Posts by henklaak

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

"Seems like you are doing important work right now!

Want to reboot and do 2 hours of patches right now.

Don't say it, I'm already on it."

"Broken By Design ™"

The FUDerati

The Company That Gave You Edlin

Re: how about

Patch & Pray covers it.

Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching

Scientists are script kiddies.

I have the pleasure of being a SW dev amongst 50 physicists.

What they come up with is sometimes diabolical.

I've encountered a case where numerical analysis was so unstable, that it produced different result on different processors.

Inverting a matrix with condition number 1e60 doesn't seem to bother them at all.

H.

GIMP open source image editor forked to fix 'problematic' name

Version Control is awesome.

Isn't Gitlab a wonderful thing? Now we finally can tell the do-gooders (who rarely contribute code themselves) to "fork off".

H.