mfuzzey

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by mfuzzey 4y ago
In "real" science, ie stuff that has been proven by experiment, when new understanding is obtained the old stuff remains valid at laeast as a special case (otherwise it would never have been confirmed by experiment in the first pl
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
Isn't Apple maps only for Apple devices? If so no competition for GMaps.
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
>before you cite “Linux”, look at who the top contributors are - all corporations. That is true but no single corporation has control of Linux. Linux (the kernel) has managed to harness corporations to fund developers so they can wor
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
Here in France very few people use SMS to talk with friends. They are now mostly just used by companies to send short notifications (like if you drop your car off at a repair place they'll send you a SMS when its ready to pick up). It&
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
"Dig into how it works" may take longer than rewriting or it may not. And the rewrite may (and often does) run into unexpected difficulties too. I think it's a mistake to make the "fix the old" or "rewrite from
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
I guess that depends on what you mean by "stand out" then. It is possible to stand out technically without standing out in a "how high in the org chart can you go" contest
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
>I don't want to use Windows, when I hunt for jobs I avoid jobs that do not offer mac/linux laptop. This is probably immature. I don't think that is immature at all. As a professional it is perfectly reasonable to expect t
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
>The company wouldn't employ you if you weren't providing them more than you cost them. Yes that's true of course. >It's never been easier to create enough value on your own terms to sustain yourself and not let so
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
Maybe but not because it's a "fake" but because it's low quality. Anything that is dangerous and doesn't meet safety regulations should be banned. But there's nothing inherently wrong with 3rd party parts, batt
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
This should be illegal. Businesses like payment processors should not be allowed to refuse to provide their services to any legal clients. And legality is up to the courts to decide not payment processors or any other middlemen. If enough p
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
>Stop pretending the government (any) has the “average” man’s best interest "Average" people don't pay >10k€ in cash. So this measure won't hurt average people and may stop some money launderers / frauders so
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
The OS itself being proprietary isn't a reason to not have sideloading or alternative stores. Windows is proprietary too yet you've always been able to download a .EXE from arbitary web sites.
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
Problem is who gets to decide what is best for the company? In many organisations most people may not have enough information to really know what is best for the whole organisation, even if they do have good ideas about their part. And top
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
You are quite right that open source done purely in free time usually takes much longer to be "finished" but that is more a question of the time available to spend on it than absence of pressure. OSS projects that have paid develo
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
Depends a bit what is meant by embedded. On the higher levels of embedded Linux there can be a grain of truth in this (especially wrt asynchronous model). But the lower levels of embedded (both on bare metal MCUs) and on the lower level par
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
I think it's far better give the reader as much information as reasonable and let him decicde how much he wants / needs to read. That can avoid multiple round trips and makes sure the whole picture is available to anyone who may n
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
I think you probably mean mercurial (hg) which is indeed written in python. Subversion (svn) is written in C. Mercurial actually wasn't a bad choice at the beginning of the DVCS era on Windows as git didn't work well on that platf
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
No one is talking about "never delivering any working software". You definitely do need to deliver working software and should do it in increments. That both shows the customer you are making progress and (more importantly) lets
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
There are estimates and estimates. As a rough ballpark figure (1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 5 years) estimates are doable and reasonable. It's also reasonbable and doable to let scope be the fac
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
I did that too, on a ZX80 back. Well after a week of doing it using a book and caclulating relative jumps (the backawards ones were worse) by hand I thought "there has to be a better way" and wrote my own assembler in BASIC (but I
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
If we replaced lawyers with engineers things would be much better. The engineering work these companies do if fantastic but then they go and waste their time fighting about legalities instead of further advancing technology.
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
Do people still use SMS? I haven't for many years, for sending (except for one time I wanted to test a modem driver SMS function). I regularly use Signal, Telegram and Google chat and used to use whatsapp until it was banned by my empl
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
The problem isn't with device trees. And actually, ACPI is just like DT really (but more complicated because it has "methods" in addition to just properties). The difference is that you don't see it so much because the P
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
GPUs tend to evolve over time rather than change radically. So even if the hardware is obselete before the work is finsihed the driver for the next generation will start from a much better point than the first one. Also it will be useable f
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
Yes but you already gave plenty of reasons before resorting to "that's the way we do things". And I think that's fine. What wouldn't have been fine would have been to skip the explanations. Most people, given explan
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
Actually this was the much of the reason for the creation of the Raspberry Pi. Its creator, Eben Upton was a director of studies at Cambridge university and realised that there were fewer CS applicants than in the past and that many of thos
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by mfuzzey 4y ago
I think a big part of the "problem" is that the skill set required to be an "innovator" in some field (coming up with an idea and making it work) is generally very different to that of being an "entrepreneur" (
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by mfuzzey 5y ago
The EU can take them to court. But most of the time the process is fairly automatic and member states just do it (they may be a little late occasionally)
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by mfuzzey 5y ago
Yes Prestel was the same technology as minitel. But the French bootstrapped the ecosystem by giving everyone who wanted it a free minitel instead of a printed directory which didn't happen in the UK, due to that Prestel never really to
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by mfuzzey 5y ago
I don't think it's just Linus (though he certainly helps). The kernel, unlike many other understaffed open source projects, has lots of developers working on it (the majority paid these days). At the same time, unlike software bui

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