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by rimliu 7y ago
Subervsion did support branching but it was so fragile (especially before version 1.5 or 1.6 I don't remember) that some went out of the way just to avoid using branches in SVN. Those dreaded tree conflicts…
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by rimliu 7y ago
I remember what was the go-to tool before git. It was Subversion. And CVS before that. I would not say people were happy with those tools.
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by rimliu 7y ago
I think this is where US culture and European culture differs a lot. For some reason, in US everyone needs to interact with anyone who stays longer than two seconds in close enough proximity. I am so thankful this is not a case in Europe (a
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by rimliu 7y ago
I specifically go for long walks to have some quality time alone.
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by rimliu 7y ago
There is loneliness and there is solitude. I do not consider the latter to be the problem at all. I may even claim that the inability to be alone and in silence may be the symptom of the deeper problem. What do you want to drown in the stre
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by rimliu 7y ago
The only consolation is that Europe produced WWW and a number of programming languages creators :)
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by rimliu 7y ago
The only true and lasting love: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com
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by rimliu 7y ago
Make it display the name of the latest JavaScript framework.
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by rimliu 7y ago
> suddenly everyone has them. Yeah, sure. People are not sick of ads already.
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by rimliu 7y ago
WASM does not fix DOM manipulation, so…
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by rimliu 7y ago
> 6. But a small yet growing culture of "offliners" becomes > mainstream. Being offline is the new "Yoga" and allows > bragging rights. I also think this. However, where do you brag if you are offlin
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by rimliu 7y ago
Just a reminder that Archimede's law was (allegedly) discovered while wasting time in a bath.
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by rimliu 7y ago
I was into his work at some point but got to the same point. I actually even had a little post myself, saying bye to Seth: http://web.archive.org/web/20160818152109/http://rimantas.co...
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by rimliu 7y ago
Sluggish webpages. Ever heard of them?
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by rimliu 7y ago
> Your developers only need to know one language/codebase As one wise man said: make it easier for the users, harder for a database. The same applies to developers. We tend to forget who we make products for.
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by rimliu 7y ago
I wonder what they think about table salt.
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by rimliu 7y ago
There were also black MacBooks.
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by rimliu 7y ago
Talking with your SO on the predefined schedule is just a tad less frightening than not talking at all.
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by rimliu 7y ago
> easier to connect to different devices Nope. With wired headphones you need to disconnect the wire from the one device and put it into another. You don't have to do that with AirPods.
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by rimliu 7y ago
Mostyl correct but it somehow gives impression that religon pracitce was banned in USSR ("After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, religious practice became legal again."). Which is not true. There were still churches and priests
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by rimliu 7y ago
Population growth rate peaked in 1960ies and is decline now.
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by rimliu 7y ago
Or US does not go far enough.
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by rimliu 7y ago
> "Prefer one page over several" is diametrically opposed to > the hypertext model. No, it is not. No need to split the article into five pages when it can be on one. Unless you want to inflate your clicks, that is
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by rimliu 7y ago
This is turning to "Linux for desktop" really fast. Or really slow depends how you look at it. Even the web does not look like the web anymore. I am not even sure what do you mean by "the solution will inevitably be the web&q
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by rimliu 7y ago
I was addressing the number of people in prisons specifically, not the reasons for them being there. Being a larger country and thus having more prisoners says nothing about the incarceration rate.
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by rimliu 7y ago
> "to evaluate how you handle unfamiliar problems" The only problem here is figuring out why would anyone work for a company with these practices. Unless I am missing something and it is common practice to build a pro
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by rimliu 7y ago
It's amusing how for many things you "cannot compare X and US in this way" for whatever reason. Seems that the US is beyond any comparison. Go to this page, sort by the number of incarcerations per 100,000 population and enjo
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by rimliu 7y ago
There is also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma - Wikipedia
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by rimliu 7y ago
> We live for <60 years That's false. And please hold on with "your own theories". We have too much "fun" with antivaxers already.
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by rimliu 7y ago
I was going to recommend it. I did not go through the course yet, but it seems very promising and I liked what I saw a lot. Thanks for doing it!

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