Yes, I somewhat agree. I was excited seeing this article appear in my feed, but have since sunken into a depression. The only way that proprietary drivers can be killed off (and I'm not talking drivers for specialist hardware) is if all hardware manufacturers agree on sticking to standards. Even within manufacturer, there are vast differences in hardware configurations, interrupts, etc. (Yes, of course, SATA, PCIe, are all standards, but you know what I'm talking about. How long does it take to get a flavor of *nix running 100% on a notebook? Fiddling with acpid.conf, patching, reverting, etc, etc)

I guess allens don't exist.

My CIO's feelings are, "I don't care where or how long you work, as long as you deliver and as long as you are reachable".

I try to work from home as much as possible. As a team lead, this means that I'm constantly shuffling meetings and workshops around, to free up a day here and there. However, I find that I only tend to work half the day - from lunchtime I mope around the house. But, I do the same amount of work in those 4-5 hours than I do in 2-3 days at the office. I'm a whole lot more productive, and it ends up being cheaper for everyone - I don't have to pay for petrol/gasoline, my employer doesn't have to pay for the energy to power the aircons, etc. Plus it's less stressful for both myself and my team (although I bug the shit out of them on skype & lync when I'm working remotely). I am planning to work 2 or 3 days a week from home, once we

My work day varies in length - it's fairly flexible depending on what is going on, was is broken and what my workload is. Some days I work 5 hours, other days 24 hours. I sometimes get looks from other departments if I stroll in at 10h00. But I care not: I'm here to get the job done.

We have a number of devs that telecommute from various places around the country and world. It works because they are the right kind of people to make it work. Yes, they may work slightly less or more than what their contract says, but they deliver. Other people just cannot work outside of an office, they need a strictish/rigidish environment in order to work properly.

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Is the answer! The most realistic game possible, with absolutely no violence (if you're into things that are hard to eat)

I'm trying to figure out exactly who it was, but an amateur astronomer somewhere in South Africa called in to a radio talk show on Saturday indicating that he saw some debris burning up in the early hours of the morning. Trying to get a link up.

From http://hadoop.apache.org/ The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver high-avaiability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-availabile service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures.

http://xxx.xxx.xxx/ doesn't resolve :-( Damnit!

crap, i meant 504, got my responses confused.

Get to it before it gets ./'ed or someone decides that stuff.co.nz is another wikileaks!

How will that prevent the great US and A from censoring what you want? Just because you're in a country that doesn't do any censoring, doesn't mean that other countries' policies won't affect you. Too many double negatives?

Or anything that uses libtorrent. I modded libtorrent to work as a distributed content delivery system for an ex-employer. Remove the ignoring of unknown keys, add a bit of hackery elsewhere, and anything added into the swarm ends up on all clients. This was...um...1-2 years ago.

PLEASE SEED!!

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Officially it's 3 countries that refuse to move to metric: USA, Liberia and Myanmar. You bloody Americans! Really, get up to the 20th century. Because of you, we are often forced to convert units in our heads, since many manufacturers use imperial just because you are the largest buying market. Bastards!

There are others that use a mixture, but are moving towards complete metrification.

Oh, and why oh why oh why do you American programmers still insist on MM-DD-YYYY date format? The mixed endianess is stupid and has no place in our world!
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