nknight

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811.
by nknight 15y ago
You probably don't want to know what I think of patriotism, most people find my views on the subject to be offensive. But I never said loyalty to abstract entities didn't exist , the implication is that it's horribly misguided.
812.
by nknight 15y ago
I'm not an artist/designer, nor have I ever done spec work as a developer, but it seems to me a lot easier to decide to help a not-for-profit organization (Mozilla) aimed at general societal benefit for $0 than to do so for a for-profit com
813.
by nknight 15y ago
How the employees choose to see it is irrelevant if the conditions are clearly spelled out. That said, it would not be surprising for a court to force partial payment if the "cause" is particularly flimsy or the timing excessively suspiciou
814.
by nknight 15y ago
What you are describing has absolutely nothing to do with loyalty to any one or any thing. You are confusing a lot of different concepts, like pride, emotional investment, and personal loyalty with "loyalty" to a company. They are unrelated
815.
by nknight 15y ago
Loyalty to people != loyalty to a company. I'm well acquainted with the interaction between personal loyalty and employment. I've made career-altering choices out of personal loyalty that in a purely economic sense were not optimal. But tha
816.
by nknight 15y ago
Useless staff can still be fired, he's not offering them lifetime employment. And I've seen first hand the damage done by getting rid of the "mediocre" people who have been around for ages in favor of a new hotshot. Discontinuity and destru
817.
by nknight 15y ago
Loyalty is for people, not abstract entities. Notions of being loyal to a company are a management invention designed to control employees, nothing more.
818.
by nknight 15y ago
His point is that full-blown NAT/PAT is really 2 + 4 + 2 = 8 bytes on top of the base IP address for your system. The tuple for a connection is: source IP = 4 bytes source port = 2 bytes dest IP = 4 bytes dest port = 2 bytes For 12 bytes, o
819.
by nknight 15y ago
Comcast was doing "tests" for a long time in a variety of forms across the country. Those tests are over and have been for a while. This is gradual but very much live deployment, albeit with a limited enabled "feature set".
820.
by nknight 15y ago
They're minimizing the number of variables in the initial deployments. DHCPv6 only, no third-party gateways. Massively reduces the number of things that can break. Comcast has been working on IPv6 for years, and they've got senior technical
821.
by nknight 15y ago
Conveniently, the sox project on sourceforge has Mac OS X binaries available. http://sox.sourceforge.net/
822.
by nknight 15y ago
I think the statistics are entirely irrelevant now -- if they were ever relevant in the first place. Almost everything serious runs behind some sort of proxy, and those proxies often front for heterogeneous back-end systems, and even those
823.
by nknight 15y ago
They were authorized to distribute the content according to the terms of the contract . It appears they distributed the content outside of those terms. I'm sure there's language to ensure they won't get hit with damages, but they should be
824.
by nknight 15y ago
Your "criticism" of PCRE doesn't sound like real criticism, it sounds like a confused and frustrated beginner, which is why you're getting beginner lectures. PCRE is taking an extremely powerful and completely non-standard DSL out of the co
825.
by nknight 15y ago
> interaction with patient, which is the most important task It's also the one radiologists and other medical professionals routinely fail at. Sorry, but if your argument is "computers don't have a bedside manner", I have to call that
826.
by nknight 15y ago
There's a lot Google could claim under California law, but that's almost certainly too broad an interpretation to make it through court unmodified. Ignoring the PR problem, if they sued one of their engineers over, say, an iPhone racing gam
827.
by nknight 15y ago
Haven't there been several stories in the last ~year about outrageous-sounding salary wars between the likes of Google and Facebook? The average for "good" developers at Google might have shot up recently.
828.
by nknight 15y ago
There are other bugs in the engine. PCRE has had several, I have no reason to believe any other engine is not similarly vulnerable. In a security context, a regex engine is best viewed as a virtual machine. Most virtual machines are not s
829.
by nknight 15y ago
If you can dial 911, don't just hang up, the response to that will vary from one place to another, even from one dispatcher to another. You need to find some way to make clear you're in trouble.
830.
by nknight 15y ago
Nice, it's the embodiment of every negative stereotype of CS programs. Has anyone thought to compile a list of schools outside the MIT/CalTech/CMU/... level that still teach something resembling computer science ? Or are they all just bad
831.
by nknight 15y ago
Except that wasn't the original point at all. It started with Jd saying: "If you want to go to the moon you need a f'ing spaceship and not emacs and an open source notebook. Spaceships are big. They take a lot of people to run, and they ha
832.
by nknight 15y ago
I'm not sure what kind of reference you want. Regular expressions are code. They're a DSL, and in some ways, the full Perl regex engine is disturbingly close to turing complete, even before you notice that the full Perl regex engine expli
833.
by nknight 15y ago
It was, though it was fairly new at that time, so the author may not have had it on his system. Also, the Python standard library is quite large. Most people will never really know about all its nooks and crannies, and it's easy to forget t
834.
by nknight 15y ago
I don't think anyone has ever accused PCRE of being particularly high-quality, but it's usually "good enough". Not being able to use a regex that works in Perl is entirely expected, and probably not a bug -- PCRE is not an exact duplicate o
835.
by nknight 15y ago
Wow. Just wow. Every single system you name is made up of a large number of complex sub-systems designed and built to exacting requirements, and any one of them can still break at any time. Thinking you "got it right" just because it didn't
836.
by nknight 15y ago
That site indicates they're attempting to launch a human on a suborbital trajectory. What does that have to do with either orbital flight or going to the moon?
837.
by nknight 15y ago
I can and do send bits of my Python code to non-Python developers for them to examine for things like business logic errors. The only reason this is practical is because the code is clear and explicit about what it's doing.
838.
by nknight 15y ago
Closures don't need to take parameters to be useful, but you're missing the point. There is a simple, unambiguous rule -- () calls, no-() references. In order to... what? save two keystrokes? -- you have added a strange corner case, and the
839.
by nknight 15y ago
Could someone please explain to me what this code is doing in the Ruby tree in the first place? My uses of OpenSSL in straight C don't involve performing this kind of bit twiddling, or really any bit twiddling, calculation, or manipulation
840.
by nknight 15y ago
So instead of a simple, uniform rule that () invokes a function, and no-() references the function, you add yet a third syntax? This is not an improvement, it is an unnecessary complication.

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