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   by twinge 14y ago

   I highly recommend "The Underachiever's Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great": http://www.amazon.com/The-Underachievers-Manifesto-Accomplis... Face it, if we're reading HN on a Saturday, probably thinking about w
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   by twinge 15y ago

   Three big problems with a split up codebase: 1) Instead of doing one large release every week (which facebook does: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100259101684977 ) you now have dozens or hundreds of smaller releases, a lot mo
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   by twinge 15y ago

   Control is part of it, but it's also due to the fact that it is hard to implement features to work in a heterogeneous environment. The temptation is to dev and test a fully deployed environment, when really you should test probable configur
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   by twinge 15y ago

   A majority of the search results are from Bing, blended with some other sources (Wolfram, Wikipedia, others).
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   by twinge 15y ago

   Careful with that, git operations aren't atomic. Safer to keep two git dirs and flip a symlink between them between pulls.
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   by twinge 15y ago

   Cedric used to work for Google. He was, on occasion, a brilliantly hilarious troll.