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by grandinj 10y ago
Maybe you could help fund Eric S. Raymond to improve NTPD, he might have some good ideas about improving normal PC-class hardware cheaply too. https://www.ntpsec.org/
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by grandinj 10y ago
Firebird was experimental in 5.2.x so it's unlikely there are many such files in the wild.
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by grandinj 10y ago
Always good to hear H2 has cutting edge featuresets :-) (I'm one of the devs)
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by grandinj 10y ago
Libreoffice is a great community and we'd welcome that kind of contribution. Come visit the documentation@global.libreoffice.org mailing list or #libreoffice-doc on irc
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by grandinj 10y ago
that's not a very charitable view. He simply does not get bogged down in debates about what constitutes the true "unix approach", and prefers to focus on building the best system that can be built using the facilities Linux h
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by grandinj 10y ago
Octopus eyes don't have to cope with ultra violet light, hence they can be more optimal in other ways
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by grandinj 10y ago
Isn't that pretty much the Mint business model?
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by grandinj 10y ago
Depends. The API for strings in java is mostly UTF16 but the latest JVM will magically use UTF8 as its internal representation.
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by grandinj 10y ago
Saturating math is mainly a DSP thing, where it can be very useful in mimicking the behavior of some analog circuits. And it makes some algorithms have much nicer boundary behavior.
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by grandinj 10y ago
That's not true. Seversl of us are quite happy to contribute our LO patches to OO. But they just don't have any manpower to merge them.
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by grandinj 10y ago
We do however have some serious gnu make gurus to make that tractable.
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by grandinj 10y ago
Yes and double yes to comments! Otherwise it's useless as a configuration language
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by grandinj 10y ago
hence the use of some nifty optimised clocking algorithms: https://github.com/bus1/bus1/wiki/Message-ordering
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by grandinj 10y ago
We have a design team, and they keep improving things, but it's a fairly large surface of UI so it's taking a while.
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by grandinj 10y ago
Hear hear! This is, however, because the VM abstracts the bulk of the low level nastiness and exposes a reasonable API, which reduces the effort involved by an order of magnitude.
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by grandinj 10y ago
That port was horrible. It was only when they dumped the smalltalk codebase and started again that it became useful.
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by grandinj 10y ago
Control flow graph
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by grandinj 10y ago
plus Go has now acquired a culture of heavily optimising their code to "not allocate", so allocation is less of an issue for them than runtimes like Java.
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by grandinj 10y ago
Given that Apache harmony is no longer being developed, you might want to coordinate with the Avian people, since they also reuse harmony.
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by grandinj 11y ago
For me, this is a storm in a teacup. I use Netbeans Profiler regularly, and it produces decent results for me. It's only when the profile starts getting pretty flat that the inaccuracies of this method start showing up, but for run of
381.
by grandinj 11y ago
It's more likely he was using the "internet" to sell VHS tapes. Most probably via the form of Internet known as Beltel (I worked on Beltel for a while) and that is quite plausible.
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by grandinj 11y ago
Wasnt there an article recently about how 99.9 measurements can still hide lots of bad stuff with high volume services? I seem to remember the article noting that 99.9995 was more useful.
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by grandinj 11y ago
maybe we can start some kind of petition to have them open-source it?
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by grandinj 11y ago
But given that trains stop periodically, and we know how to build rapid-recharge energy storage devices, that might not be a problem
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by grandinj 11y ago
It's not just career advancement, it's often also career survival. No papers - no funding. No funding - no job.
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by grandinj 11y ago
And confidence tricksters perform trust arbitrage. This is all just ways of saying HFT is exploiting a loop-hole in a system to make money for themselves. They could all be eliminated overnight and the free-market system would not notice th
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by grandinj 11y ago
"latency arbitrage" ? The euphemism HF traders use to help themselves sleep at night.
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by grandinj 11y ago
I love hacking on LibreOffice because nobody else lets me do static analysis on 10 million lines of code and make it better. Most places just throw up their hands in despair and become too afraid to touch anything. Also, the people are gre
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by grandinj 11y ago
No, they made the right choices. (1)Make it work. (2)Make it correct. (3)Make it fast. Can take a long time to get to step 3 with something as safety critical as an update tool.
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by grandinj 11y ago
Even worse, probably one of those C++ enterprise software projects.

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