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Re:A simple git branching model on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:11PM (#6470796)
Rebase is good for when you need to rewrite or clean-up history. For example: all those "WIP" commits you'll frequently see aren't exactly helpful. If you want to rewrite history of a branch that others are actively working on, well then you're going to have A Bad Time™.
Re:Show HN: Rails Performance Help – Tracer Bullets on Friday August 02, 2013 @02:17PM (#6148668)
Very simple library and execution! Thanks so much!
Re:Poll: How old are you? on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @01:34PM (#6058971)
Age is only a number.
Hardware access is root access.
Re:Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help on Thursday May 16, 2013 @06:09PM (#5721514)
> I feel as though I've invested too much time and energy to bail now.

Look up Sunk Cost Fallacy.

Also this related episode of Freakonomics is great: http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/new-freakonomics-radi...

Re:Please use git pull --rebase on Monday April 29, 2013 @10:34PM (#5630129)
Mislav has a great article on this topic: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2013/02/merge-vs-rebase/
Re:Here is today on Sunday April 28, 2013 @03:26PM (#5622398)
Works for me. Same browser.
Re:Ask HN: What is your daily reading list? on Friday April 26, 2013 @08:29AM (#5612533)
Facebook and Hacker News. My friends post a lot of intriguing articles.
Re:Unicorn on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @04:12PM (#5597648)
Thank you _so_ much. A renaming will really help set your projects apart.
I consider myself a remixer. Related, I recommend this video series on the topic: http://www.everythingisaremix.info
Re:Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort on Monday March 18, 2013 @05:23PM (#5397216)
I can't stop laughing. Well done!
Re:Bootstrap 3 preview on Sunday March 10, 2013 @02:19PM (#5352834)
yeah those classes are not new.
Re:Improved searching with The Silver Searcher on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:16PM (#5293462)
From the github page (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher):

  ack blahblahblah ~/code  6.59s user 1.94s system 99%  cpu 8.547 total

  ag  blahblahblah ~/code  1.39s user 1.81s system 229% cpu 1.396 total
Re:Show HN: Emails that Self-Destruct and Notify You When Read on Thursday February 21, 2013 @02:02PM (#5259333)
oh hey, you did blamestella as well? nice work!
Re:Show HN: Emails that Self-Destruct and Notify You When Read on Thursday February 14, 2013 @11:41AM (#5220246)
Related: https://onetimesecret.com

(I am unaffiliated, just like this service.)

It looks like this is specific to active_model.

https://rubyonrails-security.googlegroups.com/attach/bb44b98...

thank you very much! I even had it starred. hah.
There was a tool that prints out one line graphs using utf8 characters. I can't remember what it's called off the top of my head unfortunately.
Re:Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X on Saturday February 02, 2013 @02:29PM (#5157008)
"Not allowed to load local resource: file:///"
Re:Man uses GitHub as a bug tracker for his house on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @01:07PM (#5135310)
forked :)
All of them.
Could you give an off the top of your head example?
Re:Rails has Two Default Stacks on Monday January 14, 2013 @09:34PM (#5058230)
me too. slim is pretty much the bee's knees.
hugs += 1
love += 1
Re:CoffeeKup is markup as CoffeeScript on Thursday December 27, 2012 @12:36AM (#4972486)
I can't recommend the slim template engine enough.

http://slim-lang.com

Re:I created this small app for you, if you like to write on Sunday December 23, 2012 @11:59AM (#4959901)
I'm impressed by the simplicity of the Javascript. Well done. :)

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