rleigh

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by rleigh 8y ago
This level of rigidity would preclude the gradual adoption of newer workflows, and hence be a hard blocker preventing any improvement or advancement. I hesitate to criticise it, but I don't think such an environment would be polished.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Even if it's surplus to requirements? It has a shelf life, demand is variable, and it's a better fate than simply throwing it away. I'm a regular donor in the UK, and it also happens to our donations. It can be used as is,
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by rleigh 8y ago
It lacks reasonable audit capability. Paper ballots can be inspected and recounted; tampering and ballot stuffing can be observed. Tokens in a particular bin can't be audited in the same way. And it may also lack anonymity--unlike th
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by rleigh 8y ago
The only thing I want to hear about is the release of a new Mac Mini. I want a new CI build slave, and I'm not paying for the existing obsolete one.
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by rleigh 8y ago
This point about ethics was so important, I thought I'd follow up with a more detailed example. In a previous position (well over a decade ago, for a company which no longer exists), I was asked by my boss to do something which was bot
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by rleigh 8y ago
Maybe if you work in the Land of the Free™ and live in constant fear of getting fired for some inconsequential reason, you have to have to abase yourself daily to your manager and act like a wage slave supplicant. Is that a life anyone can
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by rleigh 8y ago
CS not being a profession doesn't preclude acting professionally. As for why you shouldn't be a yes-man. I am an individual, I'm educated, skilled, and have two decades of experience and what I consider to be generally good
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by rleigh 8y ago
Why do you consider it bad to say no? Do you not expect your employees to exhibit independent thought and act professionally? If someone was asked to do something which was seriously wrong, wouldn't you want them to call it out rathe
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by rleigh 8y ago
Why? The point about it being antisocial and inconsiderate stands on its own. The point about it being for their own good is separate, but still valid. Too many people end up with long term health problems from sedentary jobs, and a small
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by rleigh 8y ago
It's beyond antisocial. Being forced to smell and see food, and watch people eat can be disgusting. Some food is obviously worse than others. Deliberately inflicting it on an entire office is not-so-subtly telling everyone else that
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by rleigh 8y ago
It will be the cmake-mode for editing CMakeLists.txt files.
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by rleigh 8y ago
It's awful. It's not even a build system; it's a framework to make your own custom special snowflake build system that is unique to your project and which contains 1% of the functionality you get for free with cmake. Take a
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by rleigh 8y ago
Did they also recommend any documentation or examples? Because I've yet to find anything that comes close to the extensive CMake documentation. Heck, even GNU autotools have better docs and examples than b2.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Electric fields used in this way have long been used in commercial products, e.g. Amaxa nucleofection ( https://bioscience.lonza.com/lonza_bs/CH/en/nucleofector-tec... ) and Neon electroporation ( https:/&
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by rleigh 8y ago
Unfortunately, cellulose acetate does not easily biodegrade. Plus, it's soaked in tar and other toxins.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Maybe because the Russians didn't know that GCHQ knew that the Russians knew that GCHQ had Colossus!
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by rleigh 8y ago
It depends upon your definition of "slow". At mass production, maybe. But maybe faster at changing and iterating on designs due to being more flexible and adaptable.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Or even the option of inputting the data manually on a local system, so they could use the big displays rather than some whiteboards!
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by rleigh 8y ago
It's possible to be a bad lecturer and use acetates. But physical constraints still act against it: they are bulky, you can't easily manage a lecture with 100 acetates, they have a tendency to slide onto the floor and make a jumb
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by rleigh 8y ago
The other factor is the pacing. If the lecturer is writing, on a transparency or blackboard, you can take notes at the same pace. PowerPoint allows stupid amounts of information to be delivered, which just washes over you--it's too m
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by rleigh 8y ago
On the flip side, there are vastly fewer drivers. I can plug a random USB device into a Linux system and the chances are it just works. Same with Windows, though it might require the driver installing first. MacOS might not have any driv
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by rleigh 8y ago
Yep, and there's so much salt in mass manufactured biscuits and the like I can no longer bear to eat them. Add more butter instead! Cutting back on refined sugar really makes things taste better, lots of subtle flavour makes previousl
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by rleigh 8y ago
He is popular because he has a lot of interesting things to say, and in today's social environment quite a few of these topics are considered taboo, not because they are scientifically unsound but because they run counter to the unscie
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by rleigh 8y ago
Err, they are very easy to debug. You can have them print out every line as they execute and follow along what was done. Prior to systemd, if there was ever anything critically broken, I could step through the entire startup from the init
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by rleigh 8y ago
It obviously depends upon the context. But for many industrial processes and designs, the design and documentation alone is only the bare minimum needed to replicate it. The rest is in people's heads and hands, and needs to be passed
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by rleigh 8y ago
10ml of pure ethanol.
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by rleigh 8y ago
How much have Windows and Linux changed since 10.6. Quite a bit. But the MacOS X UNIX userland has not . It's over a decade out of date at this point. I've been increasingly running into portability problems, from missing or
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by rleigh 8y ago
My specialism is scientific imaging, so here's a few examples off the top of my head: VTK would be one. It's at the core of dozens of scientific and medical imaging applications, and is being used for new specialised applications
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by rleigh 8y ago
The annual releases are mostly cosmetic and typically only change higher-level details. They haven't made much in the way of substantive changes to the base system since 10.6. At the lower level, it's looking like abandonware. A
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by rleigh 8y ago
I disagree. It doesn't matter a whit whether or not it's the "primary" graphics API, but rather that it's supported on a platform or not. Right now, if I use OpenGL, I can target Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, mo

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