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by gchpaco 16y ago
Posit repository A which is at schema state S(A) = N. Developer X branches it to make B and adds a new database migration, increasing S(B) to N+1. Developer Y branches it to make C and adds a new database migration, increasing S(C) to N+1
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by gchpaco 16y ago
If memory serves, Cory Doctorow commissioned flashbake, and he wanted it not for backup purposes but as the equivalent of old drafts of books and the like for scholarly research. Git in particular will commit with an empty commit message b
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Which does cause occasionally hilarious but usually mind rendingly irritating to ferret out bugs, from time to time. Common Lisp strings are the same way (symbols in both languages being the immutable type).
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Means he used version control. (should be ordinary and expected but is quite rare for grad student code, in my experience)
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One of the things most make replacements don't do and that Rake does is implicit dependency management; the .o.c type of rule. I use this constantly and miss it every time in ant, scons, and indeed nearly every "make replacement" save Rake
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One of the things that I admire most about W. Richard Stevens's books is that he checked the return value of everything, even printfs. Anal, sure, but that's what you're supposed to do in C and when you write demo code that doesn't, even i
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by gchpaco 16y ago
I think the solution to that one is to use a hammer to make a saw out of metal and use it.
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Simpler, yes, but of the ones you cite I think only the Uzi has comparable reliability. It has been said to me that an unlettered village blacksmith could manufacture most replacement parts for an AK, and it is certainly true that bits tha
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2.3.5 may not necessarily be safe, just saying.
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Yup, you're sexist. Anecdotal, but fairly true in my experience; when I did water polo in high school, it was coed. We didn't have many women interested in putting in the effort to land on the varsity team, probably for social reasons, but
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When I was a kid I got a lot of this; the administration only really stepped in when they started stoning me (yes, throwing rocks) but otherwise it was just continuous misery. I suspect this guy probably had it worse, but there are some ve
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by gchpaco 16y ago
Awk isn't so bad if you're clever about RS, but sed sucks. A tragic gap in the Plan 9 legacy has been structural regular expressions, which deal with these situations adroitly.
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My theory is this: - too weird - Plan 9 is very difficult to get used to as a user experience. Novel, fascinating, powerful, yes! But also minimal, impenetrable, and very very different from the UI you're used to as a Unix hacker. - nonex
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And then the homeowners will declare bankruptcy and the third parties get nothing instead of possibly something. The risk of this happening is supposed to be encoded in the risk rating of the loan, but that didn't happen in a very useful f
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I dunno what your experience is with the 17", but I found mine to be a delightful, wonderful machine when set up and ultimately unsatisfying to move from place to place, largely due to the weight. The iPad is very, very portable by compa
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Not beneficial to me personally does not mean "people ... who don't actually contribute anything to society on net", and it would take more research than I have time for to completely dismiss any US federal agency (except perhaps the DOD).
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Citation, please.
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Huh, you are in fact correct. I had stored in my brain the intended effect of the agreement but not the actuality.
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At least a few years ago this was against their contract with the CC companies (which isn't to say people won't do it under the table, they'll just be quiet about it).
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I had a wrist health scare in I guess early 2006 now; tendonitis instead of carpal tunnel but the same sort of shooting pains. I changed a lot of things--keyboard I typed on, wearing wrist braces, posture, but among other things I switched
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by gchpaco 16y ago
The Sun JVM is a lot of things and got a lot better and a lot faster over time, but it is an astounding memory hog. Only thing I've ever seen that will (seriously) reserve 64 bits for a Boolean field on a 64-bit VM.
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Exceedingly legible on mine even at 7-8pt sizes, but I should note that I'm very accustomed to reading Garamond and may be inferring more. I know my first impression from the iPhone 4 was that it was blurry; I think this is because I could
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by gchpaco 16y ago
CM is a very light font. I used to set things in Palatino and AMS-Euler, which cooperate surprisingly well; CM and Euler do not get along very well. If you decide you want to use that, the following magic will set it up in normal LaTeX.
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It is highly unlikely they would have gone to the effort had they been forced to write an entire game from the ground up. Both those games evolved from simplistic (sometimes very simplistic) origins to where they are today.
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You have measured nothing about real world workloads. You have applied completely artificial benchmarks and formed some possible conclusions from them that mean absolutely nothing until you demonstrate that this is a real problem in the
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An argument can be made for replacing brittle, difficult to follow twisty spreadsheet programs (which is a lot of what people do with Excel that they can't do with anything else) with more conventional programs; maintainability benefits cou
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Traditionally one has a single, long running Emacs process that you do everything in, even quick edits. If you had to wait for it to start up from scratch then yeah, that would be pretty annoying. My fingers frequently go `sudo vi ...' bec
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Grammars are a good start. Mix in parse-controlling predicates if that isn't powerful enough (C++).
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B&W film (which is I think the majority of those "new emulsions" is embarrassingly easy to develop; the list of possible developers includes random things like polluted river water and certain kinds of red wine. Color is touchier but c
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Kodachrome used very different dyes than E6 (current slide film) or C41 (color negative; basically similar structure) and was sensitive to slightly different wavelengths. As a result its color gamut, as it were, is very different form eith

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