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by bmastenbrook 15y ago
I believe that's 400 people who told Peter that they would be possibly interested in contributing something back when he first floated the idea. I was one of those 400, but when the time came I didn't have a subject lined up that I felt was
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by bmastenbrook 15y ago
Which distribution of Linux? Do you use compositing? If so, what compositing window manager are you using? What's your typical uptime? Do you use multi-monitor? Have you used an 802.11n AP, particularly a 5GHz AP supporting WLAN power save
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by bmastenbrook 15y ago
Oh! It's so easy. I can't believe I didn't think to do that before. ... but every time I do find a bug, I am surprised to find it. Thus it stands to reason there are bugs I have not yet found. How do I find all of them?
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by bmastenbrook 15y ago
Hail, god amongst men. Once upon a time I thought I was a very good C programmer. Today I know myself to be a terrible programmer. I surround myself with safety mechanisms such as -Wall -Wextra -Werror and the clang analyzer, but even these
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by bmastenbrook 15y ago
To say that wingo has forgotten that systems software needs to be written is both insulting and flat-out wrong. He is a language implementor (Guile). Of course he knows that it is still needed and what it is needed for.
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by bmastenbrook 15y ago
Oh, and I forgot that I had to disable powersave for the iwlagn driver in order to get any kind of performance out of it. I'm using the Intel 6300AGN; I tried to buy a 6200AGN from Amazon to try it out but Lenovo locks their BIOS to specifi
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by bmastenbrook 15y ago
tl;dr: don't believe it, at least not for any recent Intel ThinkPads. I have the ThinkPad T420 with Sandy Bridge graphics that they list as "Certified" under 11.04. This is at best highly misleading. I bought this laptop under the delusion
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by bmastenbrook 15y ago
Intel fabs chips here. They assemble electronics in China. Edit: And that's assuming that they assemble electronics at all, which I wouldn't bet on.
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by bmastenbrook 15y ago
"Also, I think the parent post was referring to the fact that Steve Jobs is now CEO of Apple which IIRC does most of their manufacturing overseas (SE Asia)." Does Apple have any manufacturing operations currently? I would be surprised if th
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by bmastenbrook 15y ago
"And the US can still complete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer." Assuming that you're referring to the type of electronics manufacturing that NeXT was doing at its plant, can you provide any evidence to support this assert
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by bmastenbrook 15y ago
I'm assuming that you have relatively recent experience in order to make this kind of statement. If you are happy with the cost, quality, capability and flexibility of your US-based contract manufacturing solution, please name names as ther
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
Hidden features in a programming language? Granted, most of these aren't "hidden", but they're nonobvious because the language is incredibly complex and it's difficult to predict from first principles that any of these things would actually
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
Isn't this the whole problem? 90% of the web is crap. If Google can't deliver the non-crap, I'll be looking elsewhere.
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
Beyond the flood of SEO spam and Demand Media-style content mills, there's another search quality problem I have with Google: torrent sites. I will frequently search on the exact name of a song or album on Google in order to find out more i
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
This is HN, so I'll give an example related to my startup. We make a wireless (802.11g) flash drive called the AirStash, which works like an ordinary USB SD card reader on a PC and uses HTML5 for the interface on wireless devices. Here's an
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
Not that I've seen, but I might have a different view of what constitutes an organized crime syndicate than you do.
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
Ah, but we did live through it in the '80s with the satanic abuse hoax, and we didn't learn anything. In fact, the people involved in pushing the hoax were rewarded with higher office. See http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487042
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
"since Colin presumably doesn't want to raise his prices to pay for actual review" Speaking as a Tarsnap user, he ought to. The service is seriously underpriced right now.
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
As I said, 0x lambdas can do that... ... but you probably shouldn't: don't use a macro where a function will suffice, and if you need to use a macro, write a macro that syntactically wraps around a function if possible. C++, especially 0x,
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
Yes, it'd work with 0x lambdas; however, the situations where this occurs in C are much less common in C++. Consider the "max" example given, as written in C++: template <typename T> T max(T a, T b) { return (a > b) ? a : b;
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
``I would presume it saying "the power brick is defective" is a really, really good specification about what the exact problem is with regard to a "safety issue."'' I'm suspicious of this explanation. The brick might be defective, but it's
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
It wouldn't be self-regulated; there are already laws about declaration of origin on products. The "Made in China" stickers on devices aren't there because the manufacturer is giving the vendor a discount for advertising the Chinese origin.
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
"I am willing to pay more money if you build your products in the US / Europe / Japan" No, you aren't. Well, you might be; I don't know what your means are, but you probably aren't. Here's the problem: it's not just the extra 20% in cost of
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
Maybe it'd be a one time fee for somebody like Cisco that can afford the intermediate CA process, but I've looked into this for my own company and there's no way we can afford this. Nor is there any affordable option to prepurchase device c
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
Perry doesn't work for VMware. He has his own business that offers training on VMware products.
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
The weekly diesel discount might also be a good way of attracting loyal customers from local businesses who operate diesel vehicles.
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
Once again, I'm not convinced the specialists are actually filtering usefully instead of juat defining the boundaries of their niche. You've assumed that the non-reviewed content I'm reading is in the form of papers. It isn't; it's blog pos
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
I honestly don't remember. It's somewhere between 25 and 50, though not all of those were read in detail.
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
Given the huge number of niche conferences and journals out there, is the filtering that takes place actually useful? I'm not convinced of it. I've engaged in venue shopping myself. Meanwhile useful, novel work is published in the open ever
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by bmastenbrook 16y ago
Not really. I was not shocked. Were you shocked? If so, have you gotten all the sand out of your ears yet?

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