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by philpem 7y ago
There's a really good starter set in the Git manual: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Git-Aliases I'm so used to "git co" and "git br" at this point (which are effective
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There's already a self-hosted version of Bitbucket which is fairly decent aside from being as slow as molasses (which, let's face it, is an 'Atlassian thing' at this point). I used to use Jira extensively for my own inte
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There are similar patterns in other industries. Manufacturing tends to fetishise the automotive industry -- so an absolute mountain of changes come from "well Toyota's doing it" or "well BMW is doing it". Of course,
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I've lost a day's work to a mistyped "git revert HEAD~n"; my colleague blew away his month's work with a mistyped attempt at a squashed commit. Neither of us knew about Reflog at the time, so that didn't even g
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The ease of use is a big thing for me. I find Git a bit arcane -- it's better than it used to be (around the Hg 0.9 era), but it's still quite bad. Hg has this way of actively pushing you towards the safe way of doing things (e.g.
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The key differentiator on Github's side is community involvement. The UI allows you to quickly search for projects across repositories. Bitbucket seems more geared to teams working internally; finding projects on Bitbucket is hard. To
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That would depend on your perspective and your own experiences, I expect. I found the moderated sci.* and comp.* groups more pleasant for asking questions and giving answers. The alt.* hierarchy had its moments, but mostly it was an exercis
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You make a good point - even humans have problems with context. Classic example being that in some areas of the UK, close friends will greet each other with a joking insult. If you don't know they're friends or you don't have
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Maybe the solution to that is decentralised services. To use a historical example, it's easier to moderate an IRC channel of 100 people than an IRC network of 10,000.
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This was an issue with UK BT POTS lines some years ago. The line would 'hang' for a fair while after the recipient hung up before clearing down (disconnecting both sides). The idea was, maybe you dropped your phone and didn't
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by philpem 7y ago
Sorry, poor choice of words on my part. "Seem to have". It's anecdata, it doesn't seem (to me) to get much media coverage. My point being, if you want to break into one of these offices, there are easy ways which can&#x2
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You know, I've wondered about this too. I wonder how effective their DMCA process is -- but while they host some of my stuff, I actually want them to. Obviously I don't have standing to try and find out on someone else's mate
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Sadly it looks like Indiegogo has pulled this :(
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Toshiba... why doesn't that surprise me. I've had a couple of them, they've been some of the least reliable machines I've ever had. Even getting a set of nubs for the Trackpoint was an exercise in futility - three hours
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Other platforms had their own. RISC OS (Acorn) had its infamous "Abort on data transfer" (or "Abort on instruction fetch" if you branched instead of LDR/STR'd). And if you were especially naughty and chased a n
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To be fair to the Amiga enthusiasts, the Acorn / RISC OS group has a similar kind of -- well, I'll call it momentum. Commercial software is still available (though not as much of it as was available in the past), and sometimes the
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I'm amazed how few people have cottoned onto the fact that if you wanted to steal a copy of someone's fingerprint, all you have to do is wait for them to go to their favourite restaurant and steal their empty glass. Most people wo
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by philpem 7y ago
Following the links from that article -- Packard's "eleven simple rules for getting along with others" is a pretty good read too. https://fs.blog/2013/09/dave-packards-11-simple-rules/
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Might well be the 25. I probably should have Googled that first, it's been a few years since I looked at it. Point of my comment: you can teach this all you like, but it won't do any good unless you can break people out of the &qu
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by philpem 7y ago
There was a year-long module on engineering ethics included in my M.Eng. degree course. We discussed the usual "software engineering failure" stories - THERAC-20 and so on. In my experience - the overwhelming majority of students
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Legally they have to, yes -- but BA's tactic for avoiding this is for all the desk staff to mysteriously go on an extended break when a delayed flight arrives... You call the helpdesk to be told "speak to airport staff at the BA d
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That's easy enough to explain... First off, lying to office security carries fewer repercussions than lying to the police to get a crime number. The office security guys won't want to be party to someone else's vendetta (woul
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The clincher is, a cassette tape is fairly chunky and can be ripped off the front of the magazine and lost. Records are comparatively thin (though quite large) and could be made as flexible sheets which can be stapled into the magazine as a
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I've had a similar experience with Seagate - the usual failure is bad-blocks or a huge number of G-list remaps while SMART claims the drive is fine. Also had a Barracuda 7200 with the bricking firmware bug and a 7200 which suffered spi
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Your credit card transaction history tells a data-miner what you buy, and what you might buy in future. Or more accurately, who you buy from and how much you spend. Your browser history can give away your medical data, political leanings, b
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Good social connections.
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I can definitely see where you're coming from. I help out running fandom events -- actually for furries. So it's a very different demographic to golfers but bear with me. I've noticed the exact same pattern. Fame (or infamy i
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Thus changing the model from "you're not the customer, you're the product". It's amazing what people will do and throw away to save a few pounds.
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I don't see why this has been downvoted so far. Inconvenient truth? People hate whistleblowers. "Shoot the messenger. It's the easiest solution."
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> The US doesn't yet have massive prison camp systems full of political dissidents No, but they have several full of people who were trying to escape from countries which were falling to pieces...

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