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by Const-me 11y ago
“same can't be said for Windows” is subjective. I can do literally anything with my Windows. Including writing my own drivers/applications. And I can’t say the same about Linux. Not because that's impossible, but because I ai
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by Const-me 11y ago
Second that, also from personal experience. Well, I sometimes worked longer, but never longer than 3 years at one place. In addition, I don’t remember being fired, my employers were generally happy with my performance, instead I got bored a
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by Const-me 11y ago
“I suspect that in many ways a free market in law would resemble the situation in Medieval Europe” — I’m an emigrant from such country. Sometimes funny place to visit, impossible to live, hard to do business. “Disputants could select among
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by Const-me 11y ago
SEEKING WORK | Montenegro (Southern Europe) | remote. Well, I ain’t seeking actively, but I always open to interesting opportunities. C++ 15 years, C# 7 years, Windows, OSX, iOS, embedded, videogames, and a lots more. http://care
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by Const-me 11y ago
You don't need to be obsessed about legality of your actions. Not wanting to go to jail is good motivation, at least for sober people. French penal code 221-1 says “wilful causing of the death of another person is murder. It is punishe
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by Const-me 11y ago
“Blood alcohol concentration predicts utilitarian responses in moral dilemmas” — seriously? Blood alcohol concentration correlates to unlawful behavior. For both dilemmas, a person who won’t touch that switch or won’t push anyone is legally
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by Const-me 11y ago
Intended. Planes are too fast and too maneuverable. Especially military planes — SAMs weren’t actually designed to down civilians. That’s why missiles have proximity-based detonators, so called “proximity fuze”, to explode at the right mome
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by Const-me 11y ago
I ain’t trolling. Your problem is, you know almost nothing about Windows, but you pretend you do. You don’t even know there’s no VBScript in Word. The language you wrote you Word macros in 90-s was called VBA = Visual Basic for Applications
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by Const-me 11y ago
“VBScript would be something a Samba admin would know of” — a login script doesn’t have to be a VBScript, could be CMD as well, or just an EXE. WSH is a general-purpose scripting environment unrelated to samba. Professional Windows system e
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by Const-me 11y ago
No you haven't: powershell isn't bash, WMI is much more then a /proc, and both VBScript and group policy are completely unrelated to SMB/CIFS.
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by Const-me 11y ago
“with a platoon-sized crew and several support vehicles (radar and command trucks) needed to fire the thing” — not really. That Russian thing is actually autonomous: http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-9K37-Buk.html#mozTocId21049
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by Const-me 11y ago
“Powershell is your bash” — Cmd.exe is your bash. Powershell doesn’t process text streams, it operates on .NET CLR objects. PowerShell by itself is more like interactive python shell. But it’s power isn’t language or interpreter, but the am
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by Const-me 11y ago
“No one cares about a Windows port of a cross-platform server” — then who ported Node.js, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and the rest of them?
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by Const-me 11y ago
Сould you please estimate what share of *nix admins have heard about VBScript, PowerShell, WMI or group policy?
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by Const-me 11y ago
“traditional Windows devs are typically only good at Windows” — why? I developed for Windows, Nintendo, iOS, OSX… “NIX guys on the other hand are typically familiar with multiple operating systems” Nope, they aren’t familiar with Windows.
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by Const-me 11y ago
That does not apply to all parts of the union. Three Baltic States, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, were among the first to claim their independence. The people did it, not some top cadres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by Const-me 11y ago
I'm a Russian freely speaking my mind on the Internet. I’ve only started doing that after I've took my one-way flight from there, with no intention to return ever. Are you sure those Russians you're talking about aren't
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by Const-me 11y ago
Nah, don’t believe it has the future. Even gas turbines are too unreliable due to temperature and mechanic stress. Fortunately, diesel-powered fuel cells are already on the horizon: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/e
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by Const-me 11y ago
You shouldn’t just compare C++ libraries. First, define your requirements, both functional (what should your networking do) and technical (latency, throughput, available bandwidth, operating systems of both clients and servers). Second, pic
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by Const-me 11y ago
Not every game is critical to network latency. Not every game is tolerant to packets loss. If those 4-8 players in the game are playing 3-dimension virtual reality poker, TCP or even HTTP will work just fine. I have read the original thread
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by Const-me 11y ago
Exactly. GPUs were designed to run thousands of threads, CPUs to run only a few of them. CPU cores do branch predictions and instructions reordering to save latency. GPU cores do not. When they need to wait, they instead pause the thread an
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by Const-me 11y ago
Scripting isn’t dying, it’s doing great. For example, every competent system engineer needs to be comfortable with scripting, bash/ksh/zsh on *nix, power shell and vbscript on windows. I don’t know what kind of application is the
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by Const-me 11y ago
1. Harder to maintain. Your colleague will change MethodB so it now throws an ExceptionB(), and your code will crash with unhandled exception = segfault. With error codes, your colleague may return any FAILED code she finds adequate. As lon
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by Const-me 11y ago
Exceptions only work well in managed languages like C#, Java, Python. In C++ they don’t. In C++, error codes FTW. On Windows you usually return HRESULT, call FAILED/SUCEEDED macros to check, call OS-provided FormatMessage API to format
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by Const-me 11y ago
Probably because stock traders smell creative accounting here. Companies usually do that to minimize the taxes they pay, hence maximizing their shareholders’ profits.
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by Const-me 11y ago
A1. First, if you are from Russia — run ASAP. It will never get better. I did 4 years ago, never had anything resembling depression since that. A2. If your country is OK (e.g. suicide rate there is less than 15 per 100000 people per year),