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by gecko 17y ago
Ah yes, TextMate: the text editor that proves that the patent-pending Duke Nukem Development Model™ need not be reserved for video games.
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by gecko 17y ago
That's exactly what we do at Fog Creek. Our whiteboards are just glass panels held about an inch in front of the wall by six special clasps. For those of us whose whiteboards are mounted on non-white walls, the back of the glass is painte
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by gecko 17y ago
This argument is absurd. All functional languages have mutable global variables. Most provide explicit support for mutable values (e.g., Scheme, OCaml), but even in the "pure" ones, there are the secretly global mutable values. Clojure ge
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by gecko 17y ago
Wait. This is a libel lawsuit in the U.S., which means that they're suing because someone said something about them which is false . They then also want the legal contract that started this whole thing taken down because they own the co
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by gecko 17y ago
Well, the teletype interface used throughout the robot stories, for one. But you could probably rig that up in an afternoon with a daisywheel printer, acoustic coupler, and just a little bit of tty hackery.
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by gecko 17y ago
Almost no company will tell you why you weren't hired. In the US, as soon as a company gives you a reason for why you were not hired, you can sue and argue that the grounds for rejecting you were frivolous. Worse, if the exact phrasing us
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by gecko 17y ago
Technically, by the laws of kashrut, I'm fairly sure it would, since I don't see how it can be classified as meat. Or, alternatively, it can't be kosher, because I cannot see how it can be qualified as food. It's real fun when 6000-year-ol
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by gecko 17y ago
I'm not sure whether you're aware of this, but many older scripts, including all of the Semitic scripts, actually write letters entirely differently when they appear at the end of a word. Given that the monks who began employing majuscule
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by gecko 17y ago
That's not necessarily true. AmEx has always been a weird creditcard company. Traditionally, unlike MasterCard and Visa, AmEx encourages you to pay off your bill in full each month. They instead charge you a yearly fee, and used to offer
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by gecko 17y ago
Adding themes; adding offline access; adding IMAP, POP, and SMTP support; allowing labels to be treated like folders; allowing forwarding; adding in-browser chat; adding keyboard shortcuts; adding online preview and viewing of many document
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by gecko 17y ago
I sincerely hope you mean that the "bizarro-world" aspect of Fog Creek's products compared to TFS is that they actually are usable and work really easily. :)
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by gecko 17y ago
Merely calling Mercurial does not mean we have to license our whole product under the GPL. Modifications we make to Mercurial will of course be shipped.
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by gecko 17y ago
We're not trying to hide it; trust me. In fact, we consider using Mercurial a really big selling point. We're just still working on clarifying the website.
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by gecko 17y ago
Without disagreeing, I also don't think it makes sense to discount potentially massive improvements in user interfaces merely because a portion of the population cannot use them.
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by gecko 17y ago
Given that GitHub goes after Git users, and Google Code supports only Mercurial, I somewhat doubt it. I'd be more concerned for Bitbucket--and even there, even after the outages, Bitbucket is simply a vastly superior product to Google Co
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by gecko 17y ago
Speaking from my own experience, we're talking about, at most, maybe a 5% speed penalty in some operations; most others happen instantly on both systems. Can you provide a concrete example where Mercurial's noticeably slower than Git at th
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by gecko 17y ago
You might give Mercurial a shot. It's the speed of Git with a much saner user experience. Plus, all the power of Git's there; it's just hidden under the covers until you need it. Speaking of the examples in this article: hg update
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by gecko 17y ago
Paris over New York?
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by gecko 17y ago
benjamin dot pollack at gmail dot com, if you don't mind, would be awesome.
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by gecko 17y ago
Apple's default optimization level is also for size, not speed, and that ends up being faster there as well. They ran an entire session a couple of years ago at WWDC, explaining how and why -Os ends up being a superior solution--basically,
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by gecko 17y ago
That works out to 0.00198412698 miles per gallon. I hope Homer left out a couple of zeros--but then again, given the car he built, my hope is likely misplaced.
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by gecko 17y ago
If you don't mind paying for it, Postbox ( http://www.postbox-inc.com/ ) does support this feature. That said, I find it quite annoying. I know this sounds crazy, but the only non-Gmail chat client I like is the one that comes with Opera.
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by gecko 17y ago
Yeah; Apple's still reeling from the iPod getting hammered by the Nomad. And don't even get me started on the clusterfuck that was the iPhone versus Windows Mobile; that was just painful. Who sees those around anywhere?
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by gecko 17y ago
There was a project called BlueOS to do exactly that, but it appears dead now.
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by gecko 17y ago
This is very true. I like to think that, in a lot of ways, Be was what Mac OS 8 (the original Mac OS 8) should have been: a massive, massive improvement on the design of System 7, while retaining the general feel of the operating system.
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by gecko 17y ago
Back when Safari first came out, there was a lot of credit given to KHTML, and Apple quickly had public-facing Subversion repositories available with full product history so that KHTML could adopt any changes they wanted. Since then, WebKi
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by gecko 17y ago
Sure, I've got a bunch, since I rather infamously screwed around with it after Eric Sink said it was the DVCS he was most interested in. In particular order: Fossil wants to GPG-sign everything by default, and doesn't get along well with g
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by gecko 17y ago
At the moment, no. The DB access is hard-coded to use SQLite, and some SQLite-specific features are used.
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by gecko 17y ago
You can actually just hold the mouse button down and drag over a pile of checkboxes in the right column. No need to hit shift/ctrl.
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by gecko 17y ago
Yes. The good news is that you read hierarchies much more often than you update them, and hierarchies in a bug tracker are going to be relatively tiny, so taking a minor write-hit in exchange for a massive read improvement is a logical tra

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