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qwerta··on The Curse of Increasing Marginal Work Utility, or Why I Work So Much
Author basically has a hobby (research), which costs him lot of time. It is like a manager who can not code because of his job. There are two ways:

* step down from administrator/teaching role and become full time researcher with all implications (lower salary, less prestige)

* give others full supports to do "your research", give them credit, your ideas and so on.

Sitting on too many chairs is just bad.

qwerta··on SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17
Imagine you like something and have 40 hours implement it. Now spread those hours over one week, or over several months. Second cas will be much better because people will contribute ideas, you spend some time thinking about this task outside your job and so on. There is some overhead with constantly restarting your work, but that is negleable with good methodology.
qwerta··on SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17
SQLIte mostly runs on slow CPU devices with relative fast SSDs. Reads are parallel, but writes are single threaded, so there is no advantage from multi core ARM CPUs.
qwerta··on SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17
I think people under-estimate incremental improvements a lot. My tai-chi teacher told me that eastern culture is more about "putting one sheet of paper on another", there is slow and steady improvement. Western is much more about "big bang approach", make it or break it.

SQLite has been around for 15 years, they never shifted their purpose and were constantly improving. You get almost perfect product at this point.

I work on in-memory db which was evolving similar way. Now after more than decade of small improvements, it is faster than java collections, despite doing serialization and its own memory management.

qwerta··on 'You Have the Right to Remain Silent.' or Do You?
How about right to be in shock, unable to speak? Where is basic empathy?

Guy just trashed car, possibly killing number of people including his relatives, police arrests him just after accident. In such situation I would shit myself , rolled into fetal position and would not talk to anyone for hours/days.

No he gets jail, because he does not make statements for police..

qwerta··on "Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this"
But I do not care that some guy refused to approve your name or whatever. I do care, that you are shaming people you do not like on public forum. It is pretty much same behavior as Linus and other a*holes in OS community.

Congrats on top comment BTW.

qwerta··on "Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this"
Still not cool. Proper way is to reference commits and bugs. Just imagine someone Google your name and first link is to this comment: XY attacked me....
qwerta··on "Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this"
I find it (mo/i)ronic that you reference people with full name "XYZ attacked me", only for verification of course, but you forgot to include your own name.
qwerta··on "Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this"
If it is so bad, do not use it!

One could always pay $1000/hour and get his software from someone with correct attitude, sex, race and age. If you pay $0 do not complain!

qwerta··on Glut of postdoc researchers stirs quiet crisis in science
It is simple: science does not pay off.

I have a friend, respected marine researcher. He is 50-something and he finally got permanent job, only problem is that he has to move across Europe and learn new language. He was very upset, when I told him I already quit 6 permanent jobs before I was 30.

qwerta··on New tool helps debug Java exceptions faster
How do you handle multiple versions of the same jar files? Line numbers could be easily different across multiple versions.

I have three suggestions:

1) each stack frame has method name. That could be used to filter out obvious errors.

2) provide selection between multiple versions if there are more options

3) let me upload POM, parse classpath or something.

qwerta··on Show HN: GoldenLayout – JavaScript Layout Manager
This is not layout manager, but docker. "Ultimate Layout Manager" is something like Mig Layout for Swing.
qwerta··on [dead]
If long todo lists make you nervous, you have obviously never been under whip of scrum master around crunch time: 2 hours stand-ups, pushing to accept tasks, ignoring estimates...

Call it 'kanban' if you wish, probably much better for 1.5 developers working on multiple projects.

qwerta··on [dead]
Learn something about project management. Just the fact you think agile and scrum are better than TODO lists is huge redflag.

Try to interact more with customers. Are they happy with our work?

Try to relax little bit and look at it from fun side. Read dilbert, thedailywtf and so on.

And finally perhaps consider to change profession. Programming is 'default' choice for many people, but you might be happier elsewhere.

qwerta··on Inside the Cosmonaut Survival Kit (2013)
Download and fast forward, 10 minutes.
qwerta··on Inside the Cosmonaut Survival Kit (2013)
Found it. Third part 2:21:40.

http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_c...

qwerta··on GhostGunner – Open Source $1200 CNC Machine
I wish you would strip out the "gun" part. It is a nice normal CNC machine, but such labeling make it instantly illegal in most countries.
qwerta··on Inside the Cosmonaut Survival Kit (2013)
Would you provide more details to trace-back this footage?
qwerta··on Immigration Crackdown on Digital Nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand
I was just fine with drivers license for random check.
qwerta··on [dead]
Hurray, author just rephrased 2000 years old basic philosophy.... and I wasted 5 minutes of my life...

BTW my friend is a baker and he hates cakes...

qwerta··on Immigration Crackdown on Digital Nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand
+ driving license as valid ID.
qwerta··on Sikuli Script
Great project, used with great success to automate testing of legacy app across multiple virtual machines.
qwerta··on Declassified photos from Tinian Island as the B-29 “Enola Gay” was being loaded
There were amazing (and deadly) alternatives to a-bomb. Most interesting was Bat bomb:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

qwerta··on Command-line file sharing
Nice, finally hassle free service. No registration, proprietary clients etc...
qwerta··on [dead]
That is just BS. Power companies are expected to absorb all negative externalities, such as keeping 1:1 power plant on hot standby, or adding more power lines to handle peaks. They have a right to complain!

What I find way more disturbing is tax on off-grid solar panels on roof tops. Already happening in Spain and other south european countries.

qwerta··on Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
Nerds :-)

We tried to draw Mandelbrot set 'manually' at university. It included some alcohol so napkin with results got lost.

qwerta··on PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB in New Round of Tests
Decade ago it was the same story with mysql.
qwerta··on When Global Warming Kills Your God
CO2 is poisoning salmon. Stop it!
qwerta··on What does SELinux do to contain the the bash exploit?
It is like asking if it would catch SQL injections. Just sanitize your inputs !
qwerta··on The biggest thing with small patches (2004)
You sound like my old boss :-) I used VMs to develop USB drivers with great success.

At my university we wrote basic operating system, VESA and SATA drivers were mostly developed using VMWare.

And it is possible to connect PCIe devices to VMs, but it requires lot of work.

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