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Comment Poor experience getting things done (Score 2) 40

Aside from missing some very basic functionality (timestamps, schedule run history, pipeline/job search), it's quite common for bugs to have 3,4 & even 5 year ages on them before they even get looked at / scheduled. Even with the top tier licensing our company has with them, bugs regularly do not get addressed for years after filing. I think if they addressed these issues, there would be more people reccomending it to their peers, and this would definitely help uptake. As it is, I reccomend against it (and only use it as it's the company mandate CI system).

Comment Re: Is it still braindeadly single-threaded? (Score 1) 138

When taken as a single entity, sure, but a thousand objects queued processed in parallel to each other, will greatly outperform a thousand entities queued in serial, even given overheads of thread contention, cache thrashing, etc. Set your granularity high enough and the cost overheads cease to matter. Statistically or otherwise.

Comment Re: Is it still braindeadly single-threaded? (Score 1) 138

This is actually a pretty simple task-oriented problem. Have a queue of objects that need to path to a new location. Each object is a self contained task, referencing outside information, but modifying information only inside the object (therefor needing no locking or contention of threads). For a thread in a pool of worker threads, pull the next object off the queue, find the path, store the path inside the object, place it in the queue of done objects. Loop. Not excessively difficult.

Comment Re:I detect a fired employee (Score 1) 268

I agree, I assume he's breaking some DMCA law. Stupidly, he put his company affiliation on his profile, which is going to reflect massively badly on him. Nokia also has a huge "act ethically" policy as well, which will work against him. I'd be really really surprised if he didn't cop major repurcussions because of this.

Comment Re:Catching up (Score 4, Informative) 104

Screw map parts, you can download map countries with Nokia's mapping solution, not just the current "navigation". The big differentiator with Nokia maps is the ability to operate without a data connection. Android can't do that yet (even with the saving feature).

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