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Likewise. Pro Git 2e was written using Asciidoc, and it made it easier/possible to do things like indexing and figure titles.

Whoops, terrible formatting. - 2004-2006: $40-45k. Writing C in an embedded context (barcode scanners). Local company. - 2006-2011: $50k-70k. Writing C++ for device drivers and con…

OK, I'll do it. White male, living in Portland, Oregon. All my roles are software engineering. - 2004-2006: $40-45k. Writing C in an embedded context (barcode scanners). Local comp…

Yeah, this makes me sad. I mostly listen to music when I'm working, and hearing the same mix of 50 "top hits" gets tiring really fast. 45-60 minutes of music that has some similari…

We've been reading aloud to our kids for _years_ now, and it's a great way to all share an imaginary world together. A great resource we found is the Read Aloud Handbook [1], which…

Yeah, LaTeX is great, but mostly you won't need the superpowers that a document-programming language gives you. When Markdown doesn't quite do what I need, Asciidoc usually does (P…

Pause Ghostery and reload. This is unfortunate.

You effectively build your configuration file into the thing that knows how to run your container. If you're running Kubernetes, this is either a secret or the replication controll…

This chapter was updated for the 2nd edition: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects

If you read something in Pro Git that could be better, or if you find a mistake, we're taking contributions at https://github.com/progit/progit2 . The only requirement is that you …

We use Atlas to build the e-book versions of Pro Git (which you can download at https://progit.org/ ). We don't use their editing system, though; it's basically a continuous-deploy…

The `for...of` and `for...in` loops are much more readable than their pure-Javascript versions. The author is also leaving out really nice things like comprehensions.

Is this supposed to be "Hubot, but usable without hiring a developer?" There are lots of non-software companies that could benefit from chat-ops-like automation.

The images are pretty big, so they'll look good in print and on retina screens. If you run the build locally, you could include a step that ImageMagicks them down to a more reasona…

Huh, we'll have to fix that. You can find the pre-order for the 2nd edition if you search for it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1484200772/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...

Honestly, the reason is size. If you're a newcomer to OSS, it's very likely that you'll end up with a GitHub user account, and much less so with BitBucket. We do mention BitBucket …

A lot . (Coauthor here.) Not every sentence was rewritten, but 4 years is a long time. There was a lot of content that was either inaccurate or out of date. We added content about …

You mean like Excel actually does? http://i.imgur.com/kMPKnqO.png

> The biology of the human body and food is so complex, science is nowhere close to understanding it helpfully enough to design a diet To me, this is an argument for eating real fo…

Todays grains are actually a highly-processed food that you can't really digest when they're raw. There's no one simple rule for food on paleo/primal, but one rule of thumb is "fee…

Fruits and vegetables. Starchy roots are heavy on the carbs, and so are apples and strawberries. Primal allows dairy if you're not intolerant, and milk has lactose (a sugar).