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by pydave 14y ago
I disagree. When I write a program, I find more and more of bugs the more often I run it. Just as the tradesmen refine their skills, I'm refining my program. (Both are our outputs.) In addition, by being small and focused, my program will e
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by pydave 14y ago
I think they're trying to convey that anything you use to read ebooks can read these books. If they said e-reader, I'd assume an e-ink device. (I guess some people might assume it's incompatible with their obscure, but pdf-supporting tablet
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by pydave 14y ago
Sounds like an opportunity to charge people to set up their OpenID and use your revenue to get more companies to implement it. Disclaimer: I don't know much about building websites and I don't understand why OpenID hasn't got more traction.
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by pydave 14y ago
Searching on Google and then clicking some items in the horizontal list at the top of the page (Maps/Images/etc) switches to the corresponding search. Although to me, the "63,100 results" indicates that "All Microsoft" is a search category.
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by pydave 14y ago
> The US is HUGE. For a company to have nationwide coverage > they need to invest a TON in infrastructure. Canada is bigger and we've had several new entrants to mobile phone business who've set up their own networks to cover the l
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by pydave 14y ago
A lead pipe disagrees with you. ;)
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by pydave 14y ago
> I am fine with the literary aspects of it being protected > provided that the practical aspects are not I guess you're thinking along the lines of a playwright who sells scripts of her play, but cannot prevent people fr
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by pydave 14y ago
Spore saved its creatures in their portrait pictures: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200806/spore_creature_creator_...
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by pydave 14y ago
Vivify [ http://bytefluent.com/vivify/ ] is another good one that takes the opposite approach: Show you code snippets from different languages at once and switch the colorscheme. You can also quickly scrub through the schemes and edit the
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by pydave 14y ago
Agreed. I wonder if webmasters can get stats on how often readers use Readability or the like to actually consume their content... To the author: http://contrastrebellion.com
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by pydave 14y ago
There was an article with a similar goal previously posted to Gamasutra from altdevblogaday, but it's got data and software for you to play along: http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/08/10/business-analytics-...
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by pydave 14y ago
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away Cory Doctorow wrote a story based on that lyric: http://www.tor.com/stories/2008/08/weak-and-strange I like Jonathan Coulton (especially "Re: Your Brains", b
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by pydave 14y ago
They could have gone with the CC approach: For humans: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ For lawyers: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode Granted, Microsoft's lawyers probably wouldn't approve (because people
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by pydave 14y ago
For me, many other online forums discussing software have become too hostile to developers. (Or just too hostile in general.) I remember HN was mostly populated by developers and so far I've found what I was looking for: more civility and i
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by pydave 14y ago
Isn't this is the same as subversion: svn co remote_repo_path/branches/bugfix bugfix git clone -b bugfix ./local_repo_path bugfix It could be simpler if you removed the trailing target folder name (but git would name the checkout according
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by pydave 14y ago
You could try a Google Alert [ http://www.google.com/alerts ] for "Rich Hickey (talk | article)"
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by pydave 14y ago
I read the Mythical Man Month years ago and for a long time I've thought of this as the "second-system effect": You can create a much better architecture the second time around. (Hence the advantage of quick, throwaway prototypes.) The arti
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by pydave 14y ago
That's a successful version of the Pyramid story. NT had been developed alongside OT (or whatever the old tech kernel was called). They wrote a new system in tandem with maintaining the old one and when it was mature enough, swapped out old
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by pydave 14y ago
Couldn't you output the host and version at the beginning of the log? Any tool that transforms the logs (splicing together logs from different servers) should include these bits in it's output. Also, why don't you use a sortable form for ti
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by pydave 14y ago
Weird, what kinds of headaches? So long as the HEAD of the converted repo has the same code as the snapshot, what's the difference? Does the conversion break the new repository somehow? (The only way I can think of that's not a bug is slowd
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by pydave 14y ago
So "enough interest" means someone who's interested enough to overcome those three hurdles.
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by pydave 14y ago
I think the biggest problem I have with git is that I don't understand how people can't get it. (That's assuming they understand DVCS, but don't get git. Not understanding DVCS is unsurprising.) It's like when my nonprogrammer friends who t
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by pydave 14y ago
I know what you're going for, but for anyone following along at home: "To avoid confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that hide existing git commands are ignored." (from git help config)
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by pydave 14y ago
If any of those people are comfortable with vim, they could try VimOrganizer ( http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3342 ) -- a vimscript implementation of org-mode. (There's a few other implementations including one based on w
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by pydave 14y ago
How would you exclude the same kinds of files that ack does in grep without typing out the exclude patterns? As described here ( http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/default-grep-options/ ), you could use GREP_OPTIONS, but then you run into the pr