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Comment Re:Git and Mercurial? (Score 1) 268

by pescadero on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @07:53PM (#29194759) Attached to: Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems

You can have a centralized-server workflow when using a distributed tool. All you have to do is set up an extra server and say "Hey, this is the central server now".

Subversion has some advantages but that's not one of them.

Comment Re:Bad explanation (Score 1) 192

by pescadero on Thursday July 16, 2009 @09:12PM (#28725209) Attached to: New Binary Diffing Algorithm Announced By Google

Luckily, he wrote it in a programming language which was specifically designed to handle this exact piece of code.

Comment 31 bits, not 32 (Score 1) 160

by pescadero on Saturday June 13, 2009 @10:44PM (#28324195) Attached to: Twitter "Twitpocalypse" Snags Mac, iPhone Apps

A bit of nitpicking, but 2 billion (and change) is only the maximum value for 31 bits. So only apps which treat this number as a signed int are affected. Apps that treat it as an unsigned int won't be affected for another year or two (when the count passes 4 billion and change).

Submission + - Apple Censors Java discussion

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 27, 2007 @07:47PM

An anonymous reader writes: A quick Google search of "java 6 apple" turns up some interesting results. Note the following two threads on Apple's support website:

Apple — Support — Discussions — Where is Java 6 for Leopard????? ...

Apple — Support — Discussions — Java 1.6 in Leopard? ...

Both have since been taken down or otherwise made inaccessible. Seems a lot of Java developers are upset about the lack of information about Java 6 support in OS X, and Apple's removal of the Java 6 developer preview from the ADC website.

The discussions can still be viewed here:

Google cache for "Apple — Support — Discussions — Where is Java 6 for Leopard????? ..."

Google cache for "Apple — Support — Discussions — Java 1.6 in Leopard? ..."

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