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by helmut_hed 14y ago
And also these guys https://www.system76.com/ . I have bought two laptops from ZaReason, with mixed results. They mostly "just work".
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
Actually I would think that instruction decoding is one of the few things you can reuse... that pipeline stage is typically not the performance limiter, and the instruction set only makes small changes each generation. When I was a chip
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
Those companies argue differential pricing schemes are vital to their success, and should be enforced by US courts I find this sort of reasoning very frustrating. It's not the job of the courts to ensure that anyone's business model can
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
Speaking from experience, that post is a good summary of the things that come to mind when you're used to good old-fashioned error codes and you're faced with exceptions for the first time. There should be a FAQ with good answers to these
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
I would regard attempts to more aggressively refactor a 30-year-old codebase as a sign of health, rather than the opposite. A sick project gets only hacks to overcome the fire du jour.
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
My favorite quote: What is this board populated with? Unemployed japanophiles and life failures
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
The folks managing the IPO all have egg on their faces To the contrary, they have every reason to be delighted with the result! An IPO that pops dramatically after the beginning of trading means money left on the table that the investors
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
Sure hope they fix Yahoo Mail. I read my Yahoo inbox through GMail via POP now, which seems silly.
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
The problem all these companies face is how to determine raises fairly . To do that, you can allow each manager to determine his employees' raises independently, which typically means the manager will exaggerate their performance, or you
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
a linux distro (or a standard) that is compatible with my drivers, multimedia devices (dual hdmi monitors - I'm looking at you) and audio/video yes, that would be great! Major distros (I use Kubuntu) are understaffed and concentrate on g
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
As a former chip designer I question the idea that the manufacturer introduced this backdoor (if indeed there is one). found a previously unknown backdoor inserted by the manufacturer. This backdoor has a key... It's hard to understand wh
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
I'm glad to hear someone say this. Facebook the company did amazingly well on this transaction. A stock that pops is one that has left money on the table. FB did the opposite...
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
No one seems to have pointed this out yet, but the code that runs your manufacturing line is indeed "mission critical". Furthermore it's likely that your customers demand that you have strict processes in place for changes, and can actually
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by helmut_hed 14y ago
Most of these problems, and jobs (with appropriate changes in technologies applied), still exist today, and in greater numbers than in 1958. It's just that the other parts of the industry have grown at a much more rapid pace. This is good
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
Google and Facebook were/are "legally required" to have IPOs? I believe they are only required to release financial statements. Even if that were true, though, claiming this is their sole reason to IPO strikes me as disingenuous, given th
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
I too am having trouble with this interpretation, though I'm certainly among the paranoid on the subject. Here's their quote: "We do not share personally identifiable information... except as part of a specific program or feature that you
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
Not to mention the somewhat less license-encumbered Boost libraries Geometry ( http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/geometry/doc/html/... ) and Polygon ( http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/polygon/doc/index.... )
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
Agile may well be a sham, but this statement: the success of the coding-part of a project is dependent on the calibre of the engineers doing that coding and not the process they follow. seems to me obviously untrue, for >3 engineers,
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
I don't believe that this is (despite stated intent) making Skype "open source". It would be more accurate to say that this work makes it possible to create an open-source wrapper around a proprietary kernel. This wrapper could then be up
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
I've still got the Linux client... I don't think they've updated it in ages. Does anyone know if that is also affected by this backdoor?
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
The big picture includes having a backup plan and having a backup plan that works. Sure, but the grandparent was complaining about overoptimization. I've been in management, and having an engineer who seizes on the wrong thing - somethin
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
I think it's a short-term vs. long-term problem: everyone's focused on hitting their milestones and the problems that will be caused by the bad documentation won't manifest themselves until later. It's kind of a "technical debt" situation.
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
It's particularly hard to obfuscate when anything produced by your compiler gets marked as a virus: http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Nort...
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
FWIW Emacs's core is C and extensions (the vast majority of the code) are in Lisp. This is a common model for dividing up the work between "engine" and personalization/customization stuff and I think it works well. But it's not true that
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
I don't see this. You can have a container of pointers in C++ just as you can in C. No special ownership semantics is assumed, nor do you have to decide which is the "owner" any more than you do in C. Or the problem is the same, at any r
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
The worst bit about my first climb up Half Dome was being passed by the senior citizen couple, with walking sticks, whom I had passed an hour before...
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
I was one of those people who, by virtue of working for companies that provided health insurance as a benefit, never had to worry about it... I always simply assumed that it was simply a matter of paying. Then I got laid off. That in itse
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
It's interesting that "Excel" is listed as one of the valuable skills students learn in their Wall Street internships.
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
One more EDA programmer reply, here... Tcl is super easy to embed as a shell for users, either in the terminal window the application is launched from or in a GUI text window. No doubt Tcl's embedability and historical connections to EDA
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by helmut_hed 15y ago
IANAJ, but can you elaborate? I would have said they were the same, given that the editorial section seems to contain explicit opinions from the newspaper staff vs. other sections which are, at least theoretically, unvarnished fact.

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