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by nupark2 15y ago
When using git in that way, I spend more time mucking around with cherry picking than I would to just treat things atomically. The tools are more powerful, but they're also correspondingly more complex, and the net value is in my experien
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by nupark2 15y ago
The problems you described are failures of workflow due to bad process and/or bad developer education, _not_ failures inherent in the design of any given distributed VCS. I have never had to deal with any of those issues, because we have a
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by nupark2 15y ago
It's not even a given that git is better than subversion for most non-OSS centralized development use cases.
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> More seriously, it sounds like someone who had a bad experience with Git at one point got put in an undeserved position of power in which they got to enforce the results of that bad experience on everyone else. I set technical direc
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> With svn you really do not want to do this since in my experience you can only work at one thing at a time per checked out directory. Instead you have to write it down or try to remember. svn diff >patch-saved-changes svn
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> For one, you can have much more atomic commits, which can help with maintaining the code and finding and fixing bugs. Just push all of your small commits at the end of the day. This makes it REALLY HARD to keep up with your team m
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by nupark2 15y ago
Apple's block-based APIs aren't intended to replace asynchronous APIs. In fact, Apple's block-based APIs ARE asynchronous APIs. Half of the intent of GCD is to provide a dynamic-thread-queue asynchronous interface to non-blocking I/O AP
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Your savings here are mainly from removing types. That's another matter entirely.
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An existing console maker. On the other hand, look at the Kindle Fire, and the rest of the Android ecosystem.
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An application sandboxing/deployment/sales system, coupled with high-level application/platform APIs that are considerably more coherent than the gnome/kde/whole-universe-of-libraries C mess.
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The Arduino is just an 8bit AVR microcontroller at heart. You can program it with avrdude, and write straight C using avr-gcc. Personally, I use Atmel's development boards and AVR Studio under VMware.
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How do you pay for it? I have a team of capable engineers, and relationships with network/wifi hardware/firmware developers. What I don't have is $2-10M to spend designing open protocols (and building the software), especially with no obvio
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This might be applicable. A software co-operative: http://www.plausible.coop/blog/?p=25 The biggest problem with the model is financing. You need capital to build something big, and the easiest way to raise a lot of capital is to sell par
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You're being downvoted, but this is quite honestly something I've witnessed C-levels worrying about -- "does she seem like she might get pregnant immediately?". I have to disagree with the concern. There's a cost to hiring humans. People ge
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> You are missing the point nupark. What they said they would do is "I will work for you, and I will give you two weeks notice if I choose not to." No, they accepted an offer of employment, with a start date. The employer has every re
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Yes -- ask for more time. If they say no, then just don't accept the offer. Honestly, nobody you want to work for is going to say "no" if you ask for a little more time, unless business constraints dictate that they truly can't afford to wa
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> By reneging on an offer you may cost the company time but you almost certainly won't cost them money. Where do you think the time comes from? > But before they even start? The investment (and thus the commitment) is minimal. T
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The point is that morality doesn't and shouldn't play into it. Usually companies don't follow moral principle but rather legal principle. Smart individual should do the same thing. Otherwise they are and will be abused and taken advantage
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With a company, all that matters from an ethical and legal point of view is what's written down on paper and signed by both parties. Companies are comprised of people. If you break your word and cost the company money, you're costing thos
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by nupark2 15y ago
> Certainly in the US in most states, employment is "at will", meaning the company can fire you for pretty much any reason at any time (ignoring protected classes and so on). Likewise, the employee can leave at any time. You're mixing
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USENET: The eternal September. IRC: mIRC
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A lot of people are viewing this from the employer ... I view this as simple ethics. You keep your word, period. For those that object to this on ethical grounds, consider this scenario: the company has their preferred employee who passe
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If it's wrong, it's wrong, whether you do it to your best friend or your worst enemy. A big company can absorb the cost of a schedule slip or missing an opportunity to hire a great alternative candidate. That doesn't make it any more right
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I genuinely agree with you on all points. However, I do have one small note; the early 90s internet was also unusable for all but the most technical people. It was also fantastic, and I'd largely be happy to have access to an internet commu
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The line between the two is very blurred. For example, a review of a new video card, is really just an advert. This depends on the editorial clarity of the review. A review can be an advertisement -- such is the case where the reviewer si
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by nupark2 15y ago
As someone who very much values the clarity of content without the insidious distraction of advertisements, I would not like to see Wikipedia sell ads. I would rather that they either continue to work through donations, or figure out how to
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Instead of 12 physical cores, 96GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD Array pushing 1M IOPs on dedicated hardware for my PostgreSQL database servers, I'd need 1TB of RAM in an AWS box because I'll be lucky if I can even break 10K in IOPs. Does the price
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If you remove any rational analysis based on productivity, developer time, or finances, then we're only left with a question of personal taste -- and it's impossible to argue against personal taste. An evaluation based on personal taste is
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Given the introduction, I thought we were going to see a fantastic breakdown of cost estimates; capex and opex expenses, 95% percentile bandwidth pricing vs. Amazon's fixed rate per-byte pricing. A real analysis would have even dug into the
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by nupark2 15y ago
Fair enough. Reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_story I'm trying to get my head around "buying into XP". At what point do you describe the thing that you're about to build? I don't believe huge requirements gathering phases,

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