Nelson69

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It's web focused? In 2015, your new language needs to have some web stuff built into the standard library or at least some foundation libraries. I don't know that that makes it web focused though. Seems like there is a huge cultu
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I'm not going to argue with the game theory, it's correct and in essence, guns create the situation where by things escalate faster, when there are conflicts. We've seen this is various popular media events over the last few
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It's a step... It's worth something but it's not like there wasn't a ton of resistance to it. The question on my mind, were their CIA operatives that refused to comply with orders? Take the various police brutality ca
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You need to take a few steps back to fully understand the so called systemd controversy. 1) A number major commercial UNIX vendors have moved in the direction dumping the old startup scripts in favor of something more explicit and declarati
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There was no perfect storm for Blockbuster... They were competitive enough to wipe-out the mom and pop movie rental places that were common before them, but that was about it. They created a monopoly of sorts and then they milked it. The
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Has anyone ever had great things to say about IBM? I did my 7 years there, FWIW... It's not a geek friendly company, I think it just happens to be that simple. They do some great technology, they've invented a ton of great stuff
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So it's a hash table that's about twice the size of physical memory. The entries in the hashtable are usually pointers to memory that you need to deallocate (char* filenames in this case, maybe some other stuff too) so if you&#x2
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Anyone know more of the story? This sounds fairly one sided. I know nothing about this and I'm just guessing, but I'd imagine that after Palm sold to HP and then at various times under HP's reign, a lot of people left. Per
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Talk to a real-estate lawyer if you want to do some negotiation. They are sharks compared to agent, incredibly vicious sharks. The agents both want the deal to happen and get paid very nearly the same regardless of the negotiation, you
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The "dumb-proof" bit is from people that themselves are not strong in CS, typically... It's just snark as you say. There was incredible demand for something like Java, gigantic efforts were put in to place to standardize the
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"C replacement" means a lot of things to different people. Go doesn't appear to be particularly suited for writing a kernel or drivers, Rust looks better for that. Beyond that, if we're talking about writing user space
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The question I have is are the local broadcasters prevented from making deals with Aereo, is it too expensive for Aereo? Or rather did Aereo just choose to not deal with them in the first place? If they had won, could they 'install cab
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Most of these tools are small enough and simple enough that they sort of "get finished." Probably not interesting but to some purists. There is something to be said for the nice clean implementations of some of these tools. The
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To really compare the two is kind of revisionist in ways. BeOS didn't have a complete production grade network stack at the time (this was pre-BONE.) Or printing (and Apple made their bones on the same thing on the screen being in yo
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Not impossible but it's a pain in the ass. The current state of backup software is atrocious for such a task too.
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We won pretty handedly in Afghanistan and Iraq and we had bad intelligence. We were flat out wrong about a number of things, yet we prevailed.. I think equating it to war fighting is a little naive and an over simplification. There is st
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With the massive prevalence of twitter, facebook, tumblr and other social platforms where people not just speak about work but are actually hired in this day because of their crowd appeal, I think these agreements are a lot less about cover
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Wouldn't the evidence be in the commit logs? It's customary in most places to explain what you changed and maybe why, it's not unusual to have a reference to a bug or story or case or something, likewise there is usually
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More weirdness than the whole entire thing? I don't think you can read much in to anything here, GH painted themselves in to a corner and either had to deny the allegations or their seriousness or someone had to get punished. If she re
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Surely other women work there. Time will tell here, won't it? The story is dramatically more powerful if other women come forward. I don't know that it lessens things if others do not but it does create some interesting questio
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The donations are one aspect. I'm on the dev mailing list, been lurking for a few years, I've used openssl for various things for years and I have had an interest in when some newer TLS standards were going to be supported. It
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Has anyone left github in light of what's come out? From the comment activity, I find it hard to believe that people don't take those issues seriously but I can't say I've heard of much of an exodus from it. There are
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This sounds terrible, I'm sorry what happened and I'm sorry it's all out in the open like that. While github may have some bad actors, I'm sure there are some decent hard working folks there and in the leadership team
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Not lowering the bar, changing the metrics and possibly even raising the bar. I had some conversations with a couple professors there before I graduated in the mid-1990s, they saw it as a two fold problem. The geek culture makes it hard
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Well, they're changing... Honestly, for years watching them sell stuff and gradually back out it's looked like they were dying. Now it's very clear that they are making a gigantic bet on Watson and Watson like technologies
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Does GCC need to compete with clang at all? What's that mean exactly? Other than in terms of compile speed, it just seems like most modern compilers sort of reach some level of maturity and you really have to fabricate benchmarks t
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Actually, they absolutely should have access. Their staffs? Probably some of their staffers too. We're talking about people we trust to spend trillions of our dollars, decide if we fight a war, and make decisions that affect the en
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Was this money tax free? How does that sort of thing work? I hope bsafe licensees sue. Any one know of any serious efforts to replace some of the standard cipher suites in common code? AES -> Serpent, SHA -> Whirlpool etc...
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Was he rejected because of nervousness (his claim or maybe suggested by his article) or was he rejected for making some smart ass answers to their questions? So when they reject him, there is really only a couple of acceptable explanations
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It is at the surface. I don't think it's commonly implemented that purely though. There will be projects that are failing and they will have, if they already haven't had, tougher cuts. There will be projects that are succ

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