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by gecko 13y ago
No, but that wasn't an SCM. ;-) More seriously, I believe that SourceSafe was maintained on Microsoft's fork of Perforce, but I don't honestly know, nor do I have contacts at this point who'd be able to find out.
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by gecko 13y ago
(And for people who don't want to watch: it appears, based on the demo, that it handles conversation flow dramatically better than Siri does, but I'll need to actually play with the real thing to know whether that's just pres
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by gecko 13y ago
They demoed this at //build/ last year...and then it never actually happened. I have no idea why. I assume it's coming, but have no idea when, at this point.
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by gecko 13y ago
If any SVN dev truly believes that svn is better than Git in any technical sense then I wouldn't trust the engineering judgment of that developer. Hi. Small-time Mercurial contributor and Kiln founder. I use both Git an
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by gecko 13y ago
Projects are allowed to use Git instead of Subversion, and there's a workflow in place, as noted in the ticket. Many projects have moved, and many haven't. They seem fairly undogmatic in that aspect.
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by gecko 13y ago
I also literally know no SCM, ever, that was not maintained on itself, except insofar as we might be able to have an epistemological discussion about early versions of CVS v. RCS. Bitkeeper, Mercurial, Git, Subversion, Perforce, tla, Monti
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by gecko 13y ago
It's this kind of hard-hitting investigative journalism with a no-holds-barred approach to getting the facts completely right that keeps me coming back to CNN for all of my news.
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by gecko 13y ago
Goat ( https://github.com/mediocregopher/goat ), which isn't especially well known, does a lot of this in a more palatable way. I prefer using it when I don't need to edit/tweak my dependencies.
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by gecko 13y ago
Mozilla evaluated WebP in October and found its improvements dubious compared to alternatives: http://people.mozilla.org/~josh/lossy_compressed_image_study... That said, they explicitly did not rule out including WebP
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by gecko 13y ago
People have no real problem with languages that compile to C or JavaScript, so I'm not really convinced that's the problem as such. The lack of source maps/#line pragmas in Java didn't help, I'm sure, but these are
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by gecko 13y ago
Kotlin's brilliance is how much less it's trying to do. It's truly narrowly focused on fixing what's broken in Java—not introducing an entirely new language that happens to compile to the JVM. That'll make adopt
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by gecko 13y ago
I'm not familiar with the Ruby ecosystem anymore, so this is a genuine question: does the memory usage improvement here indicate a typical Ruby workload; if so, is this optimal, or are there profiling tools that can meaningfully help;
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by gecko 13y ago
Exactly; that's the problem. The usual correct way in Windows of calling the function with `NULL` to get the length, then allocating the buffer and passing it back in, is wicked annoying with path names, so most developers simply don&
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by gecko 13y ago
So can NTFS. In fact, you've been able to create paths with up to 32k-character file names per node since Windows NT 3.1. This is even available from Win32, and has been for a very long time: simply prefix your path with \\?\ and y
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by gecko 13y ago
The biggest problem is that Go's garbage collector is conservative and slow. Add in that I don't think Go's optimizer is yet as good as HotSpot's, and you've got the recipe for those benchmarks.
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Walled Gardens, Walled Ghettos(bitquabit.com)
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by gecko 13y ago
That sentiment comprises a truly mindblowing number of "bug" reports that hit the Mercurial mailing list every month. I honestly wonder sometimes if I'm simply forgetting how CVS users did the same thing when Subversion ship
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by gecko 13y ago
LightSwitch is going web-only, as far as I can tell, so this may simply be splitting off and rebranding the Win 8 side of things.
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by gecko 13y ago
Not yet. And even were Dart ratified, the answer would still be the same as it is today: you can use Dart if you cross-compile it to JavaScript, or if you only care at all about Chrome users. Both are fine, but they mean that, for you, Da
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by gecko 13y ago
We used the same logic back when sites were IE4-only due to things like ActiveX, right?
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by gecko 13y ago
It's still speculation, and one of Skype's lead engineers wrote a completely sane explanation of how the centralization had to happen if Skype was going to work well on mobile, since you're not exactly going to be getting ton
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by gecko 13y ago
It's trying to do word-by-word diffing, since English isn't code, but, unlike Word and other tools that attempt to do that, it doesn't have e.g. cursor movement history to make the editing sane. Thus, that's what you ge
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by gecko 13y ago
They can't change in a given repo unless you use history-modifying extensions. They do differ between repos. Most modern third-party tools, including Kiln, hide them by default for this reason.
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by gecko 13y ago
I'm pretty openly not a Linux desktop user, but come on: if Windows hasn't rearranged core functionality in the XP to Vista/7 transition, and again in the 7 to 8 transition, and again (less so, but noticeably) in the 8 to 8
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by gecko 13y ago
This isn't backtracking, and this is awesome. There has been a lot of coverage over how the new iWorks is to the old one as FCP X was to FCP 7. Unlike that debacle, which left users wondering WTF, this time Apple is providing a road
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by gecko 13y ago
Mono's actually really solid, and I'm looking to bring it more heavily into use at work. Some of the most active F# contributors are Mono-first, too, so it's a well-supported target.
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by gecko 13y ago
If they are such a great solution, why isn't PGP built into Linux as a core service? I'm not talking about simply having it available as one of the standard packages. Instead I'm talking about making it
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by gecko 13y ago
I'm not sure what language you're used to, but the .NET package system isn't that hard to work with. Assemblies: think JAR files, Python eggs, Ruby gems. They're collection of classes, which can be grouped into modules.
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by gecko 13y ago
I think your opening sentence is simply false; nearly everything on Windows can be automated these days, and usually without much pain. The real problem right now is that the WMI/WSH stacks, and the PowerShell stacks, overlap, but not
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by gecko 13y ago
I actually have an even more complete version of this which allows changing the Go shell cleanly. Dump https://gist.github.com/bpollack/7197532 in your .config/fish/functions directory and you should be good

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