rodgerd

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by rodgerd 14y ago
Kives are just as lethal as guns? Hey, good news, armies of the world! Stop wasting money on complex mechanical weapons and ammunition, just buy knives! Your soldiers will be just as effective!
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by rodgerd 14y ago
I would suggest that while there might be employers who'd take a risk with someone who had a dishonesty offence from their youth, that same pool would very quickly dry up when in became apparent such a person kept behaving dishonestly, in e
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by rodgerd 14y ago
<blockquote>The inevitable file descriptor limits on Linux means that for every database connection you make, you use up one of the 1,024 file descriptors that are allocated to your process by default. Changing these limits is not o
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by rodgerd 14y ago
Henry Ford?
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by rodgerd 14y ago
That's certainly a quasi-religious position of the Boston school; unfortunately, it doesn't appear to jibe too well with reality: http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.... for example.
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by rodgerd 14y ago
Perhaps I'm misreading what appears to be the Mir license block: GNU GPL v3, GNU LGPL v3, MIT / X / Expat Licence, Other/Open Source (Boost Software License - Version 1.0) Commercial subscription expires 2022-09-24
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by rodgerd 14y ago
1/ Mir is dependent on a proprietary Boost software license, and, should it follow Canonical's normal path, will require you to assign your work to them to contribute. Properietary dependencies and a requirement to hand over your code to a
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by rodgerd 14y ago
Consider OpenSUSE. I've been distro-hopping for a while, and I've ended up delighted how well it works. Fedora is now about as stable as Rawhide used to be.
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by rodgerd 14y ago
Don't forget the copyright assignments required by Canonical. Open source, but we get to own your source" is a thin model of open source.
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by rodgerd 14y ago
Wayland is already mostly there, was put together by experienced X developers who've given up on trying to make X do everything modern display environments work. The main problem with moving away from X has been the lack of a single, demon
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by rodgerd 14y ago
"Naive" is an overly polite way of describing ideas which lead in with an idea that flies in the face of pretty much the whole history of Linux.
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by rodgerd 14y ago
It's the difference between understanding the incident (programmer makes mistake) and the root cause (failing at data integrity 101). Not just no backups, but no audit log of what's happened in the game - I'd expect an MMO to have an appen
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by rodgerd 14y ago
That's funny, because pretty much every other OECD country pays less for healthcare and, by every objective metric, gets better results. But most other OECD countries haven't confused "paying for insurance" with "paying for healthcare", eit
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by rodgerd 14y ago
Anyone who read 2000 A.D. in the early 80s knows where the guts of Warhammer 40K was stolen from. (And Ridley Scott would like his Tyrannids back, please.) Be pure. Be vigilant. Behave.
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by rodgerd 14y ago
Richard Stallman tells a story (or did when I saw him give a lecture a decade or so ago) about Steve Jobs approaching him to do a deal on allowing NeXT to keep the GCC Objective C front end closed; rms explained that wasn't going to happen,
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by rodgerd 14y ago
The core financials may be in COBOL and assembler, but these days most things talking to them will be Java or C#; the middleware will most likely be Java as will many of the front-end apps. And plenty of banks are migrating away from COBOL
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by rodgerd 14y ago
In a world where developers at places like Amazon have been putting huge numbers of people out of work, and the tech industry cheers this as high-value disruption of moribund industries, developers who think they should be immune to the sam