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by undees 13y ago
I ride a short wheel base recumbent, and regularly pass upright bicycles on moderate uphills.
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by undees 15y ago
I have an LG Optimus, and the touch response is horrid. The phone works well in other areas, but UI responsiveness and text input accuracy aren't among them.
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by undees 15y ago
ClearCase is certainly popular, but I don't think it ever had a feature that was a big milestone in version control history. Client side software with a view of the source is already covered in the author's point #4, and ClearCase doesn't
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by undees 15y ago
Is there a Vim equivalent of Emacs's C-h k followed by the key combo, which basically says, "Tell me what the official command name is for this keystroke?"
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by undees 15y ago
On the Mac, you can Cmd-Tab to an app and then hit Ctrl-F2 to navigate the menu from the keyboard: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343 I concede that this doesn't address other objections to a single menu bar, such as identifying the activ
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by undees 15y ago
As a (mild) counterpoint, I've worked in Win16 code bases that were a nightmare to port to Win32, Win32 code bases that had to be half rewritten to run under the Win32-like API of WinCE, Visual Studio upgrades that broke swaths of MFC/ATL/S
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by undees 15y ago
Indeed, the ability to work on code now and think about a commit later is freeing. As for the particular abstraction of how to represent the commit in progress... I like the working tree for that, rather than the index. It's just a better
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by undees 15y ago
The term "strong" appears overloaded here. A language can be dynamically typed, but still have strong typing (in the sense that the language, whether at compile time or runtime, enforces what operations are allowed on a particular value).
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by undees 15y ago
There are a few reasons to do this. One is to at least nominally separate code that's licensed differently than yours (something your lawyers may ask you to do). Another is to make it easier to share your tweaks to the third-party code am
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by undees 15y ago
If you use something like Git submodules, Mercurial subrepos, or Subversion externals, you can get the best of both worlds. Your repo contains just your code, but a fresh clone will set up dependencies automatically. I've also seen really
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by undees 16y ago
Seconded. AsciiDoc is enough like writing a plain-text e-mail that everything but the writing just falls away. For a little more control, you can feed the generated DocBook to something like Remko's DocBook kit ( https://github.com/remko/do
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by undees 16y ago
The hg-git plugin for Mercurial worked fine on Heroku the last time I tried it: http://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git
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by undees 16y ago
GitHub and Mercurial aren't mutually exclusive; hg-git works pretty well.
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by undees 16y ago
It's an advantage because you can make commits that are the same size and scope as the ones you'd normally make when connected. You don't have to save up for one big giant commit that has a bunch of unrelated changes. Offline commits also
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by undees 16y ago
I thought all the font snobs saw Helvetica as pedestrian, and wanted us to use Frutiger or something instead....
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by undees 16y ago
I was one of the early reviewers (which means getting to read a PDF for free, so take what I say with a grain of salt). The book didn't strike me as particularly prescriptive in the "you have to do this to be Agile-with-a-capital-A" sense.
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by undees 16y ago
No kidding! Right now, it's about as thick as a sheet of vapor.
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by undees 16y ago
"life in a shanty town is not worse than death" Honest question: how do you know?
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by undees 16y ago
The overall feel of the sequence is a mixed bag. On the plus side, kneath offers a workaround (filtering + APIs), apologizes for initially misunderstanding which feature the customer was talking about, and doesn't promise miracles. On the
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by undees 16y ago
What am I missing? This seems like a reasonably okay exchange, but what's special about it that makes it worth singling out as an example that all other tech support folks should aspire to?
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by undees 16y ago
Call me insane, but I kind of like GDB + Xcode's wrapper. Yes, once or twice it has said dumb things about variables, but no more so than Visual Studio. Likewise, I can't remember a time when I've seen Xcode's Intellisense-like feature fai
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by undees 16y ago
At my last job, I was certain they'd tell me to go home for the two weeks (that was their usual practice). But I didn't want my projects to suffer. So I had my closest work friend and his family over for dinner and gave him a quick brain
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by undees 16y ago
I've been trusting my precious source code to Hg-Git for a while. The sort of "something goes wrong" moments have usually been fixable with a bit of grubbing around in Hg-Git's source. They've got themselves a pretty inviting code base, F
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by undees 17y ago
It maps git branches to hg bookmarks ( http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BookmarksExtension ) instead of hg branches, because bookmarks turn out to be a better fit.
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by undees 17y ago
I wondered about that, too---how fragile will this be in the face of minor GUI changes? (A fuzzy-match parameter would be a nice addition to the API.) One encouraging sign is that the screenshots are stored as .pngs in the file system. I
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by undees 17y ago
Sharing the secrets behind the parlor tricks can help with this feeling. Some particular technique may feel easy for you, but there could be people out there who haven't discovered it yet, and are stuck on some task.
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by undees 17y ago
You're contrasting Ruby as an upstart and Java as an established language, but they're basically the same age. They both had their first public releases in 1995. (Of course, this doesn't invalidate your point about relative popularity.)
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by undees 17y ago
I love the ideas behind rip, but I think even Chris would say it's not quite ready to replace gems yet. For one thing, it depends on specific bash-isms.
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by undees 17y ago
Dilettantes?
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by undees 17y ago
Well, except that the bowling scores thing had a clear spec from the beginning, and was an easier fit for a blog post. The Sudoku thing seemed more like thrashing around in the how-to-represent-data space to avoid thinking about the algori

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