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by mullr 15y ago
That's what `git describe` is for.
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Patio11's Google Tech Talk: What Engineers Don't Know We Don't Know(youtube.com)
7 points by mullr 15y ago|1 comments
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by mullr 15y ago
Maybe this is true for Seth Godin. But I often find myself without a suitable conversation topic when the situation demands it, as do many others. Once you're talking then things are fine, but that's true for writing as well a large degree.
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by mullr 15y ago
The first, second, and really all the rules of encryption are that you should not write your own encryption code. And as others have noted, there are fundamental issues with doing such an implementation in Javascript at all. Please consider
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by mullr 15y ago
The assumption of "alumni" status amuses me, somehow. :) But the answer is no.
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by mullr 15y ago
The last time we talked about this ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179970 ), the consensus was that it was a lot of snake oil and not useful for most applications.
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by mullr 15y ago
I really like the way you implemented the "drag to create a branch" mechanic, it feels very natural. Did you come up with that yourself? Have you seen it elsewhere?
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by mullr 15y ago
Indeed, I exaggerate a bit. But I think @praptak above expresses the issue admirably. It's not a question of possibility so much as one of trust, and it's a customs agent's job to be wary.
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by mullr 15y ago
I DO know what bitcoin is, and I don't understand how he could possibly fund his trip with it. Doesn't seem like the top of the list for liquid assets, i.e. what you need when travelling. Part of their job is to make sure you can fund your
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by mullr 15y ago
It didn't. The wiki tells us that it was first used in 1990, somewhat before Java was on the scene. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring#History
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by mullr 15y ago
The WPF system is hierarchical rather than constraint-based. I've done a variety of complex (I mean really complex) WPF layouts that need to scale, and they're complex and fiddly. In many cases I would rather have had a constraint system. W
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by mullr 15y ago
Notable features that are different from your many java.next candidates: - Non-nullable types by default! http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Null-safety - No checked exceptions: http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/
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by mullr 15y ago
Because git is the distributed object database of our time, and JavaScript the ubiquitous execution environment. Useful, no?
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+1 buttons now showing in Google search results
1 points by mullr 15y ago|0 comments
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by mullr 15y ago
I'm not sure if it's really less confusing. I once spent about an hour struggling with string.Replace in C# before I bothered to read the documentation. Falls into the 'gotcha' bucket in my mind. Now, I'm pretty sure that strings are intern
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by mullr 15y ago
docco, which the article links to, is particularly great. It makes me want to write more comments. http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/ I wonder if you could make an editor that that looks like docco when you're writing the code?
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by mullr 15y ago
I imagine that "no studying" should really be read as "no loitering." Or perhaps "this is not the place to come and read all day, please, there are other people who need to use this space." It was probably a problem. I've seen such signs at
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by mullr 15y ago
All of the above are still used pretty heavily, even by new work coming out of MS. You're RIGHT though, it's just the examples aren't so good. In recent memory: WPF, Windows Forms, MFC, .NET Remoting, DCOM... They actually had a session at
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by mullr 15y ago
The world was pretty significantly different at that time: in 2007, we hadn't even seen 280slides yet. It wasn't obvious to everybody that you could write really great javascript-based webapps. Nobody was even calling it html5 at the time.
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by mullr 15y ago
Near nobody in America uses general purpose QR codes. In other countries they're pasted on nearly everything. Hell, I've seen them on TV before. Hold your phone up to the screen to scan. But as you say, it likely has little to do with th
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by mullr 15y ago
My personal experience: I was able to go from a static html design mockup to a moderately dynamic page suitable for user testing in about 10 minutes, having never seen the library before. It seems to be really ideal for prototyping.
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ICanHaz.js: Simple & powerful client-side templating(icanhazjs.com)
4 points by mullr 15y ago|2 comments
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by mullr 15y ago
* The Pragmatic Programmer (Read this once every 6 months until it's obvious) * Head first design patterns * Agile Web Development with Rails It's not obvious, but the rails book is a great introduction to test-driven development in general
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by mullr 15y ago
Which counts as the sugar which he mentions. See also "using" in C#. These are pretty clearly design warts. WPF (C# UI library) jumps through some interesting hoops to make it look like all your resources can be properly garbage collecte
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by mullr 15y ago
The only really valid criticism is the one about event handlers, and that kind of makes sense if you consider symmetry with regular nullable references. "Languages shouldn't allow null references" is a more valid and interesting topic, but
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by mullr 15y ago
Registers are the immediate computer analogy that came to mind for me as well. Does anybody know of a good introductory text about these various theories of memory? I'd love to learn mire about them, but following references is a bit time
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by mullr 15y ago
When faced with this problem, I used the Qt port of webkit (QtWebkit) to make an ActiveX control which I can use from windows forms. It doesn't work instantly out of the box, but with a bit of massaging you can probably get what you want.
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by mullr 16y ago
Agile Web Development With Rails simply cannot be oversold. The first editon of this book was pivotal for me - I just didn't know things could be that way. It should be recommended as a general horizon broadening book to any programmer, w
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by mullr 16y ago
Of course, $11 in Fukushima-ken likely gets you more than the same in Tokyo. Ignoring this simple fact comes off as dishonest to me.
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by mullr 16y ago
What's the difference between this and just using github? I think it's just the daemon-ness of dropbox. It would be cool to have something similar for arbitrary git repos that runs 'git fetch' periodically in the background. (or somethin

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