grandinj

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by grandinj 9y ago
Good explanation. The common phrase is "boiling the ocean", and seems to happen to a lot of organisations populated by bright, but inexperienced people.
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by grandinj 9y ago
Assuming that you know that those 3rd party extensions are sticking to the published API and not stuffing around by scratching around in Visual Studio's internal APIs and data structures...... Because Windows programmers have such a gr
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by grandinj 9y ago
Yeah, a normal SQL model is not perfect because of the requirement that it look like a flat table i.e. fixed number of columns. But H2 has ARRAY for repeated fields, and with some custom functions for decomposing other functions, you could
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by grandinj 9y ago
You could add a TableEngine extension to H2 (h2database.com), pretty easily which would give you full SQL query functionality over such a file
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by grandinj 9y ago
One swallow doth not a summer make
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by grandinj 9y ago
Africa
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by grandinj 9y ago
If you're using Java, use H2 (h2database.com) Edit: full disclosure, I am a maintainer :-)
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by grandinj 9y ago
The nice thing about Linus is that he "plays the ball not the man" to use a sporting analogy. He criticises peoples actions, but not the people themselves. I.e. "this is a stupid thing to do", not "you are stupid&qu
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by grandinj 9y ago
150m. lol. Try using an electron based app and that will seem incredibly svelte
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by grandinj 9y ago
Even that is too long. Once a week at a scheduled time is best. That way if anything goes wrong, it's relatively easy to find out what changed because people's memory is still fresh.
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by grandinj 9y ago
Let me try again: HEVC has been deployed by big players with deep pockets. Therefore, any patent trolls that might have targeted it have already been lured out of the woodwork. A new codec like this however, has an unknown risk attached, be
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by grandinj 9y ago
HEVC has been around longer, and has been widely deployed, so the risk is much smaller.
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by grandinj 9y ago
I don't think the patent issues are at all resolved or easy. Variousparties hold patents and have no intention of designing a product around them and simply exist to extract rent from others. They will wait till the format gains tracti
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by grandinj 9y ago
so one option would be to limit the length of mortgages, which has been tried elsewhere and supposedly slows down the land price growth
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by grandinj 9y ago
In small, easy to understand steps. It helps to do moves and renamed individually because they are mechanical in nature and easy to review.
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by grandinj 9y ago
If by "good" you mean "adept at removing his enemies and any constraints on his power", then yes, he was very good
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by grandinj 9y ago
And thus we end up, over time, with an OS that is a pile of hacks upon hacks to workaround broken apps, severely limiting it's ability to provide a clean, sensible, performant set of OS services. I regularly read The Old New Thing and
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by grandinj 9y ago
Huh? That is kind of the deal isn't it - you pick your developer and if that developer makes bad choices, you get a bad product. If we don't push back against bad practices by developers we never improve the quality of the ecosyst
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by grandinj 9y ago
that is exactly what I dislike about Microsoft. The right answer is to detect those dodgy applications and disable them, and notify the user that the program is "bad", thus providing a severe disincentive to software authors to ev
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by grandinj 9y ago
For many of the same reasons H2 (h2database.com) use a recursive descent parser to parse SQL
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by grandinj 9y ago
In other news, Ford let Russia inspect the same sedan they sell to the US Armed Forces!
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by grandinj 9y ago
Maybe the Thunderbird developers can take over, some of them were keen on a rewrite using "modern" technologies, this would be a good bootstrap.
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by grandinj 9y ago
Sounds cool. Any pointers to useful tutorials on making that idea work?
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by grandinj 9y ago
The answer is of course: YES. The more important question is when, and the answer to that is "who knows". The market is a chaotic system, with severe non-linear responses. As such, it can remain stable much longer than people thin
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by grandinj 9y ago
If crypto researchers would try working on actual user facing software they would probably come up with more useful designs. As the moment (1) you have to be insanely smart and careful to implement any reliable crypto (2) the crypto needs c
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by grandinj 9y ago
Poettering has a strong bias towards making sure bugs get fixed in the right layer, instead of creating forever-living-workarounds in higher layers. In the bug you reported, however, I noticed that he pushed a commit to work around the unde
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by grandinj 9y ago
I dont see any signs of "refuse to fix" there. I see a calm and reasonable discussion and an acknowledgement that some things need improving. Perhaps they refused to fix it in exactly the way the reporter wanted, but that's a
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by grandinj 9y ago
Ah, the theory that passing through a higher educational level will somehow increase the righteousness of people. Has that ever been true?
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by grandinj 9y ago
I'm guessing the cpp thing is a holdover from the days when the glibc maintainer was less than entirely helpful. There has been actual improvements in glibc in this area lately so hopefully these kinds of hacks will slowly go away.
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by grandinj 9y ago
Does it do protocol negotiation? i.e. can a client ask the server what interfaces it implements?

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