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Submission + - Linux kernel hacking: these days its just another job? (wordpress.com)

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00_NOP

on Saturday March 24, 2012 @10:23PM

00_NOP writes: "Using GitHub's "punchcard" tool we can see when commits go into the kernel and the pattern is pretty clear: it's between 9 and 5 on a weekday. Hardly any work is done at the weekend and not much overnight. So these days building the kernel seems to be just another job."

Comment fdcservers (Score 1) 225

by njahnke on Monday February 27, 2012 @09:57PM (#39181101) Attached to: Suggestions For Music Hosting?

i have a 100 megabit unmetered (works out to about 32 tb per month) server with fdcservers.net. i pay $129 US a month for it. the service is excellent. not sure whether you'll be able to find that good of a deal now, but best of luck to you.

Comment Re:Sad commentary on the state of US companies (Score 1) 424

by njahnke on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @03:36AM (#37841534) Attached to: How Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma

you're swedish, aren't you?

Comment shuttle postmortem (Score 2) 412

by njahnke on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @02:33AM (#37828462) Attached to: Ask The Bad Astronomer

everyone talks about hubble, but what's your take on the cost/benefit of the shuttle program? would the money have been better spent launching more voyagers/cassinis/new horizonses? were there hidden benefits to astronomy from the program?

Comment Re:Finally. (Score 1) 967

by njahnke on Friday October 21, 2011 @07:42PM (#37800174) Attached to: Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study

The only real difference between this research project and previous ones which came to the same conclusions was the personalities involved.

in rhetoric, we call that "ethos."

but don't take it from me.

Comment Re:I'm an engineer, not a business man (Score 1) 252

by njahnke on Saturday September 03, 2011 @03:21AM (#37294792) Attached to: I have started Q businesses, where Q = ...

you don't have to start it by yourself.

Comment Re:C++ blows on multi-core and multi-platform (Score 1) 209

by njahnke on Saturday August 13, 2011 @05:21AM (#37077738) Attached to: Chrome 14 Beta Integrates Native Client

ever used qt?

Comment Re:Money from Google (Score 1) 260

by njahnke on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @03:56PM (#37036474) Attached to: Mozilla's Nightingale: Why Firefox Still Matters

On the other hand, you also have to wonder what the bottom line for Google would be from 20-30% of internet users not having Google as the default search engine anymore, say. And if that were a possibility, why Google would want to risk that.

you had me until here. what would the default search engine become? bing?

Comment Re:Education (Score 1) 260

by njahnke on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @03:53PM (#37036454) Attached to: Mozilla's Nightingale: Why Firefox Still Matters

what about people who don't know how to fake the user-agent string? there are a few of them ...

Comment Re:Version number sanity? (Score 1) 103

by njahnke on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @05:29PM (#36977566) Attached to: Google Patches 30 Chrome Bugs, Adds Instant Pages

all things are relative.

Comment Re:What happens (Score 2) 197

by njahnke on Thursday July 21, 2011 @02:27AM (#36832032) Attached to: Police To Begin iPhone Iris Scans

they're going to mace you to get your eyes ... open?

Comment Re:Porn (Score 1) 203

by njahnke on Thursday July 14, 2011 @03:06PM (#36766316) Attached to: 41% of Chinese Websites Shut Down In 2010

how many are porn outside of china?

Comment Re:If it was blocked... (Score 1) 203

by njahnke on Thursday July 14, 2011 @03:05PM (#36766282) Attached to: 41% of Chinese Websites Shut Down In 2010

he's interested in whether it's blocked, not that it's blocked. if some people post here from the prc then he can assume it's not blocked in some places at some times, which presumably tells him more than he knew before asking his question.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 262

by njahnke on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @01:33AM (#36236312) Attached to: Mozilla Rejects WebP Image Format, Google Adds It

pretty sure this is just a case of antecedent ambiguity on grandparent's pronoun ("it"). of course it's webp that lacks all that, not jpeg.

WebP should have demonstrably because it's based on VP8 keyframes [...] But it lacks an alpha channel, and it lacks Exif and ICC.

Comment Re:It is also the reverse in that you control it (Score 1) 520

by njahnke on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @02:22AM (#36007684) Attached to: Assange: Facebook 'the Most Appalling Spy Machine' Ever

i don't have any friends, you insensitive clod!

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