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by Xurinos 16y ago
Having introduced git to a few groups (and some hg), I found that the main thing that makes hg easier to learn is that hg mimics some of the same names of commands as cvs/svn. However, once they understand what is going on in git, the aha
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by Xurinos 16y ago
git push is reversible, too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079967 (and note my correction below that simplifies things)
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by Xurinos 16y ago
To add to the anecdotal evidence, I have contacts in the strong IT department of a top university near me. So it could indeed go either way.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I voted you up, but I wanted to note that I (we?) have no idea how her department is run, and the negligence could rest as well in her hands as it could in her employer's hands. Another post here said "Blame the IT department for not estab
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I am not convinced this is a good point against hiring someone who lacks depth in your language. It assumes that people already on the team have the same ability as the potential hire. This does not reflect reality. Different people lear
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I favor Protovis (quick) and jquery.svg (custom).
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Interesting. In my experience, the feedback (1) introduces me to new concepts or utilities I had not considered using -- may or may not incorporate (2) shows me what patterns other developers are accustomed to seeing -- if I chose a patter
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Be careful. Sometimes the reason you code slower is that you are thinking from an architectural level and are making sure your code is a reasonable fit. Sometimes you are taking the time to shape the code in a way that is maintainable. I
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I don't give a shit what other programmers think. Sure, I learn from them, but never in the context of reviewing the code I wrote. Can you elaborate on this a little? On the surface, it sounds like ego getting in the way of learning and
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I clicked the link, thinking, "Please be like Blender, please be like Blender". Then I clicked the link, found a cool voxel modeler, and was satisfied. To clarify... This is 3D modeling with voxels.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Oh! I made a mistake. You do not have to delete or use the special config flag if you use --force for your push. I wondered why I remembered doing this on side branches. With --force, we do not have to do this. Also, I think you need t
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by Xurinos 16y ago
There is a race when dev A deletes master though, right? Yes and no. I could say that this is where communication can help a little, and it depends entirely on your local group's policies, but that would be the easy cop-out. Let's say i
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by Xurinos 16y ago
"commit often" is fine. It's "push often" that gets you into trouble. With an interactive rebase, you can polish up your commits and their messages before pushing them, presenting to your peers a finely crafted (readable, reviewable, main
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by Xurinos 16y ago
This isn't really an issue. Contrary to what a lot of people will tell you, it is fine to change the history of a pushed branch -- especially for the most recent commit -- so long as other developers adopt a policy of rebasing after fetch.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Doh, that's right, and it is one of the coolest and most fun to abuse features of jQuery.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
You don't have to use $(document).ready() anymore As far as I know, this was always the case. The reason people use $(document).ready() is that it feels more correct, is more consistent. jQuery() supports three distinct behaviors:
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by Xurinos 16y ago
vim does automatic indention, too, fwiw. Although the author talked about manual shifting, he did not mention vim's "=". This is equivalent to emacs's default behavior for tab (for when emacs's automatic indention is bypassed). I agree wi
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by Xurinos 16y ago
As a fellow skeptic, I would advise we avoid outright rejection. After all, part of the mantra is to question our own world view, right? Disease existed long before we figured out causes and targeted treatments; people possessed it, and pe
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by Xurinos 16y ago
The downside to the extra time I have, is that I haven't exactly used it wisely - in fact I've mostly squandered it, which makes me sad looking back at the year gone by. I have been thinking about this myself, and I realized something: Th
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Just four days a week and a year. That is a far cry from "a pleasure cruise to the moon" and "peace for all mankind". But there is a middle ground. You can certainly work towards things, but depending on your situation and available resou
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Isn't that 19? Shift key...
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by Xurinos 16y ago
If this contest also rated by finger distance (one of vim's strengths), I'd propose qq and @q@@ instead of using the "a" register.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Oh nooo... It's a 2007 article, but I wish I had been able to go back to that time and shout, "You can use vim! It's okay!" slimv... screen, vim, sbcl in an alternate window with linedit... I think the only real things emacs ever gave me
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Users of Open Source Code He forgot one with relation to games: To figure out specific game mechanics and exploit them. :) That becomes more important for competitive games.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I respect the author's directions -- and Clojure is a fine language -- but I was a little put off by this assertion: I’m only really getting at the fact that even the ultra-flexible of Common Lisp wasn’t written to handle all computing sce
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Well put. The same goes for comments, too. Someone else asserted that good comments should reflect "Why" more than "What". "What" changes more.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I agree with this response. This is the same argument as for unit testing. When your code changes, you have to maintain your tests, too, sometimes throwing them out with the deleted code. In other words, for any code change, you could hav
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Is there a no-JavaScript version of this? I had to cancel the body {display: none} setting in order to see the site (usability failure), and I cannot imagine why it was necessary they hide the content like that. Edit: Here we go: The testi
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I do. From the extremely rich, I heard something along these lines: "When you have money, money is not an issue." If you want to have, try, or do something NOW, money can make it happen. No waiting. Life is short. In exchange for money,
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by Xurinos 16y ago
A few more tips I found helpful as a beginner: * Most lisps can compile a binary, even the free ones. * sbcl seems to have a ton of popularity and support. * Want to mix Lisp directly into your C code? Try ECL. Most important: it works, a

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