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Your comment is criminally low. Every other comment is 'Git vs. Mercurial' and speculation as to why git has "won". Their not useless, but they are uninteresting technically. So, a…

Like most days, I had no intention of comment on HN today, but whenever I'm reminded of the Innocence Project[1] I'm reminded by one of the most mind-blowing moments in my life. Th…

I'm not a JS developer, so this as much of a question as it is a statement. `exec` is a system call and doesn't call bash or any other shell. At least, it shouldn't. If it does, th…

Us Cubs fans had a truly awful decompression in 2016. Don't get me wrong, winning the world series was amazing. But, I wish they did it in less dramatic fashion. And, to stifle the…

Also. There's the minor leagues. Officially, those are (high to low) AAA, AA, high-A, and low-A. Then there's extended spring training, summer leagues, and associated leagues in th…

This is likely to be said, "`--color=auto` is the default setting, so it's not needed." However, it's good to include it here because some users may have changed their default conf…

> Sometimes this is not a problem. When x is small, sin(x) can be computed by simply returning x. This rule is valid until x^3/6 > precision ~= 1e-38, or x = 4e-16. So exact precis…

Most be a slow day at HN. I've subscribed to this subreddit and the posts there are mostly people discovering lkml.org for the first time and seeing the "Hottest" emails of which s…

It seems pretty simple when you look at the filing. Just quietly change the rules whenever you see fit. > Explanation of Responses: > 1. Transactions reported on this Form 4 were m…

You're a looney.

I take your original comment as an indictment that git is somehow broken by design. Which sure, you're entitled to an opinion, but to bring up SVN in the same breath is absurd. Tha…

The tool that doesn't work with case insensitive filenames is OSX. Edit: To add, how is git supposed to handle two files with the same name -- as is the case -- with a case insensi…

The SVN and P4 articles exists (just google for "svn mistakes" and "perforce p4 mistakes"), but either 1. nobody is sharing them to HN or 2. they do and nobody cares to vote them u…

I don't see how that's easier. There's `git checkout -b my-new-branch` which is even easier than the originally proposed solution. Followed by `git checkout master && git reset --h…

Just as an FYI, those will likely live in Github forever. Run `git ls-remote` where ever you have had this problem. You'll see that there are refs for every PR in the form `refs/pu…

Not really an issue with git, but with OSX. In doing some research of git, I wanted to look at the first git repos. Those are torvalds/git.git and torvalds/linux.git. If you clone …

Based on my own research, it appears that the first git tag was created before the first git commit. The first tag (?) points to a tree. $ git cat-file -p v2.6.11-tree object c39ae…

Caller ID was around for quite a while before 2002. It looks like the first companies rolled it out in the late 80's. But, it's funny that you chose 2002 because that's the year wh…

Thanks for the correction, he truly was a brilliant mind. One of my regrets was not being active and outgoing enough to go meet him myself. I was lived in the Cincinnati area from …

Good point. For those that are curious: Clone (--no-checkout): $ git clone --no-checkout https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb.git Cloning into 'git-bomb'... remote: Counting objects: …

You're going to have a hard time supporting multiple versions of Python that way. If I started a new package today I would target 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7-dev, and likely, 2.7. A lot of …

You can get close. Set __slots__ and then define each as a property with no setter and no deleter. However, an object can still be modified if it stores a mutable object (list, dic…

Your Point3D class is _not_ functionally equivalent to a NamedTuple. The class is so minimal that I wouldn't bother calling it a class as much as I would call it a glorified dictio…

(I don't have the full history, but from my experience...) When I first started using Selenium, it used browser-specific drivers that communicated directly with bespoke extensions/…

I work with a couple people who insistently write shell scripts in Python. I know it's anecdotal, but to me, it's like the metaphor 'When all you have is a hammer, everything looks…