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by lifebeyondfife 11y ago
Don't want to start an argument but perhaps why it's rare to see is because many people realise commenting on code as a rule leads to: https://twitter.com/nzkoz/status/538892801941848064 Commenting on th
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by lifebeyondfife 11y ago
To be fair to mercurial, of which I have no experience, the point I'm really making here is that distributed version control has won. Seeing as you're arguing for SVN, you're in favour of non-distributed version control. With
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For those struggling to get started with git(lifebeyondfife.com)
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For those not yet using git(lifebeyondfife.com)
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by lifebeyondfife 11y ago
I know most people have moved to git (or mercurial) but after running some internal training sessions at work, still I think some devs want simpler introductory material. This work-in-progress series of blog posts is my stab at introducing
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For those not yet using git(lifebeyondfife.com)
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by lifebeyondfife 11y ago
'Sorry, "Bort" is not in the boys name database.'
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Yo dawg, I heard you like functions(lifebeyondfife.com)
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by lifebeyondfife 11y ago
This! Looking back at my career I didn't really learn to program properly until I was in an industry job staring down the barrel of a massive codebase collaborating with colleagues across different teams. It was great. But time and tim
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by lifebeyondfife 11y ago
You can be a fanboy about something and still want to understand why people prefer the alternative.
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by lifebeyondfife 11y ago
Beat me to it.
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by lifebeyondfife 11y ago
Ah ok, I think I understand the concern. So 'git fetch' and 'git merge' explicitly will stop an upstream rebase from making destructive changes to the history of your local branch(?) As you say it's bad practice and
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by lifebeyondfife 11y ago
> hint, if you ever type "pull" you are doing it wrong Genuine question: what's wrong with executing 'git pull' on a branch you haven't changed locally?
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by lifebeyondfife 12y ago
Anybody more familiar with this care to compare and contrast with Apache Thrift?
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by lifebeyondfife 12y ago
Saw this link on a previous HN thread: http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/research/doc.cfm?did=4... I like how it describes the negatively reinforcing cycle of closer scrunity which results in worse performance
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by lifebeyondfife 12y ago
> the two parties have to "sit down and talk" [quote from the article] As the paper is addressing a social problem rather than a technical one, the definition of what a 'real solution' may be is debatable. I definite
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by lifebeyondfife 12y ago
IaaS - Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure I thought that would be a fairly obvious one.
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Before you learn to program(lifebeyondfife.com)
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Sexism and Programming(lifebeyondfife.com)
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by lifebeyondfife 13y ago
I'd take the argument to the physical level. Do we know how the brain works? To some degree, yes. Neural networks: nodes, weights and activation functions. If one day we can map exactly an animal brain's architecture, how new idea
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by lifebeyondfife 13y ago
This is certainly more detailed than mine but I also have a blog post ( http://lifebeyondfife.com/87-beauty-html/ ) documenting three different methods and the JavaScript code to make these in an HTML5 canvas on GitHub:
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by lifebeyondfife 13y ago
As jeffbr states, look at the policies of the SNP before unfairly categorising them. Scotland just voted in equal marriage for same-sex couples with the First Minister of Scotland, and leader of the SNP, strongly in favour. It really isn&#x
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by lifebeyondfife 13y ago
Was there last week. Barely room to move and plenty of tech companies hiring.
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by lifebeyondfife 13y ago
I grew up in small town Scotland with an English accent and can report that in pockets of Scotland there is certainly blatant, out and out racism. But in the cities and as an adult, I really don't see it as an issue anymore. I work for
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by lifebeyondfife 13y ago
I too dislike the obsession with learning to code because, unless you're doing it volutarily and letting your own passion guide you to backfill missing bits of knowledge, it becomes a rote learning exercise devoid of understanding. As
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by lifebeyondfife 13y ago
From a technical standpoint I agree with you - the exact nature of P and NP problem classes should be explained. Here, the initials aren't even defined. But for coders who've never seen problem classification theory before (not Bi
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by lifebeyondfife 13y ago
Good concise explanation. For those who missed it a few months back, I wrote a blog post which contained an explanation of NP and, more importantly, why it's important for programmers to recognise NP problems. The section headings &#x2
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by lifebeyondfife 13y ago
Article mentions The Pictish Trail (@PictishTrail) but omits his recently launched record label run from Eigg - http://lostmap.com/about/ Disclaimer: He's a friend and former bandmate from uni. His music is awesom
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How Not To Do A Hackathon(lifebeyondfife.com)
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by lifebeyondfife 13y ago
I see what you mean. Thanks for taking the time out to nitpick.

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