A significant part of my job, unfortunately, is helping people fix their workspaces when Perforce (p4) goes bad, or creating guardrails and wrappers to stop Perforce doing bad things. In fairness, p4 predates most of…
> A writing system that used strict phonetic transcription for everything would be unusably bad. This is, for better or worse, what is being done to incorporate aboriginal names into things like streets and bridges in…
Back in my youth, after the Internet became common but before Wikipedia, I tried to discover the answer to this and came away disappointed again and again. Every article I could find simply stated "because light…
After C:, it really is just allocated in order. Between CD/DVD drives, writers, Zip Drives, and extra hard drives, it wasn't unusual for a workstation to naturally end up with G: or H:, before mapped network storage…
> Ansible is a complete mess. You're better off managing things with Puppet or Salt, as that gives you an actual declarative mechanism We thought this, too, when choosing Salt over Ansible, but that was a complete…
It was "fun" discovering this the hard way a number of years ago when active US Android user count for a game we were supporting dropped 15% essentially overnight. The TCP stack in the client only did IPv4. The…
I once attempted to use XSLT to transform SOAP requests generated by our system so the providers' implementation would accept them. This included having to sufficiently grok XSD, WSDL el at to figure out what part of…
Or, at least, not giving a fair take on its particular approach to open source. We both self-host and pay for the service. There is ample engagement from the development team with the larger community. There are also a…
There was a period in World Rally Championship history when the top drivers would manipulate the starting order for the following day's stages by intentionally slowing down before the end of the stage. It was bizarre to…
A significant part of my job, unfortunately, is helping people fix their workspaces when Perforce (p4) goes bad, or creating guardrails and wrappers to stop Perforce doing bad things. In fairness, p4 predates most of…
> A writing system that used strict phonetic transcription for everything would be unusably bad. This is, for better or worse, what is being done to incorporate aboriginal names into things like streets and bridges in…
Back in my youth, after the Internet became common but before Wikipedia, I tried to discover the answer to this and came away disappointed again and again. Every article I could find simply stated "because light…
After C:, it really is just allocated in order. Between CD/DVD drives, writers, Zip Drives, and extra hard drives, it wasn't unusual for a workstation to naturally end up with G: or H:, before mapped network storage…
> Ansible is a complete mess. You're better off managing things with Puppet or Salt, as that gives you an actual declarative mechanism We thought this, too, when choosing Salt over Ansible, but that was a complete…
It was "fun" discovering this the hard way a number of years ago when active US Android user count for a game we were supporting dropped 15% essentially overnight. The TCP stack in the client only did IPv4. The…
I once attempted to use XSLT to transform SOAP requests generated by our system so the providers' implementation would accept them. This included having to sufficiently grok XSD, WSDL el at to figure out what part of…
Or, at least, not giving a fair take on its particular approach to open source. We both self-host and pay for the service. There is ample engagement from the development team with the larger community. There are also a…
There was a period in World Rally Championship history when the top drivers would manipulate the starting order for the following day's stages by intentionally slowing down before the end of the stage. It was bizarre to…