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by emelski 14y ago
If you disagree with any part of the proposition, or if you feel it is poorly constructed, then you should vote against it. It's easier, ultimately, to reject a poorly written law and try again with a new law than it is to accept a poorly
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by emelski 14y ago
There are literally dozens of "make your own t-shirt" offerings online, most with a wider array of shirt colors and the ability to include your own graphics in addition to text, at a price comparable or cheaper than you are offering (cafepr
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by emelski 14y ago
I'm skeptical because I don't see how visual programming models are even possible for the type of development I routinely perform (my day job is writing a high-performance distributed, parallel implementation of the well-known 'make' tool).
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by emelski 14y ago
Wow, I did notice that when I first looked. I guess I've gotten too accustomed to the Web 2.0 presentation style, where the pricing is prominently displayed and there's an unavoidable call-to-action button.
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by emelski 14y ago
I think my college-bound daughter would enjoy this if I gifted her a subscription. Unfortunately I can't tell how much it costs without creating an account (giving away my email), nor can I tell if it's possible to give an anonymous gift (
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by emelski 14y ago
I wonder why they chose to use compressed helium to fill the bag. I don't know much about these things, but helium is not cheap, and surely you don't need its lighter-than-air properties in this application. Couldn't you use compressed ca
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by emelski 14y ago
Here's the rationale from that document: * C++ is a standardized, well known, popular language. * C++ is nearly a superset of C90 used in GCC. * The C subset of C++ is just as efficient as C. * C++ supports cleaner code in several significa
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by emelski 14y ago
Interesting perspective as the remote user, but I wonder how your employees felt about that setup. It was easier for you to feel you had a cohesive team, but did they feel more cohesive for having a robotic you floating around?
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by emelski 14y ago
Sounds great in theory, but that assumes that every engineer is spending time every day monitoring all of the accomplishments by every other engineer just to make sure everything gets valued appropriately. I suppose the answer to that is,
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by emelski 14y ago
It's not about putting in the minimum effort. It's about getting something usable out quickly and gathering feedback from actual users not only to validate the idea, but to ensure that the next steps we take are in the right direction. Th
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by emelski 14y ago
You can use the MVP concept, even on a very mature product. You just have to adjust the scope of the idea. For example, my product has been in development for more than 10 years and has had 24 major releases. Yet when we are considering
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by emelski 14y ago
That's a valid concern. One of our design goals has been 100% compatibility with GNU make, specifically to reduce that friction, so you don't have to fiddle with your makefiles to switch from gmake to ElectricMake (emake). The converse is
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by emelski 14y ago
What surprises me is that nobody seems to take the approach of fixing make, as if it is somehow beyond redemption. With a little effort you could address some of the things that people most dislike about make (tabs-vs-spaces, multiple outp
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by emelski 15y ago
Of course he's not under any obligation to provide any more info than he has. But given that he already has the test harness setup, and that only he has access to the hardware on which his benchmarks ran, it seems that he could easily enab
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by emelski 15y ago
There's no need to spill internal processes and configurations. The fellow said he had a synthetic repo that he used to benchmark various operations. Surely whatever generated that test repo can scale it up or down to whatever size they l
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LEGO "Ship It" Awards(blog.melski.net)
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by emelski 15y ago
> For some people, 250GB/month is unreasonable. If 250GB/month is unreasonable, then those people should not be signing up for a 250GB/month service plan. There's nothing stopping him from getting a business plan, for example, with a l
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by emelski 15y ago
How is it reasonable for somebody to expect to be able to upload "terabytes of RAW images, musics tracks ripped in lossless format, etc."? That seems to be substantially outside the scope of what both Comcast's home user internet service i
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by emelski 15y ago
> I don't have a way to do it with paper flashcards ... Most people separate paper flashcards into two piles as they go, one for those they got right and one for those they got wrong.
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by emelski 16y ago
Many of those criticisms are completely irrelevant now. The post is from 1994, which means RMS is probably talking about Tcl 7.3, which is worlds apart from Tcl 8.5, the latest official release. People certainly can and have developed lar
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by emelski 16y ago
For all the talk of the difficulties of playing Jeopardy! due to the "nuances of natural language" and "puns and double meanings in the clues", that did not really seem to be a factor in the second round -- most of the questions were quite
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by emelski 16y ago
Neither did I, so I looked it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_symbol#Radioactive_si... In fact, the symbol is so completely unintuitive that ISO came up with a new version: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/New_rad
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by emelski 17y ago
There were about a dozen issues uncovered using this technique. I would say the majority of them were what I would call "real" bugs, as opposed to "sure, that doesn't work but nobody cares". One example is that gmake allows $$ in variable
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by emelski 17y ago
The problem with relying solely on "real world makefiles" is that there is not a lot of variation amongst those that are publicly accessible. The vast majority of open source projects that use make are autoconf based, which means the makef