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I ride a short wheel base recumbent, and regularly pass upright bicycles on moderate uphills.

I have an LG Optimus, and the touch response is horrid. The phone works well in other areas, but UI responsiveness and text input accuracy aren't among them.

ClearCase is certainly popular, but I don't think it ever had a feature that was a big milestone in version control history. Client side software with a view of the source is alrea…

Is there a Vim equivalent of Emacs's C-h k followed by the key combo, which basically says, "Tell me what the official command name is for this keystroke?"

On the Mac, you can Cmd-Tab to an app and then hit Ctrl-F2 to navigate the menu from the keyboard: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343 I concede that this doesn't address other obje…

As a (mild) counterpoint, I've worked in Win16 code bases that were a nightmare to port to Win32, Win32 code bases that had to be half rewritten to run under the Win32-like API of …

Indeed, the ability to work on code now and think about a commit later is freeing. As for the particular abstraction of how to represent the commit in progress... I like the workin…

The term "strong" appears overloaded here. A language can be dynamically typed, but still have strong typing (in the sense that the language, whether at compile time or runtime, en…

There are a few reasons to do this. One is to at least nominally separate code that's licensed differently than yours (something your lawyers may ask you to do). Another is to make…

If you use something like Git submodules, Mercurial subrepos, or Subversion externals, you can get the best of both worlds. Your repo contains just your code, but a fresh clone wil…

Seconded. AsciiDoc is enough like writing a plain-text e-mail that everything but the writing just falls away. For a little more control, you can feed the generated DocBook to some…

The hg-git plugin for Mercurial worked fine on Heroku the last time I tried it: http://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git

GitHub and Mercurial aren't mutually exclusive; hg-git works pretty well.

It's an advantage because you can make commits that are the same size and scope as the ones you'd normally make when connected. You don't have to save up for one big giant commit t…

I thought all the font snobs saw Helvetica as pedestrian, and wanted us to use Frutiger or something instead....

I was one of the early reviewers (which means getting to read a PDF for free, so take what I say with a grain of salt). The book didn't strike me as particularly prescriptive in th…

No kidding! Right now, it's about as thick as a sheet of vapor.

"life in a shanty town is not worse than death" Honest question: how do you know?

The overall feel of the sequence is a mixed bag. On the plus side, kneath offers a workaround (filtering + APIs), apologizes for initially misunderstanding which feature the custom…

What am I missing? This seems like a reasonably okay exchange, but what's special about it that makes it worth singling out as an example that all other tech support folks should a…

Call me insane, but I kind of like GDB + Xcode's wrapper. Yes, once or twice it has said dumb things about variables, but no more so than Visual Studio. Likewise, I can't remember …

At my last job, I was certain they'd tell me to go home for the two weeks (that was their usual practice). But I didn't want my projects to suffer. So I had my closest work friend …

I've been trusting my precious source code to Hg-Git for a while. The sort of "something goes wrong" moments have usually been fixable with a bit of grubbing around in Hg-Git's sou…

It maps git branches to hg bookmarks ( http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BookmarksExtension ) instead of hg branches, because bookmarks turn out to be a better fit.

I wondered about that, too---how fragile will this be in the face of minor GUI changes? (A fuzzy-match parameter would be a nice addition to the API.) One encouraging sign is that …