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by andersonvom 8y ago
gitsh - https://github.com/thoughtbot/gitsh Since git is by far the command a lot of people type the most, this shell comes in really handy. It supports all regular git aliases, has autocompletion, super useful for set
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by andersonvom 8y ago
gitsh - https://github.com/thoughtbot/gitsh Since git is by far the command a lot of people type the most, this shell comes in really handy. It supports all regular git aliases, has autocompletion, and you can set defa
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by andersonvom 8y ago
This could be mitigated by just having people you don't interact with often in some meaningful way (for some definition of meaningful), they just get automatically unfriended. As if you had forgotten about them. There's not hard c
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by andersonvom 10y ago
The values in the original PDF don't really add up [1]. It doesn't really change much, but it's still weird. If you apply the formula in the PDF to the listed values, they're all 1-5 points off: Each country’s valu
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by andersonvom 10y ago
Doh, I guess I could have used better wording. Hopefully it's clearer now. =)
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Automatically download all your pay and tax statements from ADP(github.com)
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by andersonvom 10y ago
You can also reverse engineer code, sniff your network traffic, and lots of other things with proprietary software, but that doesn't make it free. Also, there _is_ a practical impact on the JS you see on a particular site: the fact tha
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by andersonvom 11y ago
Plain squashing commits, while still a valid option in very few cases, will likely lead to gigantic commits that are hard to reason about. I've seen projects where maintainers clean up poor commits before merging them: rebase/squa
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by andersonvom 11y ago
I agree that a well-done git rebase and commit strategy is much more useful. However, squashing everything will (most likely) lead to gigantic commits that are hard to reason about. A better approach would be to create multiple small commit
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by andersonvom 11y ago
While this is "telling a story", the first commit will break your code for no good reason (i.e. if you rename a method, but not its usages, hell breaks loose). This make you lose one very useful features of git: the ability to bin
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by andersonvom 11y ago
Which is why the author is granted a period of time in which they are the ones controlling/exploiting/restricting/etc their work. What I argue for is that this should not be forever. In fact, I would argue that the current ge
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by andersonvom 11y ago
When I say compensation I'm not restricting it to "monetary compensation". In this sense, the years of "monopoly" over someone's work to benefit from it as they see fit is the actual compensation I was referrin
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by andersonvom 11y ago
The so-called "myths" the author highlights are more like fallacies than actual facts. He briefly touches some points related to copyright and claims that that's all there is to it. > Myth #5. Artists Feel Restricted by Co
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by andersonvom 11y ago
One very good reason can be seen today: after some of the books from the Sherlock Holmes series went into public domain, artists today are free to use and create derivative works based on/off of them. Case in point: "Elementary&qu
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by andersonvom 11y ago
Many have done things that were common place in the past and are not anymore; or are plain illegal; or were found to be wrong. Sustaining something just because many people still do it doesn't really seem reasonable.
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by andersonvom 11y ago
I think you mean "I don't care about my privacy at this moment ". These are very different ideas. Or would you not care about your privacy if you visited a country where reading HN content was illegal? Or would you not car
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by andersonvom 11y ago
This logic only applies if the company is trying to take advantage of their employees. Ultimately, it always blows up anyway because employees talk to one another. From the perspective of a company who is not trying to exploit anybody, ha
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by andersonvom 12y ago
Perhaps a better way to make upvoting/downvoting work better would be to use rules such as some of the ones described on r/NeutralPolitics [1]. Here's the summary: > Downvoting: reserve downvotes for posts that are explic
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by andersonvom 12y ago
What if knowing you prefer Ethiopian coffee would make your insurance company charge you more because statistically these people are more prone to medical issues? Would you tell them in a heart beat? The pendulum swings both ways, and this
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by andersonvom 12y ago
I would say there is a correlation, which is not to say it is causation. I'd venture to say that going to school and getting a degree in CS would increase the likelihood of one becoming a better engineer. That is not to say everybody
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by andersonvom 12y ago
I think mode-based editing will be the answer of almost everyone, plus the imperative that you have to have a shortcut for everything. That makes vim/emacs not only fast editors in the processing sense, but editors where you can be r
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by andersonvom 13y ago
Everything you do has pros and cons. By spying on other countries, you may create enemies and eventually lose many lives in a war, for instance. The point seemed to be: "just because it has a pro, doesn't mean I should do it"