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by ploxiln 10y ago
Other professions hire based on pedigree and looking+sounding the part. I personally prefer a hard skills test. But of course I would, the latter scenario favored me much more than the former when I was not-yet done with college, and also w
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Hmm does ntpsec only test their website with Chrome? Firefox says "Secure Connection Failed ... The OCSP server suggests trying again later." I guess that's one of the reasons Chrome TLS devs say online (looked-up on-demand)
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Upstream GNU Emacs can no more be called "crippled" on macOS than it can be called "crippled" on linux, because on neither does it support multi-color emoticons. Maybe it seems "unfair" because macOS users cou
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Hah - these days 1.0 is still alpha. Docker was still unstable at v1.6 (but I was able to deploy it at v1.8.2 if I carefully avoided many of its features). MySQL is actually pretty good at 5.5 / 5.6 but earlier versions were a bit of t
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by ploxiln 10y ago
That response to "ok we're going to make the database stable now" is quite reasonable for something which has had the publicity that CockroachDB has had. (Even the name suggests stability/availability above all else!) Th
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Agreed. It's not about India, it's about outsourcing. Good developers get better jobs where they are not a fungible resource. (And sometimes they move to the US or the UK.)
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by ploxiln 10y ago
That's not a bad anecdote to point to as a counter-example of men being "unfairly favored", but it might not actually be "unfair" the other way either. I was top ranked in elementary and middle school, and in the to
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by ploxiln 10y ago
The process of writing software involves some interpretation and making good small-scale design decisions. Think of things like checking for buffer overflows and error handling. If you completely specify how this is handled everywhere you&#
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I think you mean 120?
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I've used a few usb ethernet adapters over the years, and the most reliable and performant one in my experience is the StarTech USB31000S which is based on the ASIX AX88179. It's been around for a few years so the driver for it is
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by ploxiln 10y ago
What's infuriating to me (except that I've mellowed about it over the years) is that web pages use as much cpu and memory as they can get away with, up to the edge of un-usability. Pre-mature optimization being evil and all that.
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I disagree. Your "lets be super nice to everybody" strategy has come to an absurd conclusion. Is there no-one who can be held accountable for competency which they claim, when it comes to computer stuff? PayPal doesn't write
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by ploxiln 10y ago
copy/paste. you can't trust password manager browser extensions. Don't just take my word for it: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/769378052254015488 There were a few high profile ones recently repo
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I don't see how what I said carries any negative connotations about anyone. Jeez.
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by ploxiln 10y ago
A scheme to generate (and sign) a SHA512 hash that more directly incorporates the full state of the repo was invented, and is used by some projects incl. nodejs https://github.com/cgwalters/git-evtag https:/&#x2F
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Acquihire in mid-2011 http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/bitly-acquires-twitterfeed... Mario continued to work mostly independently on Twitterfeed for many years, maybe up until now. Legend has it that one of the motiva
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by ploxiln 10y ago
It's like GHz. Pretty soon people will figure out that this number is not useful to compare different foundries, or even members of different families from the same company. You just have to test what it can do.
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I think it's odd that they offer no cheaper workstation configuration - that $18k price includes maxed-out ram, a higher-end workstation class graphics card (32GB ram on the card! much cheaper workstation cards exist), and an LSI SAS c
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I appreciate what the FSF has done, and I generally appreciate their hard-line stance on free software issues ... but it's corner-cases like website javascript where I think they've gone off the rails. The browser running the java
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by ploxiln 10y ago
On the "Caveats for xterm" page it says On other operating systems except OpenBSD, there is no way in hell to make the interaction of locales with terminal controls truly safe. But consider a linux system
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by ploxiln 10y ago
grsecurity offers commercial support, and customer-only stable updates. (Only the latest version of the patchset for the latest linux kernel is available at no cost.) (Of course, if you pay and receive a stable update, you can re-distribute
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by ploxiln 10y ago
It's true, a working linux desktop system is pretty complicated and somewhat inelegant. But somehow, the more popular competitors are even more inefficient. They spawn and exec processes slower, context switch slower, you can't ru
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by ploxiln 10y ago
> However, the method of calculating IMR often varies widely between countries, and is based on how they define a live birth and how many premature infants are born in the country. > Many countries, however, including certain European
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by ploxiln 10y ago
http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/About/FUD > libjpeg/SIMD predates libjpeg v7 by several years, which means that our SIMD extensions are not compatible with some of the new features in libjpeg v7 and v8. Thus, mer
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Nope, world doesn't end, but scaled images look wrong, some more than others. For more examples see http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html
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by ploxiln 10y ago
... but if you want something that is fast, you probably want libjpeg-turbo > When compared to baseline (the only mode that is fully accelerated in libjpeg-turbo), the combination of progressive JPEG, jpgcrush, and trellis quantization i
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by ploxiln 10y ago
There is no "copying files over" with iDevices. For a long time there was "gtkpod" / "libgpod" which reverse-engineered iPod protocol and database format to load songs on an iPod. But on later iPods it inv
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Here's a theory based on a bunch of un-substantiated and un-researched facts: Some routers do not allow traffic from IPs which are not active DHCP leases. When DHCP lease expires, they block traffic. But many routers don't enforce
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Overflow is often something kept in mind in careful C programming. It's something you don't have to worry about nearly as much in Python (promotes to bignum) or Javascript (double precision float). That 32 to 64 bit transition? Wi
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by ploxiln 10y ago
AOO IS NOT MAINTAINED. It can't do builds, it can't make releases. It can't apply a security bug fix and build a release within 9 months. For an office suite, that's not OK. LO is where all the active OpenOffice develope

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