It's nice to see that your government is respectful towards those in need. In the UK, they call it "jobseeker's allowance" - like the type of allowance a parent gives a child.
I think that there is more to the pool of information than the points you rightly outlined. Other key pieces of data are that Redis is designed to be extremely fast and that it has a strong reliance on the speed of the memory it is operating on. Those facts, coupled with the statistics sniglom mentioned above, very strongly indicate that performance will be terrible.
An analogy I can think of is testing if a stock Ford Fiesta can reach the speed of sound. You know what the engine is capable of, the environment it is operating in and the tires it is running on - you simply don't need to floor the accelerator to come to a conclusion.
That saying about picking ones battles comes to mind. The mindset is certainly of a sharp character, but what good is a knife without a hand to guide it? The map is not the territory but it does save a lot of time if used strategically.
I'll do some testing this weekend by mounting an SSHFS as my swap partition and removing all but a 256MB RAM module then opening several dozen instances of FireFox. My calculations show that this will have terrible performance but I want to ensure that my software engineering is robust.
Testing your assumptions is something that you're supposed to do when you hit a wall, not when you're driving through a field.
There is a tradition of keeping discussions on-topic or at least insightful. Off-the-cuff humourous comments are not really suited for a site like this. There are myraid places where that kind of expression is the norm already. This brings the benefit of increasing the quality of the discussion and results in there being less irrelevant text to sift through.
They mean that each function does relatively little work, so to render a given web page, the number of function calls (and therefore vtable lookups) is higher than in other browsers. This translates to more overheads and slower execution.
I love SparrowOS's (dead) comments - they're so off the cuff and random. Trying to make sense of them is like doing a really hard crossword puzzle. I have noticed one thing about them, however - when he speaks as himself they make complete sense. E.g.
> I had a problem with discipline. I worked at Ticketmaster while in college, but I know I wouldn't have studied more, just knowing my personal psychology.
> If you love programming more than anything, you are probably the kind of person who wants to know assembly language. If your full heart is not into programming, maybe not.
> I wrote my own compiler. Doesn't use REGs to pass values to functions.
They only become incomprehensible when he is relaying, as he puts it, what God says. E.g.
It seems almost like his thinking is split into two modes - one rational and the other a stream of consciousness. The first makes sense to the rest of us since there are commonalities which we can relate to (i.e. logic) but the second must contain a great deal of personal references which only he can understand the meaning of. "God's words" are his feelings put into text in a completely unfiltered way.
I second this. I've been working out of hours a lot recently and find that my productivity is boosted dramatically when I am alone. Open plan offices need to go the way of the dinosaur.
In my opinion, it would be better to create an OS abstraction layer for the application so that conditionals do not have to be added everywhere and people are able to use whatever tools they are comfortable with.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that they have swindled over a million USD for a glue gun which you can assemble at home in 20 minutes. Sure, people can spend their money on whatever they want but it doesn't make it any less ridiculous.
> It is a sad day in a civilized, modern society when fundamental decisions on healthcare are made purely on finances, not quality of life.
I don't understand how you were sold on the idea that you are in a civilised society when one of the fundamental aspects of living in one is that your neighbours will help you when you can't help yourself.
It seems I was mistaken about there being much GNU code in Android.
I'm complaining that the software which came with my hardware is not fit for purpose and does not make good use of the horsepower. It would have been easy to include the things I mentioned in Android and a niche market would have been catered for as a result. A different decision was made and some of the customers are unhappy. I'm well within my rights to complain about something I paid for.
The cost of your developers using environments that they aren't adapted to is higher than the cost of dealing with inconsistencies introduced by the fact that they use Windows. It's more of a hassle for you, sure - but it's not your needs which matter in this context. I say that from the experience of having worked with people with a similar mind-set.
The job of a manager is not to bend the environment to his needs but to aid the people that do the work.
I'm glad that ARM tablets are finally getting a decent operating system.
Android is a pain for productivity - only one visible window, applications are killed in the background when you want them to persist, switching windows is tedious if you have many applications open at the same time, various deficiencies in third party applications like waking the screen and draining your battery, a Google account is required to do basic things like download apps, it's not possible to download APK's from the market in case you want to perform offline installations, plugging in an external hard disk results in a crash and reboot too often, media sound volume is reduced whenever an email notification comes in. That last bug has been around for three years - http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5012 - and this is a piece of commercial software, not someone's hobby OSS project!
Not to mention that it's based on GNU/Linux [EDIT: NOT GNU, just Linux] yet misses important features like a good package manager, X11 and alternative window managers. Things like Debian Kit For Android address some of these issues but it still feels like a compromise.
I understand that it was originally designed as a smartphone OS but it just doesn't scale well to tablets.
Another alternative which is looking extremely promising, even moreso than Ubuntu, in my opinion, is Plasma Active - http://plasma-active.org/
It's nice to see that your government is respectful towards those in need. In the UK, they call it "jobseeker's allowance" - like the type of allowance a parent gives a child.