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by brrt 11y ago
Uhm, I think you're reading my post a bit uncharitably. I don't think I insulted you, for instance. I never said that estimates were meaningless, but they are tools for planning with high intrinsic uncertainty, and translating tha
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by brrt 11y ago
What? No. Glad I don't work for you. Nearly all developers I know estimate time (and storypoints) by some (often linear) function of volume and complexity. Volume estimation is usually not very difficult, but complexity is very tricky
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by brrt 11y ago
However, that does not compute the cost of having to drive over with a shoveling machine, let alone the cost of building and maintaining a shoveling machine, or the cost of calling workers at 4pm to show up to drive the shoveling machine...
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by brrt 11y ago
I'd argue that one implication of a smarter grid would be that there'd have to batteries all over the place, exactly because batteries can adapt quickly and 'smartly' (with a .05$ microchip) to energy supply and demand.
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by brrt 11y ago
Stallman himself is very well aware of this issue and has written about it: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
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by brrt 11y ago
Beg to disagree, for two reasons. * No two places can be silicon valley, just because of the twofold effects of concentration and competition. I.e. SV is what it is not only because of culture, but also because all big IT corps have their
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by brrt 11y ago
This is an article about energy storage. Nuclear doesn't have much to do with that. Nor does the alleged aversion of 'green people' to nuclear. Please give it a rest.
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by brrt 11y ago
We are using docker in production. We have had many issues but none related to security. It's an interesting phrase: 'to officially be used in production'. Who is the official that officially signs docker to be ready? ;-)
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by brrt 11y ago
Figure out what you find important. You live in a post-modern, pluralistic age now, and although many people may claim to know what you should value, nobody really has the authority. Thus, figuring out what things or ideals you value is you
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by brrt 12y ago
I am under no illusions about the need for power :-). In fact, I agree with just about everything in your post. However, I would add: Coal plants use only a relatively small local surface area, but when you add the size of the coal mines, t
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by brrt 12y ago
We're getting offtopic, but peat powered plants? In this day and age? What the hell? I do hope that is not being sold as sustainable or renewable? But yeah, automobile emissions in general are relatively limited in comparison to other
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by brrt 12y ago
Then it is also worth noting that electricity generation is the biggest single source of carbon emissions globally :-). And that transport is actually a relatively tiny part of global carbon emissions: http://www.epa.gov/cli
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by brrt 12y ago
I'm not sure how this is the top comment. Or people are really cynical these days. Anyway, this is really about stopping desert expansion, something brought on - as far as I know - mostly by climate change. Of course whatever faults th
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by brrt 12y ago
From this side of the Atlantic, or really probably from any country that has some form of assured health care, the notion that you could have to go without insulin in the states is... baffling. Utterly baffling. Best of luck with it!
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by brrt 12y ago
I really hope this is not going to turn into a flame / paranoia fest. So here's my cool-headed, although speculative, answer: * GSoC has had a tendency to rotate open source projects. Lots of new projects seem to have been added,
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by brrt 12y ago
We don't really use a mailing list, but we do have an IRC channel on freenode: #moarvm. Although just as often MoarVM-specific issues are discussed on #perl6
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by brrt 12y ago
Why is this insulting to you? Things happen at their natural pace :-). I got my first job knowing a bit of PHP. It's still not a pretty language, but I don't find that insulting.
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by brrt 12y ago
Well, that's a good point, really. The JVM and the CLR do run many (dynamic) languages quite efficiently. On the other hand, that is in no small part due to the man-centuries spent trying to optimise both the JVM JIT and the language-t
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by brrt 12y ago
We try to :-). Specifically, there are designs underway to implement e.g. hyper operators - those things that apply an operator to an array of values, irrespective of order - by SIMD instructions on the hardware level. If you're intere
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by brrt 12y ago
I think that the perl6 project is quite welcoming of contributors. So I'm honestly curious to know what happened to make you feel otherwise.
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by brrt 12y ago
I'm the developer of the MoarVM JIT (but not the developer of the MoarVM bytecode specialisation framework, which is typically seen as part of the JIT). The weakness of Parrot VM was it's ambition - to be an efficient VM for all