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by cmccabe 14y ago
Hi Jeff, Thanks for pointing out virt-sandbox. I wasn't aware of it until now; it looks pretty interesting. Unfortunately the apps I would most like to sandbox, like pdf readers, don't seem likely to work with this approach, since it prec
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by cmccabe 14y ago
It peeves me to no end when people respond to my posts with what seems like some kind of pre-programmed response. I never called the anti-GMO movement "pseudoscience," never said I disagree with the concept of organic food. "The linked
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I think this may vary by state. A friend gave 2-weeks notice and was fired immediately (from a non-tech-sector job) and said that, according to the state, he wasn't eligible for unemployment, because he had resigned. Probably there was so
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by cmccabe 14y ago
How about an office with "cubicles." Problem solved.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Welcome to the NZBMatrix. I don't care who you are, if you see an agent, you do what the rest of us do. You run. You run your ass off.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
OK. If you just want the technical details: * FreeBSD supports ZFS, whereas Linux can't really due to license issues. (Although people have tried-- please don't reply to me saying "but XYZ got it to run!" It's a legal issue that's not go
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by cmccabe 14y ago
So what. If they decide to fire you before the effective date of your resignation, you're eligible for unemployment benefits and/or the severance package. I've known a few people who knew that layoffs were coming, but chose to stay anyway
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Yeah, it's funny how the anti-GMO people seem unconcerned with the much worse stuff we spray in terms of pesticides. And it's not like you can avoid consuming pesticides and pesticide byproducts just by eating organic food, not when planes
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Actually, iOS 6 has awesome maps... of the world of Baldur's Gate.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Golang has Revel. http://robfig.github.com/revel
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I wish more people had a sense of humor online. A real one. As it is, sometimes I feel like all my comments have to be bland. You never know how someone will interpret something.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
What's the point of having a pissing match between engineers and scientists? You need both to push technology forward. Science can lead to better engineering, but better engineering can also lead to better science as well. You don't get v
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Linux can be configured to set the boundary at 0x80000000. 3G/1G might be more common, but "Linux" didn't make any choice at all here.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Nobody is "dismissing Gates' success as due to the resources of his parents." People are pointing out that taking VC funding was unnecessary for Gates due to his family's wealth. Surely you can see this. Also, Gates was building a softwar
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by cmccabe 14y ago
1. The guy who posted TFA is not a "professional"-- at least, not a professional graphics designer, professional photographer, or any other profession where ghosting would be an issue. 2. Apple has always been a consumer-focused company, no
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Thank you too. It's very interesting to see what folks in HPC are doing. If your new layer3 protocol is open source, send me a link-- I worked on an alternative layer3 protocol at one point, so I'd be interested where you went with it.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
How is that a minor detail? The first electronic computer was built in 1946. Apple hasn't even existed for half of the time electronic computers have existed on Earth. Seriously folks, this is some dumb, dumb stuff. Even the senator who
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Some day, we'll look back on the days of a mobile OS being announced every few months and chuckle. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-01-13/
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Intel has a CRC instruction built in to the x86 instruction set on newer CPUs. It turns out that using this instruction is a substantial performance win. The problem with the "sufficiently smart compiler" argument, as always, is that the c
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by cmccabe 14y ago
More importantly, consider the hell that debugging that mass of templates, callbacks, overloaded functions, etc, will be. And you WILL have to debug it. Even if your code is perfect, one day someone will stomp on your memory and you'll be
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I work on Hadoop, and we do dip into assembly sometimes. It's very rare. One example is the CRC calculating code in HDFS. If you are working in a research context, it's not really worth writing assembly-- just getting it to work is more i
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I usually like Herb Sutter's articles, but this feels a bit like special pleading to me. He made a prediction-- that the amount of hardware parallelism we'd have would be between 16 and 256-- and it didn't really turn out to be true. I wo
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Small laptops are really valuable. You can take them on a plane in a carry-on bag and have more room in your bag. It doesn't hurt your back to carry them for a few blocks. You can even carry other things. If you don't move your laptop, y
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Since you understand Unicode so well, can you explain dietrichepp's theory that Unicode don't need counting or offsets? Unicode doesn't have "characters." If you talk about characters, all you've succeeded in doing is confusing yourself.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Ugh, I just realized this whole article is a farce. v8 added UTF-16 support earlier this year. Its support for non-BMP code points is now on par with java (although it has many of the same limitations)
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I am suggesting that people read about unicode before designing supposedly cross-platform applications or programming languages. It's not that hard, just different than ASCII.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4579215/cross-platform-it...
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by cmccabe 14y ago
UCS2 allows random access to characters, UTF-16 does not. I'm not sure if that's really true. On IBM's site, they define 3 levels of UCS-2, only one of which excludes "combining characters" (really code points). http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/i
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by cmccabe 14y ago
There are four different normalized forms in Unicode. Maybe you should enlighten us about which one you're talking about. Or just stop embarrassing yourself.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I am responding to your earlier post which announced that UCS2 is better than UTF8 internally because it counts unicode characters faster than UTF8. Hopefully now you understand that just taking the number of UCS2 bytes and dividing by 2

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