apotheon

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by apotheon 16y ago
I don't remember "Supports Git" being one of the seven signs that Git Christ the Savior has Risen. > Mercurial is great, but it's not git. Yeah -- it's easier to use. I've even seen Git users suggest that newbies to the world of DVCSes
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by apotheon 16y ago
Well, I could be snarky and say "usability" -- which, relative to GitHub, it kinda seems like BitBucket pioneered. Frankly, though, I'm not sure whether there's something BitBucket really "invented". There doesn't seem to be much that eit
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by apotheon 16y ago
I'm not sure what's so difficult about publicly discussing pull requests.
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by apotheon 16y ago
The complete lack of licensing information on many projects is something that Google Code tends to "fix" much better than GitHub, though -- even if Google Code is a little inferior in some other ways. It would be nice if sites like BitBuck
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by apotheon 16y ago
Not really. Your example -- keeping up with underlying technology upgrades -- may not even require as many commits as the number of upgrades to the underlying technology version. Especially if the software is well-written without unnecess
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by apotheon 16y ago
argh, typo Half a decade -- not have a decade.
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by apotheon 16y ago
While your comment may indicate thinking outside the box, it may also indicate you are a condescending asshole. Only time will tell, I suppose.
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by apotheon 16y ago
Even that doesn't always apply. The amount of documentation available for my favorite window manager on the (ancient) site for it is mind-boggling. The creator labels the documentation as "comprehensive" and, to quote Bill: "Baby, you ain
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by apotheon 16y ago
AHWM It's unlikely you'll find it in the software management system of your Linux distribution of choice, and (being not very experienced with C) I haven't managed to get it to compile on Debian -- but it's in FreeBSD ports, and has no prob
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by apotheon 16y ago
It varies, re: Ruby, moving from 1.8 to 1.9 (the latter of which is basically the difference between major versions, though for some reason they aren't calling it 2.0). I think things are worse in this regard for Rails than for Ruby.
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by apotheon 16y ago
A college graduate who has been jobless for six years is probably pushing thirty. It's harder to get hired with "no" experience at 30 than at 20 (or even younger) a lot of the time, especially for fast-moving "dynamic" technology jobs.
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by apotheon 16y ago
I hesitated before including Google Code. I believe that it technically meets the qualifications of the features mentioned in the 7 ways list, but it really falls short of both BitBucket and GitHub in terms of its feeling of being a soci
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by apotheon 16y ago
The same is true of BitBucket, and kinda Google Code as well, you know.
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by apotheon 16y ago
Y'know, there are some projects that haven't had commits for a while because they do exactly what they're supposed to do, and don't need a bunch of commits. I consider it a good thing when a project gets to the point where nobody can f
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by apotheon 16y ago
BitBucket actually does everything GitHub does on that list of ways that GitHub supposedly changed the world. In fact, I find the BitBucket interface generally easier to use and easier on the eyes -- and, my God, the colors on the GitHub
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by apotheon 16y ago
Wow, it is really refreshing to see intelligent discussion of education here after mostly seeing little more than vacuous bloviating about it on reddit.
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by apotheon 16y ago
Maybe they're trying to take cues from Microsoft's "ribbon". That would be a tragedy.
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Code Reuse and Technological Advancement(blogstrapping.com)
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by apotheon 16y ago
Then, of course, you have problems of sample size. Nearly a million commits is a pretty good sample size; a hundred, not so much.
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by apotheon 16y ago
I do not need my inbox filled with the same crap that appears on Facebook. My email is for other purposes (like actual personal, direct contact, in the case of the address I give my real-world friends). Facebook is designed like a public
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by apotheon 16y ago
Are you aware that getting responses never is equivalent to being ignored, at least in most people's minds? On what planet do you live where people carry on a relationship that involves dead silence on one side?
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by apotheon 16y ago
. . . and while I do not currently have a life insurance policy, I did at one time -- and the exception for suicide never went away on that policy.
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by apotheon 16y ago
On the other hand, the author explicitly said to his agent "Find out why she rejected it," speaking of Hollis. That suggests the author , at least, did not know why.
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by apotheon 16y ago
Oh? Do you really think my writing here was engaging and brutally honest? Thank you. I strive to achieve that tone in my writing -- which you appeared to achieve so naturally and with such ease in your self-deprecating tale. I appreciate
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by apotheon 16y ago
When did I say that he wanted my sympathy? I explained something, from my point of view, about the character of the tale -- which is pretty much what everyone else here is doing, when not just asking questions. Are you such a fan of the
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by apotheon 16y ago
I got the impression the bit about making it not look like suicide was for purposes of insurance fraud -- and a lot of your other readers probably read it that way, too. If you never foisted a book you thought sucked onto editors, you need
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by apotheon 16y ago
Would you mind giving me a quick, thousand-foot view of your thoughts on the various options, relative to each other, then? I must admit to knowing little more about Azure than the simple fact of its existence (in part by having seen your
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by apotheon 16y ago
Nothing personal. It was meant to be merely "flippant", and not so much "snarky".
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by apotheon 16y ago
I didn't say it was. I said that was his point.
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by apotheon 16y ago
Maybe he should. I write for a publisher whose offices are more than a thousand miles away from me. We have this nifty thing called the Internet now, and postal mail works even when you don't live in the same city anyway (postal mail bein

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