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by gsylvie 10y ago
I was hoping it would be about a GitHub fork, but this was interesting!
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by gsylvie 10y ago
The original article is completely wrong on this point. Maybe some startups sponsor but don't attend? That would be foolish. Alternatively, spending any money on marketing before you have anything customers can actually buy or use or
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How Getting Tenure Is Supposed to Work(blog.regehr.org)
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by gsylvie 10y ago
How do you measure "TotalPageSize"? Does it take into consideration any plain-text content that's served with "Content-Encoding:gzip"?
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by gsylvie 10y ago
His performance in the citation game is considerably weaker since 2011 (when he started at Buffalo).
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by gsylvie 10y ago
I think it's not really an appeal. Instead you let your application for promotion continue to the next level up the chain. But letting it continue up after one level has rejected it is essentially an appeal. "Appointments require
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by gsylvie 10y ago
He obviously pissed off his department, and so they voted with an aim to punishing him. He's a fool not to appeal it, though. If he appeals then the decision will be made by people outside of his department who won't have the sa
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by gsylvie 10y ago
It increases the clickable area that will result in a visit to your site, it blocks others from taking up any of that critical real estate (via ads or organic rank), and like others have said, it's probably relatively cheap for the bra
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by gsylvie 10y ago
hating JIRA is a first-world-problem for people on servicenow. it's like hating how starbucks baristas ask you too many questions
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Protect our Git repos: stop foxtrot merges now(blog.bitbucket.org)
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by gsylvie 10y ago
Only subscribers can read that link. :-(
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[pdf] “Cloning considered harmful” considered harmful (2008)(plg.uwaterloo.ca)
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by gsylvie 10y ago
This is the most important thing: "Unless and until the code is used it's all meaningless." The risk of writing perfect unused code is significant, and the consequences are pretty grave. I think worrying about how "goo
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Having the social network of a celebrity, without actually being famous (2015)(anildash.com)
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by gsylvie 10y ago
YIKES stands for "Yes, I Kan Edit Stuff." It was designed and built by Alden Bates. http://www.tetrap.com/software/yikes/
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Ask HN: Do you upvote then read? Or read then upvote?
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by gsylvie 10y ago
And this: http://bit-booster.blogspot.ca/2016/02/no-foxtrots-allowed.h... (p.s. your old comment on "git branching models" that starts "Not another one. All good git workflows are different...&quot
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by gsylvie 10y ago
Nice Fogerty reference! (He's citing this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogerty_v._Fantasy,_Inc. )
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Copyright Protection for Short Phrases(fairuse.stanford.edu)
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by gsylvie 10y ago
"I May Not Be Totally Perfect But Parts of Me Are Excellent" - I think this is a useful article to read when considering the 9 lines of code, because copyright law tends to treat novels, pop songs, and software code as the same:
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by gsylvie 10y ago
Here's a great collection of classic bug reports (including the never-printing-on-tuesdays): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10309401
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by gsylvie 10y ago
Most GPLv2 licensed software includes the clause "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version." Through this mechanism a lot of GPL licensed software becomes compatible with Apache 2. Also, replying to
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by gsylvie 10y ago
Anyone else ever run into these? I've noticed PHP's git history is infested with them. Hard to avoid without a pre-receive hook, since "git pull" without "--rebase" creates this type of merge out of the box.
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Protect Our Gits, Stop Foxtrots Now(bit-booster.blogspot.com)
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by gsylvie 11y ago
The "--decorate" is key!