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by sofal 10y ago
I'm only describing how the term faith is used by religious believers. They take a certain set of claims "on faith", and when contradictory evidence comes along there are various reactions, like outright denial, shelving of t
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by sofal 10y ago
Scientists do not generally have faith in their hypotheses in the same way that religious believers have faith in the claims of their holy book or their religious leader. That would be an equivocation on the usage of the term 'faith&#x
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by sofal 10y ago
I think Git's success over solutions like CVS or SVN is the superiority of the underlying data model in its ability to take into account the complexity inherent in software being developed by multiple people at once, while at the same
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by sofal 10y ago
By having a history of every single key you typed to create this comment, it would help me know what your thought process was when you typed it up. Maybe you got pissed off and wrote a swear word or two and then backspaced. Maybe you worded
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by sofal 10y ago
The --first-parent history can be ruined pretty easily by an inexperienced Git user. They'll use their local master as their feature branch for days and then they'll try to push it. Git will unhelpfully tell them to first do a &qu
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by sofal 10y ago
Are you saying it would further the discussion on a thread about actual ancient artifacts if I came in and described how interesting it was that it correlated with some stories from, say, Battlestar Galactica?
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by sofal 11y ago
I think instead of framing it as a continuum between easy and tough with a strict correlating reward factor, it makes more sense to frame it in terms of the types of challenges you enjoy versus the types you simply don't. The rewards t
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by sofal 11y ago
The harder something is, the more rewarding it is. It would definitely be harder to tour Africa in an old, beat-up Honda Civic than in a jeep, and it would be even harder to tour all of Africa without a vehicle, or without supplies entire
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by sofal 11y ago
It set up a false dichotomy between being abusive to students in order to achieve excellence and softballing them with praise so they'll never work hard. Most people I've talked to bought into this dichotomy after watching this mo
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by sofal 12y ago
It matters because making an offhand joke parodying a stupid person is something that we've all done. This example shows that if you make a little parody joke like that in the wrong medium, your life could permanently pivot 180 degrees
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by sofal 12y ago
You say that as if it were some kind of moral failing. I bought the version with ads not because I want to be specially targeted by ads, but because it was cheaper and the ads are not intrusive and don't bother me. I use my Kindle to r
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by sofal 12y ago
If they're rewriting published history, it's even worse than that, because it could change history that you are currently developing on top of, requiring some more advanced git knowledge to get your local repository into a correct
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by sofal 12y ago
just rewrite history for aesthetic reasons, what could go wrong? I have never understood the problem that some people have with the idea of rewriting history. It's as if the very idea of it offends them. Do file system writes also pu
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by sofal 12y ago
Version control is one of those annoying admin tasks that you have to do and what to think about as little as possible. I disagree. Version control as a concept is inherently embedded in every software change you make as part of a team. E
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by sofal 12y ago
A text editor that can replace vim would definitely be very much like vim, and it would probably be modal and have very similar if not the same command set. This would be no more a 'recreation' of vim than other text editors today
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by sofal 12y ago
You don't get it. We don't necessarily want vim to live forever. We'd love for another editor to come along and eat vim's lunch. It's just that in order to do that it needs to take the lessons that vim has taught to
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by sofal 12y ago
Your theory that the Mom's Night Out movie was panned only because critics thought it wasn't "feminist" enough can just as easily be turned around to say that the Christian audiences praised it only because the movie pan
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by sofal 13y ago
I'm not talking about the cost to replace the item. I'm talking about the lost opportunity to sell the item for profit to someone in the target market. You pull $1000 out of a hat, much like a rabbit, but to assume that it factors
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by sofal 13y ago
This is where your analogy retreats into a kind of magic that distracts from the issue. You magically assume that $1000 compensates the company, the distribution pipeline, and the store for all of the lost opportunity of a missing item. Thi
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by sofal 13y ago
That's temporarily one less handbag that could be sold for profit to someone in the target market. I think the 'magic' analogy is still a bit more apt because of the difficulty of quantifying that temporary lost opportunity.
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by sofal 13y ago
There are medications I need that cost an entire order of magnitude more in the US than in Canada. I'm not exaggerating. They're about $80 full price from Canada and $800 here in the US.
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by sofal 13y ago
What on Earth does "unpick" mean and where does that term come from?
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by sofal 13y ago
I know a lot of people who routinely edit their local history before pushing changes to a shared repository because they don't want other people to see their true "dirty" history. This is insane. This is no more insane than
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by sofal 13y ago
They didn't even know what game you were playing? Goddamn am I old or what?
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by sofal 13y ago
Seattle representation is on par with Chattanooga, TN. This is surprising to me.
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by sofal 13y ago
What do you mean that's what the commit history is for? That's what a DAG is; that's what I'm talking about. You know what the DAG is, right? I don't want to exclude all merge commits when looking at the DAG. I mere
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by sofal 13y ago
Explain to me how tags get me to an understandable view of my DAG so that I can see clearly what has been happening to the code, by whom, and why. Tags are just labels put on commits. How can I get a clean view of the history by feature? Do
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by sofal 13y ago
No, you should never be afraid of committing anything you have at any point in time. Git works as a development tool as well as a central VCS. As long as you have committed something, it will be restorable in case you overwrite it or delete
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by sofal 13y ago
And I don't understand what makes you think annoyance/hatred of EE has to do with HN identity. You seem to have drawn this conclusion based on the fact that most HN users dislike EE. I would posit that most developers and IT worke
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by sofal 13y ago
You're getting downvoted because your comment is just complaining about hivemind, followed by a typical proof-by-downvotes addendum.

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