chriscool

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by chriscool 5y ago
The FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organization agency of the United Nations) doesn't quite agree with you on http://www.fao.org/edible-insects/en/ : "Edible insects contain high quality protein, vitamins
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by chriscool 5y ago
On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet you can see: "It was not until the Middle Ages that the letter ⟨W⟩ (originally a ligature of two ⟨V⟩s) was added to the Latin alphabet, to represent sounds from the
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by chriscool 7y ago
> pushing to gitlab prints out the URL to create a pull request from that branch You can use push options to automatically create a pull request and set it up when you push: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/proje
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by chriscool 8y ago
There is already an "engineering" category: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/engineering/
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by chriscool 8y ago
I work for GitLab on low level things in Git, for example: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/23029 which is requested by Drupal (among others): https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg&#x
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by chriscool 8y ago
Yeah, GitLab has been on a monthly release schedule since October 2011: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/12/17/gitlab-release-process/
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by chriscool 9y ago
Here is the related thread on the Git mailing list: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAP8UFD0aKqT5YXJx9-MqeKCKhOVGxn...
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by chriscool 9y ago
libgit2 has had bugs related to file locking (for example when you make some ref changes while garbage collecting) and libgit2 does not implement all the git features, so you cannot do everything using libgit2 anyway.
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by chriscool 9y ago
Git refs can be packed (see https://git-scm.com/docs/git-pack-refs ) so it's not just about checking if a file exists.
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by chriscool 9y ago
The article on Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_calculator , looks like a much better link to me. The following other mechanical calculator also seems to be an important step: https://en.wi
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by chriscool 10y ago
There are companies hiring people working remotely from all around the world like GitLab for example. (I am working remotely for GitLab.) In general you could look at open source projects that have companies hiring remote people behind them
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by chriscool 10y ago
I think many people here just don't like it when people tell them that IQ is not as important as they think. I also got downvoted in the following comment sometime ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7977021 wher
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by chriscool 10y ago
In Git Rev News edition 20 ( https://git.github.io/rev_news/2016/10/19/edition-20/ ) there are also articles about some changes in v2.11: - Changing the default for “core.abbrev”? - Prepare the sequen
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by chriscool 10y ago
There is work going on about external object database support that could help in the long run: https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/1702 (I am working on this for GitLab.)
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by chriscool 10y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A... : > It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures (commonly known as dig
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by chriscool 10y ago
The responsibility of GitLab and GitHub is not to investigate if those 1000 sites are indeed running malware and how dangerous the malwares on these sites are, and who could be harmed by these malwares. The responsibility of GitLab and GitH
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by chriscool 10y ago
I just uploaded a presentation I gave last February called "Git back on your feet": http://www.slideshare.net/ChristianCouder/git-back-onyourfee...
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by chriscool 10y ago
In https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation there is: "Santos-Dumont later added ailerons, between the wings in an effort to gain more lateral stability. His final design, first flown in 1907, was the s
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by chriscool 10y ago
In https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation there are the following: * Sir George Cayley was first called the "father of the aeroplane" in 1846... Among his many achievements, his most important co
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by chriscool 10y ago
Yeah, David Turner has been working for Twitter. But his work is based on previous work on an "index-helper" daemon by Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy who is not working for any company as far as I know.
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by chriscool 10y ago
The same kind of work is being done on Git these days: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/29510...
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by chriscool 10y ago
> Also ,recent industrial chips are using 28nm, and going beyond that is extremely expensive Yeah, so ASICs that are not produced in big enough volume will not move to 14nm or less. This means that FPGA that can move to 14nm or less, bec
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by chriscool 11y ago
So Git for example doesn't scale and is impossible to keep clear of spam?
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by chriscool 11y ago
Instead of "git reset --hard stuff", I recommend "git reset --keep stuff" as it will not delete uncommited files in the working directory.
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by chriscool 11y ago
There is this script I worked on to help doing that: https://github.com/whyrusleeping/git-ipfs-rehost
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by chriscool 11y ago
There is some documentation about IPNS here: https://github.com/ipfs/examples/tree/master/examples/ipns
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by chriscool 11y ago
The Git-Merge conference, April 8th & 9th in Paris, France will celebrate 10 years of Git: http://git-merge.com/
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by chriscool 12y ago
People working on open source projects often solve real problems and make other people's life better, yet some of them consider themselves anti-capitalist or even socialist.
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by chriscool 12y ago
This great article debunks a lot, but also acknowledges some important underlying points: "Pinker has no serious evidence for ..., even though his sources’ evidence for the decline in homicide rates in European countries over many cent
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by chriscool 12y ago
I have been depressed too for years. What I can tell you is that one day, something wonderful and completely unexpected can happen and change everything :-) But you should not count too much on it though. In fact, I would say you should do

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