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I agree with you. The only use I've ever had for a GUI is to look at a branching graph, which is significantly easier with a good tool rather than the git command line. But I'd love to have a simple tool to just browse the branch structure rather than a full-blown gui. (I mostly use gitk for this purpose.)

If you can't sell I suppose you can give it away. The dead-tree versions make excellent bookends and doorstops.

That's if you create the volume from a snapshot. You may want to clarify that.

This process can take a long time; sometimes you're better off actually rsyncing the data than using a snapshot.

> At least he doesn't have his head up his ass the may Mandelbrot did

I see you've never met Stephen.

> Why are they still using it? Inertia, I assume.

Well, that and that migrating to anything else would be a huge nightmare. They have a ton of infrastructure written around Perforce, just for starters. Then there's the fact that moving to, say, git, would require significant refactoring of their heavily incestuous code base. Moving to Subversion would be easier, but svn's problems with branching and merging would probably make that a non-starter.

Pastor in Kansas, not Arizona.

"Battery lifetime: 5 minutes"

Yeah...

Most of that junk I'd sell, to be honest. :-|

I once worked for a company that was absolutely bulldog fanatically obsessive about the licenses of the very expensive software they sold -- and used pirated copies of MS Word and some other software.

Yeah, I left there pretty quickly. (The owner was an incredibly unethical person.)

Except that Zed has made lots of open source contributions -- just not this one. He does get to pick and choose how he wishes to release things.

From Alien and a semi-infinite number of rip-offs: Never pick up an alien egg.

Words evolve rapidly; grammar more slowly (but surely). The truly fundamental thing change most slowly of all, so emphasize those. Don't get hung up on things like "hopefully". Help kids expand their vocabularies. Encourage them to read. Teach them the difference between formal and informal language, as it's crucial and something that many never learn.

Of course it's evolving; it's always evolving. Read a 100-year-old newspaper and observe the differences. You cannot stop it from evolving.

Your grandfather is Gerald Weinberg? His books have been a big influence on me and I recommend them to lots of people!

The direction of rotation is relative, but the fact that it is rotating is not. That is, an observer in the Sun's reference frame can, indeed, determine that the Sun is rotating. (The Coriolis effect is one example.)

Actually, a rotating frame is non-inertial.

1. Yes, in fact it's flattened slightly as a result; its rotation period is ~25 days 2. Yes, with a period of about 240 million years 3. Not much.

If there's one thing I've learned in 15+ years of build/release/scm engineering, it's that there is no one-size-fits-all branching model or workflow. git-flow is a nice set of tools for one workflow/branching model, but it should not be confused with a silver bullet.

This was satire, no?? This is so far from true...

I see what you did there...

No one seems to have pointed out that, strictly speaking, this isn't plagiarism, unless, of course, some of this moron's writers actually do plagiarize the essays they send him.

Yep. Throw out the Rand and Hubbard, and the list is actually pretty good. (Although, "The Hunt for Red October?" Really? :-) )

Everest, at >29,000 feet, is something like 30% higher than the highest he's climbed -- Aconcagua, at just under 23,000 feet -- and people die from altitude on Aconcagua every year. The 8000m peaks are a whole 'nother ball game.

To the best of my knowledge (and IANAL...), Match has no standing in this regard, and therefore is in no position to be making any demands. Match is not the FTC (or Canadian equivalent).

AFAIK, that's just an estimate anyway. (It's based on "we found this many hits in this lump of the web that we searched, and that lump is this much of the web, so we estimate that there are that many actual hits in the whole web.")

That's an application, though, not a patent.

Heh ... I looked for that one but couldn't find it in a brief search. A classic example, for sure.

Which actually proves the article's point -- the criminal fraternity have to try even harder to distinguish themselves from the mainstream. I'll bet, however, that the programmers you know with facial tattoos look more like this: http://freshfunnypictures.com/funny-pictures/2113/facial-tat... than like this: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphics/art3/0130063tattoo1.jp...