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by zb 13y ago
If you were to hire somebody who needs an H1-B now, you wouldn't find out if they could actually get one until after a lottery next April. But wait - there's more! Even if they win the lottery, that person couldn't actually start until next
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by zb 13y ago
Maybe the reason "C-hackers" do it that way is because it actually works, while your example completely fails to null-terminate the destination string.
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by zb 13y ago
No, by definition, since that would no longer be Open Source. http://opensource.org/osd
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by zb 14y ago
Substitute technical drawing for aircraft maintenance and I would probably agree with you.
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by zb 14y ago
Historically speaking, this is completely correct: before there were compilers, a "programmer" was someone who did what is now done by compilers. The actual software was designed by engineers. (Earlier than that, even, a programmer was some
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by zb 14y ago
> If you're interested in discovering OpenStack, you should check out devstack You really shouldn't, unless you're interested in doing development work on the bleeding edge code in Git. Devstack is a development tool, not a deployment
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by zb 14y ago
Yes, they're different. OpenShift Origin is a PaaS, as you describe. You generally run it on top of an IaaS such as OpenStack, although the hosted OpenShift actually runs on AWS (which is also an Iaas).
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Association or Causation?(edwardtufte.com)
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by zb 14y ago
That would mean the car is at fault for driving without due care and attention If the car has a TV screen directly in front of the driver, then the design of the car would certainly be at fault for driving without due care and attention.
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by zb 14y ago
It's not unusual for this to occasionally happen in English-speaking countries, though it is not ubiquitous in the way it is in Spain. Also note that the two names don't necessarily come from her 2 parents; it's quite possible (indeed, like
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by zb 14y ago
What respect is due to a design that puts people's lives in danger? No lives are in danger, because the planes are grounded. They will not fly again until the cause of the present issue is found and resolved. It doesn't seem entirely unre
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by zb 14y ago
oVirt is also an option, but your point that VMWare did not collect $1.3B from people wanting to try out Ubuntu on their laptops stands. (Disclosure: I am not unbiased)
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by zb 14y ago
Well, to answer your specific question, see the link in my reply to tptacek. But I want to clarify that I am not condemning them (and I wasn't trying to use the term "ruthless" in a pejorative sense, so it was probably a poor choice). I am
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by zb 14y ago
I was referring in particular to the "small schools" initiative: http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/18/gates-foundation-schools-op...
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by zb 14y ago
He is not wrong, but there is also a certain danger in this approach that goes unremarked upon. It is often difficult to measure the outcome you actually desire, and a lot easier to measure some proxy for it. But attaching incentives to opt
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by zb 14y ago
At least two of these (Wright Brothers and Albert Einstein) appear to be sourced from this site: http://krjgifts.com/ (which is selling them). Which is, I guess, why they look so new - because they're fake. Or, as that site puts it "repro
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by zb 14y ago
The pins are on the outside of the connector. It's trivial to short-circuit them by accident, which could easily cause a fire if there were not a chip in there to control when you "shove 5V over the wire".
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by zb 14y ago
In what universe does doubling revenue qualify as a 200% increase?
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by zb 14y ago
Random factoid: the prompt actually comes from getty, not telnetd.
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by zb 14y ago
I have long thought that the highest purpose of engineering is to reduce entropy. Although he doesn't express it in those terms, I think Taleb is advocating something similar here. It's not anti-technology in the way that a lot of comments
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by zb 14y ago
The whole concept of "sending party network pays" is just an elaborate wordplay. Relay-switched telecommunications networks are inherently symmetric. The concept of a "sending" party is meaningless; the originating party pays. This makes
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by zb 14y ago
That can cause problems if a header is accessible by two different paths (which is not uncommon in a large project). Using both gives you maximum efficiency without sacrificing correctness, and it works everywhere.
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by zb 14y ago
That's incorrect, you don't have to implement all of the claims of a patent to be considered infringing. Any one of the claims is sufficient. That said, this has long since expired so Trump is safe.
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by zb 14y ago
IP multicast is used quite extensively for streaming video. Mostly in combined voice/video/data networks for IPTV (think hotel rooms, but also network service providers), as well for stuff like e.g. security cameras. On the public Internet
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by zb 14y ago
Seems like this could be avoided by simply approaching the author and offering to pay for a version of the software with the license you want. That's not an option for Free Software distributions like Debian, so everybody loses except e
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by zb 14y ago
Engineering disciplines are characterized by extensive standardized formal study, conformance to best practices, and regulation. Actually, this is only true in programming pop culture. In reality, different engineering disciplines vary wi
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by zb 14y ago
It's unfortunate that he invoked the ridiculous broken window fallacy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy ) in the course of making his real point, which was that making the internet secure or reliable from the bottom up is
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by zb 14y ago
It's even easier than you are suggesting, you just customise it yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Embedded
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by zb 14y ago
We had kings to make our laws unilaterally without parliamentary scrutiny.
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by zb 14y ago
I have used bubble sort in a commercial program before: there are plenty of embedded microprocessors with a minimal libc that does not include qsort. For sorting a small list (5-20 items) bubble sort is a fine choice because it is dead simp

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