meaty

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931.
by meaty 14y ago
No - if you look in the EULA, there is a clause which stops you publishing benchmarks, which is just wrong on so many levels.
932.
by meaty 14y ago
I agree it's not the only failure mode, but it certainly is the lamest so far.
933.
by meaty 14y ago
In the UK, we tend to mix the social housing with private housing. Seems to work - everywhere is uniformly shitty :)
934.
by meaty 14y ago
As announced to me this morning by no less than 4 identical emails from their aggressive marketing machine... On a more serious note, I find windows server 2012 to be pretty unusable remotely thanks to the new UI. The moment you log in via
935.
by meaty 14y ago
Due diligence. If you buy ANYTHING poisoned with DRM, expect dragons like this. There is nothing than can come from DRM other than eventually losing what you paid for through device death, key loss, service shutdown. It's not about will but
936.
by meaty 14y ago
Good point. Most c++ coding standards I've seen are lists of stuff not to use.
937.
by meaty 14y ago
Actually it wouldn't in my Citroen C5. The fuel efficiency peaks precisely at 60mph/100kph. Something to do with the power transmission ratio. I get 2.83l/100km or 83mpg in old money out of that if I don't drive like an asshat.
938.
by meaty 14y ago
True with display sizes although I'm interested more in resolution than size. My trip computer does litres per 100km. I drive a Citroen C5 and it has kph on it as well as mph. My satnav usually reminds me if I'm driving too fast (in kmh whi
939.
by meaty 14y ago
This is quite convenient I'll agree but my satnav tells me how long it's going to take and bar traffic, it's quite accurate.
940.
by meaty 14y ago
No - kilograms. Even my parents use Kg.
941.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes and look where that got you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
942.
by meaty 14y ago
I am British! I haven't used imperial for at least 15 years apart from for speed limits, which I ignore anyway.
943.
by meaty 14y ago
Why does everyone still have to use imperial/US measurements. Metric please or I have to break out the calculator.
944.
by meaty 14y ago
Indeed. Not like the VIDC that they used to ship before they were spun off from Acorn. I wish someone would solve this problem with an open source graphics core that is ARM bus compatible.
945.
by meaty 14y ago
ARM is even worse when it comes to binary blobs. Take a look at any major SoC out there and you will see BLOBs for the LAN and graphics interfaces. Occasionally boot firmware is a BLOB as well. We need a completely open patent unencumbered
946.
by meaty 14y ago
I only follow them after I got owned in '97 on the end of a dialup for running an open telnet server (on FreeBSD) with a crappy root password :)
947.
by meaty 14y ago
Well it is LWN which has a history of crappy reporting. It's like reading an East German newspaper in the 1980s.
948.
by meaty 14y ago
I have a couple of FreeBSD machines which pulled binary packages between those dates. I'm not overly worried. The packages have been removed and installed again from ports after a fresh portsnap dump and the systems have been verified with
949.
by meaty 14y ago
Refer to the film "idiocracy" for a dystopian vision of why this is happening and what the outcome might likely be.
950.
by meaty 14y ago
Finally someone who speaks sense.
951.
by meaty 14y ago
I recommend avoiding XML. Its the most nuanced markup/data representation language there is.
952.
by meaty 14y ago
thanks for the reply - its nice to get an insight on your perspective. My commentary above doesn't detract from my opinion which is basically: looks good, definitely didn't waste my cash. Inevitably there is stuff people disagree with - the
953.
by meaty 14y ago
I haven't actually read it properly yet :)
954.
by meaty 14y ago
+1. When I read your code, I know there is hope yet :)
955.
by meaty 14y ago
Well in this case, it's more integrating Python with C i.e. writing a C callable and calling it from Python. I'm not really a Lua fan personally (the confusing indice and ordinal notation scares me), but I can see why it makes sense for int
956.
by meaty 14y ago
+1 for Zed's book. I wish he'd finish it though :)
957.
by meaty 14y ago
I've been through that as well. I have in the past just provided a different Makefile for each platform and run as follows: make -f Makefile.osf1 make -f Makefile.sunos4 make -f Makefile.sunos5 There is usually little diffe
958.
by meaty 14y ago
Mainly GCC specific features. No C99 there. The book should have the word "GNU" wedged in it. I'd like to have seen some discussion of llvm/clang as well.
959.
by meaty 14y ago
Some horrible design and so many typedefs (gpointer being the largest yuck if you ask me). Who needs to typedef void* ? Also it leads to GObject abuse which is harmful to the soul. Ultimately, the moment you bring glib into a project it sto
960.
by meaty 14y ago
Yeah: make and knowing what you are doing. I've built some seriously complicated stuff which builds on Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD in the past with no autoconf magic required. Autoconf is just a massive Rube Goldberg machine in disguise.

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