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by gecko 17y ago
Erm, Joel didn't write this; someone else on the FogBugz team did.
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by gecko 17y ago
There are many subtle differences: as you noted, the rows per page differs; clicking to select all offers "Select all conversations that match this search," rather than "Select all conversations in <Label>"; the "Remove label <F
723.
by gecko 17y ago
Speaking of which: you and I, as developers, understand search axes, and use them intuitively. But they're utterly opaque for someone who hasn't encountered that interface before--and given that Google itself doesn't support search axes in
724.
by gecko 17y ago
Oh G-d. I really need to get around to fixing the levels on that video before it gets linked again. Sorry, guys.
725.
by gecko 17y ago
LINQ to Objects is C#'s (very good) take on Python's list comprehensions, and is awesome. However, that's just providing a declarative, functional way to query/iterate objects--not an ORM. LINQ to XML is likewise also okay, since XML's tr
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by gecko 17y ago
I've worked with a number of different ORMs, including two on the project I'm on right now, one custom one, and a handful of open-source ones on Ruby and Python and the like, and every single time, the story's the same. At the start of the
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by gecko 17y ago
It's not getting ignored as such; it doesn't exist yet. I own an N800. Its interface is as best tolerable, which seems to be fairly widely accepted; that's why everyone says to wait for the N900 and its new, Qt-based UI. But that's much
728.
by gecko 17y ago
FogBugz targets .NET 2, which lacks .NET Expressions; they'd have had to build their own AST model, without C# support. I wouldn't be surprised if, whenever FogBugz gets around to requiring .NET 3.5, they start supporting LINQ queries agai
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by gecko 17y ago
Wasabi--which is what FogBugz is (mostly) written in--has honest-to-goodness global functions, which are very different beasts from Python's module-scoped functions (unless you import * from one). I might be wrong, but I suspect that's wha
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by gecko 17y ago
Quite all right. :) I think a lot of people locked into Git or Mercurial have a distorted view of how different the two systems are. Especially these days, the differences are ultimately minor, which is why projects like hg-git, which a
731.
by gecko 17y ago
The only difference between Git and Mercurial at this level is that Mercurial does the equivalent of Git always storing changes in packs, instead of delaying delta compression until a garbage collect is issued. Both systems place the focus
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by gecko 17y ago
I appreciate this is off-topic, but I've thought of doing the same thing for the same reason. May I ask where you found that was willing to do a high-quality one-off hard-bound print? I know of several storefronts that do either large run
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by gecko 17y ago
Do those slides seriously lump Mercurial and Darcs together as distributed delta-based version control systems?
734.
by gecko 17y ago
You can have both, you know: you use git stash/Mercurial attic to shelve the parts of the change you don't want, test the result, commit, then reapply what you stashed. You get a clean history, and you can easily verify your source cod
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by gecko 17y ago
The Mercurial equivalent of "git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD" is "hg update --clean" (or "hg up -C" for short), which is still clearer to understand than the git equivalent, in my opinion. To correct another common misconception, you can absolu
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by gecko 17y ago
Git's incremental commits may be a great idea in theory, but in practice, it allows you--even forces you, if you run in any mode except "git add ."--to make commits you've never actually tested. I'd rather have a cluttered history that bui
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How to Get Hired at Fog Creek, Part 1(hicks-wright.net)
60 points by gecko 17y ago|57 comments
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Job Applications and the Entitlement Complex(hicks-wright.net)
23 points by gecko 17y ago|24 comments
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by gecko 17y ago
tghw works at Fog Creek, as do I. We're both software developers. Here's the thing: your cover letter (hopefully) isn't redundant. If you want to think of it in computer terms: your résumé is data; your cover letter is the function throug
740.
by gecko 17y ago
Just to be clear, since there is some confusion: I have never worked, am not now working, and do not anticipate working, on StackOverflow. I do have access to the StackOverflow source code, since I work at Fog Creek, and, for the same re
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by gecko 17y ago
I'm tentatively aiming to release it around the end of July. At the moment, there's a bit too much hard-coded to handle my site (e.g., there's an entire urls.py that does nothing but map my old MovableType and WordPress URLs to Django, whi
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by gecko 17y ago
That's a fair point, and one I thought about for awhile. Both this post and the previous one were originally a single Yegge-length post entitled "The Eternal Optimism of Programmers." The problem was a) Yegge's columns are so long that ev
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by gecko 17y ago
Crap. That's a superb example of me not actually processing whether what I'm typing makes sense. The actual size of those is 2.3MB. I'll update the post accordingly. (96.5kB is the size of all the file names in StackOverflow.) Edit :
744.
by gecko 17y ago
Because I am secretly an axe murderer, and who in the end wants to hear an argument from an axe murderer, however valid they might be?
745.
by gecko 17y ago
So you wanna write StackOverflow in a weekend. Let's assume, for sake of argument, that you decide it's okay to write it in ASP.NET MVC, and that I've decided to hand you the StackOverflow source code, page by page, so you can retype it ver
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by gecko 17y ago
You can create these routes via ISAPI, but not via ASP.NET (i.e., writing your own .asxd and observe the same borked behavior)--hence why I know the bug's somewhere in ASP.NET proper. You're correct that my post as-written is off, though.
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by gecko 17y ago
Just so you're aware, the JoS/SO/ServerFault job boards do not even have a concept of applying via the website. The idea here is to reach the crowds that are on StackOverflow and ServerFault--not to force you to expose your profile in your
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by gecko 17y ago
We usually have an open house in the summer; you don't need to "finagle" a visit if you want to stop by. :)
749.
by gecko 17y ago
You completely missed the point of the article, which was that I can add these features to the language without waiting on the language designer. Microsoft added three key technologies to C# 3, one of which was syntactic sugar for the ot
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by gecko 17y ago
I'm not arguing things like LINQ shouldn't come with the language. I'm arguing that I should be able to add them if I want to. In Smalltalk (or Lisp, or Scheme), I can. In C#, I have to wait for Microsoft to get around to it. Look at th

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