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Anyway of getting the bleeding_edge forced to regenerate? I notice it hasn’t been done in 3 days (since the 18th for the HttpServer docs at least). Not sure how long it usually is between regenerations of the docs.

1 season for Christopher Eccleston, 3 for David Tennant.

(misc@dartlang.org)

What we’ve seen pretty consistently is that when something moves from a traditional monetization model to free-to-play, you see about a 10x increase in your audience and about a 3x increase in your gross revenue.   Our customers have defeated us… They’re building content that’s just as good or better than what we’re building, and they’re building it at a spectacular rate… We have people who are making $500,000 a year selling content in the Workshop. [Read More]

Note that the very set of developers that can fix these problems are, traditionally, the least likely to do much about it.

Diego Novillo

If you are writing code that may still be in use a year later, balance the convenience factor against the difficulties you will inevitably suffer later.

 

Large scale software development is unfortunately statistical.

John Carmack

I like my system to stay working and maintainable. I still have one system that was installed with Debian 2.1, and upgraded ever since and is still doing fine. You don’t generally get there by taking shortcuts that seem convinient now, even though long term they are a bad idea. Sure. I have that religion too. The other way that you don’t get to having a system that’s been continuously upgraded from Debian 2. [Read More]

Upgrade immediately unless you are using PostgreSQL or SQLite3. Users of all other databases require immediate upgrade.

José Valim