http://jeffrey.yasskin.info/blog questions and comments on the world Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:57:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Perforce implements move in terms of p4 integrate (basically copy) + p4 delete. Darcs doesn’t implement copy at all. Both are wrong. Implementing move in terms of copy mostly works, so it seems like the obvious choice, but it runs into problems when someone is editing a file that someone else ... http://jeffrey.yasskin.info/blog/archives/2007/03/28/move-and-copy-rcs-ops/ I need to get a new cell phone, so I’m putting together a list of requirements so I don’t forget half when I go to buy one. Essential: Text messaging Internet Easy-to-access vibrate mode Ability to edit numbers, names, tags, etc. Dictionary-based input mode so I only need to hit each key once. Should add names in ... http://jeffrey.yasskin.info/blog/archives/2007/03/24/cell-phone-requirements/ The city of San Francisco has started a Let’s Green this City campaign to encourage people and businesses to be more environmental and sustainable. It started with a Green Is advertising campaign on the bus stops, and a bunch of grass couches. The ads were particularly inventive, starting with just ... http://jeffrey.yasskin.info/blog/archives/2006/11/25/green-is/ Prop 89 establishes publicly funded statewide elections in California, funded by a 0.2% increase in the corporate income tax rate. It also tightens campaign contribution limits and creates a limit of $10,000 for corporate spending on ballot measures. It’s based on AB (Assembly Bill) 583, but when that got stuck ... http://jeffrey.yasskin.info/blog/archives/2006/10/21/yes-on-proposition-89/ I canvassed yesterday against Proposition 85, which would require parental notification before abortions and then went with that group to watch the debate between Schwarzenegger and Angelides. The people I talked to were overwhelmingly opposed to 85, as you would expect in SF, but the voter lists we had were pruned ... http://jeffrey.yasskin.info/blog/archives/2006/10/08/issues-or-values/ In the sciences (though not in fields like medicine, technology, and law, of which the principal raison d’être is an external social need), the formation of specialized journals, the foundation of specialists’ societies, and the claim for a special place in the curriculum have usually been associated with a group’s ... http://jeffrey.yasskin.info/blog/archives/2006/08/05/scientific-specialization/ I’m sitting in Coffee to the People after having just picked up the keys to my and Jim’s new apartment, 1298 Haight St. #6, San Francisco, CA 94117. Next up, moving. http://jeffrey.yasskin.info/blog/archives/2006/07/03/new-apartment/ Americans have the right to be audible. This is an implied right under the freedom of speech because what is speech, really, if one is forbidden from having an audience? Free speech was designed originally to allow those with political views to argue for those views in the earshot of ... http://jeffrey.yasskin.info/blog/archives/2006/06/19/the-right-to-be-audible/ Remember, remember the fifth of November The gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people. — V for Vendetta Go see it. And if you happen to know anyone who isn’t convinced that ... http://jeffrey.yasskin.info/blog/archives/2006/03/19/remember-remember-the-fifth-of-november/ So. I finally got my brain to shut up long enough for me to figure out that I’d found someone special back in Texas. She’s visiting California over her spring break. In other news, Johari and Nohari are pretty clever. Edit: We’ve broken up, amicably. http://jeffrey.yasskin.info/blog/archives/2006/03/06/girlfriend-and-memage/