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  1. On ubuntu the OS version does affect the versions of the user space applications that can easily be installed through the package manager. Plus by the time they hit beta, only a few problems are left that can easily be debugged since it's open. Often times I find upgrading early less of a hassle than backporting some package, so I have on occasion upgraded Ubuntu early on my primary device.

  2. Re: Clarification on In China, Fears That Pokemon Go May Aid Locating Military Bases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The obvious point is that the signal can get lost in the noise. School children in the US often are required to turn off phones or temporarily surrender them. Confusing a military base with a school would be tragic. Although I imagine that American companies collect enough data to tell the difference.

  3. Re: Sharing is a business now? on 'Tor and Bitcoin Hinder Anti-Piracy Efforts' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    All those proxy/vpn services that people pay for directly market to torrent users. Some are paying for anonymity for the sole purpose of pirating.

  4. Re: It's simple geography. on 90% Of Software Developers Work Outside Silicon Valley (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Silicon Valley still has high rental prices. A bargain 1 bedroom apartment is still going to cost you at least 2x more. Probably not $3k, but still pricey.

  5. Drones legally can't fly over populated areas and until you prove to me these things can fall out of the sky safety without causing undue hazard to people I say sports events are a dumb place to fly.

  6. The politicians made money.

  7. Re: NUKE ORACLE on Oracle Asks Judge To Throw Out Java/Google Verdict...Again (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We were too busy watching SCO go bankrupt. Now we can watch oracle.

  8. Re: Walmart mentality on Amazon's Chinese Counterfeit Problem Is Getting Worse (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt the company selling suspenders for bed sheets has an R&D department.

  9. No, we only sold our state secrets to foreign interest. We sold the state itself to US corporations, although since technically most if them aren't based in the US then sure why not.

  10. Re: Looking for a job? on Tech Job Postings Are Down 40% On Popular Job Boards (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Talented engineers don't use svn/perforce. I've used them all(including cvs) in production environments and I've found serious short comings in workflow with all of them when compared to git. Also tool integration is almost always better with git. Perforce usually requires reinventing the wheel. In game development that might not as big of a deal, but if your products span multiple domains it's really important. I work with Linux guys, Windows guys, AWS guys and Ruby guys just to name a few.

    I would take an engineer who can work with Atlassian tools(bitbucket, confluence and Jira) over one who knows perforce anyday. Github users can usually can transition almost immediately.

  11. Re: Surprise? Why? on TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly (tiobe.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People suck at macro optimizations in assembly. If your assembly program is more than 25 instructions, you're probably not going to do a better job than a compiler.

    If you're writing intel code you'll probably see better speedup using c++17 parallel policies or some other parallelization framework, but sometimes it is necessary to optimize small segments of code. Premature optimization is the root of all evil and effective use of templates and metaprogramming can go a long way without much effort. Embedded devices should be treated to same way. Write a high level implementation in the highest level language available to you and hand optimize only when necessary.

    I've compared c++ stl implementation of algorithms to c implementations and my c++ almost always runs faster with significantly less code. Small programs that calculate trivial results are always faster in low level languages, but real programs need complicated structures and its almost always infeasible to hand optimize those effectively.

  12. Looking for a job? on Tech Job Postings Are Down 40% On Popular Job Boards (medium.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Qualified individuals are hard to come by. It's not the fact that there aren't jobs. We just don't have time to interview 20k practically worthless applicants to find that one hotshot that knows his stuff. There are alternatives. I research github accounts.

  13. I prefer being fucked by Ruby.

  14. Re: You don't own anything on Do You Own Your Own Fingerprints? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    DHS doesn't scare me. The ATF on the otherhand still does. They are way better at making someone dissappear.

  15. Re: Seen this before... on Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Fails Consumer Reports Water-Resistance Test (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    Is the Active less resistant than the regular s7?

  16. Re: I asked you to kill superman, on Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Russia can always resort to the nuclear option. Blow up all the cats and take the cities with it.

  17. Re: Quantum still around...? on Google Is Working To Safeguard Chrome From Quantum Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd only buy one if it fit in a 5.25-inch bay.

  18. Re: On the contrary on Second Tesla Autopilot Crash Under Review By US Regulators (time.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In an airplane if you keep a consistent speed and heading chances are you're not going to run into anything. Sure we have visual flight rules, but most pilots depend on ATC to keep them away from other aircraft. On the ground you can't see things coming. The things you typically have to worry about in the air are usually miles away which gives you plenty of time to react. It's just a much more predictable environment despite being more complicated. That's why airplanes have been landing themselves for decades.

    4 lanes of traffic, no one else on the road and I still never see it coming when some idiot nearly merges into me. Then again I've seen someone cut in the landing pattern one time. ATC was pissed.

  19. Re: That's just great... on Linux Letting Go: 32-bit Builds On the Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Democrats like to obstreperously disagree. That way they can say a lot without making a point or actually having an idea that isn't nearly identical to the Republicans.

  20. Re: That's just great... on Linux Letting Go: 32-bit Builds On the Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Because the founding fathers dream of not having a partisan democracy is dead.

  21. Can't beat them, join them on Comcast Will Let Netflix Onto Its X1 Platform · · Score: 1

    I guess comcast finally realized they will lose when it comes to TV.

  22. Re: Not surprising on How China Took Control of Bitcoin (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Saying bitcoin exists to sell ASICs is like saying banks exists so that they can sell bank safes. Bitcoin exists because there's demand for a currency with special properties. Bitcoin mining exists because people need to trust a currency and people are willing to pay for it. Unfortunately the proof of work function used by bitcoin is susceptible to manipulation because ASICs scale so well and governments have the resources to build enough of them to manipulate them.

    Memory hard proof of work functions are not as susceptible to manipulation because of the way the economics work out. You simply can't make memory significantly cheaper.

  23. Let's stop calling it omni-directional. That term is not very descriptive. This is a holonomic drive which is commonly used in robotics because it's a lot easier to control a robot where the controllable degrees of freedom are equal to the total degrees of freedom.

  24. Re: Most weddings are for the families on Red Hat Exec Marries A Couple At Red Hat Summit (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    What about the nerds? Unfortunately this couple has undone several decades worth of effort towards making nerds cool. Shame on them.

  25. Re: Keep dreaming... Azure is super sketchy.. on Microsoft Will Be Largest Infrastructure As A Service Vendor By 2019, Says Morgan Stanley Survey (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    AWS IAM is great and so many ways to establish identity. I have only a little experience with Azure, but it does seem a lot less flexible.