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by gknoy 11y ago
I'm sure part of it is familiarity, but also a difference in documentation. Git's documentation makes it EXPLICITLY clear that one thing Git is intended to be awesome at is easy branching and merging, and rebasing. When I worked
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by gknoy 11y ago
I do that whenever I see anything from Patrick posted on HN, and getting it delivered in my email box has a similar effect. I would say that I have an irrational enjoyment of reading things that he writes, but I actually think it's pr
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by gknoy 11y ago
My HN account costs me hours of productivity, and a great deal of imposter-syndrome-feelings, in exchange for a curated list of really interesting things, not to mention every comment by patio11, tptacek, edw519, and just about every highly
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by gknoy 11y ago
The key is "without authorization". You're allowed to fix things and add features, but deliberate sabotage is arguably unauthorized. You might win in court, but as others said elsewhere, court is Too Expensive even if you wi
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by gknoy 11y ago
... and then caesar-cipher it so that the first guess won't easily find it? :D
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Until this moment, I had not realized I would find such a book interesting.
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by gknoy 11y ago
Gentoo, /sigh. That was a great part of my linux learning experience. I bought into the hype a friend told me about "you have so much control!", and effectively shot myself in the foot because compilation time was so slow (a
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by gknoy 11y ago
> And the interviewer was an ex-Google engineer so I imagine he had some familiarity with Python since it's an official Google language. Be careful of such assumptions. Google has a lot of languages that they use, and it's not
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by gknoy 11y ago
In the case mentioned in the article, though, when the man is _holding_ a soda, and has said that he's going to use the straw for that, it seems farcical to consider treating the straw as drug paraphernalia as "probable cause&quot
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by gknoy 11y ago
Is there a way to legally stream sports like the big football game in february, without already having a cable subscription? That's the one thing (well, aside from big bang theory) my family and I miss from cable.
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I was going to say the same thing -- but if your company is not yet public, that might not be easy to do.
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I don't use it often, but I have a Javascript bookmark [0] that I use in Chrome when the 100-character width is excessively abused. Over time, I found I dislike using it enough that I now try to limit my lines to 100 characters in my
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by gknoy 11y ago
The font appears to scale (in a step function?) related to pixel-width of your window. Try using a narrower window. (This may or may not be related to retina resolution. I didn't read the code to find out.)
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by gknoy 11y ago
As a non-economist, I find it hard to reconcile (or even know) the differences between X-school, Y-school, and Z-school economics teachings. Short of taking classes at a college (which I doubt I have time for), I don't know how to deal
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by gknoy 11y ago
I see now why my mac-using friends love vim keybinds: those arrows look like a nightmare to use. ;)
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If your organization does periodic engineering meetings or demos of cool things, you might show off that one feature that you feel is killer. You'll be able to field questions and hopefully demonstrate how it would be useful and awesom
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that uses IPython as a calculator. I might have to revisit trying to get it working in windows 8.
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by gknoy 11y ago
I'm not sure. I used Eclipse extensively for several years (though am not an expert), but immediately discarded ANY interest in Eclipse within about 20 minutes of using PyCharm. Because of that experience, I no longer felt that IDEs w
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by gknoy 11y ago
> By staying you'll be enabling his behavior and you have nobody to blame but yourself for being in a hostile environment. By leaving, you not only will find a better opportunity (and you will), you hopefully will give the CEO a wak
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My impression was that the DjangoGirls founders have probably done some significant A/B testing on their presentation, and found that having a more "feminine" (even if that follows stereotyped gender lines) set of options mak
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by gknoy 11y ago
> He cancels the donation. Isn't that literally un-doing a good deed?
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I first read this as satire of the complexity of musical sub-genres ("How do I find things like this song I like? Is there a name for it? ... wait, it's really just five people posting things on youtube?"). Then I realized t
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"There are some problems with your approach, and it could bite you in the tail when you least expect it. Here's what you should also know: ... (rest of GP's points)" This avoids saying "You're an idiot",
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That sounds less like "code review", and more like "Mentoring". If you find a way to position it that way, you can bring that up with your boss(es) before your next performance review. I've found mentoring other de
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by gknoy 11y ago
Google apps lets you generate a series of one-time use codes, which you can print out and keep in a safe/folder/notebook, so that if your 2-factor-auth device (phone, fob, etc) gets nuked, you can still log in. I find it interesti
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It's a great article, and was posted in June: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9699893
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Colour of bits [0] was an eye-opening read. 0: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
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Serendipitously, I also found something similar this weekend, but specifying one's resume in JSON rather than XML: https://jsonresume.org/
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I can see the rationalization: I've added React and Javascript to my LinkedIn profile, so it's probably nice to publish that to recruiters that I'm connected with, or friends who can endorse them. Of course, I really don&#x27
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Did you ever have trial magazine subscriptions? I cannot think of any subscription-based service (other than MMO subscriptions) where the implicit assumption was not, "Keep charging unless they cancel during the trial period". Th

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