AdeptusAquinas

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Microsoft sales soar for all its non-Windows products(money.cnn.com)
5 points by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago|1 comments
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
Those two don't go to meetings where they need to leave an impression on someone. When the CEO of my company (who wears jeans day to day) goes to a meeting with a new client, we wears a suit and tie so that the first five second impres
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
All true (and as someone who spent years building solutions around the various SP releases, I know about its internal problems all too well). Also, while I will use SQL Server without a second thought for most of our development simply beca
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
Very interesting article, if horrifying :) As someone whose only experience is in corporate service IT development, from the outside the game dev industry looks incredibly cowboy-ish; it would be nice to read a story where a team built a ga
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
When PG wrote that and I read it I was working in a Microsoft partner shop developing full-stack MS solutions for clients. In Wellington NZ at the time almost everyone of any significant size, from private to public sector, used MS exclusiv
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
To me, this all smacks of weakness. If they were not breaking the law (at least in spirit), they wouldn't fear journalists. If they were capable of preventing or at least showing the danger of the acts they claim to fight, they wouldn&
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Elevator Saga JavaScript game(play.elevatorsaga.com)
2 points by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago|0 comments
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Google releases bug info in Windows 8.1 on schedule, two days before fix release(au.pcmag.com)
4 points by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago|1 comments
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Notch's Housewarming Soiree(photo.rukes.com)
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
This sort of thing seems a bit like banning Napster. Eliminating the products doesn't eliminate the technology - although I expect the bigger players like Facebook to push back on this so as not to be out competed by smaller companies
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
I guess where my metaphor breaks down is that as you said Corporations are constrained from doing things detrimental to society (at least in theory), and the way we constrain them is via law. Security services and politicians are harder to
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
I was thinking these sort of policies are more representative of how democracy and security services are constructed: Politicians just want to show they are doing something, so swipe at an easy target. Security services ask for more informa
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
You would be surprised, I think. The RSA/AES stuff in C#'s System.Security.Cryptography library is pretty robust and easy to use. Copy/Pasting from MSDN will get you quite far.
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
This is what I have never understood. Granted, my partner works in law enforcement and she says a good portion of criminals are quite dumb (willing to discuss smuggling plans in a public facebook profile, for example) but its not like creat
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
Technological change has destroyed industries and livelihoods in the past, but it also created more opportunities as it went. The anti-luddite argument is that there were more jobs made available to the people despite the heavy labour inten
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
Ah fair enough then - sorry I missed that. Current day job is performing service IT for a security-paranoid bank that nevertheless runs XP exclusively internally, so I guess I'm just hypersensitive :D
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
First screenshot shows a system running Windows XP. Not a good sign that a product serving such confidential information is running on an operating system no longer supported with security patches.
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
Another explanation is that Sony Pictures asked them (your gov) to. Helps stop lawsuits over their poor security, might even result in some government funding to help them recover. And Sony can repay with campaign funds or what have you.
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
Even more laughable that objective differences in skill could be determined during an interview process. Especially when, unless they are watching for it, most interviewers generally hire people who are like themselves.
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
What about the 'most qualified' that don't happen to be the same race or gender as the interviewers, and are therefore discriminated against (even sub consciously), resulting in a less qualified but more 'culturally acce
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by AdeptusAquinas 12y ago
Your last point is a truism for me: if anything, having random questions or discussions to break up the dev work seems to imbue me with greater energy. Almost like being briefly forced to think about something different allows me to 's