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Name: Nathan Myers
Member since: 2005-01-20 04:49:42
Last Login: 2008-07-25 05:23:03

Notes: Currently employed by Aspera, Inc., where we make secure, reliable fast file-transfer software, uniquely tolerant of high loss and high latency connections, using UDP for transport, and a user-space flow-control algorithm that doesn't confuse packet loss with congestion. Amazingly enough, file transfer isn't a solved problem.

Projects

Lead Developer on libstdc++
Helper on Debian
Helper on Monotone

Articles Posted by ncm

Is BitTorrent Evil? 10 Aug 2007 at 04:21 UTC
One Sentence Answers for Free Software 8 Aug 2007 at 19:38 UTC
Intelligent Life on Earth 18 Feb 2007 at 20:38 UTC
Coding Challenge: Increment a date/timestamp string 2 Nov 2004 at 06:21 UTC
"High-Level" Considered Meaningless 19 Mar 2004 at 08:43 UTC
Justin Wells Knows Better than You 9 Mar 2004 at 23:09 UTC
Java: Failure or Crime? 5 Feb 2004 at 18:49 UTC
GNU-Info Bad, Man(1) Good 16 Dec 2003 at 21:37 UTC
A Modest Proposal, or not 18 Nov 2003 at 22:45 UTC
Free Software Licenses Revocable? 10 Jan 2003 at 19:20 UTC

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16 Jul 2008 »

chalst: My experience is that the account deletion threshold is set so (artificially) high that the only way to get a spammer account deleted is to mark them down as spammers unless it's dead clear they're not. Even then lots of fake accounts get through. Mostly the real spammers don't start spamming immediately; they appear to be accumulating fake accounts and holding them in reserve.

Anybody who gets their account deleted can just sign in again and behave less spammerishly next time, so there's no reason to use kid gloves.

14 Jul 2008 (updated 14 Jul 2008 at 21:17 UTC) »

I have altered the "s_t" and "c_t" ligatures in my copy of the Linux Libertine font so the loops are higher. They look really good in Firefox, when it uses them. (I haven't discovered yet how Firefox -- really, libpango -- decides whether to substitute ligatures; sometimes it does, sometimes not, sometimes both in one paragraph, e.g. this one.) Now I need to fix the italic, bold, and bold-italic versions, and get them all accepted upstream. I'd still like to find a better way to get them used by default.

10 Jul 2008 »

labaru: What? I'm one of Mauro's biggest admirers. Sincerely: Go, Mauro!

10 Jul 2008 (updated 10 Jul 2008 at 21:43 UTC) »

redi: No kidding! "We do not use C++ exceptions." What a way to dispel the myth of a Google populated by geniuses. Oh, and StudlyCapsTypeNames, too. If it's true that "taste is the feminine of genius", they've shot both. Oh, look, enumerator names that get clobbered by common vendor header macros? Fail. No rule against public virtual functions? Fail. No requirement to qualify member accesses with "this->"? Fail. "Don't use an unsigned type", without a peep about how signed overflow is undefined behavior? Fail.

3 Jul 2008 »

I just changed my linux-libertine typeface to make Firefox use the looped ligatures for "st" and "ct". I don't know what would be the "right" way to do it; I just added those ligatures to the default set. Unfortunately, they're kind of ugly (not loopy enough), and there's no ligature for "sc". To fix.

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