user2634's comments

user2634 · on March 5, 2012

4500 USD / month is great money for 18 year old in Russia. It's 10 times usual wage.

homakov · on March 5, 2012

I wouldn't say 'great' but decent and ok.

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mahmud · on March 5, 2012

This whole tree doesn't understand the contracting business.

Hint: it's NOT 40 hours per week. It's not consistent. And there is that little thing called opportunity cost.

To be even close to $54k pa you might need to charge ~$100

rmc · on March 5, 2012

Perhaps, but now he might be able to get 10 times that

user2634 · on March 4, 2012

There is no point of linking to google search results because it is personalized. Everyone sees different pages.

franze · on March 4, 2012

use &pws=0

user2634 · on March 4, 2012

Doesn't help. https://www.google.com/search?q=internet&pws=0 returns only sites in local language. Zero English.

And nobody else uses &pws=0. Real Google isn't "&pws=0" Google.

franze · on March 4, 2012

&hl=all

&filter=0 (if you like)

yes there is no "real google result" but the impact of personalization (as long as you are not self spammed with google plus your world) is in generally overrated.

jxi · on March 4, 2012

It's not personalized to the point where you get completely different results for each person. The only thing is the order might be slightly different, and you might get local results now.

user2634 · on Feb 29, 2012

Github is complicated. I tried to make account one time. I registered and an email address was required which they promised not to share with anyone. But then I found that that email address is shared to the whole world in git commit summary! Later I had bigger problem, with setting up public key in TortoiseGit. Instructions at http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/ didn't work for me.

Github website also feels alien and weird, like Macintosh.

It's much easier to pass around git .patch files. Anyone can post anonymously (no email or account required) a .patch file on project's phpBB forum. Because it's usual phpBB, anyone can review anonymously and it's possible to post screenshots. It takes just 1-2 minutes to post a patch. Just select your commits in TortoiseGit and click "Create Patch Serial". There are graphical instructions for TortoiseGit in sticky thread on patches forum.

tikhonj · on Feb 29, 2012

Maybe I'm missing something, but I think GitHub gets the email address it displays in the commit messages from Git rather than your account. (That is, it gets it from whatever you set with git-config.)

getsat · on Feb 29, 2012

This is correct. You can use whatever email you want in your commits. Your Github email is not shared by Github to any other party.

jacknagel · on Feb 29, 2012

>But then I found that that email address is shared to the whole world in git commit summary!

If you're talking about the email address in the commit itself, that's part of the commit object and not anything GitHub does behind your back. If you publish the commit anywhere, not just GitHub, the email address has become public knowledge.

user2634 · on Feb 29, 2012

"Set up git" instructions tell this:

  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

  git config --global user.email user4325434@mailinator.com

You have to use same email as in registration or else it won't push.

getsat · on Feb 29, 2012

Nope. Authentication is done using your ssh key pair.

All my commits are done by noreply@example.com, but that is obviously not my Github email on either my personal or work accounts.

user2634 · on Feb 27, 2012

The best thing in this post was a link to http://idlewords.com/ . Very interesting blog.

user2634 · on Feb 26, 2012

Windows is fragmented? I use XP since 2002 and all programs are compatible.

Only very recently there are problems: DirectX10 doesn't work on XP and DOS programs don't work on Windows 7.

But still 99% of games and programs run on XP. Can you run a binary executable from 2002 on Linux or on Mac? How about binaries from 1995? On Windows they run just fine.

mrb · on Feb 27, 2012

I don't think you understand what fragmentation is.

Windows is fragmented both at the software layer, with all the different versions of it: 2008 R2, 7, 2008, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, Me, 98, NT4, etc. And it is fragmented at the hardware layer, with all the different hardware configurations it supports(ed): type and number of processors (64-bit, 32-bit, 16-bit), type of disk (diskless, SAS, SATA, IDE, SCSI), amount of RAM, number and resolution of each monitor, input devices (keyboard, trackpad, mouse, joystick), etc.

The fact that many apps can run on XP proves my point: despite being an extremely fragmented platform, it is possible to write an app that is relatively portable on different Windows versions and PCs.