Posts by Control Phreak

We Kana believe it! Raspberry Pi Foundation launches Japanese keyboard

Sorry to pedant you but I believe the first two are not alphabets, but syllabaries.

Japanese typewriters look absolutely terrifying! Thanks for making me realise they exist.

What evil lurks within the data centre, and why is it DDoS-ing the ever-loving pants off us?

Re: Makes sense both ways

Although the original statement also wouldn't be great for your job security.

Suspected armed robber’s privacy was not infringed by cops’ specific cellphone tower data slurp, US judge rules

The same argument presumably applies to CCTV - can't go anywhere with a CCTV camera if you don't want the police to potentially be able to identify you were there at a particular time.

It doesn't seem unreasonable for the police to be able to ask "who was near this location when the crime we're investigating happened?", which is the way the judgement has been framed. The earlier Carpenter decision ruled that asking "where has this person been?" does require a warrant.

Oh deer! Scotland needs some tech smarts to help monitor its rampant herbivore populations

It's Scotland so solar power is a bit of a non-starter.

Companies toiling away the most on LibreOffice code complain ecosystem is 'beyond utterly broken'

Re: Disagree with this

I would consider that to be maintenance - you're not adding features, just keeping the ones you do have working.

I agree that some software can be finished - it's usually pretty obvious when you've finished writing a library or a utility application because you can't think of anything else it could do that would be both useful and relevant. On the other hand big software applications like word processors have an ever growing list of features they need to support if they want to stay competitive. There eventually comes a point where you haven't finished adding the last feature before the next one gets added to the list, and at that point you'll never finish the software.

You're testing them wrong: Whiteboard coding interviews are 'anti-women psychological stress examinations'

Whoever thinks the correct response to a major incident is to set up a conference call with hundreds of participants shouldn't be in charge of incident response.