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Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement(mail.python.org)
92 points by xentac 14y ago|9 comments
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by xentac 14y ago
I helped edit the first 4 chapters. One benefit of the book is it's short. All the information you need is condensed into 150 pages. It starts out being immediately applicable (Chapter 2: Write Tests First), giving you systematic methods
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by xentac 14y ago
I'm not sure you actually understand my phrase 'quantifying their happiness'. It uses tests derived from The Feeling Good Handbook, Dr. David Burns and Beck Anxiety Inventory, Dr. Aaron Beck to track emotional well being over time. It make
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by xentac 14y ago
This book is by a programmer, for programmers, to help them quantify their happiness and take action to improve it, instead of focusing on churning widgets (GTD) or whatever it is you focus on.
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by xentac 14y ago
Oprius Software - Victoria, BC, Canada - Full Time, remote Position: Chief Technical Officer Oprius' Chief Technical Officer is responsible for the maintenance and development of the Oprius web-based software. Oprius is a CRM web app design
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by xentac 14y ago
I know it's a little belated, but here's the code. I haven't written the blog post yet. https://github.com/xentac/colorwar
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by xentac 15y ago
It just reads mouse move events, so there are only so many per second. If you send me more events than I allow, I drop the rest of them on the floor.
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by xentac 15y ago
That's actually not a bug, someone wrote a bot that plays in every position that someone else plays.
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by xentac 15y ago
Not yet, but I plan on doing a little blog post about it and posting the code.
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by xentac 15y ago
Yeah, I limit the number of moves you can make per second, but mice/multi-touch move pretty fast...
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by xentac 15y ago
I did do some stuff to try and limit scripts. We'll see if they can figure it out. Also, it's multi-touch enabled...
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by xentac 15y ago
Written in Node.js, hosted on Amazon EC2, uses Socket.IO.
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by xentac 15y ago
Try to make the screen all one color while your opponents do the same.
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Show HN: Color War(jointhecolorwar.com)
29 points by xentac 15y ago|19 comments
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by xentac 15y ago
> 2) each version has permissions Side-loaded apps still have permissions. I agree on all your other points, though I don't know how a project like this could be made to work with the android market model.
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by xentac 15y ago
I feel like the OP misconstrued things like "doesn't work out of the box". What he meant was, "I needed to install the package to get my video driver and sound driver working". Generally Arch doesn't install something until you ask it to.
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by xentac 15y ago
I think the comment meant that, apart from installing the package, everything else worked fine. I would probably say something like, "isn't available after initial install" and that "you need to install all the packages you want to use". It
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by xentac 15y ago
You should have seen the community 7+ years ago! They've done a lot to make the community more friendly and inclusive.
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by xentac 15y ago
I think this is a little disingenuous. The Arch developers do their best to make sure that nvidia and amd drivers work with new kernels. Sometimes updated drivers are needed, but not released for months, and the developers have to make the
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More on recursive merge strategy(codicesoftware.blogspot.com)
1 points by xentac 15y ago|0 comments
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by xentac 15y ago
It does, but instead of giving you a library/API access, like Mercurial, it gives you command line access. I feel as though one is a little more black box than the other.
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by xentac 15y ago
They can do interop at the level DAG level, but higher or lower level abstractions aren't really supported (hg branch information isn't accessible in git, git doesn't have access to mq information, etc).
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by xentac 15y ago
I guess the big difference is the level of interaction. A Mercurial extension has access to all the functionality that Mercurial offers: applying patches, creating commits, history walking, etc. But it doesn't really modify the underlying
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by xentac 15y ago
You are correct. They aren't a linear history. In fact, the key is the @{#} syntax (man git-rev-parse). Each stash commit is a single commit pointed to by a ref/stash reference. Because of the reflog, we can see what ref/stash used to p
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by xentac 15y ago
Git and Mercurial both suffer from this "problem". Because manifests/trees must have contents (file hashes) to exist, you can't track an empty folder. I suppose git's tree objects could point to the empty tree to record an empty folder, bu
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by xentac 15y ago
Fair assessment. This is where my bias towards git shows through. I use git and understand what it's capable of and why mercurial does it differently. The opposite isn't true. If you give me some examples, I can probably roll them into a
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The Real Difference Between Git and Mercurial(xentac.net)
182 points by xentac 15y ago|76 comments
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by xentac 16y ago
When I was twelve, I decided to do that. No one else thought it was as good of an idea as I did... These days I don't reserve 40 days to give it up, I give it up all year round!