GlennS

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by GlennS 12y ago
I was told 3 or 4 years ago by a Microsoft MPV that WPF was effectively in maintenance mode with only a single guy working on it. A shame, because it's probably the best UI framework I've used. I liked it much better than HTML.
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by GlennS 12y ago
Documentation can end up sucking up a large amount of your time. It's also very easy for documentation to get out of date. It's therefore useful to tie your documentation to the code itself: 1. Generate documentation from the code
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by GlennS 12y ago
The limo analogy seems backwards when we're discussing paying for favourable access for incoming traffic for customers. Also bear in mind that those customers have themselves all had to pay for their internet access. Some of those cust
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by GlennS 12y ago
Surely the point of anonymous is that they're a group of people who don't care. It's a competition to be the most callous.
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by GlennS 12y ago
For HTML to Markdown this works in Pandoc, because HTML elements are valid Markdown. Haven't tried with other target formats. One option if you can run Haskell code somewhere is to use the Pandoc library, which will produce an in-memor
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by GlennS 12y ago
I'm a little surprised by this. I can believe that Firefox is slower (I haven't done the comparison myself), but even so it's still capable of rendering hundreds of thousands of points or thousands of complicated geometric sh
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by GlennS 12y ago
The Tribes series takes this much further. The most recent of those is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribes:_Ascend
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by GlennS 12y ago
Couldn't you say the same thing about time spent on npm which could have gone into apt or yum?
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by GlennS 12y ago
Mojo?
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by GlennS 12y ago
It might fall on your head...
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by GlennS 12y ago
The lack of data migration tooling would be a critical problem for me. The traditional problem that ORMs are supposed to solve is change. Changing your database schema means you have to change all your queries. So instead you have a a syste
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by GlennS 12y ago
Remember those scripts that changed your instant messenger status when you started listening to a song? Or posted in IRC about it? Automated narcissism doesn't exactly make for good conversation. People will get bored of it after a day
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by GlennS 13y ago
It would be interesting to know why this is. Are each of these dependencies really small on average? Or is there some big cascade of dependencies? Or is there a particular framework that's to blame? I've had a similar issue when u
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by GlennS 13y ago
I think that you are making a mistake in equating redundancy in engineering with redundancy in programming. The point of redundancy in engineering is having multiple parts so that if one of them fails, the others can take over its burden. I
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by GlennS 13y ago
I'd add that there aren't many good reasons why UI programming should be slow in any language on any desktop machine around today. You can draw tens of thousands of things on the fly in a web browser and have it appear instantan
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by GlennS 13y ago
They are effectively solar powered, since they rely on a temperature difference.
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by GlennS 13y ago
I think it's a mistake to think that Westeros has been the same for 6000 years. Rather, the people of Westeros are making the same kind of historical errors that Medieval people commonly did. Evidence: the phrase 'stories about kn
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by GlennS 13y ago
If I recall, the object they were tethered too was rotating. So it would be centrifugal force.
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by GlennS 13y ago
I really do think Python's convenience is more than just familiarity. I found it very quick to learn and easy to remember compared to other languages.
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by GlennS 13y ago
The first thing you need to know about is http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ which is a fantastic tool. So I would say that it might be worth reconsidering LaTeX because it has http://www.bibtex.org/ wh
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by GlennS 13y ago
A couple of alternatives you might enjoy: http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~leisch/Sweave/ http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/ These don't fix all the problems mentioned,
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by GlennS 13y ago
I think this is the nub of it: "the very small squeaky obnoxiously loud minority". Most people really don't like being preached at, and the agile community is very preachy. They're also very certain that agile is best pr
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by GlennS 13y ago
Good spot, thank you.
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by GlennS 13y ago
I use the KeePass/Dropbox combo also at the moment, but I have some concerns about it and may switch away. Dropbox keeps historical versions of your files. My concern is that, if an adversary can get multiple versions of my Keepass fil
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by GlennS 13y ago
Microsoft products receive 5 years mainstream support and 10 years extended support. XP is currently supported for organisations who purchased extended support, but only because there was extraordinary demand for it. It ends in just under 6
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by GlennS 13y ago
The CPU is probably not the important thing. I am still happily gaming on a Q6600 from (I think?) 2007.
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by GlennS 13y ago
Running joke in my office: whenever you waste a day on some trivial task because you had to edit some stupid XML config file, you lose a sanity point. I have learned the hard way to read some of the source code of any external library or to
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by GlennS 13y ago
Code generation isn't particularly hard as long as your source language or API is well specified. The problems come after. One shot code generation is usually fine (make it, run it, throw it away). Similarly, if the target language is
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by GlennS 13y ago
Do you imagine that drone strikes will stop them? Other than that, I'd like to echo the obvious [citation needed]. Which terrorists are launching missiles from what schools at whom? And did someone actually authorize a drone strike on
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by GlennS 13y ago
The UK government has a requirement that all new homes will be carbon neutral by 2016, so I imagine there will be some money appearing for research in this area. There are a couple of caveats: 1) You can build homes which have worse energy

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