InformalRelief

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by InformalRelief 12y ago
OP argues that the presence of the 'Pull Requests' tab is encouraging people to create pull requests, and therefore the project owner is somehow responsible for reacting to pull requests. There's also a 'Fork' butto
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by InformalRelief 13y ago
Looks interesting. Is this useful if you work with relatively new code (no Cobol lurking in dark corners)?
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by InformalRelief 13y ago
I've been using the step-through-with-a-debugger approach, but what I'm missing are tools for visualisation. Drawing boxes gets way too complicated way too quickly. I'd like to have something like a UML diagram, but as far as
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What are your strategies for diving into a large, complex codebase?
15 points by InformalRelief 13y ago|8 comments
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by InformalRelief 13y ago
Yup. And to be honest, the surveillance was not even the worst part, the guy was just generally a shitbag. But yeah, considering all the scandals and such involving corporations spying on employees, it's probably safe to say that it&#
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by InformalRelief 13y ago
During college I had a job in a coffee shop, and one day after a slow afternoon the bossman came in and later called me over to his computer, where he was reviewing his CCTV footage, and said "Look at how long it took you to make this
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by InformalRelief 13y ago
Much more interesting? Mathematically more interesting!
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by InformalRelief 13y ago
I like that it has a physical keyboard, what I can't stand is the resistive touchscreen. Back in the day, I would have totally gotten an n900 if it weren't for the screen (I tried it, just didn't work for me.)
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by InformalRelief 13y ago
But tags. If I type in [android] in the stackoverflow search box, it gives me all questions tagged android. This doesn't work if I use google.
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by InformalRelief 13y ago
Yes, devices should always do exactly what you mean them to do.
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by InformalRelief 13y ago
I sometimes take a friend's phone from them and hand it back to them unlocked. Just for the look on their faces. Until they figure out that I just watched them unlock it.
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by InformalRelief 14y ago
Can somebody here ballpark how much this would cost if you rented servers instead of using a botnet?
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by InformalRelief 14y ago
Night gathers, and now my watch begins
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by InformalRelief 14y ago
It is certainly not only for academic papers. See [this thread]( http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40720/latex-in-indust... ) for example. But it may not be suitable in the environment you describe, the learning curve could be too stee
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by InformalRelief 14y ago
He does not mention that topic at all in the blog post.