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by rm-rf 17y ago
Assume for a moment, that there is no difference in error rates for software & bridge engineering. In the case of most software engineering, there is no recall, no liability, and often no admission of liability as a consequence of softw
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by rm-rf 17y ago
The author brings up a fundamental difference between traditional engineering and software engineering. In many fields, engineers sign on the dotted line and assume professional and financial liability for the correctness of their design. T
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Unfortunately in order to download the OS, it appears as though I have to join "a social gadget platform" - whatever that is. I'll wait for a download with less attached baggage.
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by rm-rf 17y ago
What about the phishing attacks that don't download executable software, like the ones that convince users to give up account information to a bogus web site? Are they not platform agnostic?
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I've had very good results simulating an in-memory database with conventional RDBMS's by simply running the databases with a high ratio of physical memory to data - on the order of 128GB of memory for a 500GB database. The advantage is that
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I tend to agree. If it's tethered to a cell tower, it can't completely replace dedicated navigation devices. Also - Like other navs, this solves the problem of 'what hotels are near me'. Unfortunately neither this solution or existing dedic
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Back in the days when WORM (Write Once, Read Many) drives were a big deal, we sketched out a similar concept and called it a WORN (Write Once, Read Never). We should have built the thing. It would have been a useful device for storing all t
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by rm-rf 17y ago
On the other hand, if you are running air conditioning, you'll have to pay once to generate the heat (the computer), and pay again to extract the heat from the house (air conditioning).
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Worst software bugs, in increasing order of severity: An ASP.NET app that didn't consume it's record sets before closing it's database connections, thereby breaking IIS's connection pooling and causing hundreds SQL server login/logouts per
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by rm-rf 17y ago
The referenced link is far more interesting than the resulting discussion. For persons who are designing web applications, the post outlines considerations that are not generally known or well understood. Some considerations, such as managi
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A Letter To The Programmer (Skype bug)(developsense.com)
3 points by rm-rf 17y ago|1 comments
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by rm-rf 17y ago
It looks like they've had to bring in a large collection of vendors in order to solve the technical challenges (Remedy, McAfee, MS's AV & System Center, Aruba Airwave) and functional requirements (iTunes, MS Office, Adobe CS4). So with
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I've always thought that building an iPhone specific version of a site is the wrong path to take, and that site operators should create a mobile friendly version that works on iPhones and other PDA/Mobile like devices. It seems to me that f
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I've been on the 'shipped shit' side of applications a couple times. Ten's of thousands of customers and a shiny new app that could only be described as shit. I'd have rather had the product late.
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I suspect that most people don't know how botnets work. This lecture gives a pretty decent description.
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by rm-rf 17y ago
On punch cards. I don't recall if it was F77 or Fortran IV though.
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I'm surprised that this didn't get more press.
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by rm-rf 17y ago
>meanwhile, you can survive with LVM and md RAID Why would I want to barely survive on beans and rice when caviar is available at the same price?
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I think they tried that when the T1's first came out.
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by rm-rf 17y ago
I'm not sure I care about the relative package count, provided that OpenSolaris has sufficient packages to meet my functional requirements. Having a single company in control of the kernel is both good and bad. It's good because you can mov
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Applies to sysadmins too. Don't patch/upgrade the server the evening before you leave on vacation.....
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by rm-rf 17y ago
Oracle makes up a magic number called a 'core factor' that determines license costs for a given platform. By manipulating that number, Oracle gets to favor one platform over another by making it cheap or expensive to license Oracle products