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> Apple takes QA very seriously and invests in high quality QA engineers Willing to bet this is worth 80% of the value to the task, especially if your QA testers can write enough c…

From my personal experience: system languages are really, really good at interacting with operating systems. When you have things deployed on a server that machine generally has on…

My favorite variant of this is copyright issuance costs double/multiply by some X>1.0 every year after some N years of a flat rate. If your product is actually amazingly profitable…

And this is why my code is GPLv2 and nothing more, I even remove the auto-upgrade clause the FSF wants everyone using v2 to include.

Mozilla has to make statistical assumptions about their users, and statistically any random person's DNS will be set to resolve using their ISP. Mozilla may see this as predatory (…

ADA is also very hot in those markets

Lame but powerful option: `tail -f /logfile.log | grep -A10 -B10 `. (prints 10 lines before & after search lines). The most powerful feature I've had in log management is the abili…

https://tnahosting.net/ y'welcome. $25/year = $2.10/mo

This kind of energy: https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.d7be0b5ebdcc75759cfc0019ff29bb78...

JNI => "I write C code & after compilation java can access it as com.package.ClassName" JNA => "I write java code & load libsomething at runtime, asking for FuncName(int, int) whic…

Nope, never. I run Arch Linux with projects under nspawn containers, the only AV tool I keep around is ClamAV so when coworkers have USB drives I can slap `clamscan /mnt/auto-sda1`…

I love this! computer science is all about abstractions and guarantees, and it's great to have an option for more control. One thought about graceful degradation: would it be easy/…

If they're escaping, it raises interesting questions about where they might be going / possibly merging? What a strange view of the universe if two particles under pressure could c…

The QA team brings something significant that developers (myself) will never have: their machines closely represent the customers machines. They use a well-polished methodology to …

Important distinction to make, most people just think "more money means interest" but the mechanics of the two financial instruments differ and this is the entire selling point for…

I'm not familiar with the UI, but often for high(er) risk operations we in the CS field ask users to fully type the name of something; in this scenario, instead of autocompleting w…

This is the ideal design, along with an office whose job it is to manually move data from the public side to the private side. These offices usually have a server on the public and…

Same; it's excellent, powerful communication.

They mean "fewer people willing to cross the bid-ask spread to buy a stock than the number of people willing to cross the bid-ask spread to sell a stock"; what matters is who is cr…

"Refusing to heat pizza, please insert water. Error 418: I'm a teapot."

I imagine the people most burned by that design run / remote into servers.

Elon musk has a new market for his self-driving tech; the EV cruise interceptor! "We're only using consumer-grade cameras folks"

Few people will argue that freedom is free, shoulder the cost and enjoy liberty. It is absolutely a crummy business tactic however, I find myself spending huge amounts of time to b…

Yes, the 3 "real OS"es are: Gentoo (high skill cap, high payoff), Arch (medium skill cap, high payoff), and Void (arch minus systemd plus a nicer package manager). Everything else …

This is a good thing to keep in mind; I originally figured this was outlandishly unfair, but lined up against other sanctions it makes sense. If sovereign nations can prevent profi…