Nelson69

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by Nelson69 11y ago
Point 4 is sane? Greece doesn't seem interested in repaying their debt now, you think they're going to care in 10 years after just writing some of it off? Why won't they expect the rest to go away too? I think a lot of the
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by Nelson69 11y ago
Have you probed around the musl code? I welcome the competition to glibc and think they have some good goals. It's remarkably stark in terms of documentation. memset.c has some good comments, being as how it's not exactly how
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by Nelson69 11y ago
Isn't that only a risk if you need to sell the house at a time when the value is below what you paid? Buying houses for shorter terms is just more risky, period. The housing market can crap out in catastrophic ways. Just like the sto
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by Nelson69 11y ago
Just out of curiosity, are your ideas and inventions at all related to the industry your employer is in? I went down the road of lawyering up while I was at IBM, I was young and it was effectively a waste of money as IBM simply had no inte
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by Nelson69 11y ago
There was the OpenGroup's Architecture Neutral Distribution Format, but I'm not sure if it was ever fully realized. Around the time that was proposed some real serious energy was put in to C compiler optimization, across the ind
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by Nelson69 11y ago
What's the realistic life expectancy of modern hardware? I ran a Ras. Pi system for monitoring my sprinklers and such but after about 9 months it has had some funkiness, I suspect power related and then the flash has had a couple litt
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by Nelson69 11y ago
More disingenuous than somehow confusing policies of vendors with fundamental CPU architectural paradigms?
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by Nelson69 11y ago
SF/VA gave Linus and ESR stock. I believe ESR and several others were on some sort of community advisory committee to them. Part of SF's problem was that they didn't want to pick winners so much as create and facilitate
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by Nelson69 11y ago
This doesn't seem quite fair. I don't remember anything else like sourceforge when it came out in 1999. If you ran a project, you found a host somehow or paid for one, and you effectively managed and setup all of the services.
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by Nelson69 11y ago
At Broadcom? I'd echo that, the late 1990s and early 2000s were definitely when they were undergoing radical growth. They tended to pay lower wages but everyone was okay with it because they were making tons on the stock. I never
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by Nelson69 11y ago
the spinning up of OpenMandriva has to be a textbook example of how to do it wrong. The relevance had petered off pretty dramatically by that time. Seems the owners and possibly even the courts running the various administrations didn&#x
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by Nelson69 11y ago
They both compile to machine code? People get bent around the wheel all the time with the tiny niches but both seem well equipped for writing user land applications and are designed to be safer than C and it's cousins. Both have some
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by Nelson69 11y ago
What's the criteria for a process to be considered "working?" Fundamentally, since the inception of software, many people have thought that it's complex enough that we need "processes" to manage its delivery.
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by Nelson69 11y ago
There is something to be said about focus. I have a surge that I was given. I also have some high end training devices I use on the bike, Polar, Suunto and Garmin. Fitbit doesn't compete with these, neither does apple watch (at lea
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by Nelson69 11y ago
Who's gonna preserve that stuff? Even if you have the media, it's non-trivial to play it and get the data off of it. Moreover, the actual owners of it, the almost rush to end of life stuff when they can, they don't want to
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by Nelson69 11y ago
There is a more interesting dimension to that question. ARM chips tend to come with more third party accelerators. And I think there are more silicon vendors that are willing to cram more cores on to a chip. In the server space I'd
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by Nelson69 11y ago
It seems there is more backstory here that is missing from the article. Maybe a better question is, why don't all the auto companies, which already cooperate and "collude" on a lot of things, have similar licenses? There
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by Nelson69 12y ago
The writes block? How can that be? The only guarantee when you write to an mmaped page is that your wrote to the memory, whether or not it makes it do disk is up to many different things. So before you can write to the memory, it needs t
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by Nelson69 12y ago
I thought there were two fundamental ways to make a business: 1) You build a product/service and sell it. You sell the company for market share and revenues. I think everyone understands this. 2) The second way is more like a financi
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by Nelson69 12y ago
Other than using an email client application rather than a web application. Enigmail is good though.
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by Nelson69 12y ago
I kind of agree with this. Let there be planets and perhaps that should include 'subplanets' and then let there be a next level to their taxonomy where they can be described as 'clear orbit' or not. I expect that there
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by Nelson69 12y ago
Are they somehow forbidden from stickering books with a higher price? Bike shops sort of have that limitation, the big vendors pick the prices, but they're like 30% over wholesale and so the bike shops get 30% for assembling the bike
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by Nelson69 12y ago
That's also ignoring insurance and various other costs..
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by Nelson69 12y ago
I had a truly magical experience talking to an engineer at Mongo during our sales experience with them. This guy was some sort of super SE. We had a short list of things we simply could not make it do very quickly. He proceeded to tell
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by Nelson69 12y ago
It's just a different era. If you have 3 days, you buy that stuff online. If you're mid project and need something "today" Radioshack is often the best or only bet. It's like they have to have a huge inventory f
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by Nelson69 12y ago
Didn't Piketty give this a pretty good treatment?
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by Nelson69 12y ago
Was it a "free fall?" Yahoo was generating $2billion a year. It wasn't "sexy" but it still has a huge amount of traffic and was bringing in cash. It almost seemed like a trick to me, convince the world that thin
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by Nelson69 12y ago
There are 2 different kinds of outputs here. A license that restricted or applied GPL to the object code emitted by the compiler would create gigantic waves. The compiler's AST isn't usually an output. This does seem like a dat
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by Nelson69 12y ago
There are a fair number of interesting PostgreSQL forks that are completely proprietary. Those guys DO care about their source code. That's the exact case GPL is designed to protect against, there are developers that contributes
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by Nelson69 12y ago
First off, there are some fields where scientists can write their own ticket. Certain medical areas where an MD as well as a microbiological PhD is required, those guys just don't hardly exist... I've heard of relatively insane

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