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“The learning curve for Git is steep — perhaps the steepest of any VCS I’ve used. But the reason should be clear: It’s not a hammer; it’s a hardware store.” — Git Cherry Picking: Move small code patches across branches | TechnoSophos
“It was the only reaction I got! And I thought “Who cares about the fucking jumper, why don’t you ask me what are we going to do with the story or the character?” — Sofie Gråbøl Q&A in the Guardian
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He missed a trick by not calling it The Likes Of Others
A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he went away to war in 1914. He never returned, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike.
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My recent motorbike trip around Great Britain took me past some truly breathtaking landscapes, which reminded me of this excerpt from Kazou Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day:
We call this land of ours Great Britain, and there may be those who believe this is a somewhat immodest practice. Yet I would venture that the landscape of our country alone would justify the use of this lofty adjective.
And yet what precisely is this ‘greatness’? Just where, or in what, does it lie? I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question, but if I were forced to hazard a guess, I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
Here’s some pretty lazy journalism from the BBC, who ask “How dangerous is firing a gun into the air?”, concluding “it is a potentially fatal activity, which regularly results in the deaths of bystanders”. They back up the claim by citing numerous examples — none of which appear to be about people firing their guns in the air!
For example, the article mentions that “in 2010 a Turkish bridegroom killed three relatives when he fired an AK-47 at his own wedding”. But a Google search reveals that this incident was actually caused when “the groom lost control of the weapon as he tried to fire in traditional celebration in the air at the ceremony […] The guests were sprayed with bullets and the groom’s father and two aunts were killed”. (This was reported by, ahem, the BBC.)
In fact, according to a study conducted by the US Army Ordnance in 1920, a 7.62mm round like that fired from an AK-47 will leave a rifle at a velocity of around 850m/s, but in free fall reaches a terminal velocity of around 100m/s (http://www.loadammo.com/Topics/March01.htm). This makes sense: in free fall it’s propelled only by gravity rather than a ballistic charge, and it will tend to fall base down, giving it a less aerodynamic profile.
According to that previous link, at that speed the round have only half the energy required for a “disabling wound” - it might still injure you seriously, but it won’t kill you.
So it appears the answer is actually no. Having said that, I wouldn’t want to find out the hard way.
Fly España (Taken with instagram)
The quick way…
BASE_URL=https://raw.github.com/github/gitignore/master
for X in Global/OSX.gitignore \
Global/TextMate.gitignore \
Python.gitignore; do
echo "## $BASE_URL/$X ##"
curl -s $BASE_URL/$X
echo
done >> .gitignore