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Re:GitHub Helped Train Google in Git by schacon on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @02:31PM (#340360)
I can't believe I let that up with those spelling errors. Thanks for pointing that out. It's fixed and will go out with our next push. I really am better at training than I am at spelling :) For the longest time, I had been spelling 'carat' as 'carrot' (referring to the '^' character).
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Re:GitHub Helped Train Google in Git by andreyf on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @03:31PM (#340447)
You mean car-e-t ;)

(carat is a measure of gold purity)

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Re:GitHub Helped Train Google in Git by schacon on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @04:00PM (#340490)
annnnd, you see what I mean...
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Re:GitHub Helped Train Google in Git by run4yourlives on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @05:21PM (#340591)
That could also be karat, and it's for all gems AKAIK, not just gold.

(Talk about picking the worst example ever!) :-)

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Re:GitHub Helped Train Google in Git by jws on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @04:34PM (#340539)
Welcome to the club. I released a program back in the 80s called "calender"... at 1.2 I changed it from a pair of smooth rollers used to press paper and cloth to create a shiny surface in to "calendar" which described its function much better.

English is a silly language.

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