WorkerBee

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by WorkerBee 17y ago
It could be good for both eBooks and control systems.
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
I'm not sure about that article at all, actually. My C++ and Java are very rusty, and I don't think I could do it on the spot if I tried; let alone go into languages like python and ruby that are new to me. But if you gave me a week or two,
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
Of course, that was the view the Soviets also had. Although they were an "evil empire" Yes, this. At the Museum of communism in Prague, there is an exhibit that talks of how the people in the eastern bloc were kept in a state of terror of
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
I'd fail: I don't own a laptop.
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
You don't have to sell git or git-svn to anyone. It has to be sold to me (or your typical departmental svn user). I do spend time learning new tools, but that time is limited, so I'm less likely to spend it on something that has the poten
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
It's more fun to spend your free time copying git-svn's features and implementing them in Subversion. Or something. For most of us, no. For the SVN team, other forces are at work - I'd say familiarity of the code and desire for their baby
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
how similar were the last twenty years to the twenty years previous to that Kinda not. Computers, IT, internet and mobile phones were just starting to change the way that everyday people did things in the 1980s. They really got going in t
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
It's a race between utopia and disaster. And the outcome is likely to be a bit of both. Famines and plagues; and robots on Mars and Titan
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
They should use git-svn. using a new version with a few new features of an existing tool (svn) is always an easier sell than using two new tools (git, git-svn) as well, especially when one (git) has a reputation as being very complex, and
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
A short bus.
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
My home PC is on the internet over wi-fi. It goes down sometimes. If a game decided to go abort when this happened, even though nothing was actually wrong. I'd be angry. I'd call the game defective.
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
Nothing from Microsoft? No TFS? They missed a golden opportunity to lay into Visual SourceSafe too ;0
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
Yep,that article says that exactly the same thing is happening in the UK. Probably it's human nature.
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
I don't think I've ever stored a binary file in my source-code control system. (Hint: your VCS is not your backup server.) Backup is not the point. The point is that you should be able to get onto a new machine, and execute your build pro
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
The way that such chaining is possible is that each "query" (e.g., Users.order(...)) returns not an array of data, but a query object that one can manipulate still further. That sounds just like the IQueryable<T> interface used in
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
He made a threat ... there should be a penalty for making joking bombing threats Did you read the article? The author says (and I totally agree) that refraining from tasteless jokes while at the airport is a small price that we we pay w
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
They are interchangeable: http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutgrammar/orie... I personally used "oriented" - why use a longer word when a shorter one is precisely equivalent? Also, I'm used to it.
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
If you don't need transactions in a DB engine (PG, Oracle, MS SQL, etc), then you don't use them. I was trying to forget about MySQL and it's plethora of engines.
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
You might not need transactions now, but what if you need then later? If the speed difference between postgress and MySQL performance (what is that, 10%? a boundary case ) is going to kill your app, then get a 10% faster server.
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
As far as I understand mySQL - You have to choose engines - Some features (e.g. ACID Transactions) don't work in some engines. I'm not sure exactly why this is a feature. In PostgreSQL (and in most sane DB software) - You don't have to ch
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
If I were Jobs, I would not announce a tablet after CES and watch how that confuses Microsoft PR people. Jobs, on the other hand, probably cares more about his own business than about confusing Microsoft PR.
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
I would have phrased that as "These research projects always get surfaced when some competitor is about to launch something.." otherwise, yeah, it's about publicity and mindshare. BTW, is Project Natal shipping? I don't know, but they are
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
it's from last September ... nothing has been heard since (it's dead) I'm not sure that follows. Last September isn't that long ago.
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
only 3 months later? I'd give it at least another 3 with no news before calling it "an abandoned line of research".
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
Yes. Did the article suggest otherwise?
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by WorkerBee 17y ago
Microsoft generally are "working on this too" - they're a big company, and spend a lot on research. Hot research topics aren't that hard to spot. Whether it comes to delivering anything commercially is a different matter.