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I was lucky enough to meet Clay Christensen once when he came to speak at a company I worked at. First he delivered a brilliant lecture on how companies repeatedly found themselves…

It's tricky to figure out where replies should go, especially if, e.g., there's multiple comments from different sources on the same line. There's also the whole "what if there are…

Ok, after some chat on github and IRL, sold. We'll make the change.

But the diffscuss modes parse the comments into functional structures--threads--to decide where to insert replies, etc., which is in fact functional--just not functional for the di…

You still get comments which, while unlikely (because they would have to have the second "enabling" character) will confuse a diffscuss parser. I still think allowing for a state o…

Hey there, one of the diffscuss authors here. We were working for a client who used self-hosted svn and had no code review system. As for GitHub API: there's a (beta-ish) import fr…

Good question, we did consider using #, the main benefit of which would have been that diffscuss files were still legal diffs. Against that benefit was the consideration that there…

Hey, one of the authors of diffscuss here. Just FYI, there's a "diffscuss github-import" command (which is beta-ish, but should work) that can import a pull request (or series of p…

According to a friend of mine who is relatively knowledgeable about this law, it was originally intended to target enterprise companies that were essentially selling software for n…

Thanks! From your bio it looks like you're a classicist / hacker--which is pretty much the book's ideal audience.

Great, would love to hear what you think...you can find my contact info on my site.

Thanks for bringing this up / posting the link. Someone brought up a similar point in comments on the poem itself--I added a direct link in the attribution.

So glad you enjoyed this, and "The Little Bank"! I just started the process of moving things out of the drawer and onto the site. There's a big backlog but I'm posting every week o…