zcdziura

History repeats itself, after all.

Especially in Boston. Boston has a TON of startups in the area.

Building and launching things (including warships) is a stressful process.

I recently purchased the $7/mo subscription. The articles are of the same quality as the free articles. In any case, if you like LWN, I say grab a subscription.

That syntax has been changed, actually. Now, to allocated an owned pointer allocated on the heap, you use the Box type:

> let a = Box::new(2);

I believe it's an unstable feature currently to use the "box" keyword to heap-allocate a value, which can also be used in pattern matching. I saw somewhere that "box" will be made into an overloadable operator, such that you can easily create reference-counted and atomically reference-counted types.

Also not when it's a great quote in its own right.

I'm sad that I wasn't able to make it to the board meeting. While I don't live in Lebanon, I was still very interested in hearing the discussion. It's nice that out-of-townies were invited to speak and weigh in on this.

This is awesome news! I'm not surprised that the library's Trustees voted to keep the relay online. As others have said, New Hampshire's residents care quite a bit about individual liberties (Live Free or Die), so any time the government attempts to impose its will on what we can and cannot do, there's always a lot of feather ruffling. Makes for interesting small town politics, but in this case, I say that smarter minds prevailed.

Slightly off topic, but does anyone know the name of the ASCII Art font used in this application's banner?

Holy shit, I live pretty close to Lebanon and had no idea their library was doing this! I'll have to check out any public hearings (if there are any).

woosh! The sound of sarcasm going over your head.

This project is entirely satirical. Read through to the bottom of the README.

This is right up my alley; I work for a large financial firm doing COBOL work right now.

The language itself isn't that bad. There are a lot of quirks given how old it is (variable names being limited in size, file name being only 8 characters long, file-based scope, etc), but once you learn them it's really not that bad.

The best thing about the language is how it enforces a particular programming style. You have to define ALL variable and external data sources before you're able to use them. And when you get to the meat-and-potatoes of the program, a certain style is primarily used: open external resources (files, DB2 tables), check for IO errors, process the data, close the resources. Makes it easy to grok what's going on within a program (even if that program is older than you are).

The biggest challenge that I see for new COBOL programmers is learning all of the tools you'll use for your job. On the IBM zSeries Mainframe that we use, there are a TON of tools that we use to monitor our batch/CICS online programs. But that, like everything else, will take practice.

> The primary roles are the cryptographic officers, these are Internet community members who attend key signing ceremonies to observe use of the KSK.

While I realize those key signing ceremonies are probably just a bunch of people sitting around playing games on their phones, waiting around for their turn to give their keys to someone who's typing in all of the appropriate commands, I want to believe they're in some sort of dungeon, wearing black, hooded robes and chanting Gregorian chants while doing it.

I dunno, maybe I'm just weird.

I had never thought of dividing company in that way before, but it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the input!

My question is: if my (outrageous) tuition bill isn't going towards paying my professors a livable wage, then were is all of that money going?

I'm working on an alternate getopts library in Rust:

https://github.com/zcdziura/pirate

Once Windows 10 is released, I'll be clearing out my HDD and upgrading. While my "main OS" is Elementary, I still have a partition available for Windows so I can play games with my friends. And if the future Surfaces are as pleasant to use as the Surface 3 is, I may save my pennies and buy one. We'll see.

I'm curious what your tattoo looks like. Pics, or it didn't happen!

What do you mean by that? By all accounts, it's still an MMO (heck, even with the subscriber loss, it's the most successful MMO out there).

> With the start of a new season of Game of Thrones, folks are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see what’s coming. Unlike the Khaleesi who seems to be going nowhere fast, Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS) has made some moves recently.

Shots fired!

But really, excellent job on the release! Microsoft has been producing a lot lately, and that's awesome to see!

Can't tell if sarcasm...

That's the joke.

Come now, you can't tell me that you've gone to use $PRODUCT_NAME, only to realize that it's out/almost out. We all forget to replenish our stock once in a while.

This seems like a great product for the post-college individual, living away on their own for the first time (i.e. me). Heck, I know already that I'm low on detergent, yet I keep forgetting to go to the store to pick up more. Obviously that's my fault, but being able to LITERALLY press a button and have what I need appear at my doorstep is pretty sweet.

Though, I'm still not totally convinced that this isn't an April Fool's joke that's a day early...

99 times out of 100, I'm extracting a gzip'd tarball. Thus, I've muscle-memorized "tar xzf file.tar.gz". What helped me do that was a little mnemonic that my friend told me: eXtract Zee File.

Someone, somewhere, is patting themselves on the back for the seemingly clever name.

Because at the end of the day, I need to earn money in order to live at a standard that I'm comfortable with.

As an Android user, it would be completely useless for me to buy one; I couldn't use it!

However, even if I did have an iPhone, I'd still prefer the Pebble Time, just for the battery life alone. I currently have a Moto 360, and it lasts about 2 days on a single charge (depending on how often I'm checking it/how often my girlfriend texts me). While that's over twice as long as the Apple Watch, it still doesn't hold a candle to the longevity of the Pebble.

Absolutely horrible and disgusting. I don't care if this woman is a psychopath, she tortured and eventually killed her child. She deserves to be put down.

I think the author is trying to say that we should build products on top of established, open standards. Or, where applicable and within reason, we should integrate them into our product. Allows our users to more easily integrate our products into their existing workflows.

Staples also makes a TON of money from their Printing Centers. I worked at one for a few months as I was finishing up my undergrad. The money they make in that department EASILY carries the rest of the store. Even though they've been in the computer selling business for a number of years, I'm willing to bet that they haven't made much money on it, whereas office supplies and printing are where the real money is.