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Not sure where your information that n8 was supposed to run Meego comes from, but I remember working with the Nokia s60 team already early 2009 and they were using n8 protos at the…

I’m not a ship engineer but I do know that ships are not built to be suspended from the ends. I guess in the worst case the hull breaks which would mean the canal to be blocked for…

Threatening the researcher really is the cherry on top here

Works again. I wonder if the fix was just rebooting a server

Wow, looks like triplebyte profile settings page is full of dark patterns. Like, setting yourself as not interested in offers will forcefully revert back after a time period, and t…

Not sure if you were serious or not but your comment seems like a nice example of what the article talks about

> The main class of failures that I am worrying about regarding the MTTR is the very same observable problem that you solved last week occurring again due to a lack of quality gate…

Wow, this article made me realize I was a part of the very early generation game devs in Finland getting my first job in the industry in 2001. I was so young and naive then that I …

Okay, I looked it up and apparently CS is the only stem field where there seems to be significant bias ( https://blogs.helsinki.fi/edu-kumpula/2019/10/10/faculty-of-... )

Is it possible that the problem there is the amount of women starting studies in stem fields? I don’t have any numbers but anecdotal evidence of two Helsinki based schools in CS re…

That's awesome! Although, all copyrights are Apple's on that particular file. I wonder if everything's been done by the book.

If someone told the young Linux freak me back in the early 2000s that one day Internet Explorer’s rendering engine is based on the KDE rendering engine I would’ve probably died lau…

I just realized my terminology was way wrong. Sorry. You have Manhattan distance and you want Euclidean distance to make sure the path is always optimal. Execution speed should be …

Nice visualization! I don’t think the algorithm is correct though. The heuristic seems to use Euclidean distance instead of “how the crow flies” and thus this implementation goes a…

Nobody has six hour workday and nobody thinks anybody has that. It’s only in the imagination of the writer of this marginally factual article.

Most people don’t have any leverage for these kinds of negotiations and would fairly likely get shafted if there were no laws to protect them

Most people probably aren’t willing to sacrifice themselves for the possible slight advancement of mankind. Especially laborers who are the ones most affected by work time limits.

I wasn’t alive when the work week was shortened to 5 days from 6 but it is my understanding that the conversation this sort of a proposal Sparks is the exact same as that proposal …

I think the big issue with companies like Facebook is not that their development model moves too quickly for them to be able to react to their issues but that they simply don’t car…

Exactly. I remember a few years ago I came across an article on a major car website that ranked four wheel drive as more important in winter conditions than proper winter tires. I …

On the other hand, a machine will not get tired or bored where a human most definitely will if the diff is anywhere near that 500 lines

if their audience blocks ads this isn’t going to help, it’ll only make people mad. I know I’m upset.

I can’t believe Ars Technica would do this. Do they not realize who their audience is?

It's kind of interesting that a piece of legislation written hundreds of years ago will be used to decide something like this.