Written by Ram Rachum, developer of GarlicSim.
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Quick riddle
Here’s a quick riddle:
You owe your friend two Dollars. You have a $5 bill, but your friend has only a $1 coin for change.
What would be a fair way to settle your debt that would not require you to get more change?
Answer: You toss the coin. If you win, you don’t give your friend anything. If your friend wins, you give him the $5 and he gives you back $1, so he gets $4. His expectation is $4 * 1/2 = $2, which is exactly fair.
Thanks for all the people who posted their answers in the comments!
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A Git user’s first (and hopefully last) foray into SVN-land
I belong to a rare breed of programmers: I was born and raised on Git. It’s the only version-control system that I’ve ever used. This is my personal story of how I had to use SVN temporarily for a contract project.
Now, I know there are a million of blog posts out there saying “Ooh, look how much better Git is than SVN!” I’m not trying to tell people something they don’t already know about Git, SVN, and the difference between them— I’ll just be telling my own personal story and my own impressions of SVN.
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Postponing GarlicSim 0.7 yet again
Yeah, the deadline for GarlicSim 0.7 has been an epic fail. A couple of weeks ago I thought I had it under control, but then I got a contract job that’s been taking all my time. Good news for mah bank account, bad news for mah open-source project.
So I’m postponing the 0.7 release to November 1st, 2011. See you then.
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Postponing GarlicSim 0.7 again
I’m postponing the deadline of GarlicSim 0.7 again, this time to August 20th.
This is fucked up and I feel really bad about this. I should have been more realistic about my deadlines, but I’ve let my optimism have the better of me. I’ll try to be more accurate in future deadlines.
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