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by cconstantine 18y ago
Our import from p4 doesn't have to work in windows. We're comfortable in Linux, we just can't develop in it. You are correct, the binary files will not be merged. Some of them are large encrypted databases and can't be merged. The databa
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by cconstantine 18y ago
What makes you think we trust GitHub? ;) The only way GitHub could help us is if they were to opensource their site and let us an instance of GitHub in our datacenter. We have some very strict rules about the code never leaving company com
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by cconstantine 18y ago
Last night I posted a "which SCM" question and there was much love for Mercurial, and some love for Bazaar. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=374390
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by cconstantine 18y ago
Hehe, yeah I'm trying to try it. Unfortunately it doesn't like any of the large files (anything over 10megs), and the windows shell plugin causes explorer to run like a dog. I've done some research on it and I want to like Hg. any advice o
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I hadn't thought of that. You'd then be revision-ing the link, and not the file itself. Unfortunately we are tied pretty tightly to Windows dev. environments.
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I fully understand this argument, but during the last quarterly all-hands meeting our CEO made it abundantly clear that we aren't doing anything unless it directly brings in more revenue or directly reduces overhead. One of the major reaso
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by cconstantine 18y ago
The momentum here seems to be pretty heavily for Mercurial... maybe I should consider git to support the underdog ;) All kidding aside, Hg might be what we need. I'm looking into it now. Is it easy to import p4 history into Hg?
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by cconstantine 18y ago
Something like this might be exactly what we need, but we don't make money building distributed build artifact caching systems. If we don't make money doing it, we aren't doing it :( "Is this good for the company?"
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by cconstantine 18y ago
Yeah, I saw those pages and started reading through them, Unfortunately it's not exactly an unbiased source, and the bias leaks through pretty heavily. I'm not discounting Bazaar, I just don't entirely trust their comparison with other syst
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by cconstantine 18y ago
By "handle large files" all I really want is for it to think of it as a blob that can't be diffed and store it.
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I would love to have the build artifacts stored in a system for managing build artifacts, but I don't really know of any. We could (theoretically) store the build artifacts in Subversion and the source in Git, but that would be very unpopul
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Ask HN: Which revision control system?
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I've heard people with more paranoida than sense claim that recovery labs (like, say, in the NSA) can 'peel' off passes. Effectively they can view he state of a given drive sector after N writes. If you do complete passes of writing zeroe
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by cconstantine 18y ago
The only way I can imagine getting an Apple TV (or similar device) is if it replaces my current cable subscription. I can't justify canceling cable until they offer live-tv for things like the news, and sports. I'm ok with paying for TV sh
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by cconstantine 18y ago
Right, I think we're both in agreement here. To say that college athletes are unpaid workers isn't exactly true, but it also isn't entirely honest to say they're paid like a regular job. I responded to the parent of my post because it had
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by cconstantine 18y ago
Thank you. Another way to look at it is that the university is 'paying' them with a free education, and 4 years with no financial obligations. Depending on the school, that has the potential for massive financial equivalents.
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by cconstantine 18y ago
That's one side of the argument, but it will be punishment on top of loss.
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by cconstantine 18y ago
Did anyone else notice that his math is off? If each sell and buy is taxed at $.10, wouldn't the total tax on a stock transaction be $.20? A fixed value per stock seems foolish, why not make it a percentage. And, a percentage of the total
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I prefer saving the earth by being lazy; I don't mow my yard very often.
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I would say "Lifelike animation heralds new era for story telling". Games that involve story telling will improve (Half-life, Final Fantasy, etc). Maybe I'm just old, but I like my games to be fun. I don't particularly care if the graphic
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I'm really diggin' this browser. My favorite feature has to be the 'Incognito Window'.
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by cconstantine 18y ago
That's possible, but part of the "craziness" is intentionally choosing things that are destructive and anti-social.
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by cconstantine 18y ago
It's hard to explain teenage craziness on hormones when other culture's teens don't go crazy with hormones.
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by cconstantine 18y ago
I've worked in one growing small company, and one internet giant. From my limited experience I've noticed that as companies get bigger: - they gain engineering throughput. Given enough time more stuff gets done in the larger company. - th
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by cconstantine 18y ago
You need to answer one very important question before I would consider using your stuff: Why should we trust you with our passwords? Memengo looks an awful lot like: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/the_doghouse_p... I know y
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by cconstantine 18y ago
Patching has some serious flaws. The main problem is that the vast majority of people don't apply their patches, even when applications auto-check for updates. When a patch is released, that patch directs the bad guys to exactly where the
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by cconstantine 18y ago
That was poorly worded. I meant to end that sentence by saying I agree with you :/ What does one say to someone who is using C because it's suitable for safety-critical systems? Please don't!
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by cconstantine 18y ago
The compilers? No. Everything around them? Oh dear god yes.
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by cconstantine 18y ago
Minor nit-pick. I work around (but not with) ada code, and a common pattern is that if you can get your ada code to compile; it's pretty likely that it's safe. If you're just saying Ada doesn't guarantee that the program does what you real
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by cconstantine 18y ago
/agreed I would like to add that there is a problem with the safety of nuclear power because of the way humans react to danger. When nuclear power fails and kills people it kills a relatively large number of people. Coal is constantly ki

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