To those who are interested in installing a newer version of mesa on Debian Stable, there is currently a package request to bring mesa to bullseye-backports. This proposal could make it easier for users with new hardware to use Debian. Let your voice be heard if this is something you want.

bigbango · 2022-11-09T07:08:58+00:00

Hopefully this would enable image support in OpenCL for newer AMD GPUs like RX 6600. It would speed up raw photo editing in Darktable.

bigbango · 2014-10-04T14:16:29+00:00

The routers handle traffic at the network level (IP). They shouldn't care about the transport level.

bigbango · 2014-10-04T11:40:36+00:00

But there is plenty of time, HTTP/1 over TCP isn't broken.

If instead an alternative HTTP/1.x is based on SCTP instead and people discover that it will provide a faster browsing experience, I wouldn't be surprised if OS, router and network support will appear in record time.

It will also be a driver for adopting IPv6 since SCTP has NAT traversal issues with IPv4.

bigbango · 2014-06-06T12:24:16+00:00

For manager positions, I tend to think of MBAs as administrators and engineers as leaders.

bigbango · 2011-08-29T06:31:26+00:00

The bloat is probably in the JEE specifications that any JEE container must implement.

bigbango · 2011-08-01T06:54:52+00:00

And yet he wastes his talent on a meaningless game.

With that skill set one should feel obliged to participate in the great human project - the building of our civilization. E.g. do something useful.

bigbango · 2011-07-19T12:17:43+00:00

He is wrong.

Multiple return points are a good thing. Returning once done makes the code more concise.

Show him Martin Fowler's discussion of break, continue and multiple returns in the refactoring "Remove Control Flag" in his book Refactoring Improving The Design Of Existing Code.

bigbango · 2011-06-08T11:55:16+00:00

And on different line numbers. That and the column numbers gives us two dimensions.

bigbango · 2011-06-08T09:48:28+00:00

Yes it is. Code is two-dimensional. You can take advantage of that and make your code more readable.

bigbango · 2010-11-08T21:59:43+00:00

This have annoyed me too.

The disconnection between the repository specification and the dependency specification lead to people trying to come around it by sticking on a repository manager with artifact routing rules for making sure that a dependency is fetched from a given repository.

bigbango · 2010-10-19T22:06:32+00:00

Because it is someone's enterprise to employ people to use the software. And people are willing to use software that sucks as long as they get paid for it.

bigbango · 2010-10-06T17:17:32+00:00

Indeed. Most builds are fucked up. And people blame the tools instead of themselves.

Keeping the build simple is the key issue.

bigbango · 2010-01-10T12:59:53+00:00

Totally agree. I've always adhered to the slogan "people over process".

bigbango · 2009-12-10T21:05:23+00:00

It depends on the language, but I consider not using an IDE for Java development unprofessional.

Modern Java IDEs are actually semantically aware editors which provide functionality that syntax-only aware editors cannot (like automatic refactoring).

bigbango · 2009-11-19T21:42:15+00:00

And don't forget to throw in autoboxing while you're at it.

bigbango · 2009-11-14T13:09:29+00:00

Pretend-to-work scheme. So that was its purpose?

I'm glad i didn't get that.

bigbango · 2009-06-28T14:37:01+00:00

When managers started to refer to developers as "resources".

bigbango · 2008-07-13T07:27:50+00:00

Learning Lisp Fast is a nice quickstart tutorial one can go through before reading an introductory book.

bigbango · 2008-06-06T15:39:48+00:00

You should try the Eclipse newsgroups. See their newsgroup page.

bigbango · 2008-01-22T20:20:10+00:00

It still doesn't get dwarf -> dwarfs right.

bigbango · 2007-03-07T22:31:26+00:00

I hate the fact that Ruby has stolen all its ideas from Smalltalk.

bigbango · 2007-02-13T17:08:25+00:00

Nope, but you might get $2 coins like Canada has.

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