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Farox··on AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing
Why?

Also, give the same programming task to 2 devs and you end up with 2 different solutions. Heck, have the same dev do the same thing twice and you will have 2 different ones.

Determinism seems like this big gotcha, but in it self, is it really?

Farox··on France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins
I have 3 4k monitors. Windows drives them without a problem. Linux still can't. I tried for a whole day and eventually gave up.
Farox··on Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (2021)
Many, many moons ago I asked my mentor how to estimate. He told me that you should figure out what it feels like, then double it and then take it to the next higher time unit.

"hmm, adding that button probably takes about an hour"... 2 days is about right.

Almost 30 years later I still find this to be true. Truer than I like.

Farox··on California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulative total passes 20k
In Germany its 50 cases per 100'000 in a borough. After that lock downs are supposed to happen again. (with discretion, if, for example, cases can be isolated)

What other country do you think of that doesn't have clarity?

Farox··on BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emissions of mining bitcoin
Same for Chrome on Windows 10
Farox··on SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks
Hmm, I needed them a few times so far, specially when it comes to lots and complex sets of data and complex queries.

I had jobs run for a few hours on Dev only to take weeks (if I would have let them) on production, which was in ever aspect a beefier machine.

Farox··on SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks
Why is Postgres lack of query hints not scary for people?
Farox··on SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks
That's the thing. It gets the job done and if you need a dev to develop a certain feature that MS SQL has you recouped your licence costs right there.

This does suck for small/mid sized businesses though. :/

Farox··on How to Spam your Facebook Friends for a Week
Yup, you piggy back your message/ad on someone else's payed ads
Farox··on Oculus Rift co-founder killed by gang trying to escape police
90 bullets a year in total, as much as they pumped into one guy in New York in the same year
Farox··on Why aren't Cubans, Quebecois, Saudis, Syrians allowed in Google Code Jam
You're not too far off. Companies have to, with growing size, do more and more stuff in french. At large companies that aren't exempt you must have a french keyboard for example and code comments have to be in french.
Farox··on Sony announces PS4 with 8-core x86 processor, 8GB GDDR5 memory and DualShock 4
I really don't want any of those networking/social features and I am pretty sure we're doomed to use them. I think I am going to pass on this one.
Farox··on The Story of Wanz, 51-Year-Old Breakout Singer on "Thrift Shop"
I just went through my activity log on Facebook, because it knew I shared it a while ago. It was mid November, I got it from a German Radio station. (It wasn't played a lot back then though) Not trying to be all hipster and stuff but: "Called it!"