grandinj

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421.
by grandinj 13y ago
It doesn't really change your current negotiating position because the net future value after 35 years is zero under all normal business assumptions.
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by grandinj 13y ago
Well duh. All babys get different breast milk. There is a feedback loop between the child and the mother that modifies the milk on an ongoing basis.
423.
by grandinj 13y ago
What with the silly CSS that won't let me browse the site in landscape mode on my phone? Sigh. Web designers.
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by grandinj 13y ago
I'd like to second this - I ran the same stats once, while contracting for a customer with excessive demands. I found that a week of working long hours was about my max, and after that I started making mistakes to the point that the ex
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by grandinj 14y ago
Yeah, IPv6 is a great example of Second System Syndrome.
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by grandinj 14y ago
Yes, because government agencies are well known for - cost efficiency - openness to exploring new avenues of research - obeying their own regulatory regimes It'll certainly reduce some gaming of the current system, but I can't see how this
427.
by grandinj 14y ago
Ah, so basically you are saying we should shift the entire cost burden of creating new drugs from the free market to the government. Glad to have that cleared up.
428.
by grandinj 14y ago
Their R&D budgets are still pretty huge. And how exactly do you compete when your competitors can clone your product with ease? And the NHS spends < 10% of drugs, most of which are already available as generics, so there is not a lo
429.
by grandinj 14y ago
You are not parsing the message correctly. It says nothing about deleting data from your other devices.
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by grandinj 14y ago
(1) Start here to learn how to build LibreOffice https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build (2) Then read Caolan's presentation http://conference.libreoffice.org/talks/content/sessions/015... (3) Then come join us on t
431.
by grandinj 14y ago
try the new release. It has been getting steadily faster.
432.
by grandinj 14y ago
It implements most of VBA and also has its own language called StarBasic.
433.
by grandinj 14y ago
You could start by stepping in to help convert UI code to glade files. This is a huge code base. It needs lots and lots of little steps to get it into shape :)
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by grandinj 14y ago
Laziness on the part of the network operators. Seriously, they're just too lazy to auto-generate firewall rules from their list of assigned addresses.
435.
by grandinj 14y ago
They wouldn't have to fix the whole thing. They could carve out /16 blocks, one at a time and give them back, starting with the ones that are currently not in use.
436.
by grandinj 14y ago
Actually no, we lost them because of bizarre copyright rules which meant they had to be deleted.
437.
by grandinj 15y ago
Backblaze doesn't know how to work through proxies. I mean, seriously.
438.
by grandinj 15y ago
It's called mercurial. Seriously. It may not have the "raw power" of git, but at least the developers make an attempt at decent user interfaces.
439.
by grandinj 15y ago
Solution (1) - get another DNS name from another provider, and get your users using that for now. Solution (2) - get a lawyer and prepare to sue for lack of due process.
440.
by grandinj 15y ago
We granted a limited legal monopoly to certain parties in order to encourage the growth of certain industries. Over time, that bargain has been severely corrupted by those industries. Piracy is the consequence. I'm sure that with time, and
441.
by grandinj 15y ago
Yeah, I had the same problem. There was no quick fix, I just swam twice a week for years until (a) my muscles became more used to the exercise and (b) I learnt to relax and enjoy it. I've found that not kicking at all and focussing purely o
442.
by grandinj 15y ago
But it can be fixed. Rather than specify a grammer in BISON and generating C code, write your parser as a recursive descent parser. Then add some annotations and auto-generate grammar files from the C code. This is the same principle as gen
443.
by grandinj 15y ago
Makes some string operations more expensive because of the potential of having to convert between representations. So you have the choice of converting at source, and paying the price there, or converting during processing and paying the pr
444.
by grandinj 15y ago
What don't you like about Mercurial?
445.
by grandinj 15y ago
You just said it - senior managmenent creates a culture for middle management, and that culture creates the culture for the techies. If it's corrosive at the top, it tends to end up corrosive at the bottom.
446.
by grandinj 15y ago
The gimp developers were initially strongly resistant to the idea of single-window mode, so it's not a surprise that it's taken this long.
447.
by grandinj 15y ago
No, if he was really "investing his time", he'd be producing good, well-written bug reports, and, since he's such an awesome hacker, writing patches. Instead, he vents his frustrations on bugzilla and generally acts like an ass.
448.
by grandinj 15y ago
Minix is still just a toy. It doesn't implement virtual memory, which is one of the hardest things modern operating systems do.
449.
by grandinj 15y ago
There is an open-source copy paste detector called CPD. It's part of the Java PMD project (pmd.sf.net), but it should work on C/C++ code.
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by grandinj 15y ago
Other countries mitigate this problem by making costs awards against losing plaintiffs automatic. But that tends to discourage people without substantial wealth from pursuing cases. The law is not perfect and never will be.

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