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by rjknight 13y ago
A code base is a living document, and it changes as it grows and responds to new requirements, or is patched or refactored to fix old bugs. The git log is a history of everything that happened to that code base over its lifetime to date.
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The notion that British healthcare IT is a model for success is somewhat disputable: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24130684 Yes, I know that the gov.uk guidelines are very good, but they relate primarily to cus
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This is based on my experiences with Magit, so maybe this doesn't work quite the same with SublimeGit, but the thing I find most useful is the ability to select exactly which lines to stage in a commit. You can do this on the command-
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I assumed from the title that this would be about Google open-sourcing their PHP runtime.
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Just like the parent said, while he kind of technically complied. But, again, it's more than obvious to everyone that it's not what was expected/demanded from him. No, it really isn't. This is precisely why interactio
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I disagree. If the judge wanted an electronic copy then he or she could ask for that, which is indeed what the judge later did. Levison would have known that his initial 'compliance' wouldn't make the problem go away, but i
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This is great, although a small part of me can't help but remember that we used to be able to do this kind of thing in Visual Basic in the early 90s (and I don't doubt that someone will trump me with an example from a decade earli
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Good catch.
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I kinda want to agree - I tend to believe that a person's private beliefs and public behaviour can be separated, and that we're all capable of behaving properly when the situation demands it, leaving us free to think what we like
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Most people will leave rather than 'pick a fight' over something, taking the 'exit' rather than exercising 'voice'[1]. Looked at a certain way, this is one of the good things about the good economy for tech wo
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He hasn't been removed from the industry, just from this job. If he's any good (which I have absolutely zero knowledge of) then he'll be back somewhere else before long. Hopefully with a new attitude.
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This actually makes me less willing to contribute. The worst outcome here is that they hit 15% of their funding goal and get stuck there, which means that there's enough money to do some work and to raise expectations of results fro
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Well, yes, but her opponents are also dismissed as "macho loudmouth[s]", which is something you can only really say about a man. That's not to say that all of the criticism of Mayer is fair or justified. I imagine that very
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by rjknight 13y ago
Aha, you appear to be correct. This might be a case of linguistic prejudice then - the mistake of saying "me" when "I" is appropriate is considered to be a sign of miseducation, whereas few people ever make the mistake
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It's not really valid, but it's not uncommon either. It's something that would sound unremarkable in speech but looks quite bad when written down.
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I had assumed that "Datomic in the browser" meant an implementation of Datomic that actually runs in the browser (presumably written in ClojureScript, though not necessarily). In fact, this looks more like "[Accessing] Dat
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Not yet , no.
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Yes: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
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3D printing and programming in British schools(guardian.co.uk)
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The big melt was the end of the last ice age. That's far larger than anything that has yet happened due to climate change, so they're not really talking about ice that has been melted by global warming in the sense of post-indu
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This is not saying that adopting a faster gait speed will cause you to live longer. It's saying that a person's gait speed is a good indicator of how much longer they're likely to live. To me, it seems likelier that there
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Chrome is a good counter-example, but I agree that it's rare.
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I agree. It's just not what the SemVer standard[1] says. To be honest, I don't really care about following SemVer exactly. And PHP does follow SemVer if you pretend that the major version number doesn't exist, and the min
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Except that PHP's 'minor' version changes do break backwards-compatibility: http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration55.incompatible.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/migrati
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PHP's versioning has generally been a bit weird since the abortive PHP 6 project. PHP 6 was meant to be the version that implemented full unicode support, but this proved to be very difficult, with the result that major new features h
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That was the answer that I was secretly hoping for. Thanks :-)
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When this topic comes up on HN, discussion is normally focused on consultancy rates, because consultancy is more compatible with a startup side-project - it's easier to dial up or down the hours you do as a consultant, whereas contractors
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The op was asking about contracts of 6 months or greater, full-time. $400/hour may be your billing rate but I doubt you'd be billing that to the same customer for 8 hours per day for six months or more. Or am I really wrong about that?
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by rjknight 13y ago
OK. If you showed me an advertising poster you really liked, I could fire up Illustrator and give you a decent replica in a couple of hours. Does that mean you should hire me as your new ad agency? No, but if you just wrote Illustrator an
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I disagree. There is a set of great storytellers, and a set of great developers, but these rarely overlap; an individual who embodies both attributes is vanishingly rare, and only elite organisations (e.g. the NYT) can afford to employ tea

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