rnemo

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by rnemo 13y ago
More than one OpenBSD hacker used loongson
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by rnemo 13y ago
Large (tech) company employee here. For the project I work on, most of our production stack is made out of FOSS software that's wrapped up in support contracts.
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by rnemo 13y ago
Intel's Ivy Bridge processor has been out for almost a year now, and is on the 22nm fab process.
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by rnemo 14y ago
How is Terminal.app embarrassing? In most of the ways that a traditional terminal is important, it acts exactly as expected, and still has convenient "new" terminal things like tabs and profiles.
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by rnemo 14y ago
Everything in moderation. Video games can eat your life but so can anything else, it's all about how much self control you have. I still play a lot of games because, hey, I have to do something with my spare time (and having spare time is
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by rnemo 14y ago
The PC as a platform for gaming was absolutely dying around the time of the current generation console launch, the console was meeting it (price of games, internet multiplayer, AAA title selection) or beating it (ease of use, cost of hardwa
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by rnemo 14y ago
I hate being that person, but I have to honestly ask, if the scientific community as a whole cannot agree on exactly how much effect humans personally cause to the environment today, how can anyone claim with the level of surety that these
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by rnemo 14y ago
I disagree with what your idea of proper hiring apparently is; to hire and test out a lot of people often is better than to spend extra time finding the right person. In my experience, a work environment that is a revolving door of often fa
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by rnemo 14y ago
I agree with most of your post, except: "2) All new team members were automatically assumed to be terminated within a month or so. This was usually true. Any new employee that didn't pull their weight, sat around waiting for someone to tel
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by rnemo 14y ago
Cloud and IT are not mutually exclusive. The roles they provide are so different I can't at all see why anyone bothers to makes this apples and oranges argument.
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by rnemo 14y ago
I'm having trouble getting a reference to USAAs current eligibility information, because their website is a mess of badly named links and what Google finds redirects me to their homepage, but as I understand it pretty much everything under
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by rnemo 15y ago
I agree, and additionally would like to know; how much tunnel vision must one have to believe that the next generation of a single successful tablet, in a sea of tablets that are failing, denotes that we're "post-PC" because the PPI has bee
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by rnemo 15y ago
Wikileaks appears to be the best option out there at the moment. But while it's a good resource to mine for data, it is pretty useless to the average person who may want some easily discovered facts. If you're really serious about that wiki
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by rnemo 15y ago
I would hope most C# developers are aware of most of these features and how they facilitate the writing of good C# code, but this article seems like a good jumping off point for gaining greater understanding of the nuances of C#. A better t
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by rnemo 15y ago
Same here, I noticed the title bar first, was somewhat confused as to what the color change was for (though I assumed Christmas), and then I saw the numbers. If it's really necessary to do something for Christmas why not just a small tree n
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by rnemo 15y ago
"Another turning point in the last 10 years is that basically any PC made since 2000 will probably be sufficient for what most normal users want. We get increasingly powerful CPUs that most people just don't need." That's being quite genero
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by rnemo 15y ago
1. I can and will continue to blame the commentators and the respected publications in the financial world who give them voice for consistently publishing pieces that not only turn out to be wrong but aren't doing anything to help the probl
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by rnemo 15y ago
Investor confidence and consumer confidence are both very important factors in how well the market does over any given period of time. So yes, these doom and gloom articles tend to be somewhat self-fulfilling a lot of the time.
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by rnemo 15y ago
It's always reasonable to be cautious, even wary. Doubly so these days. Throwing caution to the wind is what got the US economy into this mess. Never stop being cautious when dealing with any sort of market. That said ever since the end of
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by rnemo 15y ago
This is an important point, the users decide the experience of their computers to a great extent, whether they understand what they're doing or not. Which brings up another point, that for web apps to become more popular than native apps, i
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by rnemo 15y ago
After the whole Arrington drama I think it would do Techcrunch a lot of good to stop talking about internal AOL politics for a while. Reading articles like this doesn't help their credibility in my eyes, and I'd be very surprised if it actu
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by rnemo 15y ago
You're partially right with Windows. Windows NT, since the beginning IIRC, uses a hybrid kernel in which things like drivers and IPC are and such are still in the kernel, but the application subsystems and fileservers run in user space. Pla
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by rnemo 15y ago
Bitcoins are a bubble commodity just like anything else that rapidly rises almost entirely because of speculation. In a sense the Bitcoin market is a lot like the current gold market, both are enjoying a massive boom fueled by demand for th
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by rnemo 15y ago
Just as a point of correction, Doomsday is not a Doom remake, it's an advanced source port. Freedoom (freedoom.sourceforge.net) is the closest thing to a remake, it's a project to create a free IWAD (the game data). It needs to be paired wi
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by rnemo 16y ago
Anecdote from a SysAdmin: I remember during the early 2000s there was a trend for a little while to scale down the IT department, and rely on corporate support, or use outside consulting firms, or other methods that involved keeping the pay
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by rnemo 16y ago
Agreed. While the author tends to take the viewpoint that attempting to write self documenting code is almost a bad thing, and that's very wrong, I understand his frustration, because too many programmers these days seem to think that docum
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by rnemo 16y ago
I clicked on the link to this article expecting some thoughtful questions on why poor teaching is a contributing factor to poor education overall in America, and how the system is doing much about it, but I feel like I read an entire articl
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by rnemo 16y ago
I'd say that this acquisition might be more related to that question than you think. Zynga games will probably be accessible through Facebook for a long time to come, but the Flock acquisition may be the start of them looking for other ways