CrLf

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by CrLf 16y ago
Stalling the transition hurts innovation, yes, and avoiding an address market would be good too. But this is ignoring the human problem, which was my original point. From a technological standpoint it would be nice to switch, but you have t
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by CrLf 16y ago
The real problem with IPv6 is that it focuses too much on the technical issues and mostly ignores the human issues. This is why it hasn't gained significant traction and, IMHO, won't even when the IANA runs out of unallocated IPv4 blocks. T
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by CrLf 16y ago
This because upstream projects usually can't be bothered to do integration work, and it's up to the distributions to do it and that means patches (which are normally separated from the upstream tarball in the source packages). Debian adds p
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by CrLf 16y ago
It zooms just fine on Safari on the Mac.
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by CrLf 16y ago
For a "Global Index", asking for the price of an ounce will stump people outside the USA. How much is an ounce again?
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by CrLf 16y ago
OpenVPN can be configured to be stealthy (to start a connection, the first packet must be signed with a shared-secret, otherwise it doesn't respond), while SSH doesn't. And OpenVPN has the performance advantage (tunneling is done over UDP i
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by CrLf 16y ago
Sometimes, that conspiracy is what keeps the business running. Whithout it, there would be no jobs. Not that this is the case everywhere and everytime, but if technical decisions were left solely in the hands of people that lack technical s
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by CrLf 16y ago
It would be surprising if consultants could keep anything running reliably. In my experience, they provide nothing but chaos and half-baked solutions.
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by CrLf 16y ago
Just choose Oracle, the answers also match, especially if you use DB2 Enterprise.
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by CrLf 16y ago
A mental model is essential to successfully use _any_ machine. You don't need to have a correct mental model of how it works, just a mental model that given the most common input, predicts the output. From your comment, I can see you have a
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by CrLf 16y ago
"As for SPARC, I seriously doubt they will pour significant money into it. Trying to compete with x86 is akin to setting $100 bills on fire at this point. They will no doubt keep the Sun brand alive and use it to sell x86 based machines (wh
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by CrLf 16y ago
Many "big" companies are using Solaris (and other UNIXes) because they have been for a long time, and there is a cost to switching. Upgrades to the kind of systems Solaris is being used (core systems and databases) tend to stay in the same
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by CrLf 16y ago
Probably because you are using a stable version, and MacVim 7.3 is still a snapshot.
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by CrLf 16y ago
For certain values of nice. While I find the PowerShell to be more powerful when I'm scripting stuff, I still prefer the unix shell mostly because it passes around and operates over text. Operating over text means you can compose a pipe pro
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by CrLf 16y ago
I'm not a very heavy user of Python, but I have used it for a few projects. I've never hit the need to have multiple threads in a Python project, but I wonder: Is the GIL that much of a bottleneck? Isn't the multiprocessing module and its l
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by CrLf 16y ago
Yeah, but the idea that a single atom of hydrogen was a threat hadn't occurred to me, and this was the real eye opener. Even though I've seen Star Trek and understood that deflector dishes were supposed to move "tiny bits" of matter from th
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by CrLf 16y ago
The first part about small bits of interstellar matter impacting the starship becoming an increasing problem as the speed approaches the speed of light is something as surprising as it is obvious in hindsight. I had hever had though of that
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by CrLf 17y ago
Maybe not on-topic considering all the other comments, but by the time I was finished with the first paragraph I could only think how far that is from my "ultimate dream job". Actually, and considering value, I guess my ultimate dream job w
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by CrLf 17y ago
Snow Leopard uses base-10 units in some places, base-2 units in other places. It isn't really confusing because when I go check how much free space I have on my hard-drive I'm just looking for a rough value, it can be base-10, base-2 or jus
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by CrLf 17y ago
You are defining "good" as "feature rich", which are different concepts. For example, MySQL wasn't and isn't as feature rich as the big closed databases, but it solved many problems as well as they did, and in many cases with less overhead
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by CrLf 17y ago
Hugely successful depends on where you look. Bu anyway, it doesn't really matter to the discussion, unless you are agreeing with me when I say that to most people the iPhone is just a better phone. Which is what the iPad is not.
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by CrLf 17y ago
The control that Apple has over the iPhone and the application distribution channel does contribute greatly to the iPhone's success. It makes the platform easily accessible to people who aren't inclined to search the internet for apps and a
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by CrLf 17y ago
Foxit Reader if you are on Windows, Preview if you're on a Mac, evince if you're on Linux. I personally do not use Adobe Reader on any platform. I found the alternatives to be both leaner and not lacking any relevant features.
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by CrLf 17y ago
I found that first list interesting, in that I couldn't fit myself into any of the categories (besides "other"). I'm not black, asian or indian. I'm not an hispanic. I'm white, but only if not comparing to a german, or a norwegian. I guess
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by CrLf 17y ago
And the most annoying part of that generic advertising is the fact that most of it seems to be made with powerpoint (complete with slide "dissolves" and text "slide-ins"), so it's of a very low quality. Even from the likes of McDonald's and
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by CrLf 17y ago
"Gcc isn't interested in them, they are holding off for some future C++ syntax, though I don't see how that helps C programmers." You are assuming that C programmers need to be helped. The beauty of C lies in its simplicity, not in its feat
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by CrLf 17y ago
I gave up on TV and now just watch cat videos on YouTube. Much better.
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by CrLf 17y ago
I'd say little to none. This, of course, excluding the kind of stuff you can do just by interfacing the engine ECU with a computer (using the OBD-II port that all new cars have).
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by CrLf 17y ago
Millions of lines is an exaggeration... You can't add up the code for the ABS to the code for engine control, to the car navigation system. Those systems may share information, through limited signals or simple data busses, but they are sep
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by CrLf 17y ago
"if you distribute h.264 videos on a large scale (>100k viewers), you need to pay licensing fees." Clearly, the likes of Youtube and Vimeo don't care about this. They do seem to care about using a codec that is standard, widely supporte

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