Correct me if I'm wrong, but wall-building happens pretty much the same way every time. There are building codes and whatnot. The builder has built the exact same wall many times before.

Code is usually the opposite. It is more like building a bridge or a skyscraper. They're generally all different and involve architects. I'm pretty sure if there is a budget over-run when building a skyscraper the common practice is for the client to pay. Actually in some cases it is the contractor who pays, but the key point is that is negotiated in advance, and no sane programmer would agree to fix all bugs for free.

Are they implying it will be outlandish and impractical?

Never mind, totally misread.

Really?

https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

Welcome to England?

It's actually really annoying that no apps (Google Navigation, MyTracks etc.) let me have distances in miles and metres. It's either miles and feet, or kilometres and metres.

RTFA. It's clearly in an SD form factor, or close to it.

This isn't without president. Here's an ARM Cortex M3 with wifi in an SD card form factor that also isn't actually compatible with any SD card readers:

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11395

I agree it is weird and confusing though. I guess it avoids the development of a new case, and the technology for packaging chips in SD card cases is mature. Also people know how small they are so you don't have to have photos of them on peoples' fingers and whatnot.

Beamforming can focus in just one place. Often it doesn't because it's easier to accept aliasing but you don't have to.

Presumably you have two cards? Or one of the cards that isn't restricted.

This is worth a read:

http://hackaday.com/2013/03/18/hack-removes-firmware-crippling-from-nvidia-graphics-card/

It seems nVidia restrict you to two monitors on Linux whereas you can happily use three on Windows. I have no idea why other than that they are clearly bastards.

Compression of a verbose text-based format is never as good as having a compact binary representation in the first place. It's slower, harder to use and usually bigger anyway because compression algorithms are not magic.

There's a reason modern web APIs use JSON, protobufs or thrift instead of gzipped XML.

"Backdoors" in an encryption algorithm aren't as crazy as you are making out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_up_my_sleeve_number#Counterexamples

I totally agree. Everyone here is obsessed with H1B's and seem to equate it with outsourcing to Bangladesh. No-one seems to consider that talented first-world people might want to work in America.

Often Americans ask "how can I emigrate to the UK"? Well the answer is you basically can't. Tight immigration controls aren't so great then are they?

I don't think it is designed to be the one-repository-to-rule-them-all, debian style. In fact I think it is partly a reaction to the fact that that model doesn't work well in many cases.

No; 0install isn't a commercial project.