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Quotes of the week
Right now I'm traveling without access to my laptop to actually do
pulls. That was unintentional, but my laptop got co-opted for more
important stuff (child needed it for school an my other laptop has
a broken harddisk), so I've just been reading email with my
cellphone.
-- Linus Torvalds needs an Android git port
Abstracting something tends to make it permanent. When you have an
ugly, special-case temporary hack, there is merit to having it
sitting there in the middle of the code staring you in the face.
It's very explicit and we won't forget about it.
-- Andrew Morton(Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 17, 2010 18:55 UTC (Fri) by a9db0 (subscriber, #2181) [Link]
-- Linus Torvalds needs an Android git port
The quote is amusing. The tag line is hilarious.
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 18, 2010 13:02 UTC (Sat) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
So the laptop from which Linus does his git work and, presumably, also pushes to the canonical Linux tree, which hence is quite a sensitive device in terms of the security of Linux, is off being used at some school in Portland? Hmmm... ;)
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 20, 2011 20:33 UTC (Thu) by whacker (guest, #55546) [Link]
Considering that git uses secure hashes to check its contents, he can safely hand it to the TSA and still relax!
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