Very useful shorthand doc for Emacs’ Magit.
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Finally I’ve found Magit, a git mode for emacs that I really like. Meet Magit (by Alex Vollmer) is a nifty introduction.
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IT Jobs in Charlottesville - Join hotelicopter!
We are still looking for badass programmers for the team at hotelicopter. I’m looking for software craftsmen (or women!), and I know there are more of you out there in Charlottesville (and NoVA and Richmond and Blacksburg).
Very interesting things are happening at hotelicopter. We need a QA automation engineer, front-end (CSS/HTML/JS/JQuery), back-end (big data, distributed systems, scalability, language/platform agnostic), operations (AWS) and more… Give me a shout!
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Although quite technical and rooted in a discussion about programming in particular, I think Rich Hickey’s view about how we conflate “simple” and “easy” is worthwhile for practitioners of a variety of disciplines. Check it out.
At the office, we particularly like the “knitted castle.”
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One of the best games I have ever played. I still have vivid memories of playing it in 9th grade on my high school buddy’s C64. Yay retro!
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…basics of a resource system are resource collection and production…
…macromanagement (or “macro” for short) is closely related to strategy, so when designing the macro part of a game you will strongly influence the strategies which will be available to the players…
…limits such as how much resources or how many units you may have…
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Marc Andreessen thinks that the clock is ticking on Oracle and other old-line software and infrastructure companies.
His evidence: not a single one of Andreessen-Horowitz’s startup investments use Oracle software. They all use cloud-based alternatives instead.
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…can you now avoid the complexity of scaling out over large clusters of computers, and instead do all your processing on a single, more powerful node? The answer, in theory, is “Yes”—until you take into account the problem with large amounts of memory in Java.
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