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Guy made money in Vancouver, set up house as low income tenant hotel. Big utility compmay wants land. Guy says he wants to give back to community. Still going on, decades later.
Personally, it'd make more sense to sell and redo the same charity elsewhere, but I can see the principle behind his thinking.
>Maybe different rates for different products?
Hmmmm, not sure here. Yes, you have different rates for different products. But systems usually track that by entering the tax jurisdiction's own tax codes. i.e. do you really think Colorado's tax system is going to parse products' descriptions?
if descr.match("dildo") then 5.5%
Upvoted you, you're on to something. But if the goal is to collect sales tax, raw descriptions aren't that useful, except to forensically audit evaders. In which case, they could just encrypt them until the tax agency gets an access warrant*. More useful would be a dump of all the descriptions vs the attributed sales tax code and that not even purchaser-specific, but vendor-specific. In order to see if a vendor isn't systematically under-charging tax.
So here they're using a privacy sledgehammer to kill a fly that isn't even in the same room.
* not really a warrant - tax agencies are above needing those, of course - but at least initiates a formal audit
That kinda hits the Powershell vs cmd.exe dilemma though.
Since El Reg's doomsday warning about cmd.exe being put to pasture I've finally had a go at PS. For complicated sysadmin stuff, like real functions with computations and environmental access, ps is arguably a bit ahead of bash. But, for simple stuff, like a 'ls | grep foo' you have to struggle through the implications of 'everything is an an object, not text'. That makes it way harder than bash for quick and dirty adhoc commands, lots of reading to do. Not to mention that scripts are disabled by default.
If users couldn't get a grip on cmd they are gonna be totally lost with powershell.
Dang, I upvoted Matt. Does not compute.
Yeah, and let's not forget JFK almost got WW3 going with the Cuban missile crisis. Even as the US was playing pretty much the same games with their missiles in Turkey. JFK, who was on a Senate Defense committee, campaigned in '60 on a supposed missile gap (to the detriment of the US) while the opposite was true. Which, given his committee he was perfectly aware of.
Too bad he got shot, his death gives his crappy policies a shine they don't deserve.
There are plenty of reasons to lose 3% of your value if...
- the product at hand is about as useful as a rasher of bacon at a bar mitzvah*, but happily contributes 20% of your revenue. Before it reaches volume sales. Nice.
- the tweeter has a large influence on purchasing decisions for said product at your biggest customer.
- other customers have privately had doubts, but have been told to toe the party line by the lead customer.
I don't think scuttling the F35 will make up for all the mess The Donald is likely to make. But doing so would be a small start.
My actual expectation that it will either be cancelled or seriously rationalized? Very limited.
* I wonder if the Israelis are paying full price for those F35s. Or if they got them, wanted or not, as part of the yearly US military aid packages. Israel is usually rather clever about their weapon procurement - they can't afford BS near as much as everyone else on their military budget. For example, workable (cheap) UAV combat drones were an Israeli innovation.
So great having you argue against climate change. Does much for the credibility of human-induced climate change skeptics.
Inconvenient, the fact that you are not, I would guess, actually specialized in climatology... (or in keyboard caps management).
Let's say Joe Random PhD in Climatology took a look at a non-trivial program that one of us wrote. Or, maybe examined a network that one of the sysadmin readers configured and maintained. Joe Random, being a clever dude who knows some programming/sysadmin, then says "this is shite, I know how to do this much better". Just because, well, he's smart (or claims to be) and has an opinion.
Would any one of us accept Joe's opinion at face value? We might, if Joe was criticizing an individual, known to be weak, programmer/admin and brought in some hard facts.
But let's say his opinion went against the general accepted practices of the programming/admin community as a whole. And based on fairly basic arguments that any practitioner in the field would have thought of (70 year cycles, face palm, why did no one think of that???). Let's say in fact, that 95% of practitioners thought his approach flawed.
Then, oh.... we might also think that Joe didn't know what the f**k he was talking about.
Just sayin'
p.s. this ain't total BS either - apparently the scientific community codes a lot, but often in not particularly efficient ways - it's hard for most people to master complex subjects outside their field, witness the dev vs ops divide.
Hmmm....Thinking.... thinking... How to protest? Ah, yes, Femen!
Generously-bosomed young ladies modelling T-shirts
Winter is coming
Come and take this off, HBO!
That means they are already infringing on the TnA in GoT, so clear need for a takedownoff. Need to find the dragon angle somehow.
p.s. I don't know about HBO as a whole, but the lawyers who made this stupid call really, really, need to find themselves a purpose in life other than stereotyping the joke about 5000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea.
Agree. I distinctly remember the IOC hounding a long-standing local business out of its "Olympic Pizza" name, when Vancouver hosted the 2010 games.
Corporate bullying in these matters isn't very productive. There is enough tension already between "valid"* and "invalid" (above) defense of trademarks that pointlessly reminding people of the overreach of DMCA et al is liable to result in a well-deserved backlash at some point. How else do you explain single-issue parties like the Pirate Party scoring more than a few freetards' votes?
* On the other hand, some nitwit real estate promoter set up a brand-spanking-new "Olympic Realty" in Whistler just in time for the games and was all surprised when she got nailed.
What about the purpose of letting me watch _my_ legally purchased movies on the device/os of my choice?
Besides, one's a minor infraction, much as RIAA/MPAA would like Gulags for them. The other is just ripping off everyone who's dumb enough to pay their taxes .
Should I type more slowly?
Don't be an ass.
No one with an ounce of common sense is gonna think this article wants to stereotype black people.
This is a "sleazy salesman" pic. Which happens to have someone of the black persuasion. People who are not even really associated with this stereotype. Now, I could, kinda, maybe, get your drift if there was a stereotype linkage between the person's ethnic group and what was being criticized. i.e. xxx people being cheap, yyy people beating on their women, zzz people being something or other.
Or, should all negative types automatically be represented by whites? Males, preferably? Not saying that as an angry white guy - we don't have it too bad overall and my fellow white dudes elected Trump, so that's kinda embarrassing.
Just... think before you type. With black men getting shot by police so frequently, there are many more relevant issues to be concerned about than insisting on white-washing every single article for political correctness.
On the TM gougery side of things, not the scalper/tout bit, that's the core problem. TM is way too dominant in this market. Introduce real competition and prices will go down. They should not get away with exclusivity contracts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/arts/music/string-cheese-incident-takes-on-ticketmaster.html
Hmmm, even small venues showcasing more eclectic artists tend to use TM. You really struggle to avoid TM altogether.
I tend to do on-location pickups or TM outlets pickups. Less $$$ that way, usually 10-15$ cad. I also often just go to a show and buy tix from random folk whose buddies can't come. Usually at about face value. Not ripped off to date - fraud's not worth it on 60-70$ events.
But, yeah, Kanye/Kathy Perry/Gaga and $150+ face value concert tix are a lot of what's wrong with live events nowadays. Well, that and KP couldn't sing her butt out of a wet toilet paper bag. At least you avoid that if you go see smaller artists. But not neccessarily TM :(
I won't go as far as saying anything, complimentary or not, about 10.
But one thing that is easily noticeable is how much of a Vista Window 8.x turned out to be. It should have been the big sibling in the popularity contest. Not Windows 7, a much better Windows, but one that is also 7 years old and would have been replaced years ago by 8, if 8 didn't suck.
Really, heads should have rolled over 8. Should have been all Robespierre, a bloodbath, with anyone associated with making the Metro look decisions on Windows 8 shunted off to the Gulags. From the senior UI designers to the marketers to upper management of the Windows product line. Anyone who misread consumer and business sentiment to that extent and signed off on it.
Then the new blood wouldn't have been so stubborn in foisting upon us another set of really undesirable traits - telemetry and the forced upgrade. I mean, how exactly do you manage to transform what should have been a goodwill exercise - a free Windows upgrade - into yet another PR disaster? Take away those 2 deplorables and Windows 10 would be perceived very differently. Easily solved by cutting them away, it's not like they had to do extra work to fix things.
Directly? No. But as a showcase for postgresql? Which has an Oracle compatibility mode off-cloud? Good way to get exposure. Again, not for migrations but rather for new, secondary, projects at first.
Being free and rock-solid, postgresql can easily operate in supporting roles, as long as IT people have some familiarity with it. AWS will help, though the folks on it are likely already savvier than the typical "oh, just put it on Access" crowd.
Mind you, easier installation and admin would go a long way to help postgres. It's not really hard, but you do have to look under the covers a bit.
Perhaps he could even change his first name to Mike to make it more obvious.
How much money would be spent, for what benefit? This from a supposedly right-of-center government?
I do favor tough punishments in cases where someone does revenge or blackmail porn. Including when minors do it to other minors.
But that's not the same thing as putting up huge guardrails at great cost to protect people from their own stupidity, is it?
I deeply regret Trumps election. Not 'deplore' cause I think this, and her we-won in her campaigning when The Donald was on the ropes probably did her in. Hillary might have made a good prez but she sure sucked as a candidate.
But I don't appreciate the deep alarmisms, the what to do in a dictatorship (linked to in another post), the calls for resistance and civil disobedience. This popular vote vs electoral college thing is as stale as my socks - that's the US electoral process is set up for better or worse. The wrong man was chosen but it was done democratically. Let him govern and wait to see what comes out first. After all, not all of our countries have always been clever in our recent votes, neh? And Marine Le Pen has a good shot at scoring quite high this time.
I expect our PM, Trudeau, to swallow his pride and get along as he can with our biggest trading partner. If and when that _really_ goes against our principles and values, I also expect him to stand firm. But do so for pragmatic reasons not just to grandstand.
For now, let's see what comes out. 4 years of Trump may teach US voters that simplistic throw-the-bums-out populism, whether from Bernie or to the right, can be all smoke and mirrors. Ditto a not quite as hoped Brexit European negotiation outcome for UK voters.
I think the main reason for people like Trump and Farage winning is our relentless drive to out-shout each other in griping about how corrupt and incompetent our elected representatives are. Governing is not as easy as some think and electorates are fickle. Easy fixes have usually been done, what's left is either hard to do or hard to pass legislation for. Actual corruption? Throw them in jail but otherwise let them govern until the next election for fucks sake.
Well, for one thing solely for portability purposes. You can do ANSI SQL only, but it's easy to mistakenly fall off the wagon and let portability issues creep in. And that's without even thinking about stored procedures/triggers.
So, if you have an existing mssql app and you want to move it to the cloud/Linux, this isn't a bad idea. A 25% performance hit isn't that bad, if it really never gets much worse. I'd be cautious about being an early adopter here, but if they really do deliver, why not?
Plus, as far a pay-as-you-go databases go, sql server isn't that bad. It's not that great, but it works. And cheaper than Oracle. Different organizations have different needs for support and may feel they want a vendor backing their db. In practice, the db vendor rarely does anything in my experience - the cases where a mature rdbms has a bug that the vendor doesn't re-baptize as a feature or doesn't just "commit" to fixing, maybe, next release aren't that common. Security, maybe. Part of it is laziness, part of it is also stability - you can't play at devops with query optimizers on customer critical apps. Still, you now have vendor support.
There also aren't that many big rdbms players that an extra entry in Linux land isn't welcome- db2, oracle, postgresql. Not counting mysql, but that's my own prejudice against it - it probably covers simple CRUD fine, but I've seen it fail at complex queries that sql server could easily handle.
MS isn't my favorite company, and I hate what they've done to Win 8/10, but not everything they do is crap.
Go, pg, pg, go.
Just finally read up on their stored procedures. They have an amazingly elegant design in how you interact with them - you just select them. A breath of fresh compared to the other vendors' convoluted tricks. You can take results from them and reuse them too, like any ol select.
Granted selecting from an insert/update/delete-ing proc seems a bit like the bad habits of http gets with side effects, but otherwise it's pretty neat. I also was less convinced by the idea of deploying Python/Ruby/whatever code in it, though R or C might have more justification.
Definitely a more grown up rdbms than mysql.
Anyone have insights as to when volume starts to hit a ceiling with pg? Looks almost too good.
My fave. Driving North into Seattle. Fairly heavy traffic as usual. But fluid. I'm @ 110/120 which is a tad faster than the general flow so I need to concentrate. Keep spacing. If I was tired I'd have to slow. Fun.
Keeping pace w me last hour a 30-something solo female in a Smart, New Mex plates.
Till my kids spot dumbo texting assiduously as she goes. Slowed right down till she was far ahead, figuring a heightened risk w her around.
What's with dumb-ass things like you type cmd.exe and you get powershell.exe?
Why is it that you can't simply get what you asked for?
And how is the conjunction of restricted script execution (the default ps behavior) going to play out on sites that have locked down user rights extensively? Will that mean that you simply won't have a personal automation/scripting capability?
It's not like I am overly fond of cmd.exe, but it works and doesn't require much of a brain to use. Powershell may be quite powerful, but it also seems to come with a lot of MS design opinions, not all of which I care to partake of. I had planned to learn it little by little, but on my terms. My $.02 is that ps may make the complicated possible, but also certainly makes the simple complicated.
But, I forget, of course it's not my computer, it's MS's.
Funny thing (I'll withhold any opinion on embrace/e/e...) is that, on one hand, MS seems to have finally started growing up on the backend/tooling and is willing to play with others. If done well, and not just self-servingly, this should restore some goodwill from at least some IT pros.
(I realize there are folks who just say no to MS and that's fine, but they are not whom I am talking about).
On the front end however, which is where the vast majority of users see them, they act way more stubborn and aloof than they ever did before, even in the monopoly days. Win 10 forced upgrade/telemetry/ribbons, etc... The same type of people who would never have understood why IT pros bitched about MS in the 90s are now badmouthing MS themselves.
Or voting with their wallet. Many Joe Schmoe users that can afford it are buying Macs, savvy ones are on Linux and their mobile market share is a rounding error.
Why is it that this 'new MS' can do deep tooling changes, but can't be bothered to act nicely towards its end users and actually listen to what they want?
If they have the level of humility and practicality to join the Linux Foundation, why not bring back menus? Or stop telemetry? How much of a 'development effort' would that be???
Humm, as much as I think this, like most F-35 related stuff, is complete utter bollocks, "economies of scale" does make a warped kinda sense in this context.
When a country can only afford 2 or 3 dozen of an "affordable, high-volume" combat aircraft, it kinda makes sense to centralize major repairs so that you don't set up a huge infrastructure that has little repairs to do.
(Of course, so far, it seems that even with low volume, F-35s keep their support crews plenty busy.)
Also, keep in mind that during a conflict away, the major repair shop @ home will not be near the front line troops and will require shipping to anyway. Plus, Italy is much closer to the Middle Eastern oilfields and Iran than the UK, innit?
Don't take this as an endorsement of the program, nor of the loss of sovereignty that an F35 purchase seems to imply in general. And, hmmm, yes, Turkey being involved at a key point makes no sense - both given their current political status and their long time enmity with Greece and tendency to veto anything Kurd-related. Giving them much to much power to dictate NATO activities.
Just that setting up major repair shops everywhere for such limited volumes may also not make sense. Though if you have Norfolk already anyway, I concur with the BS meter being off the scale.
>So with Node, with Python, with all of these other sorts of languages, with Go, you just go to GitHub and grab some code or import it as a dependency.
>Is there enough data yet to make language choices based on performance?
Thinking out loud... Python, being a slow-a** language, has always been very, very, keen on shelling out to something faster if at all possible. You have tons of bindings to C and other stuff. Plus, you can actually write fairly fast Python, by using language builtins that are uber-optimized in... C. Think Dictionaries for example. Except for the builtins, this is all fairly transparent to the core language (I think - haven't used much of them myself), these are add-ons facilitating integrations, not core features.
So, Python has had to these trade-offs of productivity -> performance. At the extreme end, you shunt off your really heavy bottlenecks in C and keep Python where you can.
Could Swift programs, at least initially, go the reverse way and shell out development-intensive, but not particularly time sensitive bits - or just where there are existing libraries elsewhere - to say, Python? Or something else. With automated asset grabs / package managers sucking up the dependencies from the language's package managers?
It would be an odd approach to take - but after all machine perf vs developer time tradeoffs don't always go in one direction.
This is actually an interesting point at which we'll see if Prez Trump acts like candidate Trump. Because it is so black and white.
Different audiences, different realities. If the other Western agencies, and indeed US servicemen, call his bluff and refuse he might reconsider in light of the intelligence withdrawal. Of course that is assuming it wasn't just posturing. A charitable soul might think it was just pandering to the bigots.
On the other hand, the worst outcome is a don't ask, don't tell, like Bush's policies of deporting to torture-friendly allies.
But better the school of hard knocks on this subject to teach him the limits of going it alone than a full on trade war which no one can usually back off from without losing face.
He's elected. So sad, too bad. Let's wait and see if the real guy aint a tiny bit less toxic than we've all (and that includes me) been expecting him to be. Many politicians end up having to learn to compromise when in power. In fact, as we say in French "mettre de l'eau dans son vin".
Fingers crossed.
>watching news from Turkey?
I didn't say the checks and balances were in danger of being subverted - that would be all alarmist at this point. Instead, I said that the system is intended to resist subversion, precisely due to the presence of those checks and balances.
To put it in plainer words: if, assuming the worse, Trump goes all looney and decides to do something really unpleasant to Mexicans, Muslims, <insert other group>, then the Supreme Court has the authority to declare such actions invalid. And even before then, his marge of action is limited by what Congress would approve - including when it comes to foreign treaties - and I am not assuming all Rep congress critters are unreasonable.
The one silver lining is that the election was decisive. A cliffhanger a la Florida 2000, Bush vs Gore, would end up with Trump still in office, but a sizeable portion of the electorate claiming he did not have a mandate. No substantial difference, but even more bitterness. He did get that mandate, let's see what he does with it. Best of wishes to US citizens that all your foreign critics were wrong and that you have turned out to make the right choice - the man is not stupid, though I will stick to 'buffoon' until, hopefully, proven wrong.
Here's hoping President Trump will be more constructive than Candidate Trump. Coulda been worse, coulda been President Ted Cruz ;-)
The complex checks and balances originally built into the US political system (executive, legislative, judiciary) are meant to keep the system from being easily subverted by any one branch.
I would say that, after today, the intent of this system to minimize damage will get thoroughly tested! I wonder if the Founding Fathers had in mind the kind of buffoon that just got elected.
>If there were more evil rich people there to take advantage of them, they wouldn't be so poor.
Dude, what are you talking about? I am not talking about "evil capitalists" or "bad multinationals" corrupting "poor innocent third worlders" and generating "bad wealth".
Duvalier wasn't creating wealth and he sure wasn't a capitalist. He was just robbing his people.
Notwithstanding the current absence of business and abject general poverty of Haiti, I am sure that some people are still getting rich there.
Not in a capitalist or wealth-creating sense of "rich", which I don't necessarily object to, but in old style corruption and feudal oppression type of rich, like the Putins, Mugabes and Duvaliers of this world, which I do object to.
When a place has 5 million people living on $1-2 a day (probably ballpark figure in Duvalier's time) and when it has few natural resources, you can figure out for yourself how much of a cut it takes to maintain the lifestyle people like him had. It's not the 1%, more like the 0.001%.
Haiti might do well, or not, from more foreign capitalism - it doesn't have much of it right now. I'd be inclined to think it would do better.
And I don't blame Western countries for it either - there is only so much we can be expected to fix other people's problems for them if we did not cause them.
I am not confusing "rich" with "evil" or "robbery". And sorry if I was unclear in my quip about fur coats. But don't confuse "rich" with "productive" either.
Sorry if I seem bitter, I have lived near Haiti, layovered at its airport a few times - after a rain you can see the ecological disaster from erosion runoffs as a band of brown water on the coastline and I have met quite a few Haitians. It is just very sad that the place is like that and seems like it won't ever improve.
There aren't many rich in Haiti, true. True.
None, and they are not evil? Hmmm... Rumor is that, back in the days when Baby Doc was in charge, his doxy was very fond of fur coats. To the point where she apparently needed a food-grade cold storage room for all her coats.
They are still all poor, true. But wanna bet no one (of their own people) is taking advantage of them nowadays and filthy rich doing so? I wouldn't.
Hmmm, anyone else wondering why El Reg needs to report on Linus' vocabulary every fucking time?
He did his job, told the submitter to go away until it was the right time and/or the right feature.
Granted, his choice of words could be improved, but reporting on it constantly is not newsworthy in and out of itself. Maybe if they had another high profile, esp female, coder quitting due to toxic environment, then yes.
But there is no indication that this escalated into anything newsworthy, so reporting on the feature removal, minus chatter about profanity, would have been just as good. Tell you what, apply Shannon's Theorem and report on the language used when Linus happens not put any profanity anywhere ;-)
My $.02 anyway.
>In the last almost 50 years, I've seen society go to shit
Upvoted you because you are correct in criticizing this waste of judicial activity. Still, it hardly seems fair to criticize our particular point in time so harshly, esp in comparison to such preceding jewels as:
- McCarthy's witchhunts (50s)
- The Japanese internment camps during WW2 (happened in Canada too, not just the US)
- the hounding of Alan Turing (50s)
- not to mention the much greater tolerance for enemy civilian casualties, which were either ignored or indeed actively pursued as policy all the way into the 80s
I ain't no millennial myself, but no need to get all back-in-my-days on us. Terrorism has always been a challenge to deal with if also trying to respect civil liberties. How did Europe fare in the time of Anarchists? What about France during the heyday of the OAS, where French people killed hundreds of other French to keep France fighting in Algeria? England and Northern Ireland during the Troubles? Bloody Sunday?
Are we doing well, now? The jury's definitely out - in some way we are, comparatively - I think there are (mostly) more legal safeguards when people actually go on trial. In others, such as our capacity for, and use of, mass surveillance? Not so great.
There are no easy answers but I agree the SSID farce is probably not all that helpful.
Subject: How to restart Win 10 adoption
Hey Sat,
We've been brainstorming how to push revenue and Win 10 adoption at the same time. Very useful stuff, think-outside-the-box originality by some of the best thought leaders and influencers on my team.
You know how we have many customers' CC info on file in the app store? And how we've proven that Win 10 can be auto-installed without the customer having to ask for it?
How about we set up Win 10 to auto-install and we charge customers for it? I am sure they'll love it, esp if we throw in a few months of Office 365 for free (not too many so that they aren't too likely to hit an outage during their trial). After all, we all know the Win 10 auto-install was very popular, outside of some few, but very vocal, naysayers. I mean, all the people in our focus groups and all our employees thought it was a brilliant idea - they all replied checked 'Yes' for that question on their Annual Performance Review form.
This is not the time to have second thoughts, we need to leverage our strengths and align all our users with our strategic vision.
Golf on Thursday, 6 pm?
Ted Flunkee, Mr-Telemetry, can join us and discuss our rising satisfaction metrics - we've finally beaten down those people who want menus rather than ribbons. Sadly, Mary from Engineering can't make it - I mean who cares if the innards in 10 are better? No one. Not users - they only care about the shiny and we are the SHINIEST because we have the best ideas.
Sinovskella
p.s. I'd like to bring along John, he's got some brilliant ideas about re-tooling the Control Panel once again - the configuration settings are starting to look stale, we haven't updated their navigation in months now.
>more sensible country than most
There was that bit where we bought 4 mothballed subs from a certain country across the Atlantic. One seaman died IIRC when a fire broke out during the ferry over trip. Since then the 4 subs have mostly stayed in dock being fixed from whatever frequently ails them. Rarely at sea.
And the part where we took 15 yrs to buy replacement sea rescue choppers.
Plus, our brave and competent soldiers are greatly outnumbered by the MoD civil servants so lotsa tail to the teeth.
On the other hand, being the first to actually ditch the F35, if it happened, would immediately catapult us to the top of the clever procurement league. And we could spend the windfall on other, more useful and proven, military gear - I'd vote for attack and transport choppers in addition to fighter modernization.
If you look up current F35 unit costs, they are usually quoted as "low rate initial production without engine".
So, better to think of it as an in-app-purchase-system. Those are always a good deal, no?
Plus, if the only secret you are quibbling about as a military is your pilots' personal data being looked at, then you've got major need-to-know issues.
Exactly. XML started out pretty well, but then got mired into the XSD vs DTD stuff and complexified itself by the time it got to S(imple, hah!)OAP. How many folks wrote actual XSDs rather than booting on it?
Before banging on about how horrible and sloppy everyone in JSON-land is, why not push the same type of crap data into an XML parser? Wanna bet those will never crash? What about genius old-school parsers for "quality" text formats written by super-clever old programmers (i.e. my age, just the clever kind) based on back-in-my-days specs? Never crash on bad data, right?
Hopefully this will serve as a wake-up call that a) the specs and implementations might need to polishing up and b) not to trust external sources of JSON overmuch. I wonder if just the relevant people agreeing on a common set of test files and making those available to the implementations, along with an agreed-upon expectations, wouldn't evolve things quite a bit.
Thanks a heap to Nicholas Seriot for pointing this problem out.
p.s. I wonder what would happen if you shoved these strings into database parsers that support JSON data types? Like for example PostgreSQL's native JSON. What does a hypothetical parser crash take out? Can you do that through native db-binding (i.e. not just because someone left themselves vulnerable to sql injection)?
QNX, the BB10 ancestor, claims to supposedly have a clever optimization of message passing, which, again claimed, made it a better microkernel than its predecessors (such as MACH).
This is old tech, QNX was around (in 4MB RAM on 386s) in the early 90s, so the patents have lapsed.
Is any of that applicable to this kinda problems?
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