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by falsedan 9y ago
> atlassian confluence l o l Replying separately because the other response is good and deserves upvotes, please vent your confluence antipathy on this comment’s karma instead.
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by falsedan 9y ago
If I had gold wires I sure as heck would rip them out, darn the DSL signal.
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by falsedan 9y ago
Thanks for replying, I understand your position better now. > I guess I don't understand what GitHub/GitLab does that makes branches different from Git itself [in the GP] The GP is mistaken. Their understanding of objects &am
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by falsedan 9y ago
What is this word salad
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by falsedan 9y ago
Have you seen https://github.com/google/git-appraise
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Branches are Git objects That's not how I understand refs, they don't even live in the .git/objects hierarchy.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Interesting fact: git doesn't check the validity of sha-1 hashes in your commit history. You mean, you have to run git fsck after pulling, since git only checks that you got what you asked for?
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by falsedan 9y ago
Nice to see people work on git remote helpers, a shame that there's already a fine remote helper that is not tied to a specific hosting provider & uses GPG[0] already. 0: https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/g
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by falsedan 9y ago
And I’m saying, this isn’t a feature I feel the lack of in bash. If I’m working with non-text data, I’ll move to a language with better handling of complex data structures like perl & explicitly handle concurrency myself. To be clear: o
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by falsedan 9y ago
> If it's broken but in familiar, known ways, with runbooks, and the cost of rewriting it is way higher than supporting it for 5 years & hopefully we'll move away from the business model which requires it, don't fix i
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by falsedan 9y ago
> people think that the likelihood of any given piece of code they are writing as surviving more than a few years is negligible Well, most code is written by relatively-inexperience developers, who have not had to retire a system or su
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by falsedan 9y ago
> the prose was a little purpleish, which is exactly what you want for a low fantasy Hawardesque fantasy novel (or game) No no no, you go big or you go home. You can't be a little bit The Eye of Argon .
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by falsedan 9y ago
> What exactly does that mean? I meant that it has a lot of parts that don't work well togther: the presentation doesn't match the writing, the writing doesn't match the setting, the slots doesn't evoke a feeling of
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by falsedan 9y ago
> But still I'm failing to see what your point is about the "real bash solution" It's accepting that bash sucks at strings, and trying to keep it as far away as possible from the data in the pipeline. You keep point
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by falsedan 9y ago
Previous article's thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15291809
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by falsedan 9y ago
The author goes to lengths to explain how bash sucks at embedded null bytes in variable values (strings). But Bash is fine with nulls in pipes: $ printf 'foo\x00bar\x00baz' | xargs -0 -n1 | wc -l 3 The real bash solut
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by falsedan 9y ago
> You could do the dumb html entifying in a real language and xargs -0 -n2 printf '<tr><th>%s</th><td>%s</td></tr>'
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by falsedan 9y ago
> By the way, can you tell me what race Romanians are, exactly? No I can't, but surely you know? The racism is extrapolating some behaviour to all members of a ethnic/racial group. Simply say 'some Romanian drivers…&#x27
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by falsedan 9y ago
Ah, thanks for clarifying.
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by falsedan 9y ago
That's not what they said: > Code review happens through a small window. When reviewing a PR you only look at the fraction of the code that just changed. Their complaint is that code review makes it easy to miss deviations from gl
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by falsedan 9y ago
> No code review needs to be passed before pushing to trunk. It is the responsibility of the developer to write good code. Yowsa! This sounds like developers who get code reviews write bad code…
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by falsedan 9y ago
> The system behind this game has been in the making for 7 years. What are the parts of this system, and what were the blockers? The game is turgid, and the buttons are too big (the unchosen options should disappear on each decision po
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Venice lol ok These regions still had self-governance far in excess to the equivalent nowadays. Being a vassal state to a title is pretty unrestrictive: you had to raise levies, pay a tithe, and not lose the province to a rival claim
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by falsedan 9y ago
> When it comes to pedestrian safety, the only EU country with a record that can match Romania's is Latvia The roads in Latvia are OK, but they have (signal-controlled) pedestrian crossings on 60 mph highways… and uncontrolled one
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by falsedan 9y ago
Just flat-out racist…
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by falsedan 9y ago
> I’m just making the connection explicit. You're making things up. Don't use 'common sense' and arguing by analogy for this: read actual behavioural science studies on driving instead. Or simply realise the differe
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by falsedan 9y ago
> In San Francisco financial district it gets dark around 4pm in summer when sunset is around 9pm. No it doesn't, the ambient light is sufficient to allow normal activities without requiring additional illumination until well past
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by falsedan 9y ago
> but nobody likes a place that never gets sun I take it you have not visited beautiful Scotland.
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by falsedan 9y ago
wikipedia.org/en/Catalonia Spain, like all nation-states descended from medieval feudal states, is a conglomeration of multiple distinct regions with individual histories.
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by falsedan 9y ago
I guess the section on Retries is closest, but we're looking at moving from a system with straight in-process hooks to one using webhooks, and a complication is we now have to provision a webhook endpoint with very high reliability t

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