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by samspot 14y ago
I don't know if this helps you, but try telling them that they can leave the 'distributed' part for later. At my company we still have a 'central' repository. We'd really need to know more about your companies objections to DVCS to give a
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by samspot 14y ago
Don't forget maintenance of the hardware itself, backups, and everything else that comes with running a server (assuming you didn't buy one in the cloud).
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by samspot 14y ago
With this title I was really expecting some kind of study, not an anecdote from one person.
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Skullgirls dev says it needs $150,000 to add a new character(joystiq.com)
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by samspot 14y ago
Having learned CVS, SVN, VSS, Clearcase, git, and Mercurial, I can say that git is inherently harder than all the rest.
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by samspot 14y ago
The appeal of JSON isn't that it is shorter, but that it is easier. Easy to read, easy to type, easy to parse. XML may be easy "enough", but I'll choose JSON anytime I don't need the extra things that xml offers. The verbosity of XML may
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by samspot 14y ago
> don't try DRY until you've seen at least three repetitions A significant number of bugs I've had to fix over the years were the result of just two repetitions. Invariably someone updates one of them and not the other one. Or copies
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by samspot 14y ago
My Battletech set even comes with cardboard mechs, made to be replaced later with metal. I always thought that was pretty neat.
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by samspot 14y ago
Thanks for that! It didn't occur to me to look at achievement data.
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by samspot 14y ago
He meant that it is a good thing, right now, that there are isn't an application like that (because it would expose so much of the web). That being said, I'm hesitant to try this until ruby calms down a bit.
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by samspot 14y ago
How do you know that they aren't just creating but not sharing? Even I do that, goal-based as I am. I just don't spend as much time on it.
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by samspot 14y ago
I would argue that it isn't that the players are tired of the goal based games, but that a majority of gamers really like building stuff and playing around. Personally, I'm one of the goal oriented ones, so it is hard for me to really get i
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by samspot 14y ago
3. Notch really seems like just about the most pleasant guy in the world and really just wears his passion on his sleeve. He's an easy guy to like. I realize I am in the minority, but something about him just rubs me the wrong way. This is
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by samspot 14y ago
He is talking about mitigating risk, not avoiding it.
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What else should we be vigilant about besides falling? I felt the article was a little incomplete w/o this information. I've got one: * Lifting heavy things correctly.
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I think part of the problem is that many companies are already incapable of managing on-site employees effectively (we've all experienced this!). If you can't effectively manage the people you see face to face, I imagine remote workers wou
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by samspot 14y ago
I am quite sure that the concept of "polite conversation" is not american or puritan-centric. In my experience, the people using the f-word in business interactions are the same people trying to con me. Maybe this is because several of my
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by samspot 14y ago
On the contrary, the theme of my post shows that. Can you explain why you think the 'puritanical' attitude is a bad thing (which you are clearly assuming). Aside from any religious points anyone would like to make, I view this behavior as
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by samspot 14y ago
Not having cable, I had completely forgotten about the food network.
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by samspot 14y ago
In my opinion this view is getting weaker. I'm encountering more and more otherwise excellent technical posts or blogs that I'm unwilling to share with others because the author drops an f-bomb just for emphasis.
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by samspot 14y ago
I'm not sure who this article is for. I think most reasonable people silently add "that can make money" to "do something you are passionate about." After all, we don't see many businesses trying to make money with the idea "Watch the owne
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by samspot 14y ago
I also found this to be one of the most intense things I've ever read.
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by samspot 14y ago
Then article speaks about the half life of truth, but that is really just how long it takes us to find out it was never true in the first place. But even that is assuming that in 100 more years we don't find out it was actually correct. W
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by samspot 14y ago
I think the automatic 3% raise is so important because our salaries are worth less every day. If a company isn't even willing to keep up with inflation then they are creating a very strong incentive to leave. I think most people stick aro
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by samspot 14y ago
I also found the results of this test surprisingly accurate, but I think it is likely that you and I are the victims of coincidence.
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by samspot 14y ago
> I think an infant has no expectation of privacy. This is really funny out of context :)
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by samspot 14y ago
I'm not numb to this... it is seriously getting to me. I'm pretty appalled at how may people have jumped at the opportunity to get on their soapboxes in this thread.
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by samspot 14y ago
I doubt that many people see these posters as a substitute for hard work and managerial talent. Why not put your core values on the walls? It is a reminder of what the company thinks is important, which is a step above what we often have
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by samspot 14y ago
Is this issue common with personal projects? I've been a developer for almost ten years and never experienced it. What I do experience is the urge to procrastinate on hacker news :-)
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by samspot 14y ago
I think we're at odds because I'm thinking of developers in general and you are focused on open source work. I don't have stats, but I'd be willing to bet that a majority of code being written is closed source even today. I think this is

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