nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
Six months ago, OpenJDK had already been declared the official reference implementation for Java SE 7 (for several months, in fact), and the OS Distributor License had already been withdrawn -- almost two months before that issue was closed
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by nknight 15y ago
Well, maybe in whatever line of work you've chosen, or just whatever big company you've decided to work for, but it's never been a requirement for me.
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by nknight 15y ago
Really? Because this issue is marked wontfix: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-4763 I've noticed that to the extent JetBrains communicates at all, it has a highly irritating habit of marking issues wontfix and making content-free st
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by nknight 15y ago
I dug up this shot of PyCon JP 2011: http://www.ianlewis.org/media/img/662/audience.jpg I count at least 8 Macs, two more that may or may not be Macs. I don't see any blatantly non-Mac laptops. To be fair, I can't be sure it's not a sessi
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by nknight 15y ago
In Silicon Valley, I'm reaching the point where I'm surprised when a developer isn't using a Mac. Frankly, most of the ones I know who don't have been working professionally since long before Apple's resurgence.
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by nknight 15y ago
Most of the information is technically available to the public. Some is already online, some is available for the asking. Some is probably classified (I'd be surprised if SpaceX was given much if any of this), and a lot of it almost certain
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by nknight 15y ago
To my knowledge, the cost I mentioned is for just a turbine/generator unit. It's what you'd pay if you could walk down to a Home Depot and, well, "pick one up". Any transmission infrastructure is an additional cost. This would obviously nee
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by nknight 15y ago
As you notice, the UAE is rather wealthy. I seriously doubt they located the prototype near Abu Dhabi because it was a location in dire need of safe water, rather than convenience and publicity. A few other middle eastern, and numerous Afri
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by nknight 15y ago
Sorry, I was unconsciously adding context not directly in the article. One of the articles linked to[1] indicates that this article's statements are misleading. The turbine is "the size of a standard 300-500kW model", but generates 30kW of
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by nknight 15y ago
Yeeeah, that's a heck of a lot of water in a desert. I'm a bit worried about the cost, though. They don't mention per-unit cost anywhere, but they're comparing its size to 300-500kW turbines. If memory serves, those are a few hundred thousa
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by nknight 15y ago
You clearly lack the experience necessary to understand the dynamics at play here. The phenomenon you bizarrely, insultingly refer to as "I cooked a ROM doodz!" is not arrested by copyleft. Small-scale non-commercial GPL violations by indiv
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by nknight 15y ago
Do you have any meaningful citation for these events? The only mention I can find of the incident you seem to be alluding to is a brief, vague, and un-sourced mention in a text file dating to 1991[1]. I'd be entirely unsurprised to learn t
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by nknight 15y ago
Ignoring the first-to-market incentive (which is substantial), is there any monetary incentive now? Has anyone else ever tried to make a business out of somehow "licensing" a general-purpose programming language minus implementation? The co
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by nknight 15y ago
If I remember right, there are actually rules about that specific type of situation. If you've never lived in, had any substantial economic links to, or done anything that could be seen as claiming US citizenship, I believe you can renounce
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by nknight 15y ago
> what kind of repositories There's only one "kind" of repository generally referred to in programming topics. > Surely, the repositories at my company don't have readmes Good lord, why not?! Mine do! > When you join a team
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by nknight 15y ago
The ability to do about 4 Dragon flights to the ISS for the incremental cost of a single 2011 Shuttle launch does mean the raw down-mass capability is actually pretty comparable, though.
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by nknight 15y ago
No, the misunderstanding is yours. Postfix IS an SMTP server. SMTP servers connect to other SMTP servers to deliver mail. Your mail comes into an SMTP server just as it goes out an SMTP server.
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by nknight 15y ago
> We've had native IPv6 with Free Actually, you don't. What Free and AT&T have deployed is 6rd, a 6to4 derivative. This tunnels your IPv6 packets over IPv4.
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by nknight 15y ago
I don't even understand how you found it, I can't seem to navigate to the announcement from their front page. If they make it impossible to find, it's quite understandable nobody knows about it.
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by nknight 15y ago
When did it become accepted practice to check in generated code? That's what packaged downloads are for.
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by nknight 15y ago
I think my answer if asked this question in an interview would be "A trainwreck of legacy (in)compatibility layers designed to keep grandpa from losing his teeth after he's been dead twenty years.".
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by nknight 15y ago
Fun while it lasted. Flew around a bit, was very impressed, then looked toward a teleporter and froze my whole machine. Presumably a Google or Apple/NVIDIA bug (Chrome 18.0.1025.151 on a mid-2010 MBP with a GeForce GT 330M and fully-updated
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by nknight 15y ago
It would strongly violate my expectations for Scala to be more popular than LabVIEW (which is NOT just "the Lego Mindstorms language") or Visual FoxPro. The "community" they're measuring is not the HN community, which is not even close to
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by nknight 15y ago
You mean why didn't they blow thousands of dollars per year on an inefficient mode of transportation irrelevant to their ordinary daily lives? Can't imagine.
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm guessing you're either running a rather old distribution/kernel, or your swappiness is set far too aggressively. Try setting it to 0.
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by nknight 15y ago
The essay in question is infinitely more complex and nuanced than you seem to be giving it credit for, as are the myriad views of the HN community. HN is filled with entrepreneurs who, in one way or another, almost always rely on copyright.
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by nknight 15y ago
That creates a new session, it doesn't connect you to an existing one, or let you share that session with others.
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by nknight 15y ago
I share his observations. At one company, I gave up on trying to have any meaningful conversations with anybody on Fridays, because everyone was too fucked up to speak intelligently. This was not a little startup, either.
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by nknight 15y ago
Sex is probably at least as common as alcohol consumption. Doesn't that mean it belongs in a professional environment too, then?
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by nknight 15y ago
Your gripe seems to be with the restrictive Apple ecosystem, not the GPL.

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