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by tomheon 7y ago
I was lucky enough to meet Clay Christensen once when he came to speak at a company I worked at. First he delivered a brilliant lecture on how companies repeatedly found themselves put out of business by new technologies, even after having
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Org-Mode saved my novel(tomheon.com)
2 points by tomheon 7y ago|0 comments
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by tomheon 12y ago
It's tricky to figure out where replies should go, especially if, e.g., there's multiple comments from different sources on the same line. There's also the whole "what if there are comments from multiple authors to write
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by tomheon 12y ago
Ok, after some chat on github and IRL, sold. We'll make the change.
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by tomheon 12y ago
But the diffscuss modes parse the comments into functional structures--threads--to decide where to insert replies, etc., which is in fact functional--just not functional for the diff part. Here's another way to think about it: It sound
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by tomheon 12y ago
You still get comments which, while unlikely (because they would have to have the second "enabling" character) will confuse a diffscuss parser. I still think allowing for a state of "perfectly legal diff that would have to be
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by tomheon 12y ago
Hey there, one of the diffscuss authors here. We were working for a client who used self-hosted svn and had no code review system. As for GitHub API: there's a (beta-ish) import from a pull request into a diffscuss file ("diffscus
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by tomheon 12y ago
Good question, we did consider using #, the main benefit of which would have been that diffscuss files were still legal diffs. Against that benefit was the consideration that there could have been comments that weren't diffscuss thre
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by tomheon 12y ago
Hey, one of the authors of diffscuss here. Just FYI, there's a "diffscuss github-import" command (which is beta-ish, but should work) that can import a pull request (or series of pull requests) into diffscuss format.
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by tomheon 13y ago
According to a friend of mine who is relatively knowledgeable about this law, it was originally intended to target enterprise companies that were essentially selling software for next to nothing and then charging like mad for the "inst
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How to Run a 5 Whys (with Humans, not Robots)(slideshare.net)
69 points by tomheon 14y ago|17 comments
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by tomheon 15y ago
Thanks! From your bio it looks like you're a classicist / hacker--which is pretty much the book's ideal audience.
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by tomheon 15y ago
Great, would love to hear what you think...you can find my contact info on my site.
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by tomheon 15y ago
Thanks for bringing this up / posting the link. Someone brought up a similar point in comments on the poem itself--I added a direct link in the attribution.
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by tomheon 15y ago
So glad you enjoyed this, and "The Little Bank"! I just started the process of moving things out of the drawer and onto the site. There's a big backlog but I'm posting every week or two to avoid a "verse bomb" effect. However there's an
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Sonnet for Dennis Ritchie(edmundjorgensen.com)
87 points by tomheon 15y ago|17 comments
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Easing the pain of Hadoop with Guice(dev.hubspot.com)
1 points by tomheon 16y ago|0 comments