JamesBaxter

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by JamesBaxter 9y ago
Seems like your looking for an excuse to stop paying. I said "I don't think"....
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by JamesBaxter 9y ago
Many people I know have always pirated software and TV and said once there was a reasonable way to get it legally they would pay for it. I haven't seen this be the case. I don't think you can convert pirates. It is possible howeve
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by JamesBaxter 9y ago
While clearly it's not ideal for them to be using XP wasn't the British government one of the purchasers of extended XP support? Has that ended now?
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by JamesBaxter 9y ago
The state of legal TV and film content in the UK is abysmal. I think it's really important that we consider that just because there's no legal way for me to watch say "The Americans" season 5 legally in the UK[0], I&#x27
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
"There's nothing more annoying than selecting a file and having it removed due to a disallowed file type, therefore all files are allowed*." CTRL+F finds no other asterisk on the page, what's the caveat?
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
Yeah I thought about that, you could use the achievement rarity as I noted below. Whatever system you use developers will try and game it but I think there are ways of cutting out obviously bad achievements
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
Yep, you could use achievement rarity too. If 100% of all players get an achievement don't use it for recommending or 1% have it increase the weighting?
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
I think you could use Steam Achivements and playtime to recommend games to people. If I've played a game to completion on the highest difficulty presumably I like it. Find me other games that people with the achievement also play and h
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
You can't say you love the new MBP and that you recommend that anyone that buys one has a backup computer in the same comment...
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
I wouldn't describe myself as a VB fan but I don't hate it either. I would say however that there is harm in picking technologies that less developers know (or will be willing to learn). For your use of VB6 clearly it doesn't
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
Yeah I was meaning storage, but larger screen size phones might see a boost in sales too.
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
Apple will be happy more people will pay for the extortionate large iPhones.
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
I just bought a subscription to F-SECURE FREEDOME VPN after a bit of research but also heavily influenced by Troy Hunt's recommendation. It's currently discounted with the coupon code BlackFriday. Setup on the iPhone took 2 minute
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
I wish Nintendo were more open about some of the incredible stuff they've done over the years.
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
The Stack Overflow developer survey would suggest that's not correct[0]. Mac OS X 26.2% Windows 7 22.5% Linux 21.7% Windows 10 20.8% Windows 8 8.4% Windows XP 0.4% Though it is possible that the sort of developers that use desktop linu
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
I certainly agree that Microsoft have been very underhanded in some of their approaches. What really grinds my gears though is the lack of interest people have in maintaining their tools. If your computer is central to running your busines
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
My bad its Nreco
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
If this gains traction I don't think we'll feel the benefits till a little later down the line. I've contributed a little to the Swift tag but the real advantages come from technologies that don't already have good docum
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
Not especially, I was going to make the 2nd part of my comment regardless. I am however trying to consider the author more as I read online though in this case I don't think it adds any additional context.
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
Amanda Petrusich is a woman. I'm more surprised that podcasts and audiobooks aren't mentioned. I only listen to music at the gym and at work. When I'm travelling I like to listen to stuff that will push me but when I'm
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
I'd be interested in the health and safety of working around these systems. It feels like the sort of thing it would be very easy to forget the danger of as there's minimal moving parts and no scary sounds. Surprised a henchman ha
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
Troy Hunt wrote an interesting post on how he verfies breaches recently[0] The amount of fact checking tech "journalists" do means wrong information can really spiral out of control. I wonder if Dropbox can sue? [0] https:/&#
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
I find Thunderbult quite useful (but I'm on a Mac). Not sure why this guy is so against it, presumably there's reasonable peripheral support on other OSes by now? He talks about editing video on the machine, Thunderbolt should all
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
But the advantage of not having to switch apps is still missing on Android. I don't think it's "cramming it in" when that's the main benefit of the system.
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
It's very odd to me that Google would release this on iOS first. I understand the value of iOS market share but when you have your own platform... I think this looks really good, doesn't seem to be in the UK App Store yet or I&#x2
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
I can see the Cutty Sark out of my window at work (barely), I've never really thought of it as technology really.
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
So if Google were less open then they wouldn't have to deal with this?
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
I'm not smart enough to know whether Google is breaking antitrust rules or not but if they are I don't see how Apple aren't too.
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by JamesBaxter 10y ago
Generally I feel if I have a lot of business logic in Javascript than my view is wrong. There are things like client side validation that I don't know how you'd do another way?
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by JamesBaxter 11y ago
I wonder how well it would work in a noisy environment?

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