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by gecko 16y ago
While I think this season's not as good as seasons previous, I also think you're being too harsh--and I think the quality of writing is getting better. The Late Philip J. Fry (the time machine one), as you admitted, was hilarious. They wo
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by gecko 16y ago
That's still literally more expensive than the main computer I use at home.
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by gecko 16y ago
That was rather markedly different, since it was a copyright suit, not a patent suit. AT&T never claimed that they had patents that forbade using BSD; they simply claimed that BSD could not possibly have been written without violating A
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by gecko 16y ago
While you're correct, that option was added far too late. By the time that option was added, everyone in my organization had tried Wave and then given up on it. I revived its use in the last week, successfully, with that option, only to s
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by gecko 16y ago
Redis 2 is multithreaded. The weird thing for me is that MiniRedis is 1/4th the speed of Redis 2 (using redis-bench, included with Redis 2, to measure), which means that being both single-threaded and written in a relatively slow scripting
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by gecko 16y ago
As the author, I agree. As I explicitly wrote in the README, I didn't find this project interesting and didn't think it'd be very useful for anyone in particular. Kiln ships with both a licensed on-site version, and a SaaS version. The SaaS
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by gecko 16y ago
It also doesn't work on 64-bit machines due to mismatched size comparisons. And I confess to finding it humorous you're submitting a patch to Veracity using Git.
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by gecko 16y ago
I absolutely love it, but it at least used to be very slow, even compared to other scripting languages, and didn't offer anything really compelling that I wasn't getting out of Smalltalk.
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Veracity, SourceGear's new, enterprise-friendly DVCS, is out(sourcegear.com)
27 points by gecko 16y ago|9 comments
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by gecko 16y ago
Is there something similar that also runs on OS X? dm-crypt looks mountable on Windows, but something that I can use on all three would be very nice.
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by gecko 16y ago
Is there any real alternative?
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by gecko 16y ago
I could come at that from the opposite direction: maybe getting perfect renaming is impossible, but the incredible slowness of asking Git for a file 's history makes it utterly unusable in some contexts, where Mercurial/Subversion/Bazaar's
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by gecko 16y ago
I'm sure it'll be slower than Git--literally ever DVCS I know of is, because Linus, as a kernel hacker, built Git around things he knew would be very fast--but precisely for that reason, you can be tremendously slower than Git and still b
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by gecko 16y ago
While I am keenly aware that the GPL only covers code, some major contributors to the Mercurial team have indicated that they do not believe it would be possible to make a compatible implementation without consulting Mercurial's source code
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by gecko 16y ago
I'm actually far more interested in Fossil since it became BSD-licensed, but it's not nearly as widely used as the other three. The biggest projects I know of that use Fossil are SQLite, Lamson, Librelist, and Fossil (natch). Git's major pr
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by gecko 16y ago
Some of this is really interesting, other parts not so much. Versioning directories, pluggable storage layers, decentralized databases...these are interesting, but have been tried, and have not thus far proved compelling. Thus far, I have n
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by gecko 16y ago
This is actually one of the two things about this product I find most interesting. Having a user-friendly public key system is really tough to get right, even when you're targeting programmers. Look at Monotone, for example: I'd argue they'
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by gecko 16y ago
Er...a Linode 512, at $20/month, is $5/month cheaper than their smallest plan, and $90 cheaper than the comparable plan. Unless you really, really cannot do a simple tar xf redis.tar.gz cd redis make then I don't understand
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by gecko 16y ago
Meh. Many, many applications have at least two database systems: a caching layer, such as memcached; and a persistance layer, such as PostgreSQL. Twitter's basically just using Cassandra in place of memcached. This doesn't strike mas a dan
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by gecko 16y ago
I thought he addressed that in the paper rather well. Did you disagree with that section of the paper, or were you ignoring it?
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by gecko 16y ago
I said that Fossil has no patch-based workflow. You say few projects use it. I said that it can't rebase. You say that I shouldn't rebase. I said that the bug tracker was hard to use because it's last-wins, not DAG based, which is a proble
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by gecko 16y ago
I am referring to this sequence: gozer:~$ fossil new zed.fsl project-id: e4549d02538b1b58cf28488f76fc7549dc11a752 server-id: 0bb5e1159eef42ed514c6ec13d17ba05f21ecdea admin-user: benjamin (initial password is "068bda")
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by gecko 16y ago
I said throwing out branches you don't want is hard. You said creating branches is easy. Those are both true.
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by gecko 16y ago
While I love the idea of Fossil, I think Zed downplays a lot of the problems that it has in reality. There's no real way to throw out branches easily, nor is there any rebasing. Fossil doesn't track renames, so if you rename files in a b
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by gecko 16y ago
Forget rename detection ; it doesn't do renames period . So if you rename a file in one branch, you need to rename the file in the other branch BEFORE the merge, or you'll simply end up with two different files with different names.
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by gecko 16y ago
The core data is free, both through the API, and through the data dumps that happen every several months.
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by gecko 16y ago
Well, there's a slight unfortunate thing that I, and many other people, bought TextMate 1.0 with a promise in writing that TextMate 2.0 would be free to us when it shipped. I'm really sorry that Alan didn't think things through well enough
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by gecko 16y ago
That's my feeling on the matter, yes.
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by gecko 16y ago
Largely nothing. The investment at the time was seen as a public sign that Microsoft wanted Apple to stick around, not a make-or-break deal that could leave Apple crippled if it fell through. That, plus the announcement that Microsoft wou
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by gecko 16y ago
"In many ways, Mobile Me isn't that good! By making it free, they will gain a lot of users, and therefore gain resources from Apple to make it better." So, to summarize: the product currently sucks. By dropping the division's revenue to zer

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