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I can use all of those today or develop a new implementation if I want.

He who controls the spice....

Vendors come and go. Standards don't.

Isn't this the same principle google uses for their location services?

This sums it up nicely. Also, if it's easy and you've done it a million times, charge an inflated fixed price. If it's new territory, charge by the hour. Edit: before I forget, if …

One doesn't win a game of chess by moving all the pieces at the same time.

Excellent. Downloading now :) I ran NetBSD and OpenBSD on old sun kit in the late 1990s and early 2000's followed by Debian and then CentOS. FreeBSD got a look in persistently on t…

This is interesting and lines up with the time zone offset on my last rant a couple of years back. Peak in upvotes UK afternoon followed by downvote pummelling at around 4pm UK tim…

Interesting. I haven't used slackware for many years, so far back in fact that it had to come on CDs because I had a dial up. Will take a look in that direction this evening.

That's really interesting actually. In the distant past I spent more time sorting the cards than playing the game so there is probably a good trade off on automating it. I went and…

There's a good implementation of systemd here: https://github.com/bluerise/openbsd/tree/master/sbin/init

Well no not really. Vulnerabilities exist outside the realms of the language implementations. There are poorly designed protocols and access controls to contend with as well. I'd a…

It's not. There's a content about 11 screens down, not that you'd find it easily.

This is why we need standards and APIs which are immutable. It doesn't matter what the implementation is then. The whole of systemd is a comedic fuck you to POSIX and the mentality…

I apologise. This is the first time I've criticised systemd on HN. I had a massive rant on another site a couple of years ago when CentOS 7 dropped about the catalogue of failures …

To be fair Win32 isn't terrible. Have you looked at the .Net docs? http://imgur.com/a/iK4uG

Most of the documentation is boilerplate. There's very little real content now and most of it is filler.

Indeed. Merely "loud" programmers with corporate backing.

Yes. I've burned hours on systemd related problems that just didn't exist before. From DBus message delivery failures, debugging things that haven't broken for 20 years (which has …

Indeed. It's not just init, it's Windows service manager, COM, MSMQ, task scheduler and event log and all the associated problems in one convenient package for Linux!

http://www.edn.com/Pdf/ViewPdf?contentItemId=4433411 Details above. Looks like you can get 3.5ps resolution with an off the shelf PIC after calibration which is pretty impressive!

This is a really cool idea actually. However you're likely talking sub nanosecond rise times which makes things a little difficult in the signal processing space. For example my sc…

I get shamed occasionally for never having a Facebook account. It's amazing how mindshare drives market share really and gets people to react like this. Genuinely I couldn't work o…

Yes this is a favourite bit of reddit for me. Highly recommended :)

I don't think many people read the data sheets to be honest even some of the professional engineers. It's mainly gluing canned circuits together and see if they work or not. This i…