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by zb 13y ago
That's only true for named branches. You can create an unnamed branch in hg simply by going to a point in the history (what Git would call detached head) and committing. That said, the handling of named branches remains a pain point, a
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by zb 13y ago
Not really - it destroys the concept of bringing back commercial satellites, which are mostly in geosynchronous orbits (and which, as it correctly points out, nobody wants back anyway). This may have been the story they were selling the pub
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by zb 13y ago
Possibly the worst part: the courts ruled that what they did to him was unconstitutional (duh), but that it's perfectly OK to keep doing it to other people because he already got his payout: http://blogs.findlaw.com/nin
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by zb 13y ago
I recently had to use GIMP on a Mac, and as of 2013 it remains completely unusable. Every action requires 15 clicks because the input focus is always in the wrong place. To make matters worse, there's no visual indication at all of whe
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by zb 13y ago
I don't think he's saying that 7 years is too long in one job; he's saying that it's too long between interviews.
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by zb 13y ago
First of all, Columbus rediscovered America a good century before Galileo. Secondly, the idea that people believed in a flat earth before Columbus is entirely a 19th Century conceit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ
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by zb 13y ago
It's almost certainly ZigBee then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigBee#Radio_hardware
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by zb 13y ago
This whole license flame war you've started is entirely unhelpful, and totally orthogonal to what you actually care about. If parts of the code remain proprietary then this is Open Core and if they don't, it isn't. The licenc
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by zb 13y ago
It got garbage-collected. That's the point.
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by zb 13y ago
I wonder what he would have had to say at the time about this: https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/missile-mai...
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by zb 13y ago
Never happened. http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp That page does suggest a possible origin for the (equally apocryphal) Picasso fable, though, in a quote from James McNeill Whistler.
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by zb 13y ago
There is nothing random about it, the term was invented during the Renaissance to describe exactly such people.
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by zb 13y ago
Can we agree that any definition of "engineer" that excludes Filippo Brunelleschi or Leonardo da Vinci (as yours does) is worthless?
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by zb 13y ago
This is basically wrong, because it compares designing software with constructing skyscrapers. But engineers don't construct skyscrapers, they design them. And designing software shares many, many similarities with designing skyscraper
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by zb 13y ago
Decorators with arguments are much better handled by classes IMO. This does indeed appear to make that one (common) case of passing the function arguments through unchanged marginally simpler. But it makes every other case worse. Compare, f
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by zb 13y ago
The mistake I believe you're making is in assuming that because most people reference Royce's paper for a description of Waterfall, that means that the definition of Waterfall is whatever the main subject of that paper is. This do
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by zb 13y ago
Have you ever seen water jump back up a few stages of a waterfall? (Hint: no.) It's called the Waterfall model exactly because that kind of thing is explicitly not part of it (see Figure 2 in the Royce paper linked above). That's
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by zb 13y ago
This is simply historically incorrect. Waterfall means a single pass by definition. Royce described the pre-existing state of the art - the single-pass model (Waterfall) - and suggested a modification to a 2-pass model. (This can be seen as
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by zb 13y ago
You know, when I read the OP my first thought was "there are two sides to every story". A lot depends on how the actual costs are communicated. Then I saw your screenshot. Your defence of this company has succeeded where the OP fa
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by zb 13y ago
GPS receivers routinely provide sub 50ns (yes, nanosecond) accuracy on clock synchronisation. This is not a difficult problem.
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by zb 13y ago
When I was developing firmware for Layer 3 network switches we made very heavy use of Patricia Tries (it was originally pronounced like 'tree', BTW... stupid name) for the management of routing tables. They're a good fit beca
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by zb 13y ago
I'm guessing that you (like me) come from one of exactly 7 countries whose citizens have the privilege of being able to apply for a work visa from within Germany while here on a tourist visa (or, more commonly, a visa-waiver). I can as
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by zb 13y ago
Really? Have you read What Do You Care What Other People Think? Because she's mentioned fairly prominently in the chapter about how he faced down a rent-a-mob accusing him of sexism ('Feynman Sexist Pig!'). (To be clear
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by zb 13y ago
Incidentally, the PyCrypto API is considered so dangerous that I believe it's actually banned from Fedora. M2Crypto is a better alternative.
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by zb 13y ago
Speaking of promoting misunderstanding, your incorrect characterisation of this amendment as a bill in it's own right has prompted, to date, no fewer than half a dozen people to earnestly speculate that the President will certainly v
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by zb 13y ago
I would wager that 99% of users would fall into one of two categories: 1) The journal is completely adequate for their needs; or 2) No default configuration could ever be adequate for their needs, since they need to configure rsyslog to shi
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Kickstarter Thinks Creepy Dating Book Is ‘Abhorrent,’ But Declines to Remove It(betabeat.com)
7 points by zb 13y ago|2 comments
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by zb 13y ago
Actually, OpenShift doesn't use LXC (it uses SELinux to separate gears) because containers are not secure in the way that VMs are.
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by zb 13y ago
if they have the information, says the USG, they have it, full stop. Everybody hopes that that's true, but there is a problem with this story. The Director of National Intelligence told Congress that the NSA hadn't "collect
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by zb 13y ago
In New Zealand the police adopted a (highly-publicised) policy of not continuing to chase people who drive away at high speed due to the danger it poses to the public, when it is trivial to just go round to their house the next day and arre

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