Hominem

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by Hominem 13y ago
My suspicion is that Ballmer's departure was choreographed to coincide with seemingly "sudden" 360 to make it seem like some sort of internal revolution instead of a carefully planned business strategy. I certainly appreciate
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by Hominem 13y ago
Seems like 6.0 is all about reducing boilerplate. Those default constructors and null checking will probably save me hours of typing as the ctor that does nothing but set stuff and null checking properties all the way down are such common c
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by Hominem 13y ago
I tried on a pair of 3d printed shoes the other day. We have a long long way to go.
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by Hominem 13y ago
Now this kinda sucks because oculus + minecraft is pretty much the metaverse.
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by Hominem 13y ago
Despite my dislike of facebook I think this may have been a smart play. Valve's largely vaporous VR tech was gaining mindshare and Sony has cash, manufacturing, retail presence, the list goes on and on. Without a huge bankroll Oculus m
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by Hominem 14y ago
55 water was hit amazingly hard by flooding, offices in 55 water will be closed another 3-4 weeks.
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by Hominem 14y ago
I am kind of thinking this will be FTL but you will be able to board and fight off boarders yourself in first person as well as program various ship systems.
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by Hominem 14y ago
It seems like a good iterative approach to me. Classic desktop apps can still run, but it seems clear they are no longer preferred. WinRT offers an interface over Win32, a skim coat to even out all the cracks, quirks and special cases that
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by Hominem 14y ago
Kinda odd isn't it. My organization issued me a laptop to store all the confidental financial data I work with.
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by Hominem 14y ago
In the movie, Jiro admitted to giving women smaller portions. The women seated at the bar commented on how clever that was. I wonder if that would fly here in the State. If women are getting less for the same price, i think most Americans w
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by Hominem 14y ago
My company still uses VMS specifically for the versioned filesystem.
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by Hominem 14y ago
Some of this reminds that small things can have large repercussions on morale. There is a passage in The Illuminatus Trilogy that describes an act of culture jamming where a sign reading "no smoking" is replaced by a sign that says "no spit
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by Hominem 14y ago
I think it is probably going to be pretty low volume. Just for fun I would like to see an IRC style realtime interface. Treat hashtags (assuming they have hashtags, I haven't looked past the join page) as channels, read and write as if it w
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by Hominem 14y ago
Apple is the world’s largest company, so they can take a few knocks. Claims the article, by what measure?
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by Hominem 14y ago
Wow, this is really nice. It even works in IE8, Gmail no longer works for me in IE8
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by Hominem 14y ago
The interesting thing about this is that 80% of the restaurants are food trucks. This is perfect for trucks where you inevitably wait on line to order, then stand around in the cold for your order to be ready. Couple with that fact that thi
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by Hominem 14y ago
All three office buildings I've working in during the past 5 years would not let you leave the lobby unless you are escorted by a person from the company you are going to visit. The escort also has to have escort rights. That is different t
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by Hominem 14y ago
For years I have seen Joggers stop, duck in to kids playgrounds and use the playground equipment to do various excercises. The fears could have been unwarranted but no doubt this made parents wary. I was going to joke that we already had fi
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by Hominem 14y ago
When talking about screwups I aways say "we" assuming the developer will internally acknowledge that "we" probably meant them. Then again, I always feel somehow responsible for an issue even if it is a totally different team.
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by Hominem 14y ago
Yeah I'm guessing that is why they went that direction. It really isn't any less enterprisey than anything else and we ended up with stuff like fmt.printf, who would have guessed printf is in something called fmt. Well I guess it stands for
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by Hominem 14y ago
I think many would argue that their shipping container full of motherboards style data centers may have hampered them when it came to an IaaS offering. They didn't leverage VM technology at all did they? That certainly created a bias that l
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by Hominem 14y ago
There are some neat things about it. Being able to retroactively distill an interface from code you do not have the source to. Sometimes I wish I could do this in c# when I mock stuff up. Goroutines and channels are cool because they are si
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by Hominem 14y ago
Well it is certainly smaller. I'd really like to use it at least for APIs where I am currently using the WCF rest and JSON stuff but it would be an uphill battle to get it deployed to production. Right now I use RabbitMQ and Redis internall
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by Hominem 14y ago
I'm not going to defend them any more unless they start cutting checks but you have to admit that even if you don't think it is any good at least they are trying. You work in a windows shop you use whatever Microsoft gives you, we could sti
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by Hominem 14y ago
They really are doing some cool stuff, the author mentions a few things. I'd also mention the stuff they are doing in software. ASP.NET MVC, F#, hell even good old C# is just getting better and better. There is plenty of room for Google, Ap
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by Hominem 14y ago
Most of them were due to an outage we had on a "legacy application" due to some sort of screwups with the VMs it was running on. This caused reps to hammer me with questions about our SLAs. Of course I had no answer. Many more emails were f
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by Hominem 14y ago
My PM is on vacation this week and I've had to partially fill in. I have been getting frantic urgent emails from roughly 7 am till 1 am. If this is what the guy puts up with, he deserves a couple bucks.
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by Hominem 14y ago
That is a Snow Crash. A condition I saw frequently learning 68k asm on a Mac. It sometimes looked like that if video memory was overwritten.
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by Hominem 14y ago
Stephenson comments on this in Reamde.
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by Hominem 14y ago
I had a developer quit after a week for something similar. One application to do bug fixes and extend. He was allowed to do refactoring but it had to stay mostly in "experimental" branches so we could limit the risk of merging changes into

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