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The few teams I've worked with all seem to handle this in slightly different ways. I get the impression that most teams grow an ad hoc system around the behaviour of the first cont…

That 7.5T in payouts doesn't just disappear from the economy. Most people will put almost all of that payment right back into the economic equation through consumerism. In most mod…

//"Math checks out" is a questionable approach to understanding science. Very much agree. By this standard, one could put "1+1=2" as an appendix to every article you ever write and…

Actually, I thought of an analogy that helps me reason about this. If we think of the VCS like a text editor, then a branch is like a file that you can write changes to. However, i…

> > So, is that before or after having been gc'd? > GCing only removes garbage. Since you're creating branches to keep track of your topics, this shouldn't ever be a problem. If yo…

Somebody already mentioned Welcome to Night Vale, which is a serial fiction podcast in the form of public radio news announcements from a town where all the weirdness of the world …

I agree. I thought that this was the whole point of having a CI system. I don't have a huge amount of experience in open source projects, so maybe they do it differently. Anywhere …

Maybe they just prefer nano? More likely, if this is meant to be a gentle introduction to the command line, vim is a pretty scary place. Nano works much more like a "normal" text e…

The first thing I do on any bash terminal is `set -o vi`. This changes the default keybindings from emacs-like to vi-like. I find it to be a huge booster to my speed in navigating …

I'm late-twenties/early-thirties. I'm probably just on the old side to still be perfectly happy to rent a room in a shared apartment. If I find myself in a long-term relationship t…

I have sort of a different experience. I just moved to London, from Dublin, a few months ago. I make a good, but not outrageous, salary: pretty close to a reported average for soft…

You Could Have Invented Monads is what really made monads "click" for me. There are better tutorials for how to use monads in the real world, but I've never read a better descripti…

I played this game some years ago before I learned anything about programming. Coming back to it with some understanding of recursion makes it a lot easier (though still tough in p…