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by maw 18y ago
The myth that a very narrow set of skills is all that's necessary is not a new one. I don't really know where it comes from, and my pet hypotheses are too ugly to share, except that their nicest parts have to do with people believing what t
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by maw 18y ago
Something like that, but with rollbacks, test builds, multiple versions installed and available in parallel, and more, all more or less for for free. When I say "for free", I'm assuming that modern DVCSs are efficient with large binary file
573.
by maw 18y ago
I disagree. I think most atheists are, strictly speaking, agnostics (even if some may not know the term agnostic). When pressed, we'll concede that, no, we don't _really_ know whether a Creator exists. However, our doubts are so very sma
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by maw 18y ago
Only somebody with beliefs so different from my correct beliefs would say something so stupid.
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by maw 18y ago
Yeah, I thought that "award-winning" bit was at best superfluous, and the article overall in typical ddj style. I don't care for their style in general: "too corporate" is a short way to phrase it, but I think my dislike goes deeper than t
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by maw 18y ago
I think it mostly boils down to bad hiring decisions. People -- mostly nonprogramming managers -- said "hey, these guys are just as good and only cost a third as much" and hired more or less indiscriminately. (As with any other group of p
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by maw 18y ago
A nice thing about sport is that it's a safe outlet for some of the uglier aspects of human nature. Usually, anyway. Some people end up taking it way too far.
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by maw 18y ago
In Mexico, where Wiis sell for MXN $4999 (roughly USD $486), they're rarely out of stock. New and/or popular game titles retail for nearly MXN $800 a pop. (Getting the game you want can be difficult at times, though. Maybe because high pr
579.
by maw 18y ago
", in 1991," is a parenthetical phrase.
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by maw 18y ago
Not just freebsd, of course. Backporting patches is standard practice for all the serious Linux distributors as well.
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by maw 18y ago
In my experience, there are several kinds of sysadmins. Many of them are little more than low-skilled button pressers, password resetters, and service restarters (although they may have lots of domain-specific knowledge learned by rote and
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by maw 18y ago
Indeed. On the other hand, while somebody who makes $100k and lives in Boston won't exactly be struggling to make ends meet, he'll have a lot less money to spend frivolously than somebody making that much in Alabama.
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by maw 18y ago
Well, init and clone are straightforward -- the only porcelain that git actually has, as far as I can tell.
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by maw 18y ago
"Branching and merging in git, though, are wonderfully, blissfully straightforward." That is a lie (or at best something like Stockholm Syndrome). Nothing in git is straightforward, let alone blissfully so.
585.
by maw 18y ago
I measured it: on the Model M I'm using right now, the keys go down by about .4cm. It's an IBM, though; it may be that newer incarnations of the design are different.
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by maw 18y ago
Well put! I would have written much the same thing had you not beaten me to it, and will only add that sloppy thinking about this question isn't purely an academic concern: among other things, it leads to bad laws with difficult to foresee
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by maw 18y ago
If the stories about used car lots full of SUVs are true, there are already economic incentives at play.
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by maw 18y ago
Just typically corporate, in my experience. That kind of person uses "I" when "we" would be the correct pronoun, and "we" when "you" would be. When "I" would actually be correct, it'll be capitalized, or attention drawn to it some other w
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by maw 18y ago
Ermm, I grew up in suburbia and do know that people live outside cities. I also know that the price of goods and services I appreciate are impacted by the price of fuel. I don't know what that has to do with what I said, though: people who
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by maw 18y ago
Because they bought costly to operate and maintain things bigger than they needed. A few years later they became even more costly, and suddenly they feel like they can't afford it. Tradesmen are one thing (but can't they write off fuel pu
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by maw 18y ago
It may hurt regular working folks, who or whatever they are, but it's hard to feel very sorry for them.
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by maw 18y ago
You shouldn't use no triple negatives neither.
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by maw 18y ago
Yeah, I love git. It is totally awesome how "git config --global <key> <value>" sets <key> to <value>. Without --global, <value> is shown. Wait, did I say love? Well, I'm sure Gregor Samsa loved hi
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by maw 18y ago
That's something pretty different, then. TortoiseGit is—or would be—a UI for git. Same idea as Tortoise SVN. The OP was talking about something quite different.
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by maw 18y ago
Probably not. Does TortoiseGit commit every time a file changes?
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by maw 18y ago
Is it true that switchgrass doesn't compete with food production? That is, is it really possible to grow and harvest it on land that isn't currently used by crops at a scale that makes it worthwhile?
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Laptops and Lab Manuals(structuredprocrastination.com)
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by maw 18y ago
Curt Schilling probably would have had problems in subsequent years had he pitched in the playoffs in 2004 or not.
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by maw 18y ago
I think it means that a compassionate person assumes the people he's compassionate towards are incapable of bettering themselves, and thus contemptible. I'm not sure whether I agree or not, but my first guess is that it's sometimes true and
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by maw 19y ago
The concept of living in emacs makes more sense when you think of it as an operating environment in its own right, and not just another application. You can think of emacs as a framework (that happens to be awesome for manipulating text by

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