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by trolor 10y ago
Complete guess based on [1], but wouldn't git diff HEAD $(git merge-base HEAD master) work? [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1549146/find-common-ance...
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by trolor 10y ago
>One of the first things you learn in Computer Science is that not all problems can be solved with a computer. Oh ... could you elaborate? I think my cut-rate, community college degree skipped that part :) it seems like a useful thing to
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by trolor 10y ago
It's OK; their email validation is borked (just put in anything matching `\w@\w`, no domain necessary) and give something random for the name. Modals like that are pretty standard practice for enterprise mumbo jumbo; they only need to
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by trolor 10y ago
Potentially dumb question here, but couldn't 'dragging out the inevitable' be another way of phrasing 'the learning process'? It seems that immediately making a tool usable would be preferable to keeping it as a pur
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by trolor 10y ago
Random fun fact of the day: this is also called the hidden node problem [1] when applied to wireless networks, and it can cause problems with certain collision avoidance algorithms! Just learned about this the other day :D [1]: https:/
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by trolor 10y ago
... why not just fake your phone's GPS coordinates and perform a binary search?
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by trolor 10y ago
Two anecdotes; not sure if they help at all, but they're related and I like sharing :) 1. I work in a loud, open plan office where I wind up taking many phone discussions with 5+ participants. Since our teleconferencing software doesn&