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Merging vs. Rebasing

Atlassian201659 points51 commentscited by 10 details

Compare git rebase with the related git merge command and identify all of the potential opportunities to incorporate rebasing into the typical Git workflow

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Aligning Language Models to Follow Instructions

OpenAI Blog202259 points6 commentscited by 16 details

We’ve trained language models that are much better at following user intentions than GPT-3 while also making them more truthful and less toxic, using techniques developed through our alignment research. These InstructGPT models, which are trained with humans in the loop, are now deployed as the default language models…

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Pimping out git log

bartman's blog200959 points4 comments details

I got playing with git log and ended up creating this alias: [alias] lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative Which adds a git lg command that is a prettier version of git log --oneline.

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Beating the Averages (2001)

Paul Graham202258 points50 commentscited by 371 details

April 2001, rev. April 2003 (This article is derived from a talk given at the 2001 Franz Developer Symposium.) In the summer of 1995, my friend Robert Morris and I started a startup called Viaweb . Our plan was to write software that would let end users build online stores. What was novel about this software, at the…

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Code Reuse in Google Chrome Browser

Peteris Krumins200858 points13 comments details

As everyone already knows, Google released a new open-source web browser called Chrome. Having interest in code reuse, I downloaded the source code and examined all the open-source libraries used. Google Chrome browser shows excellent example of code reuse. I found that they use at least 25 different software...

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Django tip: Caching and two-phased template rendering

Adrian Holovaty200958 points6 comments details

We've launched user accounts at EveryBlock , and we faced the interesting problem of needing to cache entire pages except for the "You're logged in as [username] " bit at the top of the page. For example, the Chicago homepage takes a nontrivial amount of time to generate and doesn't change often -- which means we want…