Hacker News: utx00

New comment by utx00 in "Why are you people defending Apple?"

utx00 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:02:10 +0000

until enough producers move.

New comment by utx00 in "Ask HN: Burned out. How can I make the most of a sabbatical leave?"

utx00 — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:48:22 +0000

can you motivate yourself to finish something small? say something that will take you one week? if nothing comes to mind, can you say wake up at 6am everyday for a week? or walk 2 miles everyday for a week? or cook for yourself, as best you can, "interesting" dinners? just for a week.

after that week is over, maybe report back?

i would not make any life changing decisions just now.

New comment by utx00 in " I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project."

utx00 — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:57:45 +0000

pretty!

New comment by utx00 in "MongoDB, Data Durability and Improvements coming in 1.8"

utx00 — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:31:58 +0000

thanks for your feedback.

so far we're going with couch and haven't experienced this. the best part of course is that we can add items to documents on the fly whilst keeping the existing test data! this is major for us. we can go back to testing right away. with MySQL the changes were so major that it was better just dumping and recreating from scratch (we are using django) and this wasn't exactly fast. django has a project "south" that would help with this, but we're eventually deploying to oracle and cannot rely on it or have the time to extend it to properly work with oracle.

New comment by utx00 in "MongoDB, Data Durability and Improvements coming in 1.8"

utx00 — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:59:59 +0000

what about couchdb?

New comment by utx00 in "Ask HN: Is 36 too late to start into programming?"

utx00 — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:39:51 +0000

no, no es tarde. pero comienza ya. te recomendaria python o ruby son mas faciles, disponibles y los dos tienen amplas comunidades. suerte!

New comment by utx00 in "Why I Switched to Git From Mercurial"

utx00 — Sat, 22 May 2010 10:02:05 +0000

so i tried it for a couple of days, and the speed was the thing that impressed me the most actually. the rest is not that dissimilar, but i didn't dislike it as much as i thought i would :) - our workflow assumes mq already so a git add is a qnew, or qref, a git diff --cache is a qdiff, a git diff is an hg diff ... so on. most commits i make are usually a qfinish, which is comparable to a git commit (no -a).

how do you manage patch queues in git? we need them because we are constantly backporting to different versions of our app. branches will mean n merges for n versions. stacked git? or is there a git native way to manage the same?

what about something like tortoisehg? gitk is pretty crude in comparison.

i assume one can glue a diff/merge tool like meld. is the experience similar when resolving conflicts?

thanks for any feedback.

New comment by utx00 in "Why I Switched to Git From Mercurial"

utx00 — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:23:06 +0000

i guess i will have to try git to be sure, but i really don't see a difference here. usually if i'm going to try something drastic, i try it on a clone that i know i can throw away.

New comment by utx00 in "Why I Switched to Git From Mercurial"

utx00 — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:19:55 +0000

the patches directory that mq uses can be put under hg control.

i don't know about git reset, but everything you mentioned before can be done with mercurial (mq, histedit, ...)

New comment by utx00 in "In praise of git’s index"

utx00 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:06:05 +0000

if you have topic branches in hg you can also strip them provided you didn't push them to a public repo.

New comment by utx00 in "In praise of git’s index"

utx00 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:34:04 +0000

so if you track project state with branches (for say versions) and you need to apply 'new feature' to all this n branches, does that mean n merges for your team? not for ours.

in all fairness, there is stacked git. go crazy.

New comment by utx00 in "In praise of git’s index"

utx00 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:31:00 +0000

one wonders how this works then, if Hg branches are so sub-optimal: http://hg-git.github.com/

you can re-write history in mercurial too - with the same obvious implications for both.

one thing that did go away with Hg was the need to merge unfamiliar code because someone upstream did a git-rebase.

New comment by utx00 in "In praise of git’s index"

utx00 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:29:50 +0000

one can do hte exact same thing with hg queues.

New comment by utx00 in "A new approach to China"

utx00 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:48:32 +0000

go google. that does it, i just put an order for a google phone.

New comment by utx00 in "HN Help: I'm lost"

utx00 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:37:26 +0000

first thing is to stop ruminating. even if your mind wants to. even if it feels like that is the best way out of this situation. so stop now. don't look for explanations, don't try to understand. that would make it worse. the answers are not in what we accomplish, or in what we think we need to do or be (great doctor vs. lowly coder) - all dangerous fabrications.

watch this video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1424079446171087119..., it's only :45 or so.

read these - take the day off and read them if you need to:

http://www.amazon.com/Full-Catastrophe-Living-Wisdom-Illness...

http://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Way-through-Depression-Unhappi...