andrewf

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by andrewf 17y ago
That license text is new. I'm curious as to what the previous version had as its license.
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by andrewf 17y ago
Nokia/Trolltech pronounce it "cute."
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by andrewf 17y ago
Not a new idea. Half of the first chapter of Fowler's Refactoring is about this.
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by andrewf 17y ago
If you really need to hire now, then you've got something that needs doing right away. Can Candidate B do it?
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by andrewf 17y ago
Head backwards to the source and you start to get more information. For instance: http://internal.hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2... Scroll down to "About this image"
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by andrewf 17y ago
If you want to take it off the grid (versus letting it ring out in silent mode), you could put it into airplane mode.
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by andrewf 17y ago
This is apparently a direct response from the person who wrote the article. Agree with him or not, the post is relevant. I don't think downmodding is appropriate.
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by andrewf 17y ago
It does. In first person groan http://twitter.com/Lcross_Nasa
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by andrewf 17y ago
Word's change tracking gives people history. No merging, but most seem able to live with that. Worst case some admin assistant has to piece all the changed documents together by hand.
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by andrewf 17y ago
Yes. I used to do the chatty bit first before subjecting interviewees to the "technical evaluation"; it seemed polite to engage people first. That was depressing. At least I found out the technical evaluation was worth giving. An astonishin
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by andrewf 17y ago
I don't think they're sitting on their hands. They bought Trolltech, and if you follow the work they're doing[1], there's lots of emphasis on small device functionality like multi-touch support, optimizing for small devices with embedded gr
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by andrewf 17y ago
Even better, Google can now open up VP6. Vendors have reservations about submarine patents on Theora/VP3 - the possibility that that even though On2 has disclaimed patent rights, other patent holders are lurking about, waiting for Theora/VP
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by andrewf 17y ago
The software will assert out (bomb, hard) if it's running on a platform which isn't 32-bit (that's the sizeof), and little endian (checked by putting the individual bytes of 0x12345678 into memory in little-endian order, and making sure tha
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by andrewf 17y ago
Another reason this matters: some places/domains require email to be directed through their auth'd SMTP servers. It means they can do things like sign all emails, or guarantee that all emails you send to people at the same workplace will be
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by andrewf 17y ago
// we don't even pretend to work on anything but i386 and LE arm const unsigned char c[] = { 0x78, 0x56, 0x34, 0x12 }; assert(sizeof(int) == 4 && *((int*)c) == 0x12345678);
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by andrewf 17y ago
Awareness of your own limits, and the likely quality of your work, is a good thing. But this descends into self-flagellation. Waaaah, I suck, you suck, we all suck. We're all the equal-worst programmers EVER. If you're doing research int
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by andrewf 17y ago
Putting as much content in the URL as possible is a common SEO tactic. A bit silly, really - we're producing readable English links targeted at the machines, and short strings of unintelligible gibberish for humans to look at and click on.
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by andrewf 17y ago
There's argument and reasoning in the bug ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501605 ) and other items linked to from that discussion. Long story short: some of the Windows versions that libnss runs on are unable to provide as mu
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by andrewf 17y ago
Something I noticed here and on your blog - I recommend you adopt the American comma convention for writing "100.000". Many people will read that as one hundred (with a decimal point); 10e6 is a lot more interesting than 10e3!
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by andrewf 17y ago
Sorry, I should have been clearer here. I was referring to queries with range predicates. Your counterexamples are true where all the returned/aggregated rows have the same indexed value; it may make sense to hash index under such circumsta
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by andrewf 17y ago
A hash table isn't much use for queries that return multiple rows, or use aggregate functions. (SELECT avg(price) FROM sales WHERE date_trunc('month', timestamp) = '2009-06-01'). Not only can a b-tree locate the edges of such a range, but i
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by andrewf 17y ago
My best guess.. RNG_SystemRNG first tries to use a deprecated API ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa387694(VS.85).aspx ), then CryptoAPI, then this temp file entropy gathering approach. But if the deprecated API is _broken_, rathe
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by andrewf 17y ago
Payflow Pro just processes credit card numbers you throw at it. No need for your customers to have a Paypal account.
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by andrewf 17y ago
Why does the business have to revolve around IT? Why can't IT be made to revolve around the businesses needs? This is a question to answer by looking at cost/benefit on particular processes, not a moral issue. It is also not the same as s
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by andrewf 17y ago
s/kids/users/. This is basically telling users that they have to alter their existing behavior to work around flaws in your implementation. You end up with users who are grumpy and/or uncompliant. "Be responsible" is easy to throw out there
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by andrewf 17y ago
You don't have a set of packages that is as broad, well integrated and easy to use as Ubuntu's or Debian's packages. MacPorts is a lot better than nothing though.
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by andrewf 17y ago
The best WS-* is WS-I, which lays out the ways in which you should use SOAP and the rest of WS-* if you actually want to talk to anyone.
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by andrewf 17y ago
If the software's any good, cracked warez versions will end up floating about anyway.
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by andrewf 17y ago
I don't have a Mac in front of me to check, but isn't mount-after-download default behaviour for Safari?
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by andrewf 17y ago
They already do. Quotas (with peak/offpeak) are already common in some places, such as Australia.

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