nocman

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by nocman 9mo ago
Yeah, I didn't notice where the article was located at first, and I thought that's what it was going to be about also.
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by nocman 10mo ago
Um, please let your comment be sarcastic. It is ... right?
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by nocman 10mo ago
> sed is not "stream editor" as it says above, it's "stream ed" Well, according to the man page, it is indeed "stream editor": https://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/1/sed I was alrea
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by nocman 10mo ago
> There was strong cultural pressure to be able to write perl in as few bytes as possible Hard disagree. Many Perl programmers enjoyed engaging in code golf (always just for fun, in my experience), but in my nearly 30 years of program
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by nocman 11mo ago
I don't think in this case that most people who know what Arduino is would be at all mislead by the title. Being "dead" doesn't have to mean that a company ceases to exist. There are plenty of what I would call &quot
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by nocman 1y ago
And Randall deserves EVERY single one of them, IMHO!
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by nocman 1y ago
Oh, good, I'm not the only one then.
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by nocman 1y ago
"With traditional solutions (such as OpenVPN / IPSec) starting to run out of steam" -- and then zero explanation or evidence of how that is true. I can see an argument for IPSec. I haven't used that for many years. How
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by nocman 1y ago
> for me, everything git is a pain point Yeah, I was looking for something (or "things") specific. An "I hate everything about it" explanation doesn't really compel me to try out the alternative. > "mega
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by nocman 1y ago
> In git, if you get a conflict, you feel like you have to resolve it now. I guess I view that as a positive rather than a negative. I'm not saying that dealing with merge conflicts is a picnic -- it isn't. I just find it dif
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by nocman 1y ago
Is there a particular pain point (or set of pain points) that you have using git which is removed when you use Jujutsu? I am interested to know, because there seem to be a small number of people who really seem to like it, and up to this po
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by nocman 1y ago
> Some people just enjoy being contrarian. And some people just happen to disagree - doesn't automatically mean they just like "being contrarian". I took the "Yup..." to mean "this is what I was expecting,
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by nocman 1y ago
> LLMs are smart enough to make the result seem "organic" I would never describe the output I've seen from LLMs as "organic".
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by nocman 1y ago
I'm not sure if you are being serious about not understanding "the whole centering a div meme". Your example handles a trivial case, but does not address the whole of the problem. As others have pointed out, vertical centeri
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by nocman 1y ago
Well over 20 years of vim use, and I had to look up what f/F and t/T do. I'm pretty sure I've seen them before years ago, but I never use them. It's always interesting what others find invaluable that I try out an
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by nocman 1y ago
that's metaprogramming :D
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by nocman 1y ago
> presuming to be able to identify "the best programmers" He was identifying the best programmers he knows (as is obvious from the title). I don't think it is unreasonable at all for even a semi-technical person to be ab
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by nocman 2y ago
> I started using git around 2007 or so because that company I worked for at the time used ClearCase, without a doubt the most painful version manager I have ever used Ah, ClearCase! The biggest pain was in your wallet! I saw the price
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by nocman 2y ago
> Git sucks for serious projects. again, hard disagree. I work on serious projects all day long. Git is fabulous for serious projects.
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by nocman 2y ago
> Git was always worse than Mercurial. hard disagree. Git was always way better than Mercurial. > It won because of GitHub. I and most of the developers I have worked with over the years all used git for many years before ever even t
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by nocman 2y ago
> Git is for hobby side projects. Perforce and Sapling are for adult projects. The numbers I've seen say git has about 87-93% of the version control market share. That's just one of many reasons I think it is safe to say most
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by nocman 2y ago
The ones I did this from were "Compute!" and "Compute's Gazette! (for Commodore 64 and VIC-20)". They were all octal numbers, if I remember correctly, and the last number in each row was a checksum. I also paid my
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by nocman 2y ago
It all depends on how the contract between Microsoft and Id was worded.
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by nocman 2y ago
Also, Rich has many years of experience using all three of those languages.
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by nocman 2y ago
It's not odd at all. The underlying problems to be solved are identical.
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by nocman 2y ago
In fairness the person you were responding to was referring to their own personal experience. They certainly are not the first person to conclude that doing non-trivial concurrent programming is too difficult for them. I agree that it is
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by nocman 2y ago
Yes, sadly I was not rich enough as a kid to own an Amiga. By the time I could have afforded one, it would have been more for the novelty of having one than something practical for me to spend money on.
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by nocman 2y ago
Yeah, the main references I found to IVR systems and REXX were from IBM articles discussing IVR, and some open-source Asterisk-based systems using ooRexx that appear to have been created as an open-source alternative to IBM OS/2 IVR so
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by nocman 2y ago
> The Sealed-Bid auction should generate a price that is greater than or equal to the English Open Cry in all situations. Not necessarily. In many sealed-bid auctions, bidders hope to win with a lower bid (often much lower) than they
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by nocman 2y ago
That makes perfect sense to me. I've never seen anyone use Rexx outside of an IBM-heavy environment.

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