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by jordigh 8y ago
Well, I can't tell. Parts of the world still use cash primarily or commonly. I don't know what they do in the US. If the metaphor is prevalent, that must be because cash still is. I honestly would have a hard time identifying some
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by jordigh 8y ago
Imagine actually getting paid with cash. To my deep regrets, I almost never use cash anymore; is it any different in California?
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by jordigh 8y ago
It doesn't work like that. Some of the same symbols are used in two different places with vastly different meanings, even within this paper. To give an imperfect programming language analogy, imagine that every symbol is implicitly def
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by jordigh 8y ago
In case someone needs more context, write.as uses ActivityPub to federate with Mastodon and itself. It is an instance of WriteFreely: https://writefreely.org/ So to me, knowing that write.as was getting important enough for
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Git Absorb(github.com)
1 points by jordigh 8y ago|1 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
Maybe. I think both ways can make sense, and if you insist on having the function and the calling sites in the same commit, that can make sense. I think my proposal can also make sense because (1) it splits up the commits into two units tha
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by jordigh 8y ago
Untangling is what I mostly do. I consider the untangling my own internal code review. I need to read my own diff and figure out what goes where and what each part does and why it's necessary. My commit messages are then my own code re
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by jordigh 8y ago
Yes, I know I'm not communicating effectively. I shouldn't have implied that everyone is wrong but me. I know that there are people who understand me, but in a world of github and pull requests, it's really hard for me to exp
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by jordigh 8y ago
It scales quite well. Linux itself is developed in this way. Or perhaps you think Linux isn't at a large enough scale? (No sarcasm, I know that there projects out there much bigger than Linux.)
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by jordigh 8y ago
You misunderstand me. Almost everyone does. I do not think you should squash all of your changes into a giant hairball commit, and I don't think first parent (which is effectively the same thing) solves this problem either. I think ea
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by jordigh 8y ago
I'm a big, huge fan of recording what should have happened instead of recording every typo and forgotten semicolon in your history. There's a difference between draft commits and published commits. When I'm reading published
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by jordigh 8y ago
I didn't make it. I made a quick personal hack a few minutes before my lightning talk and Steven Loria later turned it into a real package. I'm just listed in the kudos: https://doitlive.readthedocs.io/en/late
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by jordigh 8y ago
Ah, probably using playerpiano. Same idea, but I wanted it for bash.
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by jordigh 8y ago
Hi is me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSLvERZQSok#t=965 That later turned into http://doitlive.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4_UhFloISY
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by jordigh 8y ago
It's a gender-inclusive term for latinos and latinas, which themselves are terms mostly in use in the US. I have not seen "Latinx" receive a warm welcome in Spanish-speaking countries, but it seems to be gaining traction in t
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by jordigh 8y ago
Semi-inactive Octave dev here. Even though I use Python every day, and I have used scipy often, I still reach for Octave whenever I need a quick calculation that I don't feel like turning into a big project. And yeah, it's nice th
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by jordigh 8y ago
Thanks so much for your extensive and informative answers.
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by jordigh 8y ago
One thing I don't get: if you're trying to avoid patents, why go back to the 1800s? Don't you just need to look at recent patents that haven't expired?
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by jordigh 8y ago
> In the global industry, some of the best kept secrets are those necessary to make life-saving medication and other pharmaceutical products. What? Patents are not secret. Patents are the opposite of secret. The very word "patent&qu
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by jordigh 8y ago
Yeah! There's that whole thing where you understand how a work is structured, you know what part to pay attention to, what part to skim or read later, where you're required to do your own calculation to fill in something... People
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by jordigh 8y ago
One thing that worked for me was to have a community of fellow mathematicians to study with. There's a lot of cultural stuff that is kind of hard to osmose from books, such as for example, how to pronounce things that you read. Mat
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by jordigh 8y ago
Really brave to take a gamble on negative income. I really hope it pays off. This could be a very good example of how to make free software.
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by jordigh 8y ago
The staging area is really an extraneous concept that isn't required. It's like a commit that isn't a commit. In Mercurial, I much prefer to just make it an actual commit in the draft phase (the default phase) and just keep r
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An Open Letter to the Mathematical Community(mcsweeneys.net)
4 points by jordigh 8y ago|0 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
Mexico too?
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by jordigh 8y ago
This is a sore point for me because I live in Canada but I'm from Mexico. The US happens to be between the two countries I care about the most. In my head, I've fantasised responding to border agents' questions of "why d
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Literate elisp: init.org(github.com)
3 points by jordigh 8y ago|0 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
Everything is political. I wouldn't want people to downvote Mercurial links into oblivion. Anyway, Google links are pretty much already ordered by popularity.
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by jordigh 8y ago
I'm terrified of a future in which it's basically illegal to not have a phone. China has already done this to Uyghurs.
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by jordigh 8y ago
Apple likes to push DRM, which GPLv3 forbids. Apple also is afraid to give patent grants, which GPLv3 requires. Thus, Apple refuses to get anywhere near GPLv3 code, and won't even make it easy to give you GPLv3 source that you can buil

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