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by dlsspy 17y ago
Don't delude yourself that there's anything correct about storing the name of a branch in a commit, or that that's what makes up a proper branch. When I receive a changeset in mercurial and see that it was made on a branch called "dev", tha
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by dlsspy 17y ago
> If we tried to accomplish the first goal (Bring version control into the development process for those who don’t use it.) with Git or Mercurial, most people would have been lost. With the lack of any decent GUI clients, a difficult me
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by dlsspy 17y ago
Are you describing a load balancer, or something else? If not a load balancer (which has a different job to do), I just read this as "NAT is useful because it does NAT".
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by dlsspy 17y ago
> I would think it would be hard to find jobs in Erlang. I've got a few cold calls over the years from companies in my area specifically asking for erlang experience. I'm currently primarily writing erlang code at work. I've use it at
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by dlsspy 17y ago
When I was young, food came to me because my parents brought it. I didn't understand where most things came from, but I could ask my dad, and he would bring them to me. When I became a parent, I wondered who brought the other things I need
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by dlsspy 17y ago
They're born that way. Then they have to be taught to not be atheist.
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by dlsspy 17y ago
I have limited experience with smf (mostly, I work with people who think it's really awesome and who would punch me if I didn't at least mention it). It seems to do a lot of things, which, in turn makes the descriptors a bit more verbose t
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by dlsspy 17y ago
I don't see that as a huge advantage for a few reasons: 1. We're mostly talking about startup (restart, etc...), not shutdown. You can still write your own start script and that's all I've found myself caring about most of the time. 2. Writ
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by dlsspy 17y ago
Yes, I meant to look at runit some last night, but it was unavailable. It does look pretty good.
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by dlsspy 17y ago
I've used god quite a bit (that's actually how I found github in the first place, I believe) and found many of its facilities useful. I was mostly aiming for the stuff your system already does (and daemontools for when it doesn't do what it
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by dlsspy 17y ago
I don't agree that exploiting firewall bugs justifies so much effort in keeping me from understanding what's running on my computer vs. just making it better.
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by dlsspy 17y ago
This is insanity. They're giving away the software, but have put incredible amounts of engineering into making sure nobody can know how it works. The parts where they make money have little to nothing to do with this. I've stopped paying
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by dlsspy 17y ago
Before there was ICQ, AIM, YIM, and AOL instant messenger, there was talk, zephyr and other distributed instant message systems that worked just fine over the internet. After, there's XMPP.
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by dlsspy 17y ago
I'm hoping someone does an android app similar to mobile-org real soon. In the meantime, I ssh from my phone to a box that has an up-to-date copy of my .org files.
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by dlsspy 17y ago
I'd be one of those. I used vi/vim for about fifteen years before playing around with org-mode (and magit and a few other tools). After that, I felt like I'd been missing out on a lot of useful stuff. That was about a year ago. I'm still
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by dlsspy 17y ago
I appreciate the response, and continue to be a happy (paying) customer as I do think you guys do a pretty good job of working on stuff. A lot of really nice features can be found on github, and a lot of interesting technology has come out
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by dlsspy 17y ago
"we just all work on whatever is most interesting to us" Unfortunately, this will likely never be some of the things that bug their customers the most -- such as the wiki that's been wrong since before they launched.
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by dlsspy 17y ago
Too many babies in the UK. Too many puppies with guns in their hands. Anything is possible.
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by dlsspy 17y ago
So... learn new tools? It's not hard to get the stack traces of every thread in a java vm at any point in time. It's not hard to get java using syslog if you really want it to (I wrote a syslog client for java, but ended up deciding it was
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by dlsspy 17y ago
This is a terrible report. Some of it is just flat wrong (e.g. the perl error message only exists if you write it -- if the developer didn't check for errors, they just don't show up). Much of it is just "I haven't learned to do my job."
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by dlsspy 17y ago
gtalk is xmpp, so this will be a boost. However, facebook's xmpp implementation is even more restricted than google's so far. It's not even federated as of yet (not that facebook sees a need for their users to communicate outside of their
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by dlsspy 17y ago
It's the sort of next step in the blub problem. People are coming from a world where they see svn as being so much better than cvs (and source safe and what-not), but the only thing close to it in its class is p4, and they have to pay a l
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by dlsspy 17y ago
It's inspiring to imagine making something so great as to have even a fraction of this sort of response.
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by dlsspy 17y ago
This kind of feels like another "don't know how to use my tools" kind of post. I was doing some critical work during the last time. I had to collaborate with another developer and he was unable to push through github. So we exchanged code
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by dlsspy 17y ago
Pakistan must be really safe. They've never even heard of AIDS over there.
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by dlsspy 17y ago
That's an interesting point. Their OSes, while fairly widely used, are weird relative to just about every other OS in existence. The sole supplier of anything even close to it is a commercial entity. Getting software that wasn't written f
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by dlsspy 17y ago
> All data that's ever sent to or received from the server would be in JSON format. JSON is much more human-readable than XML. I don't need my protocols to be human readable. I need my computers to read them and know that I've got good
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by dlsspy 17y ago
That's fascinating. If it costs even the same as air travel, I might just use it spontaneously. A 40 minute flight easily takes two hours these days.
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by dlsspy 17y ago
I'm very productive on trains. Often more productive than in office settings.
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by dlsspy 17y ago
RPOPLPUSH does about half of what's needed and BLPOP does the other half, but neither does the whole job. It's not interesting to discuss what you can use to hack a queue together. Lots and lots of really badly thought out queue services

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