Scramblejams

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by Scramblejams 16y ago
Augh! Nice work EGreg, I hadn't run across this before. I'm reading them and I'm so sad there aren't more. Just finished Landscape I and I've been left wanting more. So... Pretty please? :-)
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by Scramblejams 16y ago
This is the kind of analysis you end up with when you assume an exponential change will continue essentially unbounded.
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by Scramblejams 16y ago
Hey, you're talking to somebody who's doing almost all of his programming these days in j2me! Sometimes the customer restricts the craftsman's selection of tools... :-)
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by Scramblejams 16y ago
Sorry, but this is such an oft-applied aphorism that I feel it needs a corollary: A good craftsman has the wisdom to select the right tool for the job.
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by Scramblejams 16y ago
You've got what's called a nice problem to have. At that rate you must be charging many millions per year, so sure, it's all about minimizing your fees. But for those of us with much smaller-to-nonexistent revenues, wondering whether our ap
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by Scramblejams 16y ago
Does Braintree eliminate the need for a merchant account, with all the complexity that entails? Do they offer a developer API that's super-friendly to write for, allowing for weird use cases like processing payments from native BlackBerry a
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by Scramblejams 16y ago
I got tired of OpenOffice's IMHO clunky formula editor, so I thought: "Ah ha! Pros use TeX! So should I!" Then I saw how much fingertyping is necessary to reproduce what I was doing in OO, and I went back. Of course, I was trying to kill a
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by Scramblejams 16y ago
You checked out Pyjamas?
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by Scramblejams 16y ago
Any time I have to reach for an external tool to figure out what's wrong with my program, I wonder if the language/framework/library/whatever could be improved to help prevent the problem in the first place. Valgrind much?
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
Very often Matlab. Very often badly. And for a programmer who has to watch, it is to weep.
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
This looks very cool -- I was totally stoked when it first came out several years ago. Sadly it looks to not be very active. Last commit seems to be in May, then 2008 before that...
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
Anybody else get an annoying dialog from this site complaining that your cookies are disabled?
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
Haha! "Thieves." "Locking out." You're just an anti-GPL zealot. If using the GPL makes me audacious, then call me audacious. Now go troll somewhere else.
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
"it merely let those specific developers feel better by sophomorically raising the proverbial middle finger to 'thieving' commercial interests" Oh man. Fine, you don't like the GPL. We get that. But to say the license change should have bee
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
Happenstance in the case of OpenLDAP I could accept, though again I'm totally unfamiliar with the project. For all I know they were big Waldo fans and were promised signed first editions of the latest book. It definitely wasn't happenstance
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
By the way, I think I've omitted something from the discussion until now that may help you understand why the GPL was perceived as the right license at the right time for Netatalk. The initial influx of developers after Netatalk's long mori
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
Haha, I never said the BSD license couldn't be used successfully. Now I just think you're trolling. The project looks like it's in fine health to me... http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=6860...
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
"I never ran into the CNID issue when using Netatalk on our Mac OS 8 systems." That's good! Unfortunately I did, and so did many others. A quick perusal of the old mailing lists will turn up plenty of this. We tried a test rollout in a divi
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
"The fact that your missing is that the once-successful project was already dead because the primary authors no longer required it and the technology landscape had changed, not because the BSD licensed was used." "The project reached full m
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
By the way, I just have to take issue with this: "It's presumptuous to take a product that was entirely and successfully developed for years under the BSD license and then claim it as a GPL success story because the new maintainers had a mo
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
Nvidia's the annoying exception, and I say that as an owner of an 8800GT who has to recompile the module for each Debian kernel upgrade. But when I think of all the other hardware in my machine which runs without a hitch under GPL'd drivers
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
"New, active, non-umich developers brought the project back to life. Not the GPL." While we're being pedantic, I'll note, completely unnecessarily for our thinking readers, that the GPL was necessary but not sufficient. "The project stagnat
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
Of course not, because a core of developers who wanted the project to move forward recognized that multibillion dollar companies were benefiting but not contributing, and a change to the GPL motivated their involvement and brought the proje
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by Scramblejams 17y ago
I've seen an effect that is quite the opposite of what the author claimed. Netatalk (primarily an Apple File Protocol server for Mac clients) didn't get much love from developers because it was BSD-licensed and companies selling storage box
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by Scramblejams 19y ago
Ginormous amounts of h2o, and quick access to a bathroom that isn't unpleasant to visit. I dig red meat, but for long sessions, more vegetarian-inspired faire. Progressive trance if I'm insufficiently disciplined to choose the better option