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Great article, and terrible idea. Wonder why the UI guidelines were bent here. It's astonishing how many web designers have no idea about the difference between inclusive and mutua…

Pair Programming is a complete crock of shit. If you hire someone to do a job, either they can do their job, or they cannot. If you cannot trust someone to perform and deliver work…

How can you write an article about this without mentioning that you should use a Decimal type for working with currency calculations? - https://dzone.com/articles/never-use-float-a…

Sorry, but I remain skeptical. The same people who use `float` for financial calculations are probably the same people who don't understand how/why to do the rounding described to …

The core is simple, small, cheap or even free, requires few resources, has plenty of tool support, is well-understood and well-documented, and is easy to debug and deploy. The 8051…

What a damn shame. I use git when I have to, hg when I get to choose. The usability and ergonomics are just so much better. I've never had any performance complaints. I chose Bitbu…

Likewise! FYI the actual paper is https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8425212 and you can get the PDF here: http://pdinda.org/Papers/ipdps18.pdf

Great points. I agree - the performance hit is simply the cost of being accurate and having predictable behaviour. I'm not suggesting we replace all our current HW with chips that …

> Sorry, but you actually sounds like one those people who dosen't really know how FP work. LOL, sure ok. Worked on banking systems for 2 years and been doing scientific computing …

Very few developers truly understand floating point representation. Most think of it as base-10, and put in horrific kludges and workarounds when they discover it doesn't work as t…

People still use Perl?

IMHO SCons had some nice ideas but it falls down in practice in non-trivial projects. Wrestling with eels is easier than doing cross-platform builds in SCons. And while I do love P…

"Yet another 'academic' claims to have cracked part of the Voynich code but doesn't realise how much they still don't understand" Fixed that for you.

It's not a bug - it's a feature: reserved filenames which have special features and functions. And it has been preserved through DOS, and Windows over the years as part of Microsof…

Good grief, what a loaded headline. It's not a "tax" for a start. It's a fee. And what does the fee cover? PCI DSS Credit card processing services, secure web hosting, worldwide CD…

Unfortunately, the majority of technical details on the web on implementing VU meters in the digital domain is misleading, of not outright wrong. A while back, I implemented VU met…

So imagine Apple starts to show warning messages saying "your battery cannot hold sufficient charge and is EOL - you should replace it now". We would have a different spin on Batte…

I developed on the Aibo years ago for Robocup robot soccer, writing software for object recognition, navigation, locomotion, etc. Much fun! It's surprising to see its return after …

Such a disappointment. Wunderlist was the best in a very crowded market. It would have been ok if they had launched with something comparable to what it intends to replace. But thi…

It's impressive what you can achieve in under 16kB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaVo-OffZD8

CMake, Scons, Ninja, Gyp There are many more, but these are more viable alternatives to auto tools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_build_automation_softw...

CMake actually does platform probing (test compiling with code fragments to identify platform features and quirks) in a similar manner to autotools. But it is much easier to work w…

Yes, indeed. There are so many anachronistic features that bog it down with baggage and complexity and slowness. It is easier now than ever before to port code between the major pl…

This documentation and video is good if you want to use autotools. But in 2016, you should really be asking yourself if autotools is the right choice. It is rather baroque, and the…

Mercurial has to be one of the best examples of incredibly high quality Software Engineering out there. It is very well-designed, reliable, fast, easy to use, well-documented and h…