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by robaato 8y ago
Maybe an "omnirepo"?! (Though risks connotations with "omnishambles" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnishambles
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by robaato 8y ago
Interesting to note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yomp The most famous yomp of recent times was during the 1982 Falklands War. After disembarking from ships at San Carlos on East Falkland, on 21 May 1982, Royal Marine
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by robaato 8y ago
Having worked with some organisations building on Android (>1,000 repos), life is not easy when you are trying to build on top of it and regularly take updates etc. I asked one company how many changes required changes to more than one r
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https://successfulsoftware.net/2017/02/10/how-much-code-can-...
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by robaato 8y ago
I loved the WordPerfect "RevealCodes" mode - made style management really easy. Word hid everything in paragraph markers (or section markers). Suddenly things become opaque and you get in to the mode of "create a new doc and
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by robaato 8y ago
Off topic, but was given a brief guided tour of the egg collection at Natural History Museum at Tring when we donated my father-in-laws collection a couple of months ago - we were shown the 3 Emperor Penguin eggs collected by Cherry-Garrard
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Visited a lawyer friend in Hong Kong (pre takeover) where client entertaining frequently required visits to hostelries of ill repute - all claimable and signed off. Knew someone who sold his company and agreed to stay on for X months handov
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by robaato 8y ago
Try book "Mastery" by George Leonard. https://jamesclear.com/book-summaries/mastery
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Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them to George Soros(theguardian.com)
17 points by robaato 8y ago|3 comments
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by robaato 8y ago
And what happens if you answer as you have just done (slightly edited for politeness if appropriate)??
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Repeating a comment from another thread - this article shows what has been tried in some NDAs: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/26/former-weinstei... The clauses attached to the Weinstein agreem
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The Big Blockchain Lie(project-syndicate.org)
2 points by robaato 8y ago|3 comments
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Hidden Camera Exposes Apple's Genius Bars Ripping Off Customers(digg.com)
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by robaato 8y ago
Absolutely. When I was at school the only grammar I learnt was in Latin, French or German - wasn't taught in English. But as native speaker you read or listen and absorb the "rules". Had a French girl friend for a time who wa
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by robaato 8y ago
Having been involved in writing internationalised software, you can get into trouble if you don't leave enough space for your labels, button captions, messages etc to be translated into another language which may requires 10-50% more s
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by robaato 8y ago
Reminds me of Steve Yegge: https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV... Fortunately I’d spent years watching Jeff in action before my turn came, and I had prepared in an unusual way. My present
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by robaato 8y ago
Have certainly experienced much more direct communication styles, e.g. in Holland, than are the norm in say UK. I remember a seminar taught by US lady in Holland where at the end of the first day she said she had never experienced so much o
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by robaato 8y ago
Have quite a few friends who are dancers - and they are taken advantage of! One recently commented that she had been working as a dance teacher, but was considering joining the police because she realised when a recent administrator was tak
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Trapped or Tangled – Creative Approaches to Debt by Public Services(tangledandtrapped.wordpress.com)
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by robaato 8y ago
I know someone who now works at Huawei, which is 1.5 hours by shuttle from where he lives in Beijing. Typically gets there 8am and leaves 7-8pm. He used to work at Alibaba which was 30 mins from his house. I asked why he changed and he said
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by robaato 8y ago
Exactly my thought! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/30/theresa-may...
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by robaato 8y ago
Is it building on this: http://www.historictownsatlas.org.uk/content/tudor-london-15... It's a great book to have in paper form! My Aunt worked on that map after retiring from being a cartographer for the Oxford U
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by robaato 8y ago
Slightly off-topic, but this article shows what has been tried in some NDAs: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/26/former-weinstei... The clauses attached to the Weinstein agreement signed by Perk
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Desmond Bagley's novel "The Enemy" features a model train set whose layout/timetable was used by the ex Russian spy also a genius, to encode his research and leave for posterity. Haven't read for years but enjoyed
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Grew up in a fishing village in north east Scotland - many of the trawlermen could't swim for similar reasons.
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Check out Tim Ferris who learned as an adult: https://tim.blog/2008/08/13/total-immersion-how-i-learned-to...
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FWIW, the metadata file locking was improved with lockless reads as of the 2013.3 release, which made a huge difference to ease of scalability. Various customers with repos in the PB range these days (metadata TB). Disclaimer: current Perfo
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Well those are issues around having a git mono repo - where the repo is the unit of change - you get it or you don't. With mono repos such as SVN or Perforce you just work on whatever subset you want.
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What about Android and 800-1,000 git repos?! Have seen the pain trying to manage that across larger teams (e.g. thousands of devs) - and no the "repo" tool is not sufficient.
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Which is just rebadged Perforce :)

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