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by gcv 17y ago
Git does not like the use cases the author writes about. Git does not like gigantic sprawling repositories (Linus mentioned in his Google talk that this was a problem with importing the KDE tree). Git does not like large binaries (there is
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by gcv 17y ago
This post probably should be required reading for people moving from Subversion, since Subversion repositories almost never have clean history. I define "clean" as a history with all changes isolated by self-contained commits, and no "oops
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by gcv 17y ago
What do you mean by JSON+callbacks?
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by gcv 17y ago
Article summary: "Games have become easier over time to appeal to a broader audience. Players no longer have to spend days polishing perfect timing to get perfect moves in a side-scrolling platform game, as they formerly had to do just to g
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by gcv 17y ago
The idea of shoving everything into an encrypted cookie --- it seems like it should work well, and I really like not storing session state server-side. Wouldn't the cookie run afoul of some security problem or other, though? I'm having a ha
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by gcv 17y ago
I looked at the Pomdoro site, and I'm intrigued. I don't understand something, though. How does it work with programming? First of all, programming tasks defy time planning, as the next unplanned time-sinking bug or unforeseen difficulty al
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by gcv 17y ago
Have you tried using 'git add --patch'? It will let you commit isolated changes.
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by gcv 17y ago
I have barely glanced at Scala, but I assume that it has HTML templating libraries. You can then make your controller pass whatever data structure you want to the template, which then takes care of rendering the view. Microframeworks are ap
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by gcv 17y ago
Also, what about books of essays? I'm not entirely sure it would address Greenspun's point about where to publish an article on how to put together a workable DSLR setup, but essayists have published many 20-page pieces just by putting toge
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by gcv 17y ago
Last time I wrote a parser, I used yacc/bison. It wasn't particularly difficult to use, although I never stress-tested the language I put together. Anyway, the field of parser generators seems to have grown recently. I had never heard of AN
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by gcv 17y ago
The "blub" argument fairly applies just as much to Lisp as it does to, e.g., Java. For example, (any dialect of) Lisp is my blub language, as I understand Lisp quite well. I do not understand Haskell to anywhere near the same extent. I've t
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by gcv 17y ago
I tried some of those gdb macros, but they did not work for me. Don't remember the details. In any case, in a recent debugging session, I noticed that gdb elides or loses some essential iterator features. For example, iterator->first an
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by gcv 17y ago
I like your problem #1. Using tabs exclusively means that code cannot align nicely in common situations: multi-line function arguments, or parameter lists, or object initialization. So therefore you have to either mix tabs and spaces to ach
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by gcv 17y ago
We need to solve the problem of producing energy. I think that human progress, even in the short term, depends entirely upon "breaking" the first law of thermodynamics. Clearly, no one will successfully create energy out of nothing, but I h
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by gcv 17y ago
Thanks for posting that! It deserves a separate HN submission if one doesn't exist yet. I really hope this 'git subtree' utility makes it into the git mainline. It does not exactly replace working submodules, but it seems exceedingly useful
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by gcv 17y ago
Fascinating that Yossi Kreinin hates Boost libraries so much. I have had my share of problems with them (slooooooow compilation and horrible template compiler error messages, mainly), but the Boost.Spirit parser library turned out to have b
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by gcv 17y ago
It seems to recreate the file and return the current time, which is the time that the file was recreated. Is this supposed to be a joke, or have I let my Perl knowledge get too rusty?
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by gcv 17y ago
About 18 months ago, I ported a project I was working on from C to C++. I, too, wanted a few C++ features to simplify life, mainly to use the STL, but also for inheritance in a handful of places. I got what I wanted, but I have since conclu
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by gcv 18y ago
There's also a follow-up post in the same thread with a few more comments: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/1180...
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Notes on making JGit (Java Git) fast(article.gmane.org)
31 points by gcv 18y ago|6 comments
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Impressions of the 2009 International Lisp Conference(franz.com)
3 points by gcv 18y ago|0 comments
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iPhone App Development Notes from Bill Clementson(bc.tech.coop)
15 points by gcv 18y ago|1 comments
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by gcv 18y ago
Anyone who has a 9.04 install handy: does this just write a modified .screenrc, or does it somehow refer to those configurations stored elsewhere and requires a customized screen build?
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by gcv 18y ago
Three reasons to dislike Flash text. First, it does not look native. I have certain anti-aliasing settings, for example, and Flash text looks totally different. Second, copy-paste, as others have pointed out, is a problem --- yes, it can be
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by gcv 18y ago
I wish I had a reference handy, but I've skimmed Stereophile magazine in the past --- I remember reading that the people this article writes about have adamantly refused to perform double-blind tests on their swapping of $1000 speaker cable
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by gcv 18y ago
There's a lesson here for everything. Projects where the tools and frameworks are designed solely for the problems at hand get burned because the specifications change (see point 1 in the original article), and the tools are not flexible en
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by gcv 18y ago
This stuff definitely looks pretty raw. Mnesia seems to be quite mature in comparison, but isn't the greatest option for a system not fully written in Erlang. Has anyone tried this Project Voldemort referenced in the post? Skimming the desc
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by gcv 18y ago
I've seen candidates who screw up problems which boil down to trivial "if" or even just "return" statements on the whiteboard (like "write a function which determines if the argument is an even number"). The argument of mental associations
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by gcv 18y ago
Have you had a chance to test Tokyo Cabinet?
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by gcv 18y ago
Glenn Gould's recordings of Bach's keyboard works rank among my all-time favorites. Great music to relax to, and also great music to help enter the zone while working. I think the article got one little fact wrong though: Gould's recording

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