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by efaref 11y ago
You answered it yourself. It lacks efficient multicast. What dbus really needs is an efficient kernel-level capability-aware multicast IPC mechanism, and a total rewrite of the user-space daemon to not be rubbish. All the user-space daemon
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by efaref 12y ago
“Efforts to combat formerly widespread sexism in hiring appear to have succeeded,” Interesting conclusion.
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by efaref 12y ago
Uh.. isn't that just Object Pascal syntax?
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by efaref 12y ago
Yet another article that misses the point of "goto considered harmful." The way "goto" is used in modern C (named breaks and defined function escape routes) is perfectly acceptable. Newer languages include these feature
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by efaref 12y ago
Every few years someone tries to reinvent make, and they usually end up with some unholy mess that complicates build systems or causes maintenance nightmares, and is never quite as good. It turns out that make's syntax is actually quit
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by efaref 12y ago
As a software engineer, this document annoys me. I don't know if it's how it's intended, but it feels like a bunch of nosy document-writers pointing down at software engineers saying "you're all shit, and we'r
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by efaref 12y ago
Whenever someone says "There are too many [white people|men] in XXX", it sounds like there's an implicit "... so we should kill some of them" in my head. That's how offensive it sounds to me.
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by efaref 12y ago
The distinction that is important in my mind is: * This code is bad; vs. * You are [A named person is] a worthless person. The first is fine and a healthy part of software development. In a casual environment like open source development o
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by efaref 12y ago
I guess the answer is to just continue ignoring and censoring people whose opinions we don't like. I'm cool with that.
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by efaref 12y ago
People seem to think that you should not be allowed to do something if someone else finds it rude or immoral. I think censoring people like Linus when they are clearly using hyperbole or other figures of speech is rude and immoral. Now what
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by efaref 12y ago
Indeed. I guess his title is correct for him, at least.
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by efaref 12y ago
I've worked on a system where NULL mapped to valid memory. (It was an embedded system, so the memory map was custom and bizarre). Of course, insanity ensued when new programmers worked on it.
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by efaref 12y ago
Sounds like victim-blaming to me. If only she wasn't wearing /that dress/ in public...
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by efaref 12y ago
Except she wasn't being racist, she was being sarcastic about racism. And in any case, no crime deserves the horrific public shaming she got.
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by efaref 12y ago
Exactly. I thought hacker news was a relatively smart crowd, but it seems there are people in this thread that don't even get that. "Stop the planet. I want to get off."
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by efaref 12y ago
The tweet is clearly a quip about western white privilege. Her tweet caused no harm, but the blithering mass of bullying social justice warriors continually ruins lives.
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by efaref 12y ago
I really don't understand why educators persist in trying to teach English reading and writing phonetically. It's not a phonetic language, so surely it is harmful to pretend that it is and lie to children about it. Children learn
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by efaref 12y ago
I really hate this sensational "from three people" thing. It's a mitochondria transplant. We don't start calling people "frankenstein's monsters" because they've had a lung transplant, even though tha
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by efaref 12y ago
Most people only really use their computer as a terminal to connect (via HTTP) to a computer somewhere else (facebook.com).
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by efaref 12y ago
Of course, Turing was one of many. But he was one, and that's enough to make the homophobes run for the hills.
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by efaref 12y ago
If they won't buy Apple products because the CEO is gay, they probably shouldn't buy any computers at all, seeing as the entire field is built on the work of a gay man.
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by efaref 12y ago
> “address” (which you can’t G.P.S.) You very much can GPS an internet address: http://www.geoiptool.com/en/?ip=www.newyorker.com
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by efaref 12y ago
Debian's sysvinit script wrappers were not in any way simple.
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by efaref 12y ago
A computer science professor complaining about command-line "bullshittery" is like an astrophysicist complaining about telescope "bullshittery". C'mon, it's the 21st century, we should just be able to take a r
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by efaref 12y ago
Am I allowed to admit that I secretly love that UI? So simple. So clean.
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by efaref 12y ago
It can't even get consistent line spacing in the table of contents. See http://imgur.com/ejg2FTS
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by efaref 12y ago
I think it's generally frowned upon to do percentages of percentages. For example: An increase from 70 bananas to 86 bananas is an increase of 16 bananas, or 22 per cent. But an increase from 70 per cent to 86 per cent is an increase
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by efaref 12y ago
I thought good progress was already being made with this, with devices like cochlear implants, retinal implants, and cyborg monkey arms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIgdOlT2cY
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by efaref 12y ago
I think FogBugz's worst problem is its name. I feel stupid even suggesting it at work, and the name sounds silly so people ignore any suggestion I do make. Trello is a good example of a much more (word-of-mouth) marketable name.
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by efaref 12y ago
But do you even trust the compiler they use? Computers you don't totally control are inherently untrustworthy: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html For most things it doesn't matter enough, but for

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