davvid

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   by davvid 16y ago

   ...and I would never hire anyone who perpetuates that myth. I converted a large (50+) group of developers to git from an old, horrible system which will go unnamed. Only the stupid ones complained about the switch. Sorry, it's true. Ya, I'm
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   by davvid 16y ago

   Getting git-cola http://cola.tuxfamily.org/ to snow leopard users has been tricky business. OS X is kinda like gentoo, but with more portability issues ;-) (I kid, I kid!) I don't know if I should use brew, fink, macports, etc. and if I d
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   by davvid 16y ago

   On a related note, does anyone remember the graphical dos BBS client from the 90s called ripterm? My first modem was 2400 baud so I'm a youngin' by some standards, but wow, seeing incremental graphic drawing was pretty cool back in the pre-
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   by davvid 16y ago

   I map caps lock to be an extra control key. It does wonders for vim.
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   by davvid 16y ago

   I agree completely. A common mistake is thinking that performance can be tacked-on later. Thinking about performance up-front can inform elegant designs. 'git' is a good example of this.
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   by davvid 16y ago

   That thread was hilarious. "Definitely thinking of going back to firefox over this" "Stupid Google; I set new backgrounds more often than I download pictures by far. This is not bloat. Breathtaking arrogance and disrespectful attitude towa