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by ethomson 13y ago
To quibble further still: the request line may have the protocol and version if the client is HTTP/1.0 or newer. HTTP/1.0 servers must "recognize the format of the Request-Line for HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 requests&
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by ethomson 13y ago
I don't get the sense that there was any attempt to recover from errors - it sounds more like they were enforcing that error checking occurred, by replacing `malloc` with one that just returned `NULL` always. It sounds like the goal w
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by ethomson 13y ago
I'd be interested to hear your complaints with git-merge-recursive. Unless your common ancestor is multiple ancestors (eg, criss-cross merges), which I can't imagine is really commmon, it shouldn't differ appreciably from gi
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by ethomson 13y ago
Is Wolfram suddenly making public statements about its earnings?
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by ethomson 13y ago
This seems like an odd comparison since one doesn't really buy Sage licenses. This just suggests that Conrad is good at Business Development.
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by ethomson 13y ago
Obviously he was talking about Stephen, the person, not Wolfram Research, the company.
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by ethomson 13y ago
I admit that it's certainly technically correct that you cannot embed a U+0000 into UTF-8. Of course, anybody who actually needed to be able to represent U+0000 in a C string would simply represent U+0000 as 0xC0 0x80 and be done with
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by ethomson 13y ago
> Null terminated strings also don't allow us to use multibyte encodings such as utf-8. This just makes me cry.
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by ethomson 13y ago
Jurassic Park may have been a bit silly with the Dennis Nedry "you didn't say the magic word" but at least it had some photogenic computers. The CM-5 was a real beauty, certainly one of the more attractive supercomputers that
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by ethomson 13y ago
I'm saying that: there is a fixed bonus pool for employees. All of this bonus pool will be allocated. Said bonus pool will be allocated in a merit-based way such that those who are deemed "better" get more than those who ar
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by ethomson 13y ago
I agree with you, but this doesn't address the clever and glib but ultimately content-free argument above. You can stack rank on any criteria - including cooperation and team work.
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by ethomson 13y ago
Of course we're competing. That's the whole point of a merit-based bonus system. What's your counterargument?
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by ethomson 13y ago
Eclipse was never just an IDE it has always been a platform. At its inception it was a framework for building IDEs by IBM. If you think the different editions of Eclipse are baffling, make sure to check out the different Rational bran
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by ethomson 13y ago
The visibility thing is an excellent point: I've been told before that I need to work on more visible projects. But when I work on very visible projects I get feedback like "provide more leadership". This reminds me very muc
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by ethomson 13y ago
My point was that no, I don't think stack ranking provides a greater impetus to backstabbing your coworkers than this sort of vague compensation model. In fact, I think a continuous model may lead to more backstabbing than exists now.
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by ethomson 13y ago
This was seemingly inevitable whether this is actually useful or not. Microsoft has been getting increasing heat about our stack ranking system, both from employees and from external people. But I don't think stack ranking is our prob
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by ethomson 13y ago
I agree with you mostly : I hate these sorts of x is better than y editor war commentaries, but this one does make an important point: Eclipse is slow. And it is slow. Not slow compared to IntelliJ. Not slow compared to NetBeans. Slow
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by ethomson 13y ago
Indeed; I tend not to find too many kickstarter projects that I'm interested in, but as I continued to read this one I continued to be impressed. John obviously has a gift for bringing sciences to the masses. My favorite is the "
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by ethomson 13y ago
My understanding of my group (which may not apply to all parts of Microsoft, of course) is that our 6-person groups are too small to stack rank, so stack ranking rolls up to the next level. So Microsoft doesn't apply stack ranking at
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by ethomson 13y ago
BBN built the Interface Message Processor that routed ye olde arpanet.
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A Tour of the Microsoft TFS Cross-Platform Build Lab(edwardthomson.com)
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by ethomson 13y ago
I read years ago (and can't now find the article) that the TSA screeners didn't really care about catching these guns. The TSA tested them by slipping one (or a few) fake guns into luggage. If I recall, a screener said something
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Git pack corruption post-mortem(mail-archive.com)
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by ethomson 13y ago
I'm not sure that I love that the stock doubles as a shovel... I can only imagine grabbing the barrel of a long arm and pushing the stock hard into the ground as a dangerous experience. (All guns are always loaded; especially when th
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by ethomson 13y ago
So, I'm still not sold on this idea, mostly because this is a huge problem and you're going to have to hit every link in the chain: the sellers of new bikes, the consumers of new bikes, the sellers of used bikes, the consumers of
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by ethomson 13y ago
Your mountain bike exploits must be much more epic than mine if you can't get the muck off your bottom bracket.
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by ethomson 13y ago
Okay, but if I report my Trek 9.9 with serial number XYZ as stolen, it doesn't really matter if Cannondale or Walmart Bikes or whomever also uses a serial number XYZ , does it? And if uniqueness is somehow important, then the idea
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by ethomson 13y ago
So, I like the idea of reducing bike theft (by virtue of making it not profitable), but I don't see the whole picture yet. I have more than one bike (yes, I'm one of those dorks) and I would be fairly upset if one of them were s
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by ethomson 13y ago
There's already a number permanently engraved on my bottom bracket, it's the serial number. Why would another number possibly help with this? The missing piece is tying that serial number to me , and that's something that t
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by ethomson 13y ago
Interesting question. I'm relatively certain that cayman.com, for example, was Cayman Systems, so that has obviously turned over. But many of these companies (and thus, domains) have simply been acquired. SCO.com was SCO who was onc

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