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by xorcist 1y ago
What does that mean in practice? Will you get your money back if they do?
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by xorcist 1y ago
That doesn't make any sense to me. Why would you merge more often if it takes less time to create a new branch? What types of merges are we talking about? Surely it must be where you merge in changes from a main branch to your local br
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by xorcist 1y ago
At least they don't follow Kodak's strategy from the late 10s, with KodakCoin. Oh, wait.
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by xorcist 1y ago
What is this eternal meme about merges in svn being harder than in other tools? Git used literally the same merge algorithm, even if that has changed a bit since then, and merge conflicts are not something a tool can't just magically
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by xorcist 1y ago
People do this, but it feels a bit weird to start a whole new language interpreter which is much more powerful than the pitiful shell language we use, just to split a field. Why not write your whole program in awk, then? It's likely mo
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by xorcist 1y ago
There are invalid column separators for awk too. To handle consecutive spaces in cut you have squeeze them: echo '999 888' | tr -s " " | cut -f2 -d " "
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by xorcist 1y ago
There's also the issue of having a dozen moving parts form the system, each developed for their own reasons. So you could find that upgrading one product changes something, say collation for utf-16, which might be entirely reasonable t
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by xorcist 1y ago
"Essentially the same thing" as a shell pipe, except each function run sequentially in full, keeping output in a variable. So nothing like a shell pipe. For short constructions '$out = sort(fn($in)' is really easier to r
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by xorcist 1y ago
But that's the thing. These are hired people. Their job is to bring glory to the great leader. Exactly the same way Altman get the OpenAI fame. If you really had thoughts in your head worth a quarter of a billion, the rational thing to
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by xorcist 1y ago
What I most would like to understand is how you intend to motivate someone you just gave a quarter of a billion dollars to? Especially a young person. They never have to work again, and neither do their grandchildren. You can just doodle aw
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by xorcist 1y ago
Indeed, this will continue as long as the market allows it to. There is a well known quote about how long markets can stay irrational, but I would like to remind where we are right now: Telco capex was $100 billion at the peak of the IT bub
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by xorcist 1y ago
Not really the same, is it? Actors are hired to act. Athletes get paid to improve the sport. It's not like nerds are poached to do academic research or nerd out at their hearts desire. This is a business transaction that Zuck intends t
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by xorcist 1y ago
For all practical purposes they mostly are. Linux famously hasn't broken userspace in over thirty years. Pretty much all commercial software for unix (and Linux) is distributed this way since several decades. Things like ld-linux.so is
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by xorcist 1y ago
If only someone told me proposing new allows is the bottleneck to fusion engineering! I could have been rich!
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by xorcist 1y ago
Investors gets ruined on PPAs all the time. With renewables, there's usually some sort of wind turbine or solar park attached, so after declaring bankrupcy the new owners can settle out of court and continue production. Here there&#x27
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by xorcist 1y ago
Most proprietary software ships as tgz files which you can just unpack and run. A few ships with "installers", which are mostly just bash scripts with the tgz embedded. Simple enough.
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by xorcist 1y ago
Interviewing is Hard(tm). I accept all the problem with live coding the article mentions but I still do it, at least a little bit. What's the alternative? Take home problems come with their own problems, and select for people with no f
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by xorcist 1y ago
SECUSO is a shining beacon in the Android app space! Thank you for all your work. One wishes smartphones was less of a moving target so that the maintenance burden was reasonable. Recompiling all your Windows software every year would seem
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by xorcist 1y ago
These types of guides are hard because they don't really have a good target group. Those who best need them are the least likely to use them. There are many like it, and they all go into lots of technical details. Some of it is really
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by xorcist 1y ago
Will his customers trust him a second time though?
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by xorcist 1y ago
Yeah, I realize that was dangerously close to ragebait territory, sorry about that. It's just that I saw it as an opportunity to glimpse into the reasoning made and I couldn't find myself with a charitable interpretation that didn
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by xorcist 1y ago
There was also the epic quote about how keeping out all the C++ programmers was enough of a reason. Which is funny, because you can see the truth to it. With C++ comes endless debates. No technical reason really, but a social one, and so fa
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by xorcist 1y ago
I am sure the "as a user, I should see relative timestamps" ticket was closed fast though! Another job well done!
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by xorcist 1y ago
The ones that did lost in the marketplace against the competitor which was more plug-and-play. True story.
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by xorcist 1y ago
Flatpaks are a potential security disaster where people learn to install software of questionable provenance, not much different from other desktop operating systems where users learn to click past the warning to install binaries found on r
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by xorcist 1y ago
The whole point of NixOS is to make packages a special case of configuration. Running nix elsewhere doesn't do that and for configuration there are more mature tools. It would be like using Ansible(/Salt/Puppet or other simil
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by xorcist 1y ago
It depends on which type of ground you build on. The Nordics are mostly granite and have a relatively big problem with radon gas, or at least enough that people in general care about it. Continental Europe is dominated by limestome which ha
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by xorcist 1y ago
Phrabricator lives on in Phorge, which is seeing active contributions. I haven't used Phorge, but Phrabricator is easily my favourite tool among the source code portals. The code review system actually works and does not make me tear
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by xorcist 1y ago
Those apps generally distribute keys, and E2E is if no help unless you validate those keys out of band. Do you, really? Then there are all the ways, both white and varying shades of gray, of installing software in the end devices. That&#x27
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by xorcist 1y ago
That's not a revenue stream at any cell phone carrier I've seen. They do what they are legally obliged to do, and while they do get paid for it, it's a fraction of the actual cost of providing the data. The state tends to dri

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