ben_straub

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by ben_straub 13y ago
I love the concept. What if the cashier's finger brushes the button, and now I just expensed lingerie on the corporate card? Also, I wonder if there are any plans for chip-and-pin. A swipe-card is very out-of-the-ordinary in the UK and
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Libgit2: Walking History(ben.straub.cc)
2 points by ben_straub 13y ago|0 comments
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by ben_straub 13y ago
Whoops, my mistake. You get the option after you add them as a collaborator. I'll fix my comment above, too.
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by ben_straub 13y ago
Collaborators can have "Read", "Read/Write", or "Admin" privileges. You can choose after you add them.
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by ben_straub 13y ago
Git doesn't track directories directly, but you can create files in subdirectories. Go to <user>/<repo>/new/<branch> (or click the little "+" box where the path is displayed), and type "f
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Libgit2: Refs, Tags, and Branching(ben.straub.cc)
1 points by ben_straub 13y ago|0 comments
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by ben_straub 13y ago
Nah, I'm just repeating what @bryanveloso said: https://twitter.com/bryanveloso/status/324204710888357888 and https://twitter.com/bryanveloso/status/324214383989383168 .
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by ben_straub 13y ago
It's Apex Sans: http://vllg.com/Constellation/Apex_Sans
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Libgit2: checkout(ben.straub.cc)
2 points by ben_straub 14y ago|0 comments
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by ben_straub 14y ago
The downside with this approach is that, with active projects, you end up with hundreds of remote branches. They'll never get deleted with `fetch -p`, and if you remove them manually they'll just come back.
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Libgit2: The Repository(ben.straub.cc)
2 points by ben_straub 14y ago|0 comments
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Dat Science(github.com)
2 points by ben_straub 14y ago|0 comments
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Stupid libgit2 Tricks: Cloning(ben.straub.cc)
3 points by ben_straub 14y ago|0 comments
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by ben_straub 14y ago
Not if I can help it. They're using the project I work on as their git layer: http://libgit2.github.com/
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by ben_straub 14y ago
(Libgit2 contributer here.) Currently, SSH support is in-progress in libgit2 (what all of this is built on), so there is no dealing with keys right now. :) Once the API is in place, it should be fairly straightforward for the VS team to
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by ben_straub 14y ago
I've been using git on Windows for years, and while the need for msys stuff is a little clunky, I've never had any problems using it. In fact, the built-in gui tools (git-gui and gitk) work WAY better on Windows than they do on OSX. libgit
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by ben_straub 14y ago
Libgit2 contributor here. The SSH transport is actually in progress, so this specific issue will go away fairly soon. I'll agree that the error message could be better, but my gut feeling is that most people will clone from within VS and us
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by ben_straub 14y ago
Nice catch. Fixed!
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Why I wake up 45 minutes before the rest of my family(ben.straub.cc)
2 points by ben_straub 14y ago|0 comments
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by ben_straub 14y ago
Rebasing isn't really destructive. Try it: open `gitk --all`, do a rebase -i and squash all the commits together, then switch back to gitk and refresh. You'll see all the old commits still in the database, but the HEAD and master branches p
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by ben_straub 15y ago
OSX has definite advantages here. 1. The trackpad hardware is great. It's so good that when we were making the Bamboo Touch at Wacom, the Macbook Pro trackpad was the standard we measured ourselves against. 2. True pixel-level scrolling fro
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by ben_straub 15y ago
I used to work for Wacom, and there's another reason they're so expensive: volume. Think how much a retina display would cost if, say, Samsung made it in 10k-per-year quantities, and you'll have an idea. Wacom just isn't a big enough fish.
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by ben_straub 15y ago
No, it's more like the IDE is augmenting your brain and fingers. The code comes out readable, but you only have to type a fraction of the characters. It's a code-writing assistant robot. Also, it makes APIs incredibly discoverable. Not su
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by ben_straub 15y ago
Made a Pandora station seeded from the artists in all the mixes. http://www.pandora.com/#!/stations/play/738121268334091862
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by ben_straub 15y ago
I was just at a PPA conference (Imaging USA in New Orleans), and every session started with a PPA rep saying "No photography. All slides are protected by copyright." I don't even know where to begin.
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by ben_straub 15y ago
Not so shocking, actually. The 5D is a pro camera, and you're expected to pull the RAW data into Lightroom and manually tweak and tune the final product. Its output is optimized for this workflow: minimum processing in-camera, maximum optio
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by ben_straub 15y ago
You don't have to rewrite your entire app. In fact, there are probably large parts of it you can reuse. But you can't expect a Win32-style UI to work in Metro, and you can't expect sandboxed apps downloaded from a marketplace to be runnin
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Dear Microsoft: It’s About Time(ben.straubnet.net)
1 points by ben_straub 15y ago|0 comments
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by ben_straub 15y ago
Microsoft is releasing a new OS with a better UI stack and programming model, and preserving the ability to run legacy apps on machines they're compiled for. I wasn't around for the OS9 -> OSX transition, but I'm guessing there was much
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by ben_straub 15y ago
Microsoft isn't Apple. Their biggest customers aren't end users; they're large corporations with thousands of users, and PC manufacturers. Tempting end users is just marketing to them. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubber

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