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by gecko 9y ago
In the same order of magnitude as Git. The only DVCS I’ve seen handle this well is Mercurial, and then only when you’re using all the Facebook plugins (like remotefilelog) that effectively re-centralize it. (This is also the same conceptual
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by gecko 9y ago
On top of the command-line user interface being much easier for most people (it’s not as orthogonal as Mercurial, but it’s much more consistent than Git’s), the ability to have bug tracking, code, and wiki in a single executable, where al
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by gecko 9y ago
It’s extremely easy; there’s an entire concept of themes, and it’s trivial to switch amongst them. Somewhere I’ve got a GitHub-circa-2012 theme for it just to mess with people.
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by gecko 9y ago
Honestly, I haven’t even bothered doing that with Windows in a pretty long time—maybe since the 7 to 8 transition, after which they’ve had a pretty robust upgrade path. About the only place I do do that regular is on Linux, but that’s b
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by gecko 9y ago
It's also built into 1Password. And before that, I just used what I think was literally a one- or two-line Perl script that just grabbed four words from /var/dict. Why yes, my mother's maiden name was indeed pathetic xyl
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by gecko 9y ago
The summary above is a bit off. The conclusion is that it's a Syriac-derived script for a dialect of the Old Roma language . Think how Urdu is an Indic language written with a Semitic script.
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by gecko 9y ago
I rarely comment here anymore, but I wanted to break that tradition to say thank-you. I have been routinely frustrated—or more honestly, just annoyed—at Voynich attempts for exactly the reasons you highlight. I have no idea if this is corre
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by gecko 9y ago
I don't think it's unreachable, and I know plenty of devs who understood COM. I think the issue was a mixture of failing to match expectations combined with very poor marketing (specifically, shoving too many things under the umbr
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by gecko 9y ago
Kiln, Fog Creek's old Git/Mercurial hosting environment, had major components written in F#. Those components honestly were probably the only genuinely bug-free parts of the code base (though I think that had as much to do with de
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by gecko 9y ago
Is JavaFX also included in the "safe" parts of Java (i.e., in an Oracle-sanctioned GPL VM)? I know there are some open-source versions, but Oracle's trigger-happy lawsuit button on Java these days has made me nervous to poke.
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by gecko 10y ago
Any particular issues you've got with the existing third-party ones? I don't honestly use them often (I just work on the Windows side for 99%+ of the GUI stuff I need to do), but I've not had any issues with Xming, even on a
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by gecko 10y ago
Fixed. New server and I forgot to run the playbook to up the ulimit to prod levels once I swapped it into the pool.
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by gecko 10y ago
A day when you don't feel like you're being productive, even though you're trying to get something done. One of my coworkers wrote a good article ( https://medium.com/@jdan/quantifying-my-off-days-27e85f5b
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by gecko 10y ago
What options do exist in that space as an OS? Only thing that I personally know is Contiki, which people seem to either really love or really hate. (This is emphatically not my area of expertise, incidentally, so if I'm even misunderst
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by gecko 10y ago
I think if you focus on their mobile apps and services , rather than their mobile phones , the statement has some pretty serious merit. E.g., Azure's mobile services are used very heavily by iOS and Android apps, I see Office all the
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by gecko 10y ago
Zero, but it's open-source if you want to do something with it: https://github.com/FogCreek/WebPutty/
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by gecko 10y ago
A big benefit is that you can make decisions, specifically structural ones, that might be best for your product, but not for the parent. For example, StackOverflow's most likely revenue stream was clearly going to be ads, which was not
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by gecko 10y ago
Because it is one of the single biggest food producers in the US, and has an effective monopoly on many of our foodstuffs (notably many nuts and citrus fruits). Losing California's food production for any reason, including destruction
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by gecko 10y ago
I'm really confused here. What attack vectors apply to PowerShell, but not to a situation where I can invoke cmd.exe? I can tell PowerShell to only run signed scripts, and specify what signatures to honor, which is more than I can do
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by gecko 10y ago
They have literally announced they're going to try to undo Roe v. Wade and repeal all LGTBQ protections they can. Like, that literally already happened. So I think we're already past the "[won't] enact or seek to promote
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by gecko 10y ago
I also would like that back, but I'd also pose to you this question: Windows historically has been heavily used in botnets, in part because people do not apply updates to known (and fixed) vulnerabilities. Microsoft removing the "
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by gecko 10y ago
What's hilarious/sad to me is that Kiln started out (as the prototype that won Django Dash) doing only pull requests. That was literally all it did. Pushing directly to a repo would instead, behind-the-scenes, make a branch repo
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by gecko 10y ago
Just to note, our eventual goal is to have toddlers through what I think we call C-2 internally (sophomore year of college in the American system). We do actually have content at all of those levels, and expanded really nicely to the younge
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by gecko 10y ago
> Why do they keep redoing the exercise system? It seemed that they are changing for the sake of changing. Most of the recent changes have been focused on two axes, very tightly related: 1. The old exercise system did not work sanely
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by gecko 10y ago
Ignoring costs, it's "trivial" to do with nuclear energy providing the carbon capturing power. But doing so requires a tremendous amount of power (proportional to how much hydrocarbon-based power we're using now , as
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by gecko 10y ago
I was writing desktop apps and (later) Python during the J2EE boom, so I may be really badly understanding things, but: if you're in a pure-Java workshop, isn't something like a J2EE container the equivalent of Docker? My understa
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by gecko 10y ago
I have to be honest: the fact this is in "things not to read" from ISO is one of the strongest endorsements I could imagine. For that to happen, it must both be successful enough to get on their radar, and also to tick them off.
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by gecko 10y ago
I am almost positive that is completely incorrect. Can you give any example of Docker being used to isolate Windows software?
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by gecko 10y ago
I actually just went through this myself. I had last done frontend work in about 2010, maybe a little in 2011, and realized my skill set was probably getting stale, so I asked my boss if I could do frontend for a bit, with the understanding
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by gecko 10y ago
The main reason is because, while Pharo is obviously heavily inspired by (and, in fact, a fork of) Smalltalk, it's not trying to stay Smalltalk-80 compatible. Think of Racket: Racket started life as DrScheme, but as the goals of Racket

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