How To Learn Hacking: Version 1.2, with a new section on being original. Incorporates more feedback from here and G++ For those of you who wondered why this didn’t just become a major section in How To Become A Hacker, it’s because I think it might become long enough to make that document too bulky… Continue reading How To Learn Hacking: Version 1.2
Month: November 2014
Why labor unions have lost their moxie
A lot of U.S. economic policy is distorted by the belief that manufacturing jobs are a magic bullet against declining incomes. Manufacturing’s false promise of a decent payday punctures that illusion. One of the dumb, predictable responses to articles like this is “We need a stronger union movement”. Sorry, but no. Declining manufacturing wages aren’t… Continue reading Why labor unions have lost their moxie
Like a football player, head down
OK, this is interesting: From some tabloid, we have the following quote: The unidentified witness wrote that the 18-year-old Brown “has his arms out with attitude,” while “The cop just stood there.” The witness added, “Dang if that kid didn’t start running right at the cop like a football player. Head down.” This is exactly… Continue reading Like a football player, head down
How To Learn Hacking: Version 1.1
I had meant to blog-announce version 1.0 of How To Learn Hacking but got distracted at a crucial moment. So it went out on G+, where I got some useful feedback. This version is revised and very slightly expanded. Enjoy and critique.
SRC 0.9: Ready for the less adventurous now
I just shipped SRC 0.9, and you no longer need to be adventurous to try it. It has a regression-test suite and real users. Remarkably, SRC has had real users since 0.3, two days after it was born. Even more remarkably, the count of crash reports and botched operations from those users is zero. Zero.… Continue reading SRC 0.9: Ready for the less adventurous now
Emacs git conversion is done
Finally. After ten months of work, it’s done. Emacs is fully converted to git. You can clone from git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git and if you have commit rights you can push to it and the changes will stick. The bzr repo is still up but only as an archive.
SRC FAQ
A&D regular Mike Swanson did such a nice job on this that I want you all to see it.
SRC 0.3 – ready for the adventurous
My low-power, low-overhead version control system, SRC, is no longer just a stake in the ground. It is still a determinedly file-oriented wrapper around RCS (and will stay that way) but every major feature except branching is implemented and it has probably crossed the border into being useful for production. shkafyi The adventurous can and… Continue reading SRC 0.3 – ready for the adventurous
I wrote a version-control system today
I wrote a version-control system today. Yes, an entire VCS. Took me 14 hours. Yeah, you’re looking at me like I’m crazy. “Why,” you ask, quite reasonably, “would you want to do a thing like that? We’re not short of powerful VCSes these days. That is true. But I got to thinking, early this morning,… Continue reading I wrote a version-control system today
Chipping away at CVS
I’ve just shipped a new version of cvs-fast-export, 1.26. It speeds the tool up more, more, more – cranking through 25 years and 113300 commits of Emacs CVS history, for example in 2:48. That’s 672 commits a second, for those of you in the cheap seats. But the real news this time is a Python… Continue reading Chipping away at CVS