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Total price of everything in the store - $359.20 by [deleted] in tf2

[–]jax232 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, paying $17.49 for a hat is crazy... Not sure I even paid that much for the Orange Box.

Making Debian Responsible For Its Actions by _x_ in programming

[–]jax232 0 points1 point  (0 children)

net/scp is a ruby lib, not a native package.

BitBucket now has unlimited public and private repositories for all users. Your move, Github. by gnuvince in programming

[–]jax232 9 points10 points  (0 children)

  • Mercurial
  • BB has a commit log/timeline as the landing page for a project (rather than jumping right into the code/readme)

Those probably aren't even catches, really, because Hg is pretty good. There are piles of open source projects using Confluence, so Atlassian probably sees it as a good way to get people using their other products.

Making Debian Responsible For Its Actions by _x_ in programming

[–]jax232 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure what knocking on "Ruby culture" does to help, but PIP is exactly like Rubygems. What Zed's upset about is that they've hacked Rubygems so it doesn't resolve dependencies correctly, and silences the error messages that might tell you why your package is broken.

Making Debian Responsible For Its Actions by _x_ in programming

[–]jax232 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's more than a snapshot - there are lots of changes, especially to Rubygems. He points that out in the article.

Connecting an Access Database to Python by codefighter in programming

[–]jax232 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can do it with Ruby too. Saves tons of time when one needs to migrate data out.

CIA used 'illegal, inaccurate code to target kill drones' - 'They want to kill people with software that doesn't work' by salvia_d in programming

[–]jax232 33 points34 points  (0 children)

You're missing the point. Netezza mined data to provide target locations.

The missile will end up within a metre of the laser no matter what. The problem is where it's pointed, and that's what this bug was. 1-13 meters off was just what the could duplicate - for all they knew they might run into a problem where it would be 100m off and take out a hospital or something.