jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
Ideally you move your fingers, not your arm or wrist. Realistically though, nobody is playing games by moving their arm, even if that is perhaps what you are suppose to do. I mean, those same ergonomics guides also tell you to keep your ba
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> You can move a finger a lot faster than a whole arm. If you're moving your arm to move your mouse, there is probably something wrong with your mouse.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Not my experience at all. Apple trackpads tire my fingertips, they become sore after extended usage.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
On thinkpads you can press the middle mouse button (below the spacebar) then press the trackpoint up or down. I have always usually done this, but also remapped the trackpad to be entirely a "scrollpad"
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Furthermore, it is a hell of a lot easier to play quake with a trackpoint than a trackpad.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Also, this might just be me stereotyping the obese, but waking up early and having a full breakfast is not something I have typically associated with obesity. I associate that more with people who's jobs involve waking up absurdly ear
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by jlgreco 13y ago
There is no reason not to enjoy the benefits of modern version control just because some code you inherited is utter shit. On the other hand, being familiar with modern version control is a good idea, if only just in case you inherit code
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Do they also force you to commit unfinished work frequently? Because in my experience devs would get around that "all branches are public" rule by just not putting things into a commit until they were confident something was comp
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Couldn't there be some way to just tag the "main" commits and mark the dead ends as "extraneous" rather than destroying them? And then have your history-viewing tool hide/squash the unmarked "invisib
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Not to mention that in practice , if this sort of history cleaning is forbidden then people will just attempt to not commit those first two lines, meaning that they are not getting the full benefit of version control.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Checkers is a very easy game, but with those incredibly simple rules you can get complex behavior. For an even more extreme example, you can look at Go. Git is similar, except there is no competition/competitor there to befuddle yo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> And what percentage of all 'rich people' is that number? A very very small percentage. Currently there are several million millionaires in the US alone. Now, the question isn't "are rich people responsibl
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Just make a branch for each v1,v2,v3. Instead of having a single main, you have three. Unless you are literally typing with both hands on two different keyboards, you just checkout whichever branch you want to work on at the moment. That
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Not sure what you're getting at here, git developers got to choose their own names for git commands because there was not an existing standard that they were trying to implement. Do you really think that 'prune' is a worse
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> behind a hill so it couldn't be mistaken for a lighthouse by passing ships. I wonder why they didn't just put it on ship maps as an additional lighthouse.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Sigh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophic_burden_of_proof Obviously nobody is expecting a leaked memo or something, but an explanation of which actions and what results you are talking about would be nice, since y
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Solar, or potentially nuclear.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
ALICE is Aluminum+Water Ice in case anybody is wondering. You basically make a slurry of very fine Aluminum powder and water, then freeze it. Very cool stuff.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The "git way" is just whatever way you want. If you want a central server that you always push to, that is fine; there is no problem with that. The problem is with that particular tooling . That tooling presents a workflow that
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It is simple because a simple explanation is possible. Simple doesn't mean "intuitive to proverbial grandmother". Git is clever, moderately novel and therefore unfamiliar (depending on your background), and simple . There
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by jlgreco 13y ago
To add to what you are saying, one of the the interesting perspectives that computer science taught me early on was an appreciation for the emergence of complex behavior from simple rules. Cellular automaton are fascinating to learn about,
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by jlgreco 13y ago
This isn't going to work if you refuse to read comments that other people are kind enough to give you. I am telling you that there is a staggering amount of evidence for evolution. If you think otherwise, then take your pick. Pick a
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Refuse to see the ugliness? No, I really don't see it. Sure, a few flags could be cleaned up, but the beauty of the rest of git more than offsets a few weirdly named flags. Meanwhile git through eclipse causes nothing but trouble a
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You're basically railing against orthogonality. I don't think anybody disagrees that some flags could be made more consistent, but creating a separate git-uncommit when that functionality is fundamentally encompassed by the purpo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I would still be concerned about the cable though. If it uses a rugged metal cable, then the worse case scenario is that it stops generating power when your fire gets a little out of control. If you're just using the standard rubber
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by jlgreco 13y ago
As I understand it, those sort of relationships rely on the reasonableness of human-defined taxonomy. For instance, if we referred to eels as "snakes" then they would have less in common with other snakes than they would with fish
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Because anything else is offtopic. For some reason people always see fit to bring up their personal religious beliefs when the topic is biology, but it doesn't often get brought up when the discussion is, say, the formation of stars a
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Branches are fundamentally little more than text files in .git/refs/heads that contain the sha of a commit object. Don't let the idea of a branch frighten you, there isn't much complexity behind the idea.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
See, your unidiomatic usage of the word makes me worry that you don't even have a solid grasp on what evidence even is. I've already told you where you can read scientific literature about evolution, if you have any specific conc
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by jlgreco 13y ago
That is where I am at. Being able to use something for years while never actually understanding it is not a desirable position to be in, and really does not equate to any meaningful sense of simplicity. It particularly is not something th

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