uberbrodt - Slashdot User

Comment Depends on company culture (Score 1) 360

by uberbrodt on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:24PM (#41747253) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Avoid Working With Awful Legacy Code?

If they have a culture where the developers are allowed to focus on code quality, then if it's "bad code" (as subjective as that term is) you'll have a shot at fixing it. Code quality is a result of developer experience and the required development pace; the worst situation you can be in is where 100% of engineering time is spent on feature development and bug fixes, with no time allotted for maintenance work.

But like a poster above said, if you really are just sick of legacy code, work for a startup; that's what I did.

Comment Re:Chromium? (Score 5, Informative) 404

by uberbrodt on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @09:51AM (#39124573) Attached to: Adobe Makes Flash on GNU/Linux Chrome-Only

Looks like they have an implementation of the PPAPI:

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/pepper-plugin-implementation

Comment Security support for 5 years (Score 5, Informative) 404

by uberbrodt on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @09:45AM (#39124487) Attached to: Adobe Makes Flash on GNU/Linux Chrome-Only

From the press release:

"Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release."

If we believe the (mainstream) migration from Flash to HTML5 will be accomplished in that timeframe, I don't see this being a big issue for Firefox or other Linux browsers not using the Pepper API

Comment Re:Battery Shelf Life? (Score 1) 270

by uberbrodt on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @08:09PM (#38298116) Attached to: Bluetooth Keyboards With a 10-Year Charge Promised

Admittedly, not much; most of it I wouldn't want to use (floppy disks, mice with physical trackers). Keyboards seem to be one of the few pieces of computer hardware that have gotten worse and not better over the years, though.

Comment Battery Shelf Life? (Score 1) 270

by uberbrodt on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @07:21PM (#38297666) Attached to: Bluetooth Keyboards With a 10-Year Charge Promised

I didn't think alkaline batteries would last that long on the shelf, let alone in use.

Also, 10 years is nothing for a keyboard! I've got an IBM Model M that's at least from the mid 80's and works fine.

Comment Re:We don't live in a comic-book universe... (Score 1) 256

by uberbrodt on Thursday July 23, 2009 @07:39AM (#28793989) Attached to: Hacking Nuclear Command and Control

Skynet

Comment Re:No surprise (Score 2, Informative) 367

by uberbrodt on Thursday May 14, 2009 @12:03PM (#27952945) Attached to: The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is

Quite a bit of Firefox memory usage is in the caching mechanism. You can get that under control by following some of the tips here: http://gnoted.com/3-hacks-for-firefox-double-internet-browsing-speed/. Most of the article focuses on speed improvements, but if you modify the "browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer" setting, it will limit the amount of memory that firefox allocates for cache (the default is to use as much as it needs, based on available memory).

Comment Re:And not illegal to handcuff him (Score 1) 1232

by uberbrodt on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:53AM (#27938789) Attached to: Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM

Actually, yes. Terry gives a police officer 'investigatory' discretion. Since they were called to the scene, they could have a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity (also potential and/or prior criminal activity). But, this is implicit upon a suspicion that the suspect might be armed, and so the justification for a "Terry stop" is one of personal safety of an officer. From the OP's account, it seems that there was no threat, but that's a subjective observation. The real intent of Terry was to redefine the Exclusionary rules of evidence, which doesn't appear to matter here. It's more dependent on state laws about self-identification to a police officer then it is on Terry vs. Ohio. Once the OP was handcuffed, he was arrested and subject to laws outside the scope of Terry vs Ohio.

Comment Re:my friend (Score 1) 176

by uberbrodt on Sunday February 08, 2009 @03:47AM (#26770781) Attached to: Keeping in Contact With Family, From Afghanistan?

I too, have a friend who is currently deployed (again) in Iraq. From what I understand, he's able to bring his own computer. However, sand is the enemy, and can destroy a computer fairly fast. His communication options are fairly good, as he can chat through aim fairly easily. But bandwidth probably won't be good (he ended up getting Vista, since he couldn't grab the necessary drivers and service packs for XP reliably). For phone calls, he ends up buying a phone off Iraqi merchants and calls international back home. So as long as he people you are trying to talk to will pick up for random numbers routed through Virginia, you should be fine. Not cheap, but works well as long as you're not standing next to any concrete barriers :-P I had another friend in Afghanistan a couple years back and he seemed to do alright by the phones that the army provides, but your mileage may vary.

Comment Re:Great! Cheaper service! (Score 1) 327

by uberbrodt on Monday September 22, 2008 @08:08AM (#25102741) Attached to: Comcast Discontinues Customers' USENET Service

Canceling Usenet service is one more thing to tip me over to AT&T. It's not much to get a Giganews account for just reading a few groups ($8 for 2GB/mo) but it is a hassle to have to remember yet another bill. I do agree that Usenet is merely a shadow of its former self, but if Comcast just blocked binaries they could still provide the service without the legal complications created by the recent pornography legislation. And Spam is what killfiles were made for.

Django 1.0 Released 104

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 04, 2008 @10:18PM from the by-djove-they've-done-it dept.

jgomo3 writes "Finally, the stable version 1.0 of Django (one of the most popular free Python based frameworks) has been released. Explained in the project blog, this achievement was in part due to the great users and developers community of the Django project, and recall the big effort with numbers like 4000 commits and 2000 bugs fixed since last stable version. Django is 'The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.' You can dive in by reading the overview."

Slashdot Announces Idle Section 281

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 14, 2008 @01:30PM from the do-not-read-the-idle-section dept.

For the last few months we've been beta testing Idle.slashdot.org, our offtopic humor/meme/viral video/pictures section. Like many of you, we spend most of our waking hours on-line seeking stuff to entertain our brains, but most replicators out there pick so much content that it's incredibly boring filtering through the mediocrity to find the funny. We intend to fill our idle section with a very small collection of the very best the net has to offer, making it the most efficient way to waste your time. Some of this content will make it back to the Slashdot mainpage, but much of it will be new content that we wouldn't dare soil the precious Slashdot mainpage with. We are also using it as a test bed for new functionality on Slashdot — currently the page is a reasonably dynamic/interactive experience with various voting controls and filtering options. Finally you will see occasional original content, starting with a recurring special feature today where Samzenpus shares some real tech support email from some of our most intelligent readers. We hope you will enjoy wasting a slice of your day with us, and in addition will submit content through the usual channels, but put it into the 'Idle' section so we know not to take it seriously. Now go about your day — it's mid August, so I'm sure everything you do is urgent, exciting, and oh-so-interesting.

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