nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
I'm honestly not sure what any of that means. I'm guessing you misunderstand "uniform application of policy" to mean "rigid application of a rigid policy", but with the way you've written, I can't even be sure of that.
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by nknight 15y ago
Lots of things bother me, that doesn't necessarily mean I think they should be illegal. Laws affect society as a whole, that means they should be made carefully and with restraint, and applied in the same way, because there's a lot of varia
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by nknight 15y ago
> Women often want to take more time off after having babies, scale back on work, etc And when they do, you can make objective evaluations of their performance, not pay them for days they don't work, etc. If your employees are working
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by nknight 15y ago
> Ok so you can't as an employer treat your [women] employees having babies as a life-changing [and work-productivity reducing] event? No, you have to actually evaluate their performance, instead of making assumptions about it based o
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by nknight 15y ago
It happens all the time, and it can be essentially invisible to management at larger companies. People get close. Cliques with their own sub-cultures will develop, HR-unfriendly and perhaps legally-actionable things will go on behind closed
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by nknight 15y ago
> Siri seems to have been a dud. I certainly don't know anyone that uses it regularly Hi, my name's Nicholas, I use Siri regularly. Nice to meet you, Joe.
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by nknight 15y ago
Companies in a given market sharing many of the same practices does not automatically violate the Sherman Act, nor does vertical integration by a non-monopoly or non-coercive monopoly.
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by nknight 15y ago
Yes, look at Linux. Most servers run on it, most smartphones run on it, an ever-growing number of home electronics such as TVs run on it... Oh, by the way, "most smartphones" includes the ones running WebOS. That Linux isn't widely used in
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> only 4.3 sigma I generally treat particle physics as a black box from which magic appears, but my understanding was that 3 is where things start getting interesting, and 5 is where it's considered pretty conclusive, so wouldn't goin
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by nknight 15y ago
Thank you for letting me know that you're someone who is going to try and psychoanalyze me instead of having a civil debate, I'll avoid discussions with you in the future.
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Most laughable is the idea that VMware would have any reason to ask him to make Redis run on Windows. They make a lot of money off enabling easy deployment of diverse operating systems.
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by nknight 15y ago
You're fundamentally asking the wrong question. First you figure out your design, then you use the right tools to implement it. Redis may or may not be an appropriate tool for any particular design. I've solved a lot of problems with it, bu
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by nknight 15y ago
> (I'm personally connected to two, Fog Creek and StackOverflow) The latter of which, at least, has done exactly what you say you don't want to have happen. Also, neither of those companies are even remotely BigCorp, they're quite sma
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by nknight 15y ago
What a disgusting assault on Salvatore's character. I really don't think anything more needs to be said, your resorting to such attacks pretty well speaks for itself.
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And Redis relies on POSIX semantics, which is... er... core POSIX? Microsoft does have a third option, you know. One many of us would love to see happen: real, first-class POSIX support in Windows.
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by nknight 15y ago
I've never used a non-trivial piece of cross-platform software that didn't have significant platform-specific bugs. If you're claiming yours doesn't, I'm going to have to ask for access to your customer support email...
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by nknight 15y ago
The fundamental problem people are having seems to be "antirez won't support Windows". Let's say BigCorp really wants to use Redis, but only supports Windows. Why is it OK for them to ask antirez to support Windows, but not OK for antirez t
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by nknight 15y ago
> I'm not saying Redis is the ideal choice for these particular cases. I'm just quickly braindumping some examples. Exactly. You're inventing weird use cases that only half-fit Redis's properties, instead of carefully considering the
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by nknight 15y ago
You don't need to convince them of the need for good design, you need to convince them that what they're doing now isn't good design, and that they should do something different. I'm saying, citing the project they think is an example of
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by nknight 15y ago
I wouldn't so much call it "bad form" as just non-idiomatic. It doesn't really have big downsides in practice. It's mostly a habit people pick up from C++ (where it's mandatory due to stricter typing), and if you want to build C code with a
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by nknight 15y ago
He didn't say "Google is being mean", he said they and Apple were "suing everybody", a statement in no way supported by one of his references.
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by nknight 15y ago
Right now, GNOME is probably the last example you should cite as "getting it right" if you're trying to convince open source developers of something. GNOME's UI decisions of late are not particularly popular with the crowd you need to convi
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by nknight 15y ago
[1] is a link to a story about Google being sued by Skyhook, not Google suing anybody.
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I'm actually starting to think there's something to be said for letting each generation of programmers grow up simultaneously with a hot new framework. It encourages learning through experimentation, lets them make the mistakes we all have
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by nknight 15y ago
The more usual solution for growable buffers is to start small and just double each time you hit the limit, not grow it by a static amount. People have tried a lot of different strategies, but there don't seem to be any that work much bette
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by nknight 15y ago
I recently saw something pointing out another wrinkle about taxis -- per mile, their engines go between hot and cold a whole lot less, so there's less stress from thermal expansion. Once they're on, they pretty much stay on for at least the
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by nknight 15y ago
Actually, it sounds like Scala's would be more manageable, if it were handled properly. In fact, you can find a kind of precedent for Scala's problem in C++, which was wildly successful in spite of itself and its many implementation problem
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by nknight 15y ago
> other people made those decisions decades ago. This isn't decades ago, and Ubuntu is not Unix. It is Ubuntu. Decisions made decades ago for Unix are not inherently right, and have no special moral authority. > I couldn't care l
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by nknight 15y ago
My point is, who are you to decide how "Linux" is supposed to behave by default? Why do you get veto power over what should be "optional"? A choice has been made for Ubuntu's behavior. Other distributions are free to make their own choice
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by nknight 15y ago
pquerna's guess is a reasonable one, though I don't know the authentication mechanisms, either. Here are some other wild guesses that may have little or no resemblance to what Verizon is experiencing, but kind of show what can bring down an

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