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How Core Git Developers Configure Git
hdp – What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP?
(…) what if I sent a packet using a transport protocol that didn’t exist? Not TCP, not UDP, not even ICMP—something completely made up.
Here is an expanded cheat-sheet to help you break out of the American tech bubble.
Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich, aber…
“Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service.”
Is npm Enough? Why Startups are Coming after this JavaScript Package Registry.
(…) what is the financial model that would turn npm from a cost center into a profit center?
Relevant comment: “I don’t understand how people fail to see that monetizing infrastructure nigh-universally requires betraying the purpose of the infrastructure. It’s already a profit center; the profits we get from npm are the profits of everything that requires npm. npm pays dividends to all of us across the Internet every day. The fact that our economic systems aren’t built to support this kind of notion is a bug in the economic systems, not a flaw in the concept of infrastructure.”
Sophie Thatcher playing Post Punk, Indie Rock, Freak Folk.
Chime into a world of noise and melancholia.
Ranging from ambient to 70s Italian film scores.
Perfect time for a long long walk.
Where do we go, indeed?
To the sound of raindrops
To the ticking of the clock
We packed your clothes and your books
Took them to the charity shop
Trump is good at reading America the way a vulture is good at detecting prey.
Relevant: Sebastian Haffner’s »Anmerkungen zu Hitler«:
Immer stürzte er nur das Fallende, tötete er nur das schon Sterbende. Was man ihm zugestehen muss, ist ein Instinkt dafür, was schon im Fallen, was schon im Sterben war, was nur noch auf den Gnadenschuss wartete. Ein Instinkt, den er allen seinen Konkurrenten voraus hatte (er hatte ihn schon als junger Mann im alten Österreich gehabt), und mit dem er sowohl seinen Zeitgenossen als auch sich selbst mächtig imponierte. Aber dieser Instinkt, zweifellos für einen Politiker eine nützliche Gabe, gleicht weniger dem Blick des Adlers als der Witterung des Geiers.
How to Make a Ginger Bug Starter.
All you need is raw ginger and sugar!
Naming sum types is often hard.
We frown and move on with something rubbish.