Craiggybear

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by Craiggybear 15y ago
He's right. Best stuff I've ever done involved zero noise and distraction. But really, I'm just antisocial.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
There is something seriously wrong with human civilisation.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Building a Death Star out of steel is probably as good an idea as building it out of wood.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
What? SQL is virtually plain English and is efficient across a range of database architectures for moderate-to-complex join situations. Its just an implementation of Boolean Algebra with a thin abstraction layer that uses words like SELEC
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Neither do I.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
I think just because you can do something to prolong someone's life, there used to be a time when a good doctor knew this didn't automatically mean you should . I know my grandparents didn't fear or refuse to believe in death in the same
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Also agreed.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
"Quantum computing could be five years away" They said this fifteen years ago on a radio broadcast. I was sitting there. I heard it. Now, for the last time, where is my jetpack ?
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
I think I recall Paul Irish once saying even closing tags of certain types (<li>, <p> etc) were also unnecessary. The start of the next tag should also signal the close of the previous one (unless you want to nest stuff) --
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
"Excuse me ... but which one of us has a penis". I have in fact been in the room when someone has actually said this. It was intended as a joke and the lady to whom he was addressing his query (who just happened to be his boss) was also in
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
LOVE IT!
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Your interface has to be a metaphore for a real-world process. If it isn't then you are a) doing it wrong or b) there is no direct mapping to a real-world process.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Sources?
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Good question. I can't see this just yet, but it will happen. Probably by 10.9 which won't even have a command prompt -- or at least not one you can access easily without invalidating warranty or some such nonsense.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Yeah, I'm still with Leopard 10.5.8 ... I don't like the direction they're taking with OS X but I'd seen this coming for a while. I can see the next release after this being effectively a completely walled garden desktop OS without even a c
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Oh no, not ominous at all ... look for this list of three choices being reduced to the first two. Coming soon.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Already?
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Soooooo ... why are they telling everyone? Forewarned = forearmed and all, yo. Won't work. Unless they have something totally different planned and this is a simple misdirection.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Very nice effects well rendered! Image quality was fine.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Ugh. Its a licence to sleaze with ease. And no comeback. Deplorable. Makes one's flesh literally creep.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Absolutely shocking story. It must have been gut-wrenching. This sort of shit is like a red rag to a bull for me. I would have went ahead and called their bluff and let them get it into court; I would have hoped against the odds that with a
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Fair enough.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
"But more importantly, the problems I'm solving can't be more easily solved using another stack." Its a sweeping statement to say the least. I know the VS IDE and such often prevent you doing dumb things/shooting yourself in the foot and it
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
No. He'll pass a law requiring us all to be cyber-converted. Whether the tech is mature or not.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
See this all the time. Its astounding what some of these people get away with.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Oh I have worked with codebases (in large financial institutions and in engineering applications) that are meant to be contiguously maintained for more than a decade. They have been working nicely 16+ years and are easy to maintain with no
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Well, I don't ... and it isn't just me who thinks claims made about the "enterprise" are pure marketing BS.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
I no longer do .Net development and leaving it all behind was a breath of fresh air. It was ridiculous. I find it monstrously overblown and while its proponents/fans call it elegant I think its a horrible inelegant mess. Great if all you do
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Ah. That figures. Frameworks. Geez, there must be a whole raft of new ones in there now. Thanks for the info.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Really? Glad in many ways I am still using 10.5 then. I've no problem with stability. As you mention it seems quite rock solid. I had no idea that the memory requirement for 10.6 or 10.7 was so high (I've heard anecdotal comments from non-t

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