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_ikke_··on Git Is Simpler Than You Think
It creates a tracking branch, and so git knows how far a branch is relative to a remote branch.
_ikke_··on The Problem with the iPhone's Home Button
When you hit the home button, you go to the hoem screen. There are also visual indicators that show on which screen you are.
_ikke_··on First Demonstration Of Time Cloaking
What I miss in this article is what it implies that time is cloaked. What does is it mean and where can it be used for?
_ikke_··on A Philosopher Every Programmer Should Know: Susanne K. Langer
Obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/876/

Sometimes you can go too far in questioning everything to get any practical result.

_ikke_··on A git Primer
Maybe you have don this for brevity, but git branch does not create a new commit.

"The command’s second form creates a new branch head named <branchname> which points to the current HEAD, or <start-point> if given."

So after a git branch command, the test branch still points to the same commit as HEAD.

You have to make an additional commit for them to diverge.

_ikke_··on Nobody Understands REST or HTTP
I would say it would be a different (limited) representation of the same resource.
_ikke_··on I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday
According to MtGox they attackers ran into the $1000 limit, so it was not a verified account.
_ikke_··on Resources are being utterly and completely wasted on mining bitcoins
The problem is that other people might have already found other blocks, rendering your block useless.
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