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by nirvdrum 15y ago
Actually, I've had many more problems with git renames than with SVN ones. IIRC, it has to do with git internally tracking content, not really filenames. So, I've had cases where changes then a rename result in git thinking a new file was
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
Here's hoping there will still be some level of quality copyediting involved in this new world. Most self-published works I've read I have an extremely hard time reading because the quality is just so bad.
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
People use all sorts of tangentially related images for their blog posts. I guess I'm just really gullible, but I thought the post was non-fictional.
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
Agreed. It all depends on perspective. That's why I've always found the term to be needlessly dismissive.
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
That's a shame - I was fond of the HTML pun. And I was legitimately unsure what you meant by your definition of service. Apologies if hedging my bet there irked you. I'm not a freelance/contractor/consultant and have no desire to be one,
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
Oh, absolutely. JBoss was long held up as the only viable model for being successful with open source and the inevitable model everyone would fall into. Give away the software, charge for support. The problem is support just isn't very s
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
If you build good software that does what it's supposed to, there's no need for service. There may be need for additional software to solve a new problem and in that sense, you provide a service. But I certainly don't want software that I
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
Your comment in no way actually addresses what he's saying, which is a hypothesis to the justification for why people do things. In fact, he didn't even conflate the terms as I see it, unless you want to say piracy is only related to theft
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
We're also taxing browsers more, while simultaneously trying to run on less-powered devices. It almost defeats the point of a thin client.
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
A more relevant and recent example is whether you support software patents. Those opposed to them rail against those in favor of them pretty hard. Some are now making hiring decisions based upon that. Should I not be allowed to express m
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
That's fair. Although we really needn't limit ourselves to only women currently in tech. It's just hard to get a woman's perspective on the matter, which I think would be highly elucidating, when there's so many vocal guys offended on the
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
Honest and helpful. Thanks.
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
Honestly, when these sorts of things happen, I'd love for every man in the world to just shut up for a minute. I have a hard time stomaching this whacked out form chivalry where men somehow have to fight on behalf of women because they're
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
There's a big difference between understanding how something might offend someone else and equally being offended by it. I wasn't offended by this. I ran it by my wife, who happens to also be a programmer, and she wasn't offended by it ei
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
Upvoted. And I just wanted to give some encouragement. It's become commonplace here to get downvoted not because you're belligerent or off-topic, but simply because you hold an opposing viewpoint. Please don't let that discourage you fro
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
IIRC, that OS X mode doesn't carry through to Swing properly. Not a big deal for many, but I use IDEA and RubyMine pretty heavily so it was a no-go.
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
I've been using Dvorak for a little over 7 years and I still find myself regress to QWERTY shortcuts on occasion. The real problem I've found is when I don't remember the location but remember the mnemonic. It could be related to never be
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
While that's true, I don't think any of them really had critical mass. Of those you mentioned, I had precisely one friend on Myspace, none on Hi5 or Friendster. I had two friends on Orkut. I think Facebook played it smart by making it an
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
For me it's nice that one company doesn't know/own everything about me. When you put all your eggs in one basket and then the company turns, getting out can suck. And sometimes I route for the other guy to prevent a total monopoly or to s
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
Possibly. But I've never actually been given a merchant agreement with any of the accounts I've ever set up. I've been given a rate sheet and little more beyond that. Shopping around is hard when you effectively have no prior business hi
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
It was a bit of a rambling point, but relates to the double-standard I see often applied. Terms like "piracy" and "stealing" aren't applicable because there's no physical good (although there's hardly any ambiguity over what's being discus
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
I agree. I'm not suggesting there's no merit to the argument that the RIAA/MPAA have an antiquated business model, but the way we usually get there is odd. People don't want to pay for it. Now they have a way to not pay for it. Thus, th
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
What about violating software licenses? I guess the restrictions of the GPL are moot then. I can just do whatever I want as I'm really not depriving anyone of anything they didn't already have.
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
They almost certainly will not unfreeze the funds if your bank account can't cover the amount. All credit cards allow the customer to chargeback. If you're no longer solvent, the merchant bank eats that loss. So, they do whatever they ca
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
My first start-up was almost tanked immediately because of a crappy merchant bank (Cynergy, if you're wondering). We got our first large order, much larger than we ever had before, and it exceeded our average daily balance in our bank acco
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
Unless you use Dvorak. I know I'm in a super minority here. But shortcuts based on keyboard location rather than tied to some mnemonic are damn near impossible to get right. Doubly so when I have to switch to QWERTY to work with anyone e
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
I think the author hits on a good point that he may just be too polite to really call out. A lot of developers get annoyed when designers use some framework to make building web pages simpler and then say they can build sites. This just s
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
Do you get confused when you run native apps on your Mac? Like, you can't recall which app does which because they all use native controls with a standard L & F? If you do, this is a usability concern I've not heard of and would love
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. This is one of my major gripes with web apps replacing native ones. I never have to figure out what's a button or a tab on a native app. It seems these two concepts get reinvented ad nauseum with web design, such
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
To be fair, when iMovie launched (an Apple app) it only worked on the brand new iPhone 4. If you had a 3GS (i.e., hadn't upgraded yet), you were out of luck. It didn't matter that you had the latest iOS. You didn't have the latest hardwa

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