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2281.
by bregma 8y ago
Could be that older people are less flexible. I mean, I've been a professional software developer on the forefront of new tech development for about 40 years. I can't seem to do anything else but learn new tech as it comes along
2282.
by bregma 8y ago
I dunno. I've dabbled a bit in programming (professionally for about 40 years) and I maintain and support the C++ toolchain for a major commercial embedded operating system. I have the opposite experience and opinion about C and C++
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by bregma 8y ago
Robots are autonomous mechanisms. These are waldoes. Not to belittle the purpose and sentiment (and kudos to the effort to better enabling those with physical restrictions), but an androideqsue waldo is just not a robot.
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by bregma 8y ago
That's doomed to fail because the only applicant who qualified was over 30 and was visbly middle-eastern.
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by bregma 8y ago
Tag spam? No. In just 2040 lyrics of pop songs will consist of nothing but a string of emojis.
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by bregma 8y ago
We used to just call it a 'branch' because it was just another branch in the distributed revision tree. There is nothing special about a branch you create and commit to, whether it's by clicking on a picture on the screen or
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by bregma 8y ago
"libc" is the C-language runtime library. The Go language is not the C language. Different things are different. There is no reason for programs written in the Go language to use the C-language runtime in any operating environm
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by bregma 8y ago
Canonical got out of the personal computing business in April of 2017. They have a handful of people still contributing to Ubuntu as leverage into the potentially lucrative IoT and In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) developer markets, and that&
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by bregma 8y ago
Also, prostitution is legal in Canada. What's the next government monopoly, I wonder...?
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by bregma 8y ago
See also Ontario's OCS https://ocs.ca/
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by bregma 8y ago
That's what the Beer Stores looked like (and still do where I live). The LCBO stopped looking like that in the 1970s, except no conveyor belt: they would hand you your package in a brown paper bag, and you had to sign your order form.
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by bregma 8y ago
Can't give any because there are Government Agents just waiting to pounce if I do.
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by bregma 8y ago
39 million vs. 36 million. Not a big enough difference to matter.
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by bregma 8y ago
The legislation I linked to suspends all constitutionally-guaranteed rights "at" the border (ie within 100 miles of a border crossing, including any airports with international flights) if you are not an American citizen. The sus
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by bregma 8y ago
The Beer Store is owned by two foreign-owned multinationals (the Belgian AB InBev and the American MolsonCoors). Not government run, but like many Ontario monopolies is has government in its pocket.
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by bregma 8y ago
Production is legal and regulated in Canada. It's big business, and a major employer in my region. The value of my shares in cannabis-industry ETFs have tripled in the last few months.
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by bregma 8y ago
https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3846
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by bregma 8y ago
Or within 100 miles of the border or any border services control point, like say an airport with international flights.
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by bregma 8y ago
Nope. Ignoring or refusing to answer the question is grounds for denying admission or being permanently denied admission.
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by bregma 8y ago
... or a downpayment on a new Deere...
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by bregma 8y ago
I have access to the code. There is no more reliable reference. The source code is remarkably well organized and clearly coded and has massive amounts of unit tests. When the code is not enough, I go to http://www.qnx.com/
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by bregma 8y ago
The biggest difference between 6.6 and 7.0 in the kernel is mostly that SMP is always enabled and 64-bit targets are first-class citizens. There are plenty of minor changes, but the kernel itself is very, very small. There are plenty of ch
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by bregma 8y ago
Yes. I work for QNX. I can answer any technical questions.