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by __d 2y ago
The Firefox browser is built by the Mozilla organization. Mozilla depends upon funding from Google to survive, and over time, has become used to spending lots of money each year (since it arrives "free" from Google). Should Goog
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by __d 2y ago
This is lovely. As someone who doesn't use ObjC in earnest, it's also a good reminder of how nice it is under the hood.
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by __d 2y ago
Was there ever any effort to address these issues that came of your original post?
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by __d 2y ago
I don't think I've ever heard that before -- was there an ARM compiler available? Did DEC have any involvement? Did you do any prototyping?
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by __d 2y ago
perhaps a "mountain of salt" in this case?
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by __d 2y ago
Just load it up with an emergency contact, your airline and flight details, the address and number of your (or any plausible) hotel, and that's it. If questioned, you can explain that you don't want to suffer the theft of private
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by __d 2y ago
Is that different to imake (aka xmkmf) ?
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by __d 2y ago
It sounds like the OP has made their decision, and wants to avoid "the big three", so this is likely a moot point. But ... Dependencies are always a trade-off. Be they code libraries/modules, programming languages, network
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by __d 2y ago
I've used Digital Ocean for nearly 10 years. It's been good. That said: I don't know enough about your situation, but ... what are you optimizing for? AWS/GCP/Azure have each got a platform that provides a heap of
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by __d 2y ago
Thinking about a candidate who is studying part-time, I have two considerations: Positively, it speaks of a desire to learn, to become better, to understand more deeply, and to be willing to commit significant personal effort to that. Negat
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by __d 2y ago
I think it's terrible that the Internet Archive is very likely destroyed, or at best, we have to donate a large sum of money to pay off Hachette. But I think it was reckless to engage in uncontrolled ebook lending. Controlled lending
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by __d 2y ago
Yes, but ... Counter examples exist: the NASA moon landing tapes were lost, but a copy was found in a horde in Australia. Dr Who episodes, lost by the BBC, have been collected from fans' recordings, etc. There's some difficulty i
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by __d 2y ago
I'm sorry to hear your library is like that. Mine isn't, and I don't think this generalization is fair.
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by __d 2y ago
I think the last Caliphate was the Ottoman Empire, which ran from 1517 until 1924, and was reasonably stable and prosperous by the standards of the time?
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by __d 2y ago
Thank you
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by __d 2y ago
would you like to know more?
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by __d 2y ago
I should mention that one of my colleagues wrote a pure-C version of stow (available at https://www.gnusto.com/ ), to avoid the dependency on PERL, which made out bootstrap process for a new platform a bit easier.
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by __d 2y ago
Well, firstly, stow existed long before git, so some of it might just be "don't break what isn't broken". In the 90's, I worked at a place that had DEC Alphas with OSF/1, Sun UltraSPARCs with Solaris, x86 Linux
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by __d 2y ago
The point of HJKL is that it requires less difficult movement of your fingers than WASD / IJKL. It's a marginal improvement, perhaps, but ... optimizing for expert usage is kinda the vi way. So much of our computer interface is d
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by __d 2y ago
There was a time when many computer programmers cared less about making money, and more about principles. I don't mean that pejoratively. It was a simple, arguably naive mindset, and we had somewhat utopian beliefs about the impact of
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by __d 2y ago
In the early 1980s, an Ethernet adaptor required a lot of board space. They were often of similar complexity to the main CPU board. For example, this is DEC's first Unibus Ethernet: https://gunkies.org/w/images&#
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by __d 3y ago
No. Strawberry Qwik (sp?) was given a go though. Once.
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by __d 3y ago
I think that's the VB "flavour", a by-product of the original recipe.
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by __d 3y ago
They lied. If you can see the texture of the toast, it's not thick enough. I'd forgive them though, perhaps. They might have been thinking to convert you slowly. The big reveal can be overwhelming over the age of one.
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by __d 3y ago
Did he speak your language?
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by __d 3y ago
As a kid, and indeed as a young adult, eating a teaspoon of Vegemite was something I did fairly frequently. It was just a snack, with no mucking about, just instant food. A sort-of after school thing. It was way better than a spoonful of p
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by __d 3y ago
Yes, it will be perceived as a stupid career move. No, people won't really understand. Is it a bad move? There are no bad moves, only bad reasons? I was not CTO, but I was basically doing that job without the title. My company was sl
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by __d 3y ago
OSS (Open Source Software) is defined by the Open Source Definition. You can find that at https://opensource.org/osd Your wish for a clause that ensures someone distributing a derivative has to give part of their revenue t
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by __d 3y ago
When I last used COBOL (early 90's) we had a heap of JCL, for sure, but the real-time system used CICS for everything . Is it still a thing? What's the FOSS solution for transaction monitoring?
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by __d 3y ago
They're too young for that, I think?

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