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by Hoff 14y ago
When working on or editing documentation or the comments, I start with the "two-year-old kid" review. I ask myself "why" and "what", and often repeatedly, until I get to a concise answer. What's this? Why is this here? Why do I want it?
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by Hoff 14y ago
A comparison of carriers in various fleets; the sizes, numbers, and countries: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/carriers.htm scroll down for the image.
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Japan's Newest Maglev Prototype - 310+ MPH(phys.org)
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by Hoff 14y ago
I'm not sure where you're headed with that. In emergency services, specialists tend to be communications officers or dispatchers, or the radio shop, and variously assisted by the computers and the radio consoles that are increasingly superv
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by Hoff 14y ago
"Ruggedized" gear is a requirement here. Emergency services radios need to be very solid, and very easy to use — you're always working on something else and quite possibly life-threatening, and the radio is a tool. If you can drop it, slam
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by Hoff 14y ago
Radio programming is almost always local to and customized for the department or agency or location, and the channel names and tags seemingly always vary. Even in a system that's been architected with specific channel layouts, there's almos
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by Hoff 14y ago
gmake scripts are usually fairly portable to OpenVMS, and there is a decent — though not great — ability to invoke bash build scripts directly. If I had my druthers here, I'd like a build tool that wasn't a layer atop GNU/Linux/Unix — and t
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by Hoff 14y ago
Kidding? No. I'm not. To my point, try porting an autotools package to OpenVMS, for instance. No autotools. Weak bash. No CMake, either. And trying to port autotools itself has been an on-going project; that's been no small effort an
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by Hoff 14y ago
Have you ever tried to port a package that is using autotools to a platform that is not based on GNU/Linux? Among those of us that have attempted or have done that port, most will probably not look particularly favorably on autotools again.
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Burnished by Starbucks, upstart Square battles payment giants(reuters.com)
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by Hoff 14y ago
Economic Analysis Group Competition Advocacy Paper by Gerald R. Bodisch, US DoJ Antitrust division http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/eag/246374.htm
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by Hoff 14y ago
Original article: http://txchnologist.com/post/32463368168/channeling-star-tre...
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by Hoff 14y ago
Wider adoption? In enterprise-scale companies? For starters, acquire the reputation for providing high-touch, enterprise-grade, enterprise-focused, enterprise-costs support, with all that entails, and preferably with a cost somewhat below
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by Hoff 14y ago
Offering Windows Phone 8 devices is an obvious play for a hardware vendor that's aligned with Microsoft. With WP8, HP does what it's comfortable doing - hardware - and Microsoft does the software stack. Whether HP (and Microsoft, for that m
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by Hoff 14y ago
There's asset covering, and there's a license where you're assumed guilty until litigated. And going against an organization that's "saturated with lawyers"? Even if I were creating a voter registration web site, I'd likely not use this pac
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by Hoff 14y ago
The first part of the software license looks to be BSD/MIT-like with the to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
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by Hoff 14y ago
That's largely because I don't care if the bulb uses fresh-squeezed farm-raised unicorn milk. I care far more whether the output color of the bulb is close to incandescent lighting or maybe to sunlight (what folks are used to), and preferab
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by Hoff 14y ago
Old news. Reads more like an advert for the Philips bulb, too. See http://www.marco.org/2012/07/31/two-new-led-bulbs (and the earlier review, which included this Philips bulb) for some views and pictures of the differences in the colors.
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by Hoff 14y ago
The unification is textbook. Sort of. Right up until their users needing the jarring transitions over into classic Windows. Windows 8 is clearly a platform intended as part of a migration from classic Windows UIs and APIs over to their (n
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by Hoff 14y ago
B4RN is using burial, which is a great approach for reducing long-term maintenance, but the extra costs of burial may or may not work in other localities. Burying wires in gravel, or burying below the usual furrow depths in farmer's fields
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Blackout: What's wrong with the American (power) grid(boingboing.net)
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by Hoff 14y ago
If you call the US "IP cops" for a perceived violation of IP or copyright, then the response will probably involve DHS. The Department Of Homeland Security (DHS) is the home of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), and ICE h
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by Hoff 14y ago
Citation, please?
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by Hoff 14y ago
If you trust the cURL folks, there are regular conversions of the Mozilla root certificates available[1]. There's a Perl-language converter tool available there, for those that don't have Go handy for the extract-nss-root-certs tool. And th
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by Hoff 14y ago
Or you could hand examples of your favorite rogue web bot a whole pile of confusing chunder.
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The Whiskey Rebellion(brokenpianoforpresident.com)
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by Hoff 14y ago
In large-scale and homogenous departments, yes, that might sometimes work. Through what is known as mutual aid, it is routine for various smaller police agencies to interoperate with other law enforcement agencies; with county, state and fe
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by Hoff 14y ago
Synopsis: How to make money selling iOS source code (sans various assets files) and related environment files to other iOS game developers. Interesting idea. It would be interesting to hear whether this succeeds; if there's enough interest
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by Hoff 14y ago
This realization is not new. This debate is not new. If you built applications for IBM VM/CMS or GECOS systems, you used proprietary APIs. If you built for VMS, DG/UX or HP-UX, you used proprietary APIs. Same for applications built for Wi
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by Hoff 14y ago
Alternatives to diesel? Some sites use microturbines or full turbines, and various of the local backup generators are LP or LNG and not diesel. Neither diesel nor the gasoline blends are particularly stable during storage, unfortunately. Ca

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