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824karma·261submissions·January 14, 2014
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Entrepreneur, Software engineer, Product designer, Long walks, Bicycles, Arabic, Meditation.
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This is one point that worries me about Kotlin (which I like a lot). Is it even practical developing in Kotlin using something other than IntelliJ?
All of its toolsets come from the same company, whic…
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>This is because it's a distributed version control system, not just a tool to upload files to GitHub. 99.9% of git users use only one remote.
Most of them (>85%?) use GitHub.
It's lik…
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That's actually doable and is what HighFlux is doing.
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yet one often has to google a command, to make sure what is the correct command, even if they know all about the mechanics of the underlying blob storage.
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>Because of that I have very little fear of screwing up. I met an engineer or two that were always feeling like walking on eggshells around git, and every once and a while having to call in the exp…
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Great insight
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One of the developers of HighFlux here.
The deamon is written in rust and was designed and written to have a minimal CPU+Memory footprint. > I think HighFlux is designed to solve a very limited sub…
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Just the ergonomics of git are sometimes mind-boggling.
for instance: "git checkout" is used for 3 different things: “switch”, “create branch”, and “revert a file”.
Deleting a remote tag is…
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Me too.
I remember going through the "Beyond ZX Spectrum" was it? it had listings of basic programs for "Lunar Lander" and other nice games. With colorful inspiring screenshots of …
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This brought back such warm memories.
I didn't know any English then, but I just copied programs, ran them, and slowly learned some BASIC and some English while at it. :)
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You `clone` your git repository into Sapling.
You can then only use the sapling tooling (CLI) until you `push` to GitHub. You can't use `sl` and `git` or git GUI/ IDE plugins on the `sl` clo…
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One of the problems with `git`, and it seems that Sapling is no different, is that there is no one-to-one mapping between the user intent and the underlying SCM.
For a user intent of "implement f…
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Isn't the staging area just a stack of changes where stack height == 1?
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The opposite. The FTX case proved why regulation of financial institutions is crucial to protect the public's funds.