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by weland 11y ago
And yet practical experience shows the complete opposite: the average user prefers something simple from an aesthetic and functional perspective, and does not believe that there should be a trade-off between features and privacy (which is
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by weland 11y ago
To me -- someone reasonably tech-savvy and with questionable artistic taste -- the whole "web became a worse place when designers got involved" has a lot more to do with the entire ecosystem and a lot less to do with the design it
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by weland 11y ago
It's in the context of why cat paper* > paper.all blows everything up. Of course it's meaningless.
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by weland 11y ago
> The result of `cat a b > a` couldn't possibly be the result that the user intends The result of cat a b > a is precisely the result that the user intends, provided that the user has actually read the documentation.
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by weland 11y ago
I'm only passingly familiar with PowerShell but really, it's Microsoft, in the bloody documentation, that literally states precisely that cmdlets are instances of .NET Framework classes: "Cmdlets differ from commands in oth
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by weland 11y ago
I am (or at least used to be, at some point) fluent in C++ and have built large applications with it. But I'd still rather write C, because its infamous simplicity is of a lot of use to me -- whereas I found that much of C++'s c
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by weland 11y ago
If Google Analytics provided nothing other than a counter, those simple CGI visitor count scripts we hacked up back in the 90s would have put Google out of business a long, long time ago.
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by weland 11y ago
As much as I'd love to see x86 go the fuck away, we have a lot more proven stuff working on that architecture -- including a lot of legacy or closed-source software that won't get ported soon. > Also, the propreties that they
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by weland 11y ago
Absolutely. If you're audited for MISRA compliance, you need to follow it point by point. The rules themselves are not meaningless or without a point, but there are a lot of companies that adopt MISRA without actually having (in the
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by weland 11y ago
In my experience, the major problem with standards like MISRA is that people read the rules, but rarely the rationale behind them, which makes every coding standard end up encouraging cargo cult bug avoidance. Case in point: MISRA C forbi
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by weland 11y ago
My list of "things I hate about C" is about 4 pages long now, after many years in embedded development (and a few in scientific computing prior to that). As soon as a viable replacement for it comes, I'm going to get drunk, r
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by weland 11y ago
I've done enough of it that I hate it routinely, rather than occasionally.
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by weland 11y ago
Full disclosure: I do work on medical devices (although they're very different). I'm all for bashing corporations and a lot of high-volume medical devices are outrageously priced, but without more details, this statement is enti
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by weland 11y ago
Well, reading the hexadecimal interpretation of a memory dump full of little-endian data is annoying as fuck.
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by weland 11y ago
Absolutely. Encoding byte order and swapping or not swapping dynamically is a silly solution to a problem no one had in the first place.
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by weland 11y ago
In the meantime, almost every bytestream sent over networks on planet Earth is BE, regardless of whether it's sent by or to a LE or BE machine.
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by weland 11y ago
Linkbait much? Further down below, Torvalds explains precisely why BE is anything but dead. All that's dead is general-purpose CPUs using it, mostly because x86 happened. http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke&#x2
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by weland 11y ago
There are things in this world that are not a business.
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by weland 11y ago
More often than not, he wasn't referring to contributions in the FSF sense (i.e. people modifying code that they don't send back to the original authors). He simply meant that many of the institutions that run and use OpenBSD, whi
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by weland 11y ago
Many years ago (10+), back when printed media was still relevant in IT, I used to work for a local computer magazine whose senior editor was this witty, funny guy with a sharp mind - an unlikely case of a bohemian, post-modernist poet actua
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by weland 12y ago
> By this line of logic a "real programmer" should be soldering wires or building their own CPUs and resistors. Of course he should. If you haven't, you're an unreal programmer.
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by weland 12y ago
> You're a lot smarter than Eliza > Are you kidding me? Eliza would just pose as a psychiatrist and could actually answer barely anything. I have a larger database and outsource questions to the internet as well. Priceless!
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by weland 12y ago
It became bad PR.
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by weland 12y ago
I remember it fondly as well. It was a lot cheaper but had remarkable capabilities. It kept getting more and more bloated though. I think version 9 was the last one that one could actually use.
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by weland 12y ago
I, for one, cannot remember any training, workshop or course that didn't have at least half an hour of obvious, blatant corporate agenda crap and here's-why-you-don't-need-any-technology-other-than-this-one. Some of them
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by weland 12y ago
I've had good results with qmake, too, but I don't know how well it works for large projects. I don't think any of the codebases I've used it on was > 100,000 LoC.
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by weland 12y ago
The last time I read about this, it was expected that, at one point, in 2020 or so, electrical vehicle batteries are finally going to become a relatively important component of the battery market. There's a lot of money being poured
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by weland 12y ago
It's important to note, though, that this kind of breakthrough is hardly the kind of invention that Musk is interested in. The world of batteries doesn't revolve around Elon and Tesla. This is sort of a big deal for those of us
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by weland 12y ago
I would argue that (a) and (b) are exactly what's happening now, and why people are so unhappy with this law: it's overly broad, and it will be applied by organizations that have traditionally given little importance to the bounda
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by weland 12y ago
This. It's pretty common practice around some parts of the world.

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