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by compay 17y ago
I have always thought the fact that software has so many "weird" people is due to the fact that we're one of the most meritocratic fields out there. In software, if you can code well then people will generally accept you, whether you have a
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by compay 17y ago
Because of sarcasm.
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by compay 17y ago
I love Arch. They've done a great job straddling the line between minimalistic and easy to use. It reminds me (in a good way) of how Linux distros tended to work many years ago.
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by compay 17y ago
I think it was far easier for them to achieve consistency through subtraction rather than addition.
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by compay 17y ago
I liked this feature, but I think it makes sense for them to remove it. To me it highlights the fact the Github has grown way beyond just hosting Ruby projects. I'm currently in Rio for the Lua Workshop and many people here have said they'l
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by compay 17y ago
I tend to agree, though being on the #railsconf channel was the only way to make it through Tim Ferris's awful Railsconf keynote this year. Without Wifi there might have been violence.
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by compay 17y ago
Mysql has great replication support which everyone who does webapps requires Not everybody who does web apps needs replication.
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by compay 17y ago
As someone who used to program mostly in Java, but now works mostly in Ruby and Lua, I can say that I enjoy programming in Ruby and Lua more than Java. But I think I was still a fairly productive programmer before I made the switch. I'm not
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by compay 17y ago
Ha. I feel so much better now! ;)
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by compay 17y ago
Perhaps a name change wouldn't be such a bad thing for him, to make a clean break with his previous site which died spectacularly with no backups.
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by compay 17y ago
Yeah, that and Toyota were really hard to tell. Anything with a lower-case t, a or r; or an upper-case C were very obvious, and that was most of them.
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by compay 17y ago
I think the main reason is simply that 1.8.6 has been "good enough" for most people. It reminds me a lot of Apache 1.3 vs. Apache 2.0. For a long while, there were also no debuggers for 1.9.1, which is a big deal for some people. Mark Mosel
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by compay 17y ago
Great idea, horrible implementation. 5 minutes of something like this followed by an actual serious and worthwhile presentation might have been pretty funny. But 35 minutes is definitely moving into Yoko Ono territory, and not in a good way
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by compay 17y ago
Well, if you have some empathy then you can admire somebody for their good qualities while at the same time being aware of their faults. The existence of free/open source software owes a big debt to RMS's idealogical extremism, and Emacs, G
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by compay 17y ago
I agree completely. Love or hate RMS, you have to respect that he says what he means and means what he says. He has absolutely no filter and is pathologically incapable of telling a lie. I don't always agree with him but I do admire him.
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by compay 17y ago
I read that the Indians in New York would also dry the pine bark, grind it up into flour, and use it to make breads and pemmican. As a kid growing up in upstate New York I was pretty into "survival foods," until one day I ate Jack-in-the-pu
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by compay 17y ago
someone in charge there doesn't mind it so much Maybe, but it's costing them money that could otherwise be saved. Somebody up top would probably like to see that change too.
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by compay 17y ago
Those who see this as a move somehow "against Microsoft" should realize that nothing would please Microsoft better than to no longer have to support IE6.
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by compay 17y ago
"I'll stand up and say I'd happily take a $40m pay out so that I could be completely financially secure and get to do what I want." I agree. Just because you cash out doesn't mean you have to retire.
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by compay 17y ago
I've heard that people love it but haven't made the leap yet. What does it do that makes it significantly better than grep?
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by compay 17y ago
I think the fact that SVN adds almost 100 megs of crap to your checkout does suck. But yeah, I don't think it's a deal breaker. I switched to Git for the features; the smaller "checkout" sizes was just an additional benefit. Thanks for post
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by compay 17y ago
Awesome, it'll be interesting to see the results. Make sure you do git repack -a -d -f --window=100 --depth=100 after converting from svn to git. Otherwise you'll have a lot of artifacts from the conversion lying around and the git repo wil
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by compay 17y ago
Yeah, you're right that in this case SVN would have a smaller checkout size. So if this is something that you need then SVN would be a clear winner here in terms of disk storage. However, with the more typical usage pattern of a repository
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by compay 17y ago
Git's easy branching is a huge benefit for working on new features/refactorings in isolation. It is much easier than SVN's. Git works fine on Windows, take a look at: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
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by compay 17y ago
To me the only good reasons to use SVN at this point are cultural. For example, your project can't afford the time to make the switch, or your organization has some useful tools built around SVN that would cost time and money to replace. Li
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by compay 17y ago
I'm also surprised people are still arguing about this. I switched to Git so long ago I sometimes need to look at the man pages for SVN when I use it because I've forgotten how to do some things. IMHO unless you have a good reason to use SV
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by compay 17y ago
I agree. Just think of all the mundane "25 things about me" notes we may now be forced to read.
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by compay 17y ago
Oops, no sarcasm tag. :-)
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by compay 17y ago
NOW I'll consider installing it.
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by compay 17y ago
"well... the XML approach was in fact proposed in the linked thread." Yes, but, my point was that I see it as very unlikely to be adopted. "The documentation is quite perfect already" Sure it's well-written but "perfect" may be a stretch. H

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