coderdude

I whined a bit to myself when they switched me away from Gnome but I got used to the new interface. Just takes some time. Now that I'm constantly switching back and forth between Ubuntu, OS X, and Windows, my biggest problem isn't any of their interfaces. Just the fact that they're all different. Switch back from the Mac to anything else and now my mouse wheel works oppositely (and other minor issues along those lines).

Maybe I'm missing something but is Mongo in use on the client side in that same way? If not then SQLlite is being shoehorned into the discussion and the context in which production was used should be clear. I feel like people are trying to be technically right instead of following the actual discussion. I never meant client side software and definitely didn't mean someone's micro traffic blog, where a toy database could be used.

It is interesting how much penetration SQLlite has on the client, though.

At any rate, I know better than to not be extremely specific so I brought this on myself.

Do you mean for public facing sites? If so, what are the use cases?

I don't mean 'on the desktop' when referring to database use in production.

Not in production it isn't.

I'm bugged if I have to hop on the phone to talk to someone about something I saw on their website. That's about as un-Internet as you can get. You might as well ask me to send you a postcard.

With pay walls to keep out the riff-raff.

A flawed prototype does no one good. Could imply that the specs are high too.

Like most insane directives I'd imagine this one isn't intended for the masses. Only for the ones you want to compel. This isn't as technical an issue as we'd want to believe.

They want to be able to light a fire under your ass. Once they light that fire, the technical issues are moot.

There is Fulfillment by Amazon:

http://services.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/benefits.ht...

We might be arguing for different things. I don't believe in a blanket safe-spacer type. I think we all sometimes desire a place where our thoughts and beliefs are not challenged. For most, that is their family or a close circle of friends. I don't think it's appropriate to allow every venue to be a safe space.

I'm not against safe spaces in general. Surely it is appropriate at times for safe spaces to exist.

I don't think it's possible to measure insecurity and I don't think it's necessary to measure it. With enough life experience you can detect insecurity in an adult by the the things they say and their reactions to certain events.

I may not fully grok your argument at this time but I will come back and read this again later so that I can respond better. I do appreciate your feedback because this topic is of great interest to me.

By weeding out I simply mean to ignore. Though weeding out also suggests identifying them as well.

No, we really do need to weed out the people who can't handle the argument at hand based on personal insecurity before moving forward in any discussion. Otherwise, you're just wasting cycles on them and not the actual issue.

(This addresses only the first part of your comment.)

I'm on my phone so I'll try to address each of your points in order (copy paste is painful on mobile).

The tools available for that task are compact and I'd imagine quite portable based on the OSes they are already supported on. Huge vendor downloads aside, I don't think the problem in the ecosystem is with those tools not being OSS.

Intel's instruction set (ISA if you will, for those reading), is at a higher level than microcode. Microcode is specific to an architecture but not the instruction set. No programmer touches microcode and as far as I'm aware, it's secret and proprietary.

The useful tools to be created that would be open are not related to bitstream formats. (This is actually an assumption that I cannot fully verify at this time.)

I'm not not sure how to address the last point. I'm not trying to be pedantic at all. I'll come back to this as I wrap my head around it.

Edit: I'm continuing to make small edits to grammar and wording.

I haven't tried it but I haven't heard anything bad about it either. Thanks for the lead.

Many of the tools are command line. A few do require Gui to be useful. I absolutely agree that there is no need for the 8-10-20gb downloads that people endure to get this functionality. It's great to hear an experienced dev add to this discussion.

I hope someone picks up the reins. I install TB on every OS I have. I prefer it. I damn near require it for its cross platform consistency. Anything but Google or Microsoft (and I like both of those companies).

@bad_user quells my fears.

It's not the bitstream format that is stopping you. It's the comprehensive tooling in this field that is not open which holds you back. Bitstream formats are nothing. It's like not having access to GCC but complaining to Intel about their microcode. There is so much more to the process of creating something useful with an fpga. Worrying about open bitstream formats is like worrying about Intel not disclosing how their microcode affected a single chip. It's not useful for much beyond a single chip, in the same way that many cpus in a family have different microarchitectures.

The most useful tools in fpga dev have little to do with the part of translating the Verilog/Vhdl into something the fpga understands.

Just going to add this:

I had to install VMware (on OS X) and load an Ubuntu ISO just to play with Xilinx's tooling. I dev on win, Ubuntu, and OS X. Primarily Ubuntu. But just a heads up to anyone reading this that can positively affect this: if even I am on a Mac, it's time to expand your offering.

Congratulations to the contributors. A lot of this kind of work goes unnoticed by many. I personally appreciate the expertise and effort required to even be part of these achievements (though I share none of it myself). Based on the recent trend of posts on HN, I hope that others will see these efforts for what they are.

"Jeff Bezos beats DoD at it's own game" -Business Insider

Mine was a jerk comment. Not going to attempt to defend that.

I like that. "Thanks for nitpicking my spelling."

As if no one could figure out what you were talking about.

You can go fabless for a few million. The cost barrier isn't very high for a serious contender.

If you can't get it otherwise, you won't hear me complaining about how you get it. I say get it however you want.

Hulu and Netflix are all you need, entertainment-wise. Haven't watched traditional TV in ages and it has for sure had a positive psychological impact on me. Not related to the article (like I'd know, I commented first before reading), but I did want to take this opportunity to preach.

Reminds me of PHP's `explode` for splitting a string by a delimiter.

Naturally it's the langs you don't care about that have nailed it. Import decimal to not fail. Thanks Py. Won't forget your shortcomings ever

I get this a lot. Sometimes there's a car in the far left lane (the legally unofficial "fast lane") driving much slower than the social norm expects. It causes issues. People need to move when someone is in their way. It's instinct. It screws up the flow.