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by fr0sty 15y ago
> Just before July 4th, Angela, a 26 year-old Boston University alumna, was laid off from her job as a software trainer. She was fired after her previous employer threatened legal action. You can't say she "chose to quit" that job.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Regardless of whether the bond has a coupon payment or not the face value of the bond is due at maturity. In your example the $1 coupon is still paid but in two years you also get $100 back on your $50 purchase (netting 20+%apy). Of course
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by fr0sty 15y ago
The point I am trying to make is that all "productivity aids" have a learning curve and will require time spent "messing around" before they confer any benefit. In my experience, once you understand how git works it gets out of your way ent
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by fr0sty 15y ago
You can say the same with almost any non-trivial development tool. Vim, emacs, Eclipse, VisualStudio, etc all require time spent "messing around with the tool rather than coding. Another fallacy is that "writing code" is the only "useful" t
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by fr0sty 15y ago
That is overly verbose. Try this: git checkout -b changes_on_their_own_branch git commit -a You can always create a new branch at HEAD (where you are currently) and switch to it without having to stash. On the other hand, stash
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by fr0sty 15y ago
The OP made no mention of how large the SVN repo is, but rather speculated that the git equivalent would be "100s of GBs". Had the statement been: "Our SVN repo is alreay 100s of GBs in size" then yes you are not likely to want to stuff tha
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Not at all. Where did you come up with that? That would merge in any commits in master not already in experimental and the next command would fail because a branch 'master' already exists. To do what you are describing you would do this (or
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by fr0sty 15y ago
What is the disk footprint of the existing SVN repository? "100s of GBs"? git's worst case repository size is equal to or slighly larger (few % probably) compared to an SVN repository. Git will deduplicate all of your binaries across branch
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by fr0sty 15y ago
related yes, but not directly involved. cars.com is advertising because you still drive to the dealership to buy the car. You research appliances or siding online but you get them at HomeDepot. You print your grocery coupons from a website
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by fr0sty 15y ago
I appreciate the blurb but my point is Amazon.com will not be selling gasoline over the internet. Nor will your monthly Costco run be replaced by a giant insulated box delivered by UPS. Yes online retail is a small and growing portion of th
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Over half of "retail sales" fall into: Motor Vehicle sales, Building Materials, Gasoline, Food Service(restaurant/bar), Food(Grocery). I don't see online retailers making significant headway in those areas.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
UPDATE: I just retested this and it appears that Wikipedia no longer breaks the back button.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
The author holds up Wikipedia as a good example, but I have found the wikipedia experience on my phone to by abysmal because the back button doesn't behave correctly. When nagivating to a Wikipedia page I get a flash of the normal page then
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Plenty of rather poor people were going to college 50+ years ago. They worked during the summers, or took a year or more off first to earn money and then went off to school. The graph in the article show college costs up 300% in the last 21
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by fr0sty 15y ago
In what way is gaining or losing the spread "random"? Buyers pay the offer, sellers the ask. If you want to save the spread you can leave a resting order and wait for someone to take you out but you have no guarantee of a fill (or at least
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by fr0sty 15y ago
by that metric commercial airliners are not HC (human controlled) planes either as they do >90% of their flying while on autopilot.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> Isn't it much more intuitive to say to the computer "play 10 random country" than enunciate a succession of commands / menu items? Have you ever tried to interact with one of those "natural language" telephone systems? I loath the who
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by fr0sty 15y ago
I like the premise of the article, but I feel there is an unspoken assumption made by the author that most people can touch-type or are willing to learn how. Consider this command: play 10 random country then "Teenage Dream" A prof
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Agreed. Title is pure link-bait. The only VCS I see mentioned is git in one of the footnotes regarding rerere.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Do you actually mean "revert" there or are you talking about rewinding? using "git revert <merge_commit>" is very nasty[1]. using 'git reset <before_bad_merge> is less so. [1] http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howt
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by fr0sty 15y ago
If your workflow or VCS doesn't allow rebase natively then people will implement it in the filesystem by never committing. Git's approach to committing is: "commit early, commit often". The coro;lary is: "don't worry about perfection, we c
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> It can help for git bisect Not if the first commit doesn't compile. Indelible history is good for public projects (and no one is arguing about that) and for change control systems but less good, in my estimation, in cases where mistak
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by fr0sty 15y ago
I've been a Napster subscriber from some time and they are actively engaged in a version of this. They have two tiers of music: "free to stream" and "purchase only or :30 preview": they have gotten into the habit of moving tracks from one c
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by fr0sty 15y ago
This line of argument hinges on the assumption that braking input is the only means by which to avoid an accident. Cars have steering wheels and swerving is often an effective maneuver when attempting to avoid an accident. Incidentally, hea
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by fr0sty 15y ago
1. There is no built-in copy command in git. 2. What is confusing about "git push <remoterepository> <localbranch>:<remotebranch>"
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> If you go outside that, you get business service, Actually in this case you get banned for a year without recourse. It baffles me why they didn't just try to upsell the guy.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
>Your water and electricity utilities most likely also have caps on how much water or electricity you can use before they cut you off. They do? Where is this the case? My water and electricity usage have no monthly cap and are only shut
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by fr0sty 15y ago
The analogy only holds if there was only one insurance company you could buy from who only offered a very small range of policies (none of which fits your needs).
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> Likely it will be a little worse than break-even Only if you are marking against the current market price for bitcoins, which is not necessarily the best way to look at this. 1. Conversion Costs: Converting USD->BTC is currently v
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by fr0sty 15y ago
It isn't right. It would only be true if every miner was immediately liquidating the bitcoins they were awarded. Such a massive oversupply would likely overwhelm demand and push the price much lower. In reality this is not what BTC miners a

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