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by ethomson 9y ago
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services | Software Engineers, Engineering Managers and Program Managers | Redmond, WA and Durham, NC | Onsite Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) provides software development teams with version control (Git and
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by ethomson 9y ago
You're technically correct, which is of course the best kind of correct. But it's not quite so easy. I can't speak for any other Git hosting service, of course, but if you have a private repository in Microsoft Visual Studio
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by ethomson 9y ago
Personally, I love speaking and presenting. I'm not bored giving a talk several times, they're different each time, even when you think it'll be the same. Having to compress something down to 30 minutes or extend something
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by ethomson 9y ago
On the whole, this is excellent advice. The introduction is completely true for me: I give many talks every year and it is, without question, a _lot_ of work. I suspect that everybody is a bit different as to how they prepare, but like t
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Beyond GVFS: more details on optimizing Git for large repositories(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
9 points by ethomson 9y ago|1 comments
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by ethomson 9y ago
300 GB is not the size of _the repository_. It's the size of the code base - the checked out tree of source, tests, build tools, etc - without history. It's certainly possible that somebody created a 1 TB source tree in Git, but
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by ethomson 9y ago
CVS and SVN are probably a bit better at scaling than (stock) Git. Perforce and TFVC _are certainly_ better at scaling than (again, stock, out-of-the-box) Git. That was their entire goal: handle very large source trees (Windows-sized sour
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by ethomson 9y ago
Microsoft's tooling is Windows only _today_. GVFS is open source _and_ we are actively hiring filesystem hackers for Linux/macOS.
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The largest Git repo(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
1053 points by ethomson 9y ago|402 comments
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by ethomson 9y ago
That's funny - I have always simply typed `ethomson@` as my password for anonymous FTP, without ever specifying the hostname portion. The then-popular wu-ftpd had an option to enforce that there was a `@` in the password for anonymous
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by ethomson 9y ago
What a blast from the past. I remember TeleGrafix fondly; if I'm being honest, I didn't really use RIPterm all that terribly often; I've always felt more at home in text. But I did run a BBS (1:233/24) and I enjoyed ha
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by ethomson 9y ago
I'm not talking about the fancy tools. I'm talking about just serving Git repositories, not about web applications. GitHub is distributing your Git repository across multiple servers in multiple racks in real time for reliability
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by ethomson 9y ago
On the contrary, there's a ton of maintenance, and the hosting providers like GitHub and Microsoft pay teams of people to deal with the infrastructure. (I've worked on both.) This involves not just the physical infrastructure li
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by ethomson 9y ago
Interesting. I'm sorry to hear that; I actually never used an Onyx but I went from a Cray 2 to a Cray X-MP to a Power Challenge. I was skeptical about Irix and the Challenge, mostly because a bunch of consumer-ish processors seemed l
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by ethomson 9y ago
Yeah, I was a bit surprised reading this, myself. $500k for a Y-MP does seem like a nice price - I assume they were getting a machine that had been previously loaned to someone who was upgrading to something massively multiprocessor. But i
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by ethomson 10y ago
Indeed, you can. What you cannot do, however, is remain alive to get the results.
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GoDaddy Revoked and then Un-Revoked a certificate without request(medium.com)
2 points by ethomson 10y ago|0 comments
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by ethomson 10y ago
I'm really pleased to see that this actually outputs plain text results in _plain text_. For example, if I enter `Integrate[Sin[x], x]`, the result is `-Cos[x]` _in text_. Real, honest to god, copy and pasteable text! This is at odds
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by ethomson 10y ago
For Visual Studio Online and TFS, Microsoft is using libgit2 and some custom ASP.NET code for the upload-pack / receive-pack endpoints, stuffing the data into SQL Azure. No filesystem, no `git` executable.
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by ethomson 10y ago
Yes, this is exactly it. Calling git as a separate process clears up the cost of libgit2. And not just one copy of the library, since there are so many users of git within Visual Studio (Team Explorer, GitHub, CodeLens...) there are at le
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by ethomson 10y ago
John Dvorak may or may not be a notorious troll, and he may or may not be as reliable as a broken clock. But there's one thing that I can say for sure, and it's that John Dvorak isn't the author of this article.
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by ethomson 10y ago
I'm sorry if I misunderstand you, but your comment quite suggests that it has _not_ gotten any press if the takeaway is to switch oils. Are you suggesting that you still see evidence of people responding to the misinformation reported
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by ethomson 10y ago
When I was in high school, I had a part time job/internship doing QA and writing some software. I was recruited there by my friend, who was blind, a programmer, and also in high school. He was a great programmer, and very adept at usi
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by ethomson 10y ago
Hmm. This looks like it deals with UNC paths. I think the parent is asking about what are sometimes called "Win32 file namespace paths" - or at least defined as such by the MSDN article that is canonical https://msdn.
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by ethomson 10y ago
Indeed it does. You could talk about Windows the entire operating system, or you could talk about Windows as Win32, but either way - yes - they both have 260 character path length limits _by default_. I realize that you're saying that
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by ethomson 11y ago
My favorite: "In 2038 I will be either too dead or too rich to care about this" https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/7adca53ed65380266309...
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by ethomson 11y ago
Those are unrelated concerns. Microsoft isn't a big homogenous unit. The business unit that would join the Linux Foundation would be Cloud & Enterprise (which does crazy things like open sourcing .NET and joining the Eclipse Foun
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by ethomson 11y ago
I can't tell if you're joking or serious. Certainly, Microsoft hosts a lot of Linux VMs in Azure. A lot . The last I heard, Azure was hosting more Ubuntu than anything else. I'm going to assume you're serious and agr
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by ethomson 11y ago
Interesting. I was part of the original "Team Explorer Everywhere" team that built their Eclipse plug-in for TFS and had originally championed this as a good idea. But really, I'm not sure that I'm enthused about this
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by ethomson 11y ago
Indeed I did read it - my question wasn't "did you move" but "to whom did you move".

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