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by sofal 15y ago
Actually the history is kept by reflog for 90 days by default I believe (and you can change this). This covers the large majority of cases where you have completely screwed up your history rewriting and need to go back to a state you rememb
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by sofal 15y ago
Any Android users out there that want to see Android succeed should star the issue linked in the parent comment. There are a significant number of excellent music/audio apps for musicians and tinkerers for iOS that are not possible on Andro
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by sofal 15y ago
I got bitten by this same exact thing using Bucketwise a few months ago, but without the race condition: https://github.com/jamis/bucketwise/pull/27
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by sofal 15y ago
Old guard? Don't flatter yourself. It always has been and always will be emotionally heated, name-calling comments like yours that detract from HN.
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It takes less time to walk to SLU from Westlake than it does to wait for the next trolley.
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At Amazon we do our part to turn Microsoft people on to Linux.
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by sofal 15y ago
Please. Excuse me while I estimate the probability that all the hair follicles on my arm would be arranged in the way that they are now. Life is just so full of miracles.
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I am Lawrence Lessig - AMA(reddit.com)
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by sofal 15y ago
You're absolutely right of course, but I don't think this is hopelessly naive, especially coming from such a respected developer. I see it more as a nice, bite-sized rant that lets off some steam, makes us laugh at ourselves, and has a nice
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by sofal 15y ago
The article uses "Black-Hat" and "White-Hat" terms to differentiate them. These are explained clearly at the beginning of the article. There doesn't seem to be any confusion.
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People who otherwise wouldn't consider themselves content creators can be inspired to become such if their devices come with content-creation features. As the divide increases between content-consuming devices and content-creation devices,
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by sofal 15y ago
There are tradeoffs. In my opinion, the text-editing advantages that vim gives me greatly outweigh the advantages that an IDE has over vim. If you haven't used vim before and you switch now, you will not see it as a favorable tradeoff for a
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by sofal 15y ago
Reminds me of a quote from Yossi Kreinin: CMM has 5 levels. CMM level 1 is where you operate right now: it denotes the ability to ship something. CMM level 5, the one mentioned in the interview from Kent Beck's book, denotes complete paral
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by sofal 15y ago
The cache is the only way it will display properly on my Android phone.
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by sofal 15y ago
What do you do as a developer in a large corporation where you have zero control over how the patent with your name attached to it gets used? The higher-ups will give you the MAD defense argument, which is fine, except that they're not rest
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by sofal 15y ago
First, don't be afraid to fail and make stupid mistakes. Then, after you've made those mistakes, examine them and eliminate them. I think the author is talking about the latter part, and that often this process of removing mistakes is all i
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by sofal 15y ago
Reading your comment is just depressing and is a prime example of the Dunning Kruger effect. I have a PhD in economics. Is this supposed to say anything other than "you're stupid and I'm smart"? I would just say it that way. It takes fewe
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by sofal 15y ago
I used to be right there with you. I knew svn and I just wanted to port that knowledge over to git and start working. The problem was that the git interface is similar enough to svn that it lets you use it almost like svn (add, commit, stat
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by sofal 15y ago
Why don't we let kids drive cars? Because they could kill other people with them? I don't know, what do you think? I guess that's just like email, right?
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by sofal 15y ago
Narrative threads ensure a low signal/noise ratio and stifle natural discussion tangents.
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by sofal 15y ago
Capitalizing the first word of a sentence can also lose information. I've never heard this, but are you talking about proper nouns that override regular words? It's also helpful to identify people who focus on the trivial. Would you say
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by sofal 15y ago
Honest question: how is that faster than Ctrl+V? Is it because you don't need the mouse?
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by sofal 15y ago
Sigh... I meant to upmod, not downmod.
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by sofal 15y ago
I was going to use this feature earlier today but I was put off by the fact that it displays the full name of the person, which made my small, casual comment seem weirdly formal. I also don't like the box around the name. It adds a slimy Fa
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by sofal 15y ago
Sure, but there are an infinite number of propositions that you might want to consider if you're determined to not discount anything for which there is no evidence. For example, you may want to seriously consider the possibilities that dani
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by sofal 15y ago
Can we conclude that it is reasonable to not accept claims for which there is no evidence?
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by sofal 15y ago
Since the existence of intelligent life here is established and unquestioned, it is fair to say that it could exist elsewhere as well . In the case of a deity, the mere existence of even one out of the thousands of proposed throughout hist
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by sofal 15y ago
The reason why this discussion "doesn't belong here" is that people are unable to critically discuss issues which are so closely tied to their personal identity, like cherished religious beliefs, without getting too emotional about it. The
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by sofal 15y ago
I don't believe loup-vaillant was saying that it is possible to prove a negative such as "no god exists". Rather, he was saying that since he doesn't perceive even the slightest bit of evidence for the claim "a god exists", he cannot simply
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by sofal 16y ago
That's understandable, if a little antagonistic. I'd probably probe further just to make sure your definition of "fad" is not "anything newer than Blub."

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