Incredible presentation by Will Wilson about testing Mario using deterministic simulation.
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Secondly, mutable data also means that you have less scope of drawing new insights from historic data. (Primarily because you never have historic data)
This is a great rule of thumb, which I have had to repeatedly drill into my team-mates. The crux of the problem, I've come to realise, is that people can't differentiate between a "local" commit and a "published" commit.
Git tutorials need to focus a bit more on the nature of git than on simply showing the basic operations.
Time to search for a new bookmarking site.
No, it doesn't sound like that. There are many things I like to tweak that make me more productive. Tweaking those things is time-consuming, but once it's done, I never have to waste time on it again. This default window manager sucks? Let me spend a day to throw it out and install awesome. I find myself doing the same things over and over again in Emacs? Let me write and store a macro for it. And you know what the really cool part is? _I can do these things!_. And I usually end up learning something useful about the system.
Now you may find Apple OS X perfect and that's great for you. But what if Apple makes some change tomorrow that bugs the crap out of you? Everytime you encounter that "shitty" detail, a little part of you will get irritated and want to take a hammer to your laptop. Or maybe these things don't bother you. I, however, won't live with something like that.
Why would I want another editor?