
Few people realize how long it's been since GitLab was a simple clone -- there has been a ton of legitimate net new innovation, and that happened under Sid (and of course all the awesome people working at GitLab).
Another thing that's actually insanely under-discussed is how openly GitLab runs and how that's been a successful model for them. I'm not sure I know another open core company that has been so successful in the space of developers who bend over backwards to pay nothing and spend hours of their own time (read $$$$$) to host their own <X>.
IMO they are the only credible competitor to GitHub, and they're open core, huge open source orgs, small companies, and large companies trust them (rightfully so), and they've built this all while being incredibly open and to this day you can still self-host their core software (which is a force multiplier for software companies).
Gitlab used to stand alone in the "Github replacement" market, but these days Gitea is quickly closing in on them. I hope the competition will drive Gitlab to continue to compete, but the switch to "AI everything" makes me weary for its future.
Without Gitlab, Github would've taken years, maybe even longer, to develop what it has become today. I don't think Gitea and its forks would exist.
Now if only Github would go the extra mile and copy another feature from Gitlab (IPv6 support)…
GitLab is currently marketing itself as the "AI-powered DevSecOps platform" which in my view ditches it's history/brand as an open and transparent alternative to GitHub.
It absolutely is -- to be fair the previous versions of Unikraft weren't quite easy or maybe ready for wide consumption, but they took some funding and at the very least their marketing and documentation massively improved.
Hugely impressive.
A little weird that they say "no cold start" versus... "minimal cold start".
Cold starts in milliseconds != no cold starts, though I get it -- marketing is marketing and it's not wrong enough to be egregious :)
That said, super excited that someone has built a huge complex database like Postgres on Unikraft.
Been a while since I kicked the tires on Unikraft but looks like it's time to do it again, because this isn't the only software that could use this model, given an effective unikernel stack.
So nice to hear some of you just as excited about unikernels as we are!
Re: zero/minimal cold-start... Technically, you're right, though I'd say if you don't notice it's there, it's as good as not even being there. :) You get the pragmatism though, appreciate it.
Lots of cool stuff coming for Prisma Postgres that all this tech enables, looking forward to keep telling you all about them.
This has nothing to do with Windows. EF Core just happens to be best-in-class ORM, unlike the "ORMs" on other platforms which give the concept bad rep.
Just to add to this, but I've interacted with him and he is also very gracious, curious, and terminally online (in maybe the most mentally balanced way I've ever seen before).
I didn't go so far as saving the emails offline but I do know they're in my inbox somewhere.
We don't have more Matt Levines because it's hard to create them.
And a world of difference in stability and perception. If you have $35k+ to dedicate to this (and note that it does not cost $35k, these are more like initial capital requirements), you should 100% go the investor route.
People underweight how amazing it is to be able to pay less than $50k for the equivalent of a golden visa to a top 5 GDP nation that is well regarded, safe, has some opportunity and is generally easy to live in.
Eh, I ran a business in Japan and have had that visa. I still tell most people who just want to dip their feet in that the digital nomad visa is totally fine and a good way to go.
That stability and perception only matters if you _truly_ want to live here, and quite a number of people spend ~3 months here [1] and realize that it's got issues past the honeymoon period (like anywhere else). There's also no reason you can't change your visa type if you find you actually like it after the DN trip.
[1] "here" because I'm back in Japan for a few weeks for friends at the moment, but you get the idea
While this is purely anecdotal, the friends I have that ended up bailing earlier than planned got really annoyed by nonsensical things like ATMs having operating hours and having to use a fax machine to do something. They probably weren't the main problem but more straw that broke the camel's back.
The ATM working hours can be annoying but honestly I understand the reasoning, it's to prevent drunk guys from being taken advantage of or threatened into making withdraws.
Other than those who have built up Japan as a magical place in their head and are inevitably disappointed that it fails to match, I think that the reason that people end up bailing out of any country is one where they are unable to adapt to a culture and it's nuances.
Most people would get annoyed when you have to take a document to city hall, get it stamped at one desk thane take it 5 desks over for the stamp there as well. Or you can try and understand why their workflow may be this way. Or just not care.
If you are the kind of person who gets annoyed, then you will end up leaving.
>got really annoyed by nonsensical things like ATMs having operating hours and having to use a fax machine to do something.
The ATM operating hours are silly, but 1) you don't need cash that much here anyway, and 2) any decent bank has an ATM with reasonable hours. What are they doing trying to get cash at midnight?
Fax machines are a myth today. I've lived here for several years and have never used one for anything. How long ago was this, over a decade ago? Businesses still use them for some dumb reasons, but regular people don't. People don't even have landlines any more, and usually not even printers at home (you can print stuff at your local konbini).
Yes, you run the company. IIRC the visa is about management not investment and the company is expected to be profitable for the visa to be renewed. That's quite a different bunch of requirements than just buying a visa and sleeping on it.
The golden visas usually have no strings attached. I am not sure about this particular visa but last time I checked Japan they demand that you have a certain amount of activity on the company to keep your residence.
> People underweight how amazing it is to be able to pay less than $50k for the equivalent of a golden visa to a top 5 GDP nation that is well regarded, safe, has some opportunity and is generally easy to live in.
The Japanese are incredibly racist and xenophobic. Numerous businesses outright place signs barring foreigners (particularly russians, chinese, etc)
Japanese citizens are almost always completely trusted by police over anyone, say, white or black. So Japanese who want to fuck with someone will bait them into a confrontation (or just outright lie) so they're arrested - and Japan has a nearly 100% conviction rate, with the worst prison conditions in the developed world.
Some of those assertions are true, some half true, and some are twisting the truth so much that I'd like to note (been living here for 7+ years):
- The Japanese are incredibly racist and xenophobic
Half true, some Japanese are those, but not all and "incredibly" is stretching it a lot (also, it's not good to generalize a negative trait to a whole country, I wonder what that's called). There's also famously a lot of "positive racism" towards Westerners.
- Numerous businesses outright place signs barring foreigners
There's been a handful of places in a country with 120M people, and each and every one of those has made the news, exactly because of how rare they are!
- Japanese citizens are almost always completely trusted by police over anyone, say, white or black.
Sure, this is true.
- So Japanese who want to fuck with someone will bait them into a confrontation (or just outright lie) so they're arrested.
While I don't have any number against it, this feels like such an incredibly bizarre event that I'd like to ask for some sources since it sounds very unbelievable given my personal experiences.
- Japan has a nearly 100% conviction rate
Absolutely not true in that this statement is grossly misconstruing a narrative of "arrested => 100% convicted". ONCE the police decide to pursue a matter, then it's true, but they only do so with incredibly strong evidence. See wikipedias' notes: "If measured in the same way, the United States' federal conviction rate would be 99.8%." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate#Japan
- With the worst prison conditions in the developed world
Fairly true, if we consider only the handful of countries that can be called "the developed world".
Scholars say the biggest reason for Japan's very high conviction rate is the
country's low prosecution rate and the way Japan calculates its conviction rate
is different from other countries. According to them, Japanese
prosecutors only pursue cases that are likely to result in convictions, and not
many others. According to Professor Ryo Ogiso of Chuo University,
prosecutors defer prosecution in 60% of the cases they receive, and conclude the
remaining 30% or so of cases in summary trials. This summary trial is a trial
procedure in which cases involving a fine of 1,000,000 yen or less are examined
on the basis of documents submitted by the public prosecutor without a formal
trial if there is no objection from the suspect. Only about 8% of cases are
actually prosecuted, and this low prosecution rate is the reason for Japan's
high conviction rate.
Also worth noting that, when evaluated equally, the US justice system has a similarly high rate:
According to Bruce Aronson of New York University School of Law, Japan's conviction rate is
misleading because it is the rate at which defendants admit guilt in the cases they are
charged with. According to him, if the method of calculating the conviction rate in Japan is
applied to the United States, the conviction rate of federal defendants in the United States
in 2018 was also over 99%. According to him, when there is a discussion about Japan, it
is easy to misunderstand because people quickly rely on broad cultural generalizations and
stereotypes.
None of which is to say that there aren't serious problems with the Japanese justice system (or the US one, for that matter).
I am glad they prioritize and look out for their own. That's how it should be. Not everywhere needs to be in love with globalism. And yes, I would say the same should be the case in other places as well.
What benefits do you see for your approach over verdaccio or built in package repositories in the famous code hosting sites?
I am mostly because “How does this project compare to X” pages are basically indicators of quality and it’d be great if this project had one (I can basically imagine when I’d use this over run-forever verdaccio or locked-in gh packages)!
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