luckydude

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by luckydude 9y ago
A thought not universally shared. Intel was our biggest customer and when they saw the quality of the breadcrumbs produced by our gui check in tool vs the command line checkins they were smart enough to push hard that everyone used the gui
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by luckydude 9y ago
We took too long to open source it, people didn't like it being closed source and used for the Linux kernel. RMS was hugely butthurt that we had the best system and all open source had was CVS and SVN. Whatever, it paid the bills nice
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by luckydude 9y ago
OK, enjoy Git then. Your claim about merging is false though, demonstrably. Picking a repo gca when you could have used a much closer file gca is better. BK does that and automerges, correctly, more frequently and is way way faster than G
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by luckydude 9y ago
A version control system is an accurate audit trail of everything that has happened in the repository. Every create, delete, rename, every rwx mode change, every content change. In BitKeeper files work like they do in Unix, there is a (glo
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by luckydude 9y ago
I read some article that claimed that the sex workers are really against the new laws. If I'm to believe the article, there are apparently a bunch of sex workers who weren't forced into the sex trade by some evil person (I think
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by luckydude 9y ago
I emailed Craig about that and they are gone now.
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by luckydude 9y ago
I think there is some loyalty. As an example, my younger son is looking for his first job, I'm gonna see if the local grocery store will hire him, but I talked to him and said "Look Dylan, if you get a job there then you have to
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by luckydude 9y ago
I think I tested around 30 (apparently still insecure enough back then to care, these days I care what my dogs think more than I care what people think :)
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by luckydude 9y ago
I've built two source management systems (NSElite, internal to Sun, and bitkeeper, now open source at bitkeeper.org). Calling Git sane just makes it clear that you haven't used a sane source management system. Git has no file obje
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by luckydude 9y ago
BitKeeper guy here (predecessor to Git and Hg). If you think about the capabilities of a distributed source management system you can quickly see it's an enabler for out-sourcing. As a commercial DSCM provider, we got to watch a lot o
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by luckydude 9y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, I tested out at 140 a long time ago. There is no friggin way I'm remotely as intelligent as Feynman was so there goes any faith in IQ tests being meaningful. Most of the people who have worked for me are demo
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by luckydude 9y ago
My personal belief is hang with kids. I'm 56 and I dread the day that my kids are out of the house (and it's coming). My kid keep me young, keep me learning. I used to coach high school hockey, that was a blast. Want to be happy
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by luckydude 9y ago
That's great news, I'll pass that on to the county. Thank you!
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by luckydude 9y ago
I'm pretty happy with Linux. Yeah, I wish it were better but it mostly just works for me. Commercial Unix is as dead as commercial compilers. Which is to say not completely dead, but pretty darn close. Trying to make money off of an
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by luckydude 9y ago
I organized a crew to do this in the Santa Cruz mountains last year. I did it after losing two tires in the same car to the same pothole. That gets expensive. I tried to work with the county to make it official, the idea was to form a gro
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by luckydude 9y ago
Zander certainly didn't help, the whole "planets" didn't help, but for me it was definitely Solaris. It took the wind out of my sails and I eventually left. I looked at Solaris recently and it still sucks. Sad to see a
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by luckydude 9y ago
Just a chunk of wood works quite well. If you want to get fancy you can use a file to round out some grooves but that will happen naturally. https://www.amazon.com/Scraper-Natural-Barbecue-Non-bristles...
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by luckydude 9y ago
You manage what? I'd like to know because this just seems like a young person who wants to do well but hasn't been around the block.
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by luckydude 9y ago
Man, so much of what seems defensive pushback, I don't get it. Here's the deal. I ran a small company for almost 2 decades in the valley. Everyone worked with everyone else very closely. One bad apple can screw up the whole com
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by luckydude 9y ago
Resume screen first. Phone screen next. In person screen next though I may well have done the google search before the in person thing if I'm paying to fly them out. And it's worth stating that for me, social media is any sort of
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by luckydude 9y ago
This guy/gal gets it. That's exactly what I was trying to say and apparently failed at saying.
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by luckydude 9y ago
I think I failed to communicate. Let's try a different version and call it the "no assholes rule". If I hired someone who was a top 1% engineer but was a complete asshole to work with, that's someone who would fail the a
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by luckydude 9y ago
I'm pretty much retired but I was an engineer and then a manager and then a CEO/VP engineering for ~20 years. If you think I'm not going to google you before I offered you a job you are mistaken. Of course I'm going to
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by luckydude 9y ago
I tried to like lisp, it just doesn't fit with my brain, dunno why. I tried to like emacs and it doesn't fit either. I'm a C/sh/vi sort of guy. I like troff, don't care for LaTex. Some stuff just works bett
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by luckydude 9y ago
I do wonder why someone at HN decided that to stomp on the guy who was asking about forth as bootloader. Didn't seem weird at all to me. HN? Care to explain? Did I miss something?
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by luckydude 9y ago
[I'm sticking this here because there was a dude who said this was a good reply and I tried to reply to him and HN say s his post was deleted. I don't know why, his post seemed pretty reasonable to me, he was asking if forth was
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by luckydude 9y ago
I'm a forth programmer, I've implemented an editor in forth, a more(1) clone in forth, a grep(1) in forth and I did a bunch of stuff I've forgotten in forth for the geophysics department at UW Madison. I HATE forth. It'
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by luckydude 9y ago
Yeah, I'm not a facebook fan, I don't use it because it always felt sort of creepy. But fleecing poor people through AI like technology seems worse than creepy. They'll get regulated at some point, assuming the politicians a
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by luckydude 9y ago
When I was at Sun John Entemann was an engineer who got promoted to manager. We all laughed like crazy. John? Really? And then he walked into each of our offices and said "what do you need? I'll get it" And he was suddenl
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by luckydude 9y ago
Hmm, we took a different approach, here's my C-like dialect (built on Tcl's byte codes so it co-exists with Tcl code. And yes, I know, but we needed Tk so were stuck with Tcl). http://little-lang.org Stuff that I&#x27

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