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rbanffy
194,611karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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And then what is the point of using a Mac? You can do exactly that even from Windows.
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"Cheerleader come over and ask about programming? Shot down" In what planet did you grow up?
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And what is your point?
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That why I install Cygwin on every Windows box I touch.
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And those "OSX is great" talking points annoyed me a lot. http://www.dieblinkenlights.com/blog_en/five-reasons-why-thi... …
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My point exactly. If I have to fiddle with macports, install my own emacs and live with the Java Apple wants me to have, I would rather just buy a cheap core 2 duo notebook or a netbook and put Linux …
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I am not sure how much TV costs, but HN and Slashdot must give a quite impressive number...
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I have suffered a similar fate. Back in 1998 I had to translate the shipping cost calculation of a huge brick-and-mortar store in Brazil written in FoxPro - it was the _only_ documentation on how to c…
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they are also a company that was convicted for monopoly abuse, that is currently being investigated for continued violations of antitrust law. This is a stupid nomination.
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If you have to run ancient applications that no longer have support, then you deserve to run ancient applications that no longer have support ;-) You should always have an exit strategy. But running a…
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If a conflicted judge pulled strings to hear the case, this proves a conspiracy. This accusation should be thoroughly investigated and, perhaps, the way cases are assigned should be rethought.
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"that you first try to win a case and only invest the time required to look for these kinds of connections when it proves necessary?" No way. You look into these connections as soon as possible - it w…
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"have a summer camp atmosphere to it" Perhaps. But the climate won't help much ;-)
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Believe if I say the Brazilians who are doing this are not "impoverished". They just found a freebie and many of them don't even know they shouldn't do it. As for the military implications, I don't kn…
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They should fear Anatel. The US Navy has no authority here.
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I would love to hear from the hardware guys why SPARC ISA is such a bad idea.
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While not an instruction-set feature, I find the register windows thing very interesting.
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"Of course, it would help if Sun could sell its way out of a wet paper bag ..." Oh boy... They sure make selling good hardware look hard. Any decent marketing team would make them fly off the shelves.…
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I remember Theo De Raadt pointing out several design errors in x86 chips that could be used as attack vectors. I am not sure how many of those SPARCs or Itaniums have.
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Well... I find SPARC and ZFS much cooler.
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"Sun has too many irons in the fire. On one hand you have the few-core UltraSPARC processors that power the big iron. The servers are big, hot, and not clockspeed competitive with tier-1 x86 hardware …
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Sure. That's a remarkably lethal engineering mistake.
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Yes, but compiling for several hours? Even on my Bondi-blue iMac compiles don't take long enough. On my Atom-based netbook, compiles don't even increase fan activity. And why would that be related to …
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Actually, newer 737's have emergency exits that swing open outwards. They are probably locked into position, but not by the pressure, so, I guess, it would not be that difficult to pop them open. Most…
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It now seems Dvorak wants to test the Windows fanboy crowd for how many pageviews they are able to generate on a pro-Linux article.
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"isn't capable of handling the workload" I don't know what Xcode is doing, but I am certain even a very dedicated and proactive IDE spends most of the time waiting for keystrokes. There is _no_ reason…
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For the day when you will not be able to be the developer _and_ the designer of the application?
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If you have to communicate with designers, you have to use templates. And templates are only a mess when people insist in inserting $random_programming_language code in them. If you have a language de…
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We are getting it from sugar cane in Brazil. While not the most efficient way, it's pretty good. Getting ethanol from corn is so stupid only a government could imagine it. I think I have owned only on…
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"the infrastructure already set up to refuel and maintain petrol engines is vast and not ready to go away yet." And that's precisely why ethanol engines are such a nice idea. I have been driving ethan…