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by ethomson 12y ago
Visual Studio is affected by this; Microsoft has released patches for Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 and an updated Git Provider for Visual Studio 2012. Users of Visual Studio are urged to apply an update. Brian Harry&#x27
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by ethomson 12y ago
Definitely affects Windows. Git for Windows users should update to 1.9.5 immediately. https://msysgit.github.io/
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by ethomson 12y ago
Vicent Marti (from GitHub) states: "In case it's not obvious from the post: There are no malicious repos in @github and they can't be pushed anymore. Update your Git anyway." https://twitter.com/vmg&#x2F
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Git v2.2.1 (and updates to older maintenance tracks)(mail-archive.com)
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by ethomson 12y ago
You should never have to pay for checked bags: just gate check the bags instead. This new checked bag pricing has made the (already crowded) overhead compartments even more crowded. If your flight is full, or nearly so, there will not be
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by ethomson 12y ago
I think VS Community Edition is great, but what I think is mindblowingly amazing is that it's free " for contributing to open source projects ". (Disclaimer: Microsoft employee.)
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by ethomson 12y ago
Bicycling magazine had an excellent article that delved into this: http://www.bicycling.com/sites/default/files/uploads/BI-June... Their assertion was that this boiled down to: do you want open head tr
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by ethomson 12y ago
Does this whitelist drives that report themselves as a manufacturer of "Samsung", or does this whitelist drives that report themselves as "Apple". If it's the latter, then they've functionally prevented me from
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Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform(news.microsoft.com)
2376 points by ethomson 12y ago|894 comments
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by ethomson 12y ago
You'll find a handful of announcements if you google "microsoft new review system". http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5094864/microsoft-kills-s... is helpful as it includes the memo that
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by ethomson 12y ago
I was hoping that this was an analysis of the new review system, or at least included an analysis of the new review system. It doesn't; this is a two year old article that suggests that Microsoft's old review system ("stack
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by ethomson 12y ago
They did alter the Windows filename restrictions. You can happily create a file that is 1000 characters long, and your Windows 95 software will likely refuse to open it. (Hell, Windows Explorer refuses to deal with it.) Now we've
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by ethomson 12y ago
Presumably this would be able to play in both markets. That said, I can't comprehend this market around wanting to wear an ugly piece of plastic on your wrist all day, every day, just to convince oneself that they're getting more
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by ethomson 12y ago
To compare Microsoft Band to a FitBit doesn't do the Band justice. FitBit is a toy - counting footsteps isn't "fitness" and a few LEDs isn't feedback. With GPS and an actual display, the Band actually has the abil
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by ethomson 12y ago
I'm also very optimistic about OneGet. I do think it's a worthwhile endeavor (and I think CoApp is worthwhile.) My frustration comes when Microsoft builds a technology and gives it a web page and open sources it and... promptly
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by ethomson 12y ago
Do you have a positive experience with CoApp? Mine has been overwhelmingly negative: it does not appear to work, does not appear to be maintained and does not appear to be supported. I've been trying to get somebody to provide even a
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by ethomson 12y ago
I'm coming from it from the other direction: I'm a long time Unix guy who has crash landed on Windows. I find any Unix-like environment on Windows to just be an atrocity. Cygwin and mingw are both embarrassing compromises that a
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by ethomson 12y ago
You can teach them how to use the git command-line interface without forcing them to use Bash, though. Nothing wrong with simply putting `git` in your path.
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by ethomson 12y ago
A "PM" at Microsoft is a "Program Manager". This is a relatively vague term when it comes to responsibilities and deliverables and tends to vary from team to team. Generally, though, they will tend to be more customer
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by ethomson 12y ago
Indeed; 've always found "cold brew" or "toddy" coffee incredibly boring and empty. (Which makes sense, of course; so many of those flavors are extracted by heat.) I'll mix it with some milk and simple syrup
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by ethomson 12y ago
Sadly, it's not new. The former Sun Microsystems was the king of this insanity. Like how Java jumped from 1.4.2 to 5, except that it was still sometimes 1.5. Or worse, the SunOS renaming fiasco, where SunOS was also concurrently Sola
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by ethomson 12y ago
It's not clear to me why this supports only Chromebooks and Chrome on Windows. It seems like they would have had to go to the trouble to explicitly disable support for Chrome on Linux. Are Chromebooks so different than the shipping
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by ethomson 12y ago
The current version of Creative Cloud is really just a different license; indeed you do still download (say) Photoshop, it just pings the Adobe servers to ensure that you have paid your monthly or annual licensing. To call it "the clo
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by ethomson 12y ago
No, there is no change in how you share, nor is this any sort of local history. Git has the concept of "pre-commit hooks" which is a script that is run (by git itself) whenever you run "git commit", before your changes a
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by ethomson 12y ago
It's true that this doesn't land on your credit score, but that doesn't mean that you can chargeback without anybody ever noticing. Issuing banks collect lists of credit cards that have issued chargebacks. A merchant may be
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by ethomson 12y ago
I would argue that you were right when you wrote: > Even as Microsoft stuck to its waterfalls internally, Visual Studio was used by third-party developers who themselves wanted to use agile methods, creating pressure on the Developer Div
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by ethomson 12y ago
Yeah, we're in agreement about that. The simplicity of the git repository is very nice. The repository format is a thing so beautiful that it makes you want to cry. With a few horrible warts thrown in that make you actually cry.
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by ethomson 12y ago
I'm surprised that the author of this post would point out a rename conflict as something that "git gets right", in part because I'm relatively certain that git-merge-recursive did not exist when this this mailing list e
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by ethomson 12y ago
The "So why not for everyone?" section is interesting, but misses the reason the tuna can is actually the worst shape on the list: it's optimized for surface area of the top and bottom of the can! Tuna is actually cooked in
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by ethomson 12y ago
The fiscal year just ended and employees haven't even had their first evaluation in the new system yet. (One could argue that the new system is just more of the same, but I don't agree yet; certainly I think it's too soon

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