3amOpsGuy

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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
It's a brand new OS, it wouldn't matter if it was the best thing since sliced bread, I wouldn't be able to recommend full scale deployment at this point in the product's life. It'll continue to rank behind Win7 for some time yet, but my poi
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
I've been evaluating Win8 on behalf of an old client I still sometimes help out. It's nowhere near as bad as the press has been making out. It's certainly different but I can point out a larger volume of improvements than the measly 3 obvio
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
I think you're confused about what problem indentation solves.
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
So one of perl's nicest features is it just plain, flat gets out of your way. If you want to write something some way, go ahead, perl will allow you. This is great - you can cook something up in 5 lines that would take 15+ in Python and 50+
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Do we really need threads? From my limited Ruby experience, it'll happily fork new interpreters, it has connectivity with pretty much all major messaging queue implementations as well as various serialising and networking libraries. In shor
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Good question. I found others i had to share code with weren't as interested as me about writing maintainable perl code - i got really fed up with a patch work of "write only" perl scripts performing useful functions in prod. From DB mainte
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
J, now there's a language! The C source is written in a J like style: a wall of ascii punctuation interspersed with single char identifiers. It looks like a fantastically expressive language, but i fear the learning curve would be too steep
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Before i switched to Python as my general purpose language, i used to be a bit of a Perl fanatic. I've still to come across a language that lets you get your ideas down as quickly. It's full of fantastic time savers, e.g. the for(<>
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Landon Fuller is a great read, although not as active in the past year or 2. Have seen a few posts trickle through recently, as high caliber as ever.
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
change your email address with them to myoriginalusername+linkedin@whatever.com Filter with gay abandon.
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
It offers a reduction in the time to get started; vagrant provides the wrapper script around vboxmanage that you would otherwise write & debug. By effectively standardising that tool which many people would otherwise continually reinven
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
I'd be conscious about the LIPO battery choice & potential fire risk. They're absolutely fine when treated with care (i've had many for years for RC planes & helis and never had more than minor issues), but i'd be concerned people a
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
When will we get a "programer's web browser"? I mean a full blown browser of current generation abilities, but with the option of completely keyboard driven interaction. Concise input of small commands (navigation, data extraction, explorin
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
>> UX-archaic Why then, in circa 40 years, have we still not managed to find a better alternative? I can't help drawing parallels with windows / unix in the 90s and more so 00s. Yes, a point and click GUI is much easier to wing it w
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
>> Emacs and VIM use has actually been going down since the 90s as a percentage of the developer community My Google-Fu is coming up short, i can't corroborate this. Can you provide any links to data confirming this claim up? I took
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
>> I'm surprised to be honest but maybe I'm missing something. Give it a proper whirl, you'll never go back. Proper python REPL history across sessions (not hacking up a substitute using a $PYTHONSTARTUP file to load readline histor
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
IPython is extremely useful. I like the qtconsole feature but i find it less than perfect to install: 1. pip install ipython 2. <system package manager> install qt4 3. pip install pyside / qt4 bindings The better feature, for me
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Not sure if this helps but the Audi system, which I believe is exact the same on VW, Seat & Skoda, will park wrong side but only if you indicate into the side the spaces are on when approaching. Only mention this because it wasn't docum
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
There's a code browsing view (window -> open perspective -> browsing) but i never use it. For me i only need the following to zip through a sizeable code base with just a few key combos in eclipse: * F3 - go to definition of thing u
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
That's really hard to give a decent answer to. The answer really depends on the people involved in filtering the applications. Can you mirror what the job advert lists it's looking for? A bit more outlandishly, could you identify a person w
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
>> As for the numbers, only to be expected in a hype game. > What does that even mean? Think dot com bubble, think real estate pre-2008, or more currently think zinga, Facebook, instagram. These things were MASSIVE before they d
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Random question for someone way more experienced with this than me...! With Bootstrap i've never figured out, am i supposed to hack the bootstrap less directly or am i supposed to treat bootstrap as a vendor library and craft my styles sepa
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Javascript Developer Environment Setup / Example Workflow(dailyjs.com)
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
I've been doing some experiments to improve recall of documentation. So far i've learned a few seemingly effective techniques: 1) Occasionally construct some weird sentences, throw grammar out the window for a sentence (any longer doesn't w
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
But it's just a prototype, a demonstration. It's not in use anywhere, it's not certified, there's nothing to say it even works yet. Searching doesn't turn up anything to corroborate that it's in use right now. As for the numbers, only to be
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
>> It's being used right now by manufacturers to make custom parts in things like jet engines. That doesn't appear to be true? They've announced they're intending to do it, they've bought a company specialised in it which suggests t
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
I'm still sceptical of 3D printing. They're hyped so much with little to show for it - when did you last use something printed on a 3D printer? This is a technology designed to bring affordable, easy manufacturing to your bedroom, it's been
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Contrived is a bit uncharitable. 5 year old hardware (which would be around the calibre of a Core Duo with 1Gb ram?) is still perfectly serviceable for your average office worker. With Linux they have the choice to defer hw upgrade until it
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Haha :) I keep going back to X over SSH. Out of VNC, RDP and NX, VNC is the lame duck. Out of RDP & NX, both require extra software but RDP is more widely re-usable (virtual box, windows etc). The bandwidth requirements aren't the probl
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Run Firefox on the server and export the display over the network to the weedy laptop. Depending on the technology used, exporting sound can be an hour of fiddling about to get it setup first time around.

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