enjoy-your-stay

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by enjoy-your-stay 12y ago
Aquadata looks like a very interesting application, I'm often surprised that there's so much support for database ddl and querying, but not so much support for actually doing something more with the data, like graphing and other
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by enjoy-your-stay 12y ago
Does anybody know why they are dropping support for kerberos? I didn't even know there was support for Kerberos in OpenSSl, but it's also under the LibreSSL bullet points as well.
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by enjoy-your-stay 12y ago
It's been a real shame to watch the decline of HP. In the early 90's when I was just starting out in IT, their brand was very highly regarded, especially their laser printers which phenomenal workhorses.
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by enjoy-your-stay 12y ago
Well, mostly benevolent - they don't seem above sacrificing the odd human or orbital if it meets the need of the greater good though. The most interesting and evil manifestation of AI I think has to be the Shrike from Dan Simmons'
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by enjoy-your-stay 12y ago
In C++, the best way to hand out pointers to anything where the creator may not necessarily be the last one referencing that object or chunk of RAM is to use reference counting, which would have solved the posters' problem. It would me
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by enjoy-your-stay 12y ago
Looks like he was doing this on Linux. A quick experiment shows me that you can call ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME,..) on OSX multiple times without it failing (the constant is actually PT_TRACE_ME on darwin). I wonder if that's the same for a
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by enjoy-your-stay 12y ago
Reminds me a bit of the problems RBS had after large cutbacks and outsourcing had removed a lot of the in house expertise from their batch processing team. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/28/rbs_job_cuts
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by enjoy-your-stay 12y ago
>...and now I will always want to fly on an Airbus instead. Reminds me of a joke I was once told by a QA consultant: His colleague was on his way to deliver a revision of software which had been extensively tested and many serious bugs d
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by enjoy-your-stay 12y ago
I guess it would be like an OS that once loads and starts, will run forever. You can put your machine to sleep which will freeze the sate, and then bring it back on again and start processing instructions from where it left off. But if that
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by enjoy-your-stay 12y ago
I thought one of the main reasons for the LGPL was to attract more people to use and contribute to your library, whether open source or proprietary; with the added advantage that developers efforts were not being wasted with needless duplic
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by enjoy-your-stay 12y ago
The first time I realised how fast computers could be was when I first booted up BeOS on my old AMD single core, probably less than 1Ghz machine. The thing booted in less than 10 seconds and performed everything so quickly and smoothly -
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by enjoy-your-stay 12y ago
Good point, and I think that that's why languages like Java and C# are very popular these days - they hit a good balance between performance and developer productivity.
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by enjoy-your-stay 12y ago
Programming itself may be a bit of a dead end, where you can quickly hit the glass ceiling; but if you get involved in other important parts of software production like design, specification, requirements gathering, support, sales and marke
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by enjoy-your-stay 13y ago
I would have to agree with your comment there. Although having over 7 years experience as a c++ programmer, since I'm not using it so much now I haven't managed to keep up so much with the changes in c++11 and feel a bit noviced o
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by enjoy-your-stay 13y ago
... or initialize you freshly malloc'd memory to DEADBEEF for you. Just to helpfully let you know when you're reading a bit of uninitialized RAM.
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by enjoy-your-stay 13y ago
Actually Microsoft's earlier and very successful development tools were all dynamically typed versions of Basic. Visual Basic, Access, Excel and ASP were all dynamically typed, and were very responsible for exploding Windows' mark
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by enjoy-your-stay 13y ago
I love working on my Mac, but the use of Cmd-Left and Cmd-Right instead of the <home> & <end> keys really causes me lots of wtf? moments when I'm editing. Fortunately xcode allows you to customize those keys which has m
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by enjoy-your-stay 13y ago
Indeed. After paying your rent and (mandatory) health insurance there wouldn't be very much left. Somebody in this thread also mentioned that it's a luxury to own any car in Switzerland - but that's just not true at all. In f
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by enjoy-your-stay 13y ago
I have to agree, I thought it looks pretty nice too - and for what appears to be his first ever attempt - event better. Just a shame the '8' character looks a bit like an upside down snowman is all I would add.
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by enjoy-your-stay 14y ago
Although I've never gone to the effort of actually calling somebody up to thank them, I have gone out of my way to thank colleagues whose code I've been maintaining if I have found it easy to work with. Code that is: consistent in style an
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by enjoy-your-stay 14y ago
You could just as easily alta-vista, or yahoo that because people used those search engines originally, and they existed way before Google did. Google however turned a better product and has therefore captured the lion's share of the market
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by enjoy-your-stay 15y ago
What would be binary data? The only possible thing I could think of would be the timestamp. Everything else would most likely be text, ASCII for English speakers, UTF-8 otherwise.
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by enjoy-your-stay 15y ago
I hereby propose a change to memcpy to include a maxbytes parameter and an optional assert() if len exceeds it. Might turn up a few interesting things.
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by enjoy-your-stay 15y ago
Funnily enough, if I understand it correctly, it is illegal to import counterfeited goods into Switzerland and border guards will sometimes check your purchases when returning from holiday to make sure you haven't any in your luggage.
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by enjoy-your-stay 15y ago
Unfortunately Switzerland didn't manage to dodge the bullet entirely. Many people saw the Swiss Franc as a safe haven currency and massively bought them up, driving up the exchange rate. This caused Switzerland's exports to become uncompet
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by enjoy-your-stay 15y ago
I also find his videos an inspiration - especially those from NeXT. Fortunately we'll have them for a lot longer than we've had Steve. I know my contribution will just be a tiny digital drop in the tide of condolences that's coming in right
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by enjoy-your-stay 16y ago
Linus seems to be (correctly) railing against what is classic cargo cult behaviour. Making changes until someting seems to "work".
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by enjoy-your-stay 16y ago
What you have in the bank is irrelevant, it's how far down the development road that money will take you that counts. That's a calculation only you can do with your current living costs in addition to estimated cost of equipment, services,
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by enjoy-your-stay 16y ago
Ah, Zurich at no. 10, the place I've chosen to develop my startup. I probably should've taken my hard earned savings somewhere cheaper, but it's a great place to live and has a very good infrastructure.