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by akent 14y ago
You can still get the full git diff out of a pull request by appending .diff to the pull request URL on github. Even better, you can get output similar to git send-email by appending .patch. Likewise there's nothing stopping you applying an
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by akent 14y ago
Jack's signature is "@jack"? Nice.
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by akent 14y ago
"You are encouraged to open pull request. Of course only valid legistation voted on by the Bundestag will be merged."
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by akent 14y ago
Are there any practical uses for this?
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by akent 14y ago
It works fine when I commit locally (as yes, it's just a normal old git repo) - just via the web UI, it always uses the email in my github account marked as 'default' even though the repo obviously belongs to the organization, not to me.
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by akent 14y ago
The per-organization email settings is actually the best news out of the bunch - now I can stop checking my personal email so frequently at work. I'm hoping this feature also fixes the long standing problem with github commits via the web i
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by akent 14y ago
I suspect it's more of a tongue-in-cheek self-reference to the Linux C coding style ( http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle ) where he suggests burning the GNU coding standards, using exactly the same phrasing. Incidentally if
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by akent 14y ago
Sure, for fatal errors, random (greppable) strings aren't so bad, but the OP made it sound like his FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUU message was expected all the time rather than an exception. If you're going to print something all the time in normal oper
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by akent 14y ago
I noticed that a particular “FUUUCCKKKKKasdjkfnff” wasn’t getting printed where it should have Why not take the extra half a second to make those random strings meaningful and hidden behind a DEBUG log level?
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by akent 14y ago
Says an ex "Product Manager at Dropbox". Edit: Thanks for the downvotes. My point is, just make it unambiguous to everyone in your comment so we don't have to click through your profile. Context matters. e.g.: "I was Product Manager at Drop
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Startups want to make stuff, not patents(boingboing.net)
3 points by akent 14y ago|0 comments
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I have an app idea(shiftyemails.tumblr.com)
2 points by akent 14y ago|1 comments
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by akent 14y ago
(I've had this rant before, but I'll repeat it.) He points to Stack Overflow's 404 as a good example and claims "We do our best to explain it was removed, why it was removed and where you could possibly find it." Yet there is still no perma
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What makes a good engineering culture?(quora.com)
2 points by akent 14y ago|0 comments
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Artwiculate shuts down(artwiculate.com)
1 points by akent 14y ago|0 comments
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by akent 14y ago
The original question was from March 2009. Deleting that three years later is bad internet citizenship -- it's removing internet history for no good reason. Fair enough, if it was a new question asked today, no question, delete it, as it's
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by akent 15y ago
http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/wha...
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by akent 15y ago
Clear? One possible interpretation of just that statement alone could easily give the impression that viruses in general are therefore not an issue for Macs.
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Queensland Police War Driving to help prevent identity theft(qpsmedia.govspace.gov.au)
1 points by akent 15y ago|1 comments
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by akent 15y ago
Try youtube-dl: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/
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by akent 15y ago
No, not improved. The recent episode where they talked about cars for practically the whole show was the end of it for me. Unsubscribed.
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by akent 15y ago
I can only give my opinion. Feel free to disagree or add something to the discussion.
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by akent 15y ago
From one of the reviews of the original iPad linked to in this post: The iPad is not the transformational device so many Apple enthusiasts were hoping for. It won’t turn all the content industries upside down, it won’t be your primary comp
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by akent 15y ago
This is excellent. Also, I was not previously aware of the "World IPv6 Launch" linked to in the post which also looks like a great initiative: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/
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World IPv6 Launch - 6 June 2012(worldipv6launch.org)
4 points by akent 15y ago|0 comments
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by akent 15y ago
>>> Because things like C++ is what enables things like Git and Linux to be written. Are you referring to something in particular? In what way does C++ "enable" git and/or Linux?
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How To Avoid Hiring The Wrong Person For Your Startup(mashable.com)
2 points by akent 15y ago|0 comments
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by akent 15y ago
It's nothing to do with favouritism, Ubuntu are not licenced to distribute it any more: As of August 24th 2011, we no longer have permission to redistribute new Java packages as Oracle has retired the "Operating System Distributor License
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by akent 15y ago
The solution is simple, just turn your damn phone off completely if you're at a concert.
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by akent 15y ago
Surprising - given you already had a self-hosted IRC server, switching to Grove seems like an expensive option for more or less just the addition of logging features?

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