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by witten 9y ago
I honestly don't get the feature. More issues created per user == better? That's like more lines of code == better. Could you explain how this is a game changer for you?
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by witten 9y ago
Relevant to this discussion, and not included in the linked repo as far as I can see.. A one-line tree in Python: def tree(): return defaultdict(tree) More here: https://gist.github.com/hrldcpr/2012250
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by witten 10y ago
Here's a setup.py that includes an interactive prompt, and thus breaks all ability to do automated installs! https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2732 Here's a setup.py that cannot even be imported un
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by witten 10y ago
To be clear, I totally get the benefits of formal support for an "actual versions last used". That is a topic near and dear to my heart, having been burnt by floating versions more than once. It's just that I don't want
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by witten 10y ago
I'm not sure age is a good indication of goodness in this regard. Python has been doing setup.py for much longer than 7 years. It's a similar format, and ripe for abuse because you have full access to a general purpose programming
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by witten 10y ago
BTW, you can do that already with requirements.txt. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19559247/requirements-tx...
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by witten 10y ago
How is the Pipfile.lock distributed? Is it intended to be checked into source control alongside the Pipfile? If so, how would that help someone pip install my Python project (say from pypi) using that Pipfile.lock and get the benefits of a
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by witten 10y ago
This seems like a huge step backwards to me. Why would you want to go from a parse-able, machine-readable, data-driven syntax to something that can't easily be introspected, isn't machine-readable without firing up a full Python i
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by witten 10y ago
Here's a plug for OneBusAway for Pebble: https://github.com/kmwoley/onebusaway-pebbletime I didn't write this, but one of my co-workers did. (And not a dev!)
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by witten 10y ago
And "Pinprick" as well: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210355/
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by witten 10y ago
Yes. One of my co-workers actually got fired from Amazon for causing downtime. And this was after following all procedures, documentation, etc.
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by witten 11y ago
Depends how you want to reach consensus. For instance, if you're going for one-person-one-vote, then yeah, that's gonna be subject to Sybil attacks without identity. But if instead you settle for plutocracy, then you can just use
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by witten 11y ago
> It is difficult enough to get two people to agree. Three is harder, and four is even harder. Once a community gets to fifty or hundreds of people, getting everyone to agree is an irrational goal. But this is ok. Mechanisms exist to res
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by witten 11y ago
That's not how the GPL works. If it would be inconvenient for BMW to incorporate GPL software and properly comply with the license by providing source, then their only alternative is not to incorporate the GPL software. Full stop. Ha
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by witten 11y ago
This has a very protomolecule-in-Leviathan-Wakes feeling to it.
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by witten 11y ago
As a dev, if you are tool-agnostic, then you're also productivity-agnostic.
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by witten 11y ago
Bicycle registration has been tried, and it doesn't work from a practical or fiscal perspective: http://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/exhibits-and-education/s...
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by witten 11y ago
How late did you arrive at your destination? How much earlier would you have arrived had the bicyclist been driving a car instead?
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by witten 11y ago
Having used both S3QL and Tarsnap.. In my experience, S3QL's use of remote mounted filesystems is fundamentally unsuited to unattended backups. On many occasions, S3QL's mounted filesystem would break mid-backup due to network iss
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by witten 11y ago
Try Borg, a fork of Attic with more active development: https://borgbackup.github.io/borgweb/ Also check out Atticmatic, a wrapper script for both Attic and Borg that makes them much nicer to configure and use: https:
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by witten 11y ago
Seattle actually has optional helmet rental alongside their bike share. You pay an extra $2 when you rent a bike, and you get a code to key in on a locker full of helmets. When you're done with the helmet later on, you drop the helmet
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by witten 11y ago
So absolutely true. But I think the best programmers strive to minimize the portion of the program that resides in their heads, and maximize the ease with which it can be recreated in someone else's.
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by witten 11y ago
Not disputing the hard work, but at key points in Microsoft's history, they've held and exercised tremendous monopoly power, generating large margin at the expense of their customers.. Just like Slim's companies in some respe
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by witten 11y ago
It's actually a horrible idea, and is generally a money loser in terms of licensing and enforcement as well: http://chi.streetsblog.org/2013/10/24/no-a-bike-license-fee-...
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by witten 12y ago
To work around some of attic's more UI-level shortcomings, I made a wrapper script called atticmatic that adds a declarative config file, excludes file, etc: http://torsion.org/atticmatic/
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by witten 12y ago
I once encountered a computer that was the opposite of this; plug any USB device into it, and the device would never work again, even in another computer.
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by witten 12y ago
EnergySavvy - Seattle, WA - Full-time We're building software to help solve one of the world's biggest challenges: energy. EnergySavvy works with utilities across the country to improve energy efficiency and to help consumers and
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by witten 12y ago
Allow me to plug atticmatic, a wrapper for attic that provides a config file, automatic backup pruning, etc: https://torsion.org/atticmatic/
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by witten 12y ago
What if real engine noise is recorded in one part of the car, and then played back in the cabin?
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by witten 12y ago
Whether you consider a partial payout successful is up to you: http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/claiming-monies-from-krypto...

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