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The US Department of Defense wants you to contribute unclassified code to software projects developed in support of national security. Toward that end, it has launched Code.mil, which points to a Github repository intended to offer public access to code financed by public money. But at the moment, the DoD's repo lacks any actual code.
Open source and free software represent industry best practices, the DoD said in a statement, even as it acknowledged the agency has yet to widely adopt it. Code.mil represents an attempt to change that dynamic. On the project website, the DoD goes so far as to suggest that anything other than open source software puts lives at risk.
"US military members and their families make significant sacrifices to protect our country," the agency explains in its FAQs. "Their lives should not be negatively impacted by outdated tools and software development practices that lag far behind private sector standards." And in case that isn't clear enough, the agency states, "Modern software is open sourced software."
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(Score: 4, Informative) by HiThere on Monday February 27 2017, @12:21AM (5 children)
The *NEW* garbage doesn't bother me anywhere nearly as much as the chevrons for expand or reduce posts. And not only are they ugly, but the changed action is far inferior to the previous action. It's much more useful to be able to expand or contract all subsequent posts in the thread than whatever this thing does. And this chevron garbage even requires multiple clicks to see the immediately subsequent post. Please revert to the prior design.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 4, Informative) by NCommander on Monday February 27 2017, @07:58AM
Commenting stuff is in flux. We're still working on it. Articles going out this week for feedback and notes will be a daily thing here for awhile. Next one goes out in a few hours.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by martyb on Monday February 27 2017, @11:44PM (3 children)
It may bear repeating that there was a need for changing the display of comments based on the fact that loading a story with 100+ comments after a system reboot could hit one of the serves with a sustained load for several tens of seconds. This was quite problematic and the new comment threading modes you are seeing are our attempts toprovide comparable capability at a much lesser load on the server... which also means you should also get you page must faster than under the old system.
Have you tried using a different display mode? It seems you are currently using the "Threaded-TOS" mode, which was designed as best as could be done with just CSS, to emulate the old "improved threaded" mode. Just above the first comment for this story are a number of controls. Click on the one that says "Threaded-TOS" and change it to "Threaded-TNG". You might want to change the value for "Breakthrough" to see what works best for you. If you like what you came up with just click the "Save" checkbox and click the "Change" button to make it permanent. Alternatively, you can go to your preferences [soylentnews.org] page, click on the "Comments" tab, and make your adjustments there. Be sure to scroll to the bottom and then click on the "Save" button to make the changes go into effect.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday March 01 2017, @02:19AM (2 children)
Threaded-TNG has the same chevron garbage. It seems to act a bit different, so I'll try it for awhile, but it's clearly inferior to the older method.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Wednesday March 01 2017, @03:44AM (1 child)
Yes, both "Threaded-TNG" and "Threaded-TOS" have chevrons. By setting a lower value for "Breakthrough" (I use -1) I am able to avoid having to click on the chevrons to see the comments. Yes, that is a temporary workaround and not an ideal solution. We are still working out the kinks. I have heard rumors that it may be possible to bring back just plain "Threaded" in some form.
Please be aware that one of the devs has been looking into replacing the chevrons with single/double plus/minus symbols, too. That should make it easier to make out what the symbol *is* as well as make it more readily apparent what it is supposed to *do*.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday March 02 2017, @12:23AM
I'm not really objecting to the changed appearance, only to the changed action. Perhaps I will set it to not collapse anything, though there are obvious downsides to that.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.