On 2015-06-03 10:55 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <556f0c92.4020...@edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes:
You're saying this to the bloke who implemented a prototype adaptive
optics solution for the ESO ELT on a plain, unmodified FreeBSD
kernel ?
I didn't know that, very impre
Others may point out that median and average are different things. (Or that
the tails of a distribution may contribute more than measures of central
tendency.)
But more fundamentally, programming is not a one-dimensional skill. Raw coding
speed is different from debugging or data engineering
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:34 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
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> Ah, there's almost a four-way meet. Afghanistan (UTC+4.5), Tajikistan
> (UTC+6), and China (UTC+8) meet at a point and, less than 20 kilometres
> south of there, is the China/Pakistan (UTC+5) border. There don't seem to
> be roads, but
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp
wrote:
> Which is like saying that if only 50% of all programmers weren't
> below the skill-median, we wouldn't have the problem.
>
What?!?!?
50% of programmers are below average? Why is no one doing something about
it?
We should not rest till
http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2015/05/60-years-of-atomic-time.cfm
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In message <556f0c92.4020...@edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes:
>> You're saying this to the bloke who implemented a prototype adaptive
>> optics solution for the ESO ELT on a plain, unmodified FreeBSD
>> kernel ?
>I didn't know that, very impressive. Is there information anywhere how
>i
On 2015-06-02 04:25 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <556d8c59.9040...@edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes:
A lot of Windows machines are doing things where you would expect
people to care about leap-seconds: Nuclear power plants control
systems, Air Traffic Control computers, Su
