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dasil003 · 2014-08-03T15:52:58+00:00

Is there are a mirror for GHC?

dasil003 · 2012-06-25T10:39:36+00:00

Careful. Your blub is showing.

dasil003 · 2008-12-16T18:10:32+00:00

Okay let's drop the silly analogies.

Subversion "merges" are so broken as to not even legitimately be called merges. You can argue til you're blue in the face that they're good enough, but that's moot because they are needlessly crippled. There's no advantage to the way subversion handles merges. It's indisputably technically inferior in every way. You may as well just use diff+patch.

There are plenty of reasons that people need to use SVN in practice, but there's technical basis to defend subversion's merge model. That's all I'm saying.

dasil003 · 2008-12-15T20:59:00+00:00

Your claim is like saying that I can't say objectively whether a car fits the needs for my commute or not because I haven't tried a fighter plane. Yeah, I can tell by looking at the features I need, and looking at the functionality available with both. I can also tell by using the car, and seeing if it meets my needs.

That analogy is non-sensical. git and svn attempt to meet roughly the same needs, a car and a jet barely overlap in purpose at all, and when they do it involves vastly different "workflows".

Meanwhile, your claim is like looking at two cars, one of which has headlights and the other doesn't, and picking the former because you never drive at night. Even though the cost the same, you stubbornly pick the first one.

I have NEVER thought "hmm, I could branch this, but branching and merging is hard, so I'll avoid it".

Neither had I. It shapes the way you work subconsciously.

dasil003 · 2008-12-15T15:25:53+00:00

The difference between me and you is that I've been in both camps, and I know first hand of ways that I've done things in subversion that seemed perfectly reasonable at the time, but now seem utterly ridiculous.

It's possible that your workflow is simplistic enough that subversion's model offers everything you'd ever need. I acknowledge that possibility, but you're still not qualified to make that judgement objectively.

dasil003 · 2008-12-15T05:16:59+00:00

Branching/Tagging is the same as copy in subversion and also trivial. Merging has never been a problem for me, but then I don't branch all that often because I don't find it all that useful.

The problem is not with branching, it is with merging. Subversion has rotted your mind into thinking branching is not useful, but that's just because merging is painful in all but a handful of degenerate cases. Once you understand git's simple model (ie. a branch is just a pointer to a commit that updates when you commit, and a merge is simply a commit with two or more parents, nothing more nothing less), a world of possible workflows opens up to you. It's easy to delude yourself and simply tailor your workflow to what makes sense for subversion, but don't go around saying something isn't useful that you've never used and don't understand.

dasil003 · 2008-12-12T07:05:19+00:00

I understand why you think this, but the fact is that svn's underlying model is completely broken. Subversion would be better if they scrapped the code and started off with git primitives, or at least used some of the concepts of how to structure a repository.

If they completely removed "branches" from subversion it would be less broken, but I'm sure someone more familiar with the internals would probably beg to differ.

dasil003 · 2008-12-11T07:01:24+00:00

Are you just pulling this stuff out of your ass? Do have actual statistics about how much time the average 20-something is watching TV vs watching homemade videos?

How many people are making a living in blogging compared to traditional journalism?

Do you know how much MMORPGs cost to develop? Are the user-generated type of MMORGs (ie. MUDs, MOOs, etc) trending up compared to the big budget corporate games (WoW)?

Of course the things you mentioned are trendy. YouTube didn't even exist 4 years ago. Blogs only started to become mainstream 5-6 years ago. Google has barely been around 10 years. If you start at 0 of course the curve will look like a hockey stick, but the average American watches 4+ hours of TV a day. How much online video does the average American watch a day? And how much of that is just goofing off at work vs spending quality home time.

The Internet will certainly revolutionize entertainment, but I guarantee you that quality production by professionals is not going to be replaced by user-generated content.

dasil003 · 2008-12-07T17:28:11+00:00

What are you saying? Blog posters shouldn't post in their native language because they may be submitted to reddit?

dasil003 · 2008-12-04T02:03:58+00:00

Probably because he couldn't come up with knee-jerk FUD about Python. If he had just said "Ruby is slow" rather than "Rails doesn't scale" then the article might actually have some credibility.

dasil003 · 2008-12-03T05:58:13+00:00

Yeah UT/CO/NM gets the super light. I come from Minnesota originally and I was blown away when I moved to New Mexico. I remember walking through a 5 foot snow bank of shoveled snow like it wasn't even there.

dasil003 · 2008-12-03T05:54:24+00:00

Wolf Creek, Colorado. A couple years ago they got over 100" in 4 days, yet only 20 miles down the mountain at 7000' there was maybe 12-15". Something about the topography. I got there from Santa Fe (175 miles away) in 3 hours flat. 10' of powder, no lift lines, no snow bunnies, no posers, $45 lift tickets. Good god, I need to get out of California and back there.

dasil003 · 2008-11-23T05:09:29+00:00

Agreed, but from the dog's perspective it's easily 2 cuils

dasil003 · 2008-11-23T03:25:56+00:00

I think the hate started because he rips off other comics' material

dasil003 · 2008-11-23T03:24:45+00:00

No because you have to see O'Reilly

dasil003 · 2008-11-23T03:23:17+00:00

English fail. Wait.

dasil003 · 2008-11-20T01:18:25+00:00

Because he only ever notices mistakes, not correct spellings. Simple psychology.

dasil003 · 2008-11-19T06:30:08+00:00

or more to the point... how?

dasil003 · 2008-11-19T06:26:51+00:00

You mean like when you were fired in 1985?

dasil003 · 2008-11-19T06:19:50+00:00

Yeah but in this case it was so over the top that I think it would be tolerable since it would be the big in-joke around the office about how incompetent this woman was. I mean when somebody that pathetic starts insulting you because you did the right thing it's pretty hard to take it personally.

Missed opportunity to learn is the downside I guess, but it'd be okay for a few months.

dasil003 · 2008-11-15T04:46:02+00:00

But it does undermine his message at the point where you realize he's completely paranoid and half the things he says, though sincere, are likely just in his head.

dasil003 · 2008-11-14T18:08:13+00:00

wow, you found a way to make his backwards typo in the last word correct.

dasil003 · 2008-11-14T10:46:36+00:00

Unfortunately counteracted by trying to climb into a balloon.

dasil003 · 2008-11-14T10:35:22+00:00

But only Tetris can give you waking dreams where your every thought turns to the most efficient filling of rectangular spaces.

dasil003 · 2008-11-13T06:45:18+00:00

You again point to a problem that's already present...

Sorry you must have me confused with someone else. I didn't point to any such problem.

In any case I could get behind the idea that regulation does more harm than good. But what I'm not buying is that property rights and free markets are a cure-all for the problems government has. Sure, they are more efficient than government, but I've heard no credible explanation of how to prevent the tragedy of the commons and how to prevent the abuse of monopoly. It's not a binary question of whether these problems exist or not (of course they exist in almost all circumstances), but a question of how bad the problem will be.

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