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I feel the premise of "the OS as a Language" is missing a very critical point: our common definition of what "a computer is" has changed drastically in the intervening years. Take …

We're trying. Our not-too-far-off alternative is to require whoever owns the physical cable within the city to sell services to other providers (usually for a regulated fee). Basic…

> I don't get the general negativity around Windows. For me, it's that the system is completely closed and opaque, and there routinely isn't much I can do about it. Not saying the …

Point of this article is not the point of this article. The clever bit was: > ...the IPv4 address will convert into a number... Many fancy, post-modern app developers might insist,…

Depends on the resolution and scan area you're talking about. I think the .5km can go off every 15min. But the 2km can go out every 5. But that's nothing. IIRC, the Mesoscale (a 10…

Interesting. I take a similar approach, but then I add testing (which usually coincides with fixing some bug). Find an entry point to the system, then make it compile, then make th…

With Gimp? Explain.

Setting up the projection is the most difficult part. Also one a lot of people have worked on, PROJ4 [ http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ ] Were I to grab a projector and a hemisphere scr…

It's Mapserver [ http://mapserver.org/ ]. At NOAA, if the license cost is $0, its good.

> ...my thesis was that the Great Firewall is economically beneficial for China. Not quite. While protectionism can help bootstrap a domestic industry, shutting out competition doe…

> I don't understand the whole "If you behave logically as a business we hate you" sentiment. FWIG, Cuban's attitude sounds like "what is good for the business isn't always good fo…

I work in government contracts, so your example of complying with the tax code was oddly relevant. There are plenty of places that follow along your example: I can build a general …

Part of my point is that you don't feel over-engineering nearly as much. If it is under-engineered, it probably doesn't work, and at least has a list of pain points that are fairly…

The issue I deal with isn't in choosing a design that scales better, it is uncertainty in how things will scale. Say I need to handle group permissions depending on the context. I …

Sounds like you have a good idea of what I'm on about. Still leaves me searching for a way to deal with my system. Take your tax-software example. You need to start work before the…

In my line of work, either I'm building a new component, or I'm dealing with requirements change. So dealing with the shifting sands of what the system should do is a major concern…

I'm not really a fan of the story-point example. The article begins with: > it’s something that you get when you delay design decisions for later But then presents us with a proble…

> Good architecture is almost timeless. Never dismiss the dangers of over-engineering. While not as terrifying as under-engineering, how useful is a feature that exists only for th…

So, I could get on my soapbox of "your students are adults, let them make their own decisions on note taking" or go on about how useful I found a calendar for remembering class sch…

The age distribution in China is not that far off from the US[1]. This gives China a similar entitlement expenditure per person as in the US, but without the same level or distribu…

(I'm not up to date on the 2014 season, so a more avid fan might show me up) While the driver may be making adjustments to road-condition or in response to immediate problems detec…

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