Yep, for me the worst example is akonadi, which is enormously complex, and crashes every now and then in strange and different and difficult to track down ways on pretty much every system I've used it on. I have a fair amount of sympathy with them because I'm not sure how these kind of bugs would ever get fixed. Unless of course the person reporting them likely being the only one who can reproduce due to the cause being some obscure spam in their gmail goes digging and fixes it themselves.

Not sure why this wasn't closed ages ago.

The EU single market mandates that you must be able to buy and sell in metric, which is logical since you can't really have a common market without common units. You can also use whatever other units you like and as such many places use imperial units in preference to metric units, reverting to them only when necessary.

Road signs are still mph, horse races are still miles and furlongs and beer is sold by the pint so I think we're happily confused on matters of units this side of the pond.

You buy a device to store your personal data on from a company that collects personal data for a living, and then run an app on it from another company that profits from collecting you data and then are confused when they collect your personal data?

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Really? Is it? Could you tell by looking at some pgp source whether it has been compromised or not? Maybe you could but the majority of people reading this could not and if that's true of slashdot what hope does the rest of the wold have?

Need to post some boxes that say 'contains god' and see if it gets there quicker than the control.

Sadly the XBox is so big because it was much easier to pirate games for it than it is for the Wii or the PS3.

Agreed. There's a good Joel on Software piece - things you should never do on why you should never start with a total rewrite.

The solution is hard, fix X. The mistake is thinking that starting again will produce a better result.

I've worked on Java processes that use that much RAM. On a server app, if you have it, why not use it (for caches etc.). Better than having it sit there depreciating.

At least they're trying - NASA can't even make it to the ISS since the shuttle got decommisioned.

I don't think anyone will hold it against you for knowing something, even something with is not really at the core of what I do to pay the bills (Java dev mostly) but could be required from time to time. Not knowing something however will always be a problem so I do put office on my CV in small writing, near the end.

I'd say no, coding standards are pretty pointless, unless people are being deliberately difficult or obsfuscating.

In my experience people in large companies like to write them because it's an easy thing to stick on their PDP.

How many people with guns actually hunt though? I think if you want to own a hunting rifle and can demonstrate that you are going to use it for hunting that's fine, but applying at logic to handguns and machine guns makes no sense to me.

I've been using a couple of Uniball eye micros and they're excellent.

Valve's 'better than Windows' performance numbers were achieved on a Nvidia card.

But you're trolling so you don't care.