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by durin42 18y ago
Having been in the "real world" for a while (graduated college recently), it's been striking to me just how many people in the world aren't self-motivated. My memory of the Googlers I've worked with suggests that Google tends to end up with
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by durin42 18y ago
People store their home dir with hg too (I do, many coworkers do), and before the DVCS era people used svn and cvs. This is far from a git-unique thing.
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by durin42 18y ago
A good basic summary of this would be "don't use anything other than basic ASCII in filenames." There are two very common desktop platforms (OS X, Windows) that have outright broken filename handling (OS X in particular has really odd rules
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by durin42 18y ago
My read on Apple is that they're not a software company - they're a hardware design company that feels passionately about the software not sucking and detracting from the design of the hardware. Last time I knew, Apple's turnover on engin
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Abstraction as Leverage (PyCon 2009 Talk)(blip.tv)
8 points by durin42 18y ago|0 comments
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by durin42 18y ago
Based on their white paper on MTBF of hard disks, I'd guess that they avoid favoring any single vendor to lower the chance of a bad batch of drives all failing at once.
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Dingus - Clever Python Mock Library(vimeo.com)
1 points by durin42 18y ago|0 comments
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by durin42 18y ago
Forests are out of date, but IIRC mpm is planning on personally tackling submodule support for release some time this summer (whenever the 1.3 release schedule is, I don't remember offhand).
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by durin42 18y ago
I've not seen that to be the case - in fact, from what my friends have told me, they're doing only replacement hiring right now.
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Unladen Swallow: Making CPython Faster Using LLVM(code.google.com)
105 points by durin42 18y ago|15 comments
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by durin42 18y ago
Not really. I've looked at the ctypes bindings (I've got a set of incomplete patches to them), and they lack diff and replay support, which makes them basically useless for building a client. Git uses the perl bindings, so I can't speak t
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by durin42 18y ago
It's decent of them to license it to people, but are they providing source, or is it (as seems more likely to me, based on the lack of information I could find on the developer page) just a binary blob you can link against?
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by durin42 18y ago
Actually, the less talented a team is, the more important I'd say VCS would be. Idiots is one thing - but mediocre programmers I'd love to have on VCS of any kind (VCS in my mind excludes things like VSS). It means that when someone blo
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PyBrain: Machine Learning Toolkit for Python(pybrain.org)
53 points by durin42 18y ago|4 comments
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by durin42 18y ago
For several reasons, I'd say so. Using the cell modem really tears through battery life. Also, there are plenty of places in the Chicago area I've noticed where coverage is spotty enough to not have reliable data. Then there's plane flights
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by durin42 18y ago
It's already cool to me as a potential non-worthless editor in a CMS for quick fixes (sometimes I have to write complex JS that lives in a CMS, and I inevitably end up with a copy-paste-save-refresh cycle that gets tedious once I need emacs
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by durin42 18y ago
In the case of sites that refer to user-specified images by just linking to the image (as with some forum software, at least a couple of years ago last I used such things), they need to change behavior, otherwise the upstream site can chang
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IE's MIME Sniffing Allows Execution of Images(heise-online.co.uk)
18 points by durin42 18y ago|5 comments
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by durin42 18y ago
I thought Urchin became GA? I remember early on in my analytics use the script mentioned urchin, and the newer one they provide doesn't anymore...
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by durin42 18y ago
You could do what dropbox did and make a real native UI for each platform. Honestly, I gave up on Zumodrive in part because I couldn't get your menu icon to not look selected. It always was highlighted, even before I clicked on it the first
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Why bzr is better than X(whybzrisbetterthanx.com)
4 points by durin42 18y ago|1 comments