Krazy Glew's Blog

Andy "Krazy" Glew is a computer architect, a long time poster on comp.arch ... and an evangelist of collaboration tools such as wikis, calendars, blogs, etc. Plus an occasional commentator on politics, taxes, and policy. Particularly the politics of multi-ethnic societies such as Quebec, my birthplace.

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Monday, July 23, 2012

Bob Colwell / Craig Barrett

http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/sigmicro-oral-history-transcripts/Bob-Colwell-Transcript.pdf 0:27:22 BC: That never happened. Instead, for...

Friday, July 20, 2012

small files may be their own checkin log message

sometimes I find myself taking the contents of a small file that I am checking in, e.g. with hg ci, and inserting the contents of that file...

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Repo state on branches

Interesting: if you do hg clone -r default (m)any branches that were closed will now be reopened. Because the Mercurial close record f...

Code phases: Distinction between simulation and instrumentation code

I often find in simulators that I want to distinguish the simulation code, the code actually needed to run, from the instrumentation code. ...

== and !=

Q: should you always define operator!=() when operator==() is defined? Uncomparables, where neither == or != are defined? Essentially, t...

File by file merge

Screw this "treat the whole repository as a single thing". To disentangle a thrash, I am copying files one or two at a ti,me fro...

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Log entries cloned to status

I want to make logs (diaries, journals, etc.) more useful. I have discussed the distinction between log entries - "at time T I did or...

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