rleigh

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721.
by rleigh 9y ago
That's D-BUS being a terribly specified and poorly implemented mess. Everything underneath should be solid.
722.
by rleigh 9y ago
I think that's often down to the technique you use to dry your hands. Used properly, it can do a decent job. That said, I think the original design wasn't too amazing, though it did look cooler than most of the existing dryers at
723.
by rleigh 9y ago
There are degrees of enthusiasm and positivity. Everywhere else I've interviewed, people have been relatively positive since they want to sell the company to you and give you a good impression. At Google, it was way beyond that. I t
724.
by rleigh 9y ago
When I interviewed with Google, the over-the-top "Google is the best place to work evaaar" attitudes I got from the majority of people I interacted with gave me the distinct impression that it was like some bizarre cult. Most of
725.
by rleigh 9y ago
I have already opened an issue for this. However, it doesn't resolve the underlying and rather harder to fix problem of different language-specific package managers embedding copies of C and C++ libraries which can end up in a horribl
726.
by rleigh 9y ago
"UX" already has a bad name, and it's entirely justified. When several decades of solid usability research are thrown away largely due to aesthetics over functionality, resulting in poorly usable, inefficient and confusing i
727.
by rleigh 9y ago
Downside: numpy, h5py and others use an embedded libhdf5 which is quite outdated. Meanwhile, homebrew has the current version, but they ignore it. In contrast, the Debian/Ubuntu/FreeBSD ports have python packages built against t
728.
by rleigh 9y ago
We already have commercial systems which do this. See PhaseFocus for example ( http://www.phasefocus.com/technology-virtual-lens/ ). This uses proprietary deconvolution algorithms to reconstruct a 3D volume from diffra
729.
by rleigh 9y ago
My (UK) ISP puts my full name and address, home phone, email etc. in my /64 v6 allocation, and I think also for the v4 address. It's not optional, but then again I'm not worried about being randomly shot by SWAT.
730.
by rleigh 9y ago
Regarding fonts, nowadays I just use XeLaTeX and you can select any system font directly and output straight to PDF.
731.
by rleigh 9y ago
It can't hurt to learn Java. There's a huge amount of Java code out there, and there are lots of Java jobs. It has a future, though the hype wore off it a long time ago. That said, I can't say I particularly like Java, or f
732.
by rleigh 9y ago
You can buy an entire sackful of potatoes for around the cost of two slices of pizza, and it'll last for weeks. Or several pounds of flour which will likewise last for a while--you could make your pizza bases in a few minutes if you w
733.
by rleigh 9y ago
It didn't work for me when I tried it out; there was key functionality broken for various tasks I was using. I'm sure it will be fixed eventually, but there's still some work to be done IME.
734.
by rleigh 9y ago
"AppleClang" is some strange fork with some features (both compiler and library) omitted or broken. OpenMP, for example, is one thing I've been missing for a good while; I've not checked if that's now present with
735.
by rleigh 9y ago
I just ran "pkg install llvm50" on FreeBSD. Easy, quick, and noninvasive; it's not like installing another compiler is going to trash your system, you still have to take action to use it in place of the default. Likewise on
736.
by rleigh 9y ago
Using pkg to update both base and ports with a single tool will be nice. As will updating jails robustly; freebsd-update is not so great in jails in my experience.
737.
by rleigh 9y ago
It's the last release they made any significant updates to the BSD userland. I'd mark this as the release they ceased serious investment into the operating system itself. After this point it's almost nothing of note. If yo
738.
by rleigh 9y ago
Yes, but can vary much from department to department. A decade back the immunology department I was in gradually switched almost entirely from Windows PCs to Apple Macs. Primarily by people seeing how much nicer and more productive a user
739.
by rleigh 9y ago
"Better" is a little subjective. Linux has more drivers, true. But you only need one driver, for the HBA you use, and is the quality of that one driver better? I bought an LSI HBA specifically because the FreeBSD driver for it
740.
by rleigh 9y ago
GTK+ is maybe a bad example. The developers were not exactly welcoming of contributions or particularly friendly to suggestions. My experience was that they did not foster an environment which was amenable to participation, and that is th
741.
by rleigh 9y ago
No, it's a pretty reasonable analogy. For the original point, if all we had was machine code, and that code had a complete description of the machine which could run it and how to create it, it would still be useless without a machine
742.
by rleigh 9y ago
That's odd. I've been using it on Ubuntu as the rootfs for over 18 months now and have been through 16.04/16.10/17.04/17.10 upgrades and numerous kernel upgrades and it's worked flawlessly every time.
743.
by rleigh 9y ago
Not really. For the traps I've seen, a powerful fan pulls air from an intake pipe at a certain height above ground level through a fine steel mesh filter. You remove the filter after a certain time period, and weigh the mass of the c
744.
by rleigh 9y ago
The grass is always greener. Trello is so awful as a bug/issue tracker I'd love to be using JIRA.
745.
by rleigh 9y ago
Autoconf is completely orthogonal to the base/ports split and FreeBSD vs Linux or any other UNIX. All the ports are simply automatically configured with "--prefix=/usr/local".
746.
by rleigh 9y ago
People should be downloading actual releases. This could be release archives, or release tags. Version control is not primarily for consumption of releases, it's for participation in development, and I think the branching strategy sho
747.
by rleigh 9y ago
You also need to allow for legibility in the face of damage, if that could lead to ambiguity.
748.
by rleigh 9y ago
Yes, software is a tool, nothing more, and unless it's part of a process which is enforced, it's worthless. The places I've worked at were very strict about it: no accurate data entry, no progress. And they also had physica
749.
by rleigh 9y ago
I think you may well be correct in your assessment. Culture doesn't change overnight, and it's also inherited so may well have persisted to the present day. It also doesn't change without external pressure, and only relucta
750.
by rleigh 9y ago
Here's a car analogy: take driving across an intersection. The hazard here is being involved in a collision, possibly fatally, by crossing traffic. The risk is the likelihood of a car colliding with us when we cross. We mitigate

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