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by antod 11y ago
It seems that way to me. The current administration desperately hope to be able to do nothing and have it resolve itself or do just the bare minimum response to each crisis, but usually underestimate just what that bare minimum response is
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by antod 11y ago
* > But I don't disagree that software can be done. It depends on the software, and the supporting ecosystem just as much. A microwave doesn't need or get updates, but it's also not networked, or rendering across different
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by antod 11y ago
I'm sure the OpenSSL devs could've figured out some obscene way of messing with the JVM to make it happen. You know just in case you needed to cross compile it for Windows 3.1 using VMS or something.
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by antod 11y ago
In terms of web debugging instead of general code debugging tools mentioned by others, the common Python frameworks have toolbars based on Armin's Werkzeug one: http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/dev/debug/
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by antod 11y ago
> You really had to work hard to goof off at work when all you had was nntp, archie and gopher. Nonsense, I could goof off quite easily with nntp :)
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by antod 11y ago
No, there will still be engineering input but the solution will be akin to the assembly worker hacking the part into place.
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by antod 11y ago
This is more about production lines vs one offs than engineering vs hacking. Civil engineering is real engineering but jobs are usually unique. Problems in civil engineering projects are usually 'debugged' and 'patched'
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by antod 11y ago
The commonly understood aspects of Kanban is that it is a pull (team members assign themselves work based on priorities) system that has a 'work in progress' limit - ie the most number of items a team/person can work on at on
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by antod 11y ago
OpenJDK7 (not sure about 6) is still getting updates. I think Redhat is sponsoring that.
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by antod 11y ago
Interesting - my experience was in the early 80s. I suspect getting the 12x table added to the NZ maths curriculum was probably the main deliverable of the 2001 Knowledge Wave Conference.
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by antod 11y ago
Same in New Zealand. The only times I ever saw anything with 12x tables it had escaped from the US education market and had exercises involving nickels, dimes and quarters etc.
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by antod 11y ago
> how many times do you calculate "X per year" in your head? i do it multiple times per day, and not just at work. Seldom enough that I 'calculate it in my head' (as your comment suggests you do too) rather than mem
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by antod 11y ago
Yes. 2.7 won't be in the default install of 16.04. Although 2.7 will still be installable of course.
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by antod 11y ago
So the debate is whether it may or may not be as bad as one of the worst alternatives. That it is even comparable is damning enough.
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by antod 11y ago
He probably is happy, but when I read that I'm sad for his parents. Especially when I think of them in another 10 or more years. And then a bit later I realise (selfishly?) there's more to it than empathy towards some strangers I&
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by antod 11y ago
Maybe you should have read the whole thing. His customer (the Mexican Govt) netted $6B out of the deal in the end.
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by antod 11y ago
That was the point of the article. Wouldn't you only get a clear description and be able get to the heart of the matter if it wasn't misunderstood? Were you expecting hard data in a magazine article? I personally thought the &#x27
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by antod 11y ago
> It's spelled ReST. Really? It's been capitalized REST everywhere I've seen it. Including here: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch... You weren't thinking o
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by antod 11y ago
You weren't thinking of Dogpile were you? That was a pre Google meta search engine that sent your query to multiple search engines.
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by antod 11y ago
I can't speak for the other poster, but I reckon someone who liked both Python AND Scala would have a pretty good handle on the pros and cons of different type systems.
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by antod 11y ago
> Carbon dioxide != pollution It's what plants crave!
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by antod 11y ago
Like Thunderbird 2 but with passenger modules? Edit: that will teach me about not reading the article first. It already had a picture of Thunderbird 2. Doh.
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by antod 11y ago
> That said, I find strange the fact that so many corporations choose to support GNU/Linux over BSD in terms of driver development or funding, given that the BSD license is way more permissive. This was the reason Linux picked-up e
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by antod 11y ago
That was my first thought too. The bad guys will just make sure they stick to the uncrackable illegal stuff :)
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by antod 11y ago
Ahhh back when the acronym WIMP used to mean something :)
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by antod 11y ago
Debians popcon (Popularity Contest) which tracked package installs was always opt-in as far as I can remember. Ubuntu sent Unity dash searches to the web (with an opt-out) for a few releases, but that is back to opt-in now thankfully. As fa
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by antod 11y ago
> I'm a Python ignoramus, but I think they're the same, except for Perl's being more concise. Isn't everything always more concise in Perl? No matter what language it's compared to :) > How would you do a 3
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by antod 11y ago
Asking as a Perl ignoramus, what does this give you over the defaultdict(int) example from the article? Does autovivification mean that the default value to use depends on the operation? eg 0 for addition and "" for concatenation?
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by antod 11y ago
No No No - you are totally missing the point. The design language used in those slides has been iteratively refined over decades and exhaustively A/B tested. It has many years of psychometric analysis applied to make it one of the most
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by antod 11y ago
> A lot of the failure is actually on the parents here. That's the point they make in the article. Urging other parents not to fall into the same mistakes they made, and how much better things are now having corrected them.

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