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ebneter

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    Comment #15296934

    I agree with you. The only use I've ever had for a GUI is to look at a branching graph, which is significantly easier with a good tool rather than the git command line. But I'd lov…

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    Comment #14360764

    If you can't sell I suppose you can give it away. The dead-tree versions make excellent bookends and doorstops.

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    Comment #13488044

    That's if you create the volume from a snapshot. You may want to clarify that. This process can take a long time; sometimes you're better off actually rsyncing the data than using …

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    Comment #13408119

    > At least he doesn't have his head up his ass the may Mandelbrot did I see you've never met Stephen.

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    Comment #2208817

    > Why are they still using it? Inertia, I assume. Well, that and that migrating to anything else would be a huge nightmare. They have a ton of infrastructure written around Perforc…

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    Comment #2094250

    Pastor in Kansas , not Arizona.

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    Comment #2029671

    "Battery lifetime: 5 minutes" Yeah...

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    Comment #1993155

    Most of that junk I'd sell, to be honest. :-|

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    Comment #1985769

    I once worked for a company that was absolutely bulldog fanatically obsessive about the licenses of the very expensive software they sold -- and used pirated copies of MS Word and …

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    Comment #1874946

    Except that Zed has made lots of open source contributions -- just not this one. He does get to pick and choose how he wishes to release things.

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    Comment #1862989

    From Alien and a semi-infinite number of rip-offs: Never pick up an alien egg.

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    Comment #1841326

    Words evolve rapidly; grammar more slowly (but surely). The truly fundamental thing change most slowly of all, so emphasize those. Don't get hung up on things like "hopefully". Hel…

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    Comment #1841158

    Of course it's evolving; it's always evolving. Read a 100-year-old newspaper and observe the differences. You cannot stop it from evolving.

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    Comment #1813555

    Your grandfather is Gerald Weinberg? His books have been a big influence on me and I recommend them to lots of people!

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    Comment #1661392

    The direction of rotation is relative, but the fact that it is rotating is not. That is, an observer in the Sun's reference frame can, indeed, determine that the Sun is rotating. (…

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    Comment #1661248

    Actually, a rotating frame is non-inertial.

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    Comment #1661242

    1. Yes, in fact it's flattened slightly as a result; its rotation period is ~25 days 2. Yes, with a period of about 240 million years 3. Not much.

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    Comment #1618947

    If there's one thing I've learned in 15+ years of build/release/scm engineering, it's that there is no one-size-fits-all branching model or workflow. git-flow is a nice set of tool…

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    Comment #1569673

    This was satire, no?? This is so far from true...

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    Comment #1539734

    I see what you did there...

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    Comment #1479462

    No one seems to have pointed out that, strictly speaking, this isn't plagiarism, unless, of course, some of this moron's writers actually do plagiarize the essays they send him.

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    Comment #1376202

    Yep. Throw out the Rand and Hubbard, and the list is actually pretty good. (Although, "The Hunt for Red October?" Really? :-) )

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    Comment #1365860

    Everest, at >29,000 feet, is something like 30% higher than the highest he's climbed -- Aconcagua, at just under 23,000 feet -- and people die from altitude on Aconcagua every year…

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    Comment #1300770

    To the best of my knowledge (and IANAL...), Match has no standing in this regard, and therefore is in no position to be making any demands. Match is not the FTC (or Canadian equiva…

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    Comment #1283785

    AFAIK, that's just an estimate anyway. (It's based on "we found this many hits in this lump of the web that we searched, and that lump is this much of the web, so we estimate that …