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I helped edit the first 4 chapters. One benefit of the book is it's short. All the information you need is condensed into 150 pages. It starts out being immediately applicable (Cha…

I'm not sure you actually understand my phrase 'quantifying their happiness'. It uses tests derived from The Feeling Good Handbook, Dr. David Burns and Beck Anxiety Inventory, Dr. …

This book is by a programmer, for programmers, to help them quantify their happiness and take action to improve it, instead of focusing on churning widgets (GTD) or whatever it is …

Oprius Software - Victoria, BC, Canada - Full Time, remote Position: Chief Technical Officer Oprius' Chief Technical Officer is responsible for the maintenance and development of t…

I know it's a little belated, but here's the code. I haven't written the blog post yet. https://github.com/xentac/colorwar

It just reads mouse move events, so there are only so many per second. If you send me more events than I allow, I drop the rest of them on the floor.

That's actually not a bug, someone wrote a bot that plays in every position that someone else plays.

Not yet, but I plan on doing a little blog post about it and posting the code.

Yeah, I limit the number of moves you can make per second, but mice/multi-touch move pretty fast...

I did do some stuff to try and limit scripts. We'll see if they can figure it out. Also, it's multi-touch enabled...

Written in Node.js, hosted on Amazon EC2, uses Socket.IO.

Try to make the screen all one color while your opponents do the same.

> 2) each version has permissions Side-loaded apps still have permissions. I agree on all your other points, though I don't know how a project like this could be made to work with …

I feel like the OP misconstrued things like "doesn't work out of the box". What he meant was, "I needed to install the package to get my video driver and sound driver working". Gen…

I think the comment meant that, apart from installing the package, everything else worked fine. I would probably say something like, "isn't available after initial install" and tha…

You should have seen the community 7+ years ago! They've done a lot to make the community more friendly and inclusive.

I think this is a little disingenuous. The Arch developers do their best to make sure that nvidia and amd drivers work with new kernels. Sometimes updated drivers are needed, but n…

It does, but instead of giving you a library/API access, like Mercurial, it gives you command line access. I feel as though one is a little more black box than the other.

They can do interop at the level DAG level, but higher or lower level abstractions aren't really supported (hg branch information isn't accessible in git, git doesn't have access t…

I guess the big difference is the level of interaction. A Mercurial extension has access to all the functionality that Mercurial offers: applying patches, creating commits, history…

You are correct. They aren't a linear history. In fact, the key is the @{#} syntax (man git-rev-parse). Each stash commit is a single commit pointed to by a ref/stash reference. Be…

Git and Mercurial both suffer from this "problem". Because manifests/trees must have contents (file hashes) to exist, you can't track an empty folder. I suppose git's tree objects …