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by ethomson 12y ago
Indeed; thank you for pointing that out.
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by ethomson 12y ago
The linked article does not indicate that the applicant was told to arrive 5-10 minutes early, and it explicitly says that they were to reschedule for another day , not the next session in 30 minutes.
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by ethomson 12y ago
If I were a delivery company then I might decide that I didn't want to hire the people that merely show up on time , or even the people that show up a few minutes early. I want the people who go out of their way to show up a lot, lot
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by ethomson 12y ago
Yes. Some construction crew put a backhoe through one of my circuits several years ago. You can call hicap support every hour politely requesting status updates, but that's no substitute for driving around the neighborhood until you
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by ethomson 12y ago
Then, god forbid it works well enough to get a message from the server. Now you have to deal with trash like quoted printable, which is neither.
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by ethomson 12y ago
Thank you. As soon as I read "open, well-documented and well-understood platform like email" I laughed, but only because what I really wanted to do was cry. I assume that the author had never had the misfortune of trying to buil
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by ethomson 12y ago
> If you find yourself ever writing such _new function without the matching _free, you're doing it wrong. Agreed. This comes up with some frequency in cross-platform code where somebody coming from Unix (like myself) assumes that t
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by ethomson 12y ago
I think that (and correct me if I'm wrong) what you're really asking for is for the reflog to be exposed in some way. Certainly I've force pushed before when I didn't mean to. When I went asking where the reflog was the
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by ethomson 12y ago
So what you've established is that only an idiot would order groceries through Uber Courier. Which means that we agree that you're not the target market. Edited to add: 25% more expensive may be comparable, depending on how it
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by ethomson 12y ago
This isn't for grocery delivery, this is to compete with local couriers, and it's priced accordingly. http://breakawaycourier.com/courier-delivery-rates/ quotes $12 minimum in Manhattan (compared to the $15 m
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by ethomson 12y ago
Unfortunately I can't really provide advice for your local workspace troubles as I work on the Git side of things. I'm sorry to hear about your performance troubles with local workspaces: 100,000 files in a local workspace should
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by ethomson 12y ago
From a version control perspective, we're investing heavily in Git right now, which brings a DVCS ecosystem into Team Foundation Server. This means that you can choose between using a checkout/edit/checkin model (TFVC "
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by ethomson 12y ago
Soma's blog states 'Visual Studio "14" will most likely be available sometime in 2015'.
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by ethomson 12y ago
14 is not the public (marketing) name, it's our internal version number. The currently shipping version, as you note, is version 12 (internally), but is called Visual Studio 2013 on the box. There is not necessarily a relationship be
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by ethomson 12y ago
I understand your gripe (though I don't agree with it; TFS comes out of the box with permissions that only allow administrators to force push in a way that rewrites history, but more importantly, this data was never lost, you would onl
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by ethomson 12y ago
I don't need another Markdown Parser. I need another Markdown. Markdown has outgrown its original spec, yet Gruber both clings on to it and is unwilling to update it. Meanwhile, different websites and different parsers proliferate, e
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by ethomson 12y ago
Neat! Interestingly, many of these stories made it into dead tree form in Karla Jennings' _The Devouring Fungus_, which provides a nice narrative around this folklore and investigates some of these more thoroughly. She also goes into
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by ethomson 12y ago
I'm not sure that I agree with you. I don't equate allowing homeless encampments with "taking care" of them. Many of these people have mental illness and / or drug addiction that is being ignored by the city. I fe
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by ethomson 12y ago
You did not get unlucky. The Tenderloin is (rightly) considered the worst part of San Francisco, but this spills out quickly into Union Square and Downtown. I've witnessed homeless guys beating each other with brooms in front of a ni
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by ethomson 13y ago
Indeed; I further presume that if it was implemented, drivers would move to only accept fares that provided a destination location. Some of my friends work in bars and want cabs to get them to their less than ideal neighborhoods at 3am or
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by ethomson 13y ago
No, you did not come across as harsh, your criticism is very accurate. The master branch tracks the latest release and is stable, but unfortunately we do not release with great frequency. We work in the development branch and - while we t
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by ethomson 13y ago
GitHub has also posted some of the projects that power GitHub for Windows: https://github.com/showcases/projects-that-power-github-for-... and GitHub for Mac: https://github.com/showcases/projects-
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by ethomson 13y ago
I'm sorry if you've found the development branch to be buggy - we strive for a high-level of stability there, so we'd be very pleased if you would open issues there.
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by ethomson 13y ago
Since libgit2 is not yet feature complete when compared to git core, I'm quite certain that they use both. (For example, libgit2 did not have merge until relatively recently, so they could not be using it to power pull requests.)
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by ethomson 13y ago
I worked at Wolfram about twenty years ago, where I met a guy named Dan who was (at the time) quietly hacking on a side project to put Mathematica on the web. Eventually this project became "The Integrator" (and surprisingly, see
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by ethomson 13y ago
Understandable. I've seen a lot of complaints about SO lately (and indeed they've changed some things in an effort to address some of these issues), but I haven't seen much of this first hand. However I tend to be on the ans
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by ethomson 13y ago
Having a question closed as a duplicate isn't something that should be taken personally. You're not expected to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the StackOverflow answers. But some people do. And the goal of SO is not just to
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by ethomson 13y ago
Why is Visual Studio worse than (say) Word or Outlook, which (of course) did the same thing?
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by ethomson 13y ago
The difference between the two is that Gzip uses CRC32 while Deflate uses Adler32, which is slightly more performant. The problem, though, is that many browsers and servers (incorrectly) send or expect deflate without the headers, so &quot
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by ethomson 13y ago
Indeed. The claim "Deflate sucks compared to Gzip" jumped out at me. A more thorough discussion here would be helpful, something along the lines of "While deflate would be the superior choice (though narrowly), it has histo

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