SixSigma

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1. 691.▲
   by SixSigma 10y ago

   Maybe through a series of expensive loans for tuition....
2. 692.▲
   by SixSigma 10y ago

   How difficult was the bug reporting process? That is a good metric for a project.
3. 693.▲
   by SixSigma 10y ago

   >> It might just as likely boost the economy of the UK. > Pure assumption on your side or can you support this with sources ? That's the point. It is all speculation.
4. 694.▲
   by SixSigma 10y ago

   Asia is a very big place. Stalin was as Asian.
5. 695.▲
   by SixSigma 10y ago

   The Danish Shipowners’ Association (which includes Maersk) were defeated at Paris when they tried to get emissions curtailed http://shippingwatch.com/carriers/article8296860.ece
6. 696.▲
   by SixSigma 10y ago

   See also Ming the Mollusk, the oldest clam ever found, was 507 years old, according to tests. But Ming died prematurely thanks to the scientists who determined the age. http://reviewjournal.com/news/worlds-oldest-clam-k
7. 697.▲
   by SixSigma 10y ago

   To be even more pedantic the correct term is "apathetic".
8. 698.▲
   by SixSigma 10y ago

   I should cash in my Aviva pension and invest!
9. 699.▲
   by SixSigma 10y ago

   This is an incentive used in Lean manufacturing. If you save the company some money, they pay it instead to you as a bonus for a while. I have heard of 6 months in full and then 6 months at 50% so it is not such a shock the lose.
10. 700.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    My friend used it as the OS for an acoustic levitator built in the US and sold to a Japanese Company - he got sensible hardware control and a GUI toolkit all in the same OS. I worked for a startup trying to build a phone - I'm NDA on t
11. 701.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    I know of commercial products containing Inferno. What makes you think it impossible?
12. 702.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    It runs straight from the desktop on Windows, OSX, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and, of course, Plan9. There is also an ActiveX version i.e. hosted in Internet Explorer but I'm not sure if it still works.
13. 703.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    I've worked professionally with Inferno and know the inventor and current maintainer. It's a good system and is used in a couple of commercial systems I know of. It is also ported to IBM's Blue Gene and used in the research p
14. 704.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    But not while you were in prison for not revealing it. Surely you'd be lying there at night and passwords would be all you could think about! I keep going over where I went wrong in the exams I did a month ago and I've already had
15. 705.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    I'm not so sure. It's going to be on your mind constantly, surely.
16. 706.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Maybe he's gambling on Trump's "onshore your cash or else"
17. 707.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    > BBC micro etc all ran 6502 Mine still runs, not ran :)
18. 708.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    I loved Pagemaker. Much better than Quark.
19. 709.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    I like the idea of perpetual leases for some items E.g. Washing machine, fridge etc. I would take solid construction and reliability of those over planned obsolescence.
20. 710.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    My xbox 360 has never been connected to the internet And I'm a top poster!
21. 711.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    We used to have a saying "friends don't make friends run closed software". I guess those days have gone.
22. 712.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    I read every recall, food and medical, from 2000-2015 for a university research project. tbh I'm surprised anyone is still alive !
23. 713.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    List of FDA medical equipment recalls for 2016 http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/ListofRecalls/ucm48... At least three of them are Class 1 - May cause death And all of those are software related, none
24. 714.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    “are you kidding me?”
25. 715.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    I think you mean "is the solution, not the problem"
26. 716.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    My MBED has a USB port so I can use a keyboard on it. Or a ethernet. So many to choose from https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/
27. 717.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    The Javascript Trap http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html
28. 718.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    In the 90s we used the serial port to send a heartbeat via a daemon into a Resistor / Capacitor combo. If the voltage dropped it fired a relay to press reset on the PC. That's how we got good uptime without being on call :)
29. 719.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Julia has the best of both with the Any type. You can write Dynamic code and then tighten it up when you've got your system worked out.
30. 720.▲
    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Yes, I was agreeing with you and you went to the effort of explaining why :) There a quite a few people ITT saying "just emulate it" and I imagine they have never lifted a soldering iron. Getting the thing to run when you designed