December 2010
12 posts
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Michel Wories →
This person is the individual responsible for SMO and SQLPS.
Dec 18th
Git Internals PDF ($12) →
Many have learned the basics of using Git from the PeepCode Git screencast. In this PDF, Scott Chacon goes even further to explain the distributed filesystem behind the popular source code management system. If you’re tired of terse man pages or academic white papers, you’ll enjoy more than four dozen colorful diagrams that clearly explain the complicated inner workings of Git. The first 50...
Dec 18th
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A guide to branching in Mercurial →
Dec 18th
Thou Shalt Not Lie: git rebase, ammend, squash,... →
Argues that version control tools should not lie, and we should not coerce them into lying.  The broad point is correct, but it misses everyday issues like working with local commits before pushing them out to the remote repository.
Dec 18th
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Camp (Commute And Merge Patches) →
Camp (Commute And Merge Patches) is a version control system based on a patch theory similar to that of darcs. This video explains what is unique about camp and darcs — why we prefer them to the other VCSs, and think it is worth spending our time developing them. Although they are currently separate projects, the camp and darcs projects remain close, and...
Dec 18th
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A Formalization of Darcs Patch Theory Using... →
Abstract. Darcs is a distributed version control system with a flexible repository model. An abstract “theory of patches” determines how changes from multiple sources are combined and transformed while maintaining a consistent history. Previous formalizations of the semantics of Darcs have generally relied on definitions and assumptions chosen specifically to model that system. We present a...
Dec 18th
The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords →
Dec 17th
Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About... →
Thomas Figg posted this on Lambda the Ultimate.  It’s by the late Jim Gray. An analysis of the failure statistics of a commercially available fault-tolerant system shows that administration and software are the major contributors to failure. Various approaches to software fault-tolerance are then discussed - notably process-pairs, transactions and reliable storage. It is pointed out that...
Dec 17th
‘In Economic Terms, You Are a Depreciating Asset’ →
I remember seeing this on Craigslist a long time ago, and a conversation today about how people view each other made me recall it.  I typed into Google “You are a depreciating asset”.  Here, we have a business man and a spectacularly beautiful woman, arguably both at their worst (or best, if you prefer): I read your posting with great interest and have thought meaningfully about...
Dec 15th
http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/11/23/conrad-wolframs-... →
Central to Conrad’s argument is the role of calculating—that for the mainstream subject it’s not an end in itself, but a means to an end, and therefore should be wholeheartedly computer based. As he puts it, “Math ≠ Calculating, Math » Calculating”.
Dec 14th
Confusing error message when a foreign key... →
How SQL Server Reports Error Messages: Hello Louis, Thanks for providing your feedback on SQLServer 2005. We do realize that the error message, which is issued when a new constraint being added by ALTER TABLE is violated, could be worded better. The current message wording is (example) - Msg 547, Level 16, State 0, Line 1 The ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint ...
Dec 3rd
Holy States Can Save the World! →
…what…
Dec 1st