JonoW

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by JonoW 11y ago
How is this any different to a male and female friend better married just for tax benefit? Its not widespread now, why would it become widespread when people of the same sex can do it?
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by JonoW 11y ago
"Offtopic" was a wee bit of an understatement there
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by JonoW 11y ago
Ah I went to River Country! Was there in '94 when I was about 14, loved it. But damn the water was cold, went in December - we hadn't been in the water yet and jumped on the main slide, feck it was freezing, and we knew when we go
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by JonoW 11y ago
Check out freecycle.org, it's a place where people advertise stuff to give away for free (normally on condition of you picking it up). There is also a "wanted" section to ask for particular items, which you might find useful.
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by JonoW 12y ago
I don't really see how {company-name}.sucks is any worse than {company-name}sucks.com. Do firms really go around registering every combination of bad words with their brand name, with every standard TLD? Can't imagine they do...
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by JonoW 12y ago
1 month mat leave? Leaving aside the fact that this seems really short, people often take 1 month holidays (I certainly have), i.e it seems a short enough time not to fill it, as a contractor will probably not be that productive in a month,
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by JonoW 12y ago
How about this; don't autofocus on search, but listen for key presses at document level, and if the first key is alpha-numeric, then autofocus on search (and prefill what was typed so far). Allows quick search and doesn't break up
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by JonoW 12y ago
This seems such an old fashioned outlook now. MS doesn't have, and probably will never again have, a monopoly on the browser environment; they have no choice but to be good web citizens.
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by JonoW 12y ago
Does anyone know what DRM/CDM it uses? I assume FairPlay, but cant find any info about it at all
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by JonoW 12y ago
A lot of people include Apple when talking about how the big companies are pushing EME, but Safari is now the only browser that hasn't announced support for it. I assume they'll eventually do it, but it's worth noting that Fi
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by JonoW 12y ago
One problem I'd like to see solved across platforms is the case when you click an app deep-link for an app you don't have installed. Currently we're having to do some crazy hacks so that a single link goes to the relevant app
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by JonoW 12y ago
Whilst I'm generally pro-TDD (and personally haven't seen or experienced any snobbery against folks who are not), I can see how test-first can seem grating to people. However, I would say TDD, a long with a more decoupled architec
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by JonoW 13y ago
I think they just need to separate out the tools from the libraries, within the SDKs, i.e. all libraries through NuGet, everything else can still be an Msi, as a dev will need things like emulators and VS tooling add-ins, but none of this i
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by JonoW 13y ago
Combining 2 devices into 1. This is useful for many people. While there are compromises with hybrids, sometimes the end result is good enough for people, e.g. camera phones.
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by JonoW 13y ago
RIP Madiba. As a South African this is a helluva sad day, but we knew it was coming. I think I was 10 when he was released, but I had never heard of him before, partly because of my age, partly because of the media gagging. I remember all t
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What it takes to run Stack Overflow(nickcraver.com)
36 points by JonoW 13y ago|9 comments
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by JonoW 13y ago
It can't top a table it's not in...
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by JonoW 13y ago
Just because you use c# doesn't mean your whole stack needs to be Microsoft. No reason why you could have Windows web-servers running asp.net/c#, but have postgres DB, nginx, memcache etc on linux. Azure seems to be actually encou
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by JonoW 13y ago
I'd be too nervous about renting into my old age. Who's to say the govt in 20-30 years time won't have a more capitalist outlook and allow rents to rise with rises in property prices and price you out of your home? I agree fo
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by JonoW 13y ago
This post is so hand-wavy and vague, it's hard to know what he's suggesting as an alternative. The last two paragraphs make no sense to me, can anyone translate?
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by JonoW 13y ago
Yeah I'm in London too, have seen a noticeable uptick in the number of Lumia's recently.
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by JonoW 13y ago
This is where I see the traditional PC headed. Many people think that MS and traditional PC makers are taking a risk by making convertible/dual-use devices, but Apple is also taking a risk by not doing it. If the market decides that ha
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by JonoW 13y ago
The free TV streaming service has been live for some time - www.clubcardtv.com . There's an Android app of course for the Hudl
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by JonoW 13y ago
Yup it's totally possible that WP will never crack the US, but as the non-US smartphone market is growing rapidly, I don't think success in the US is the be all and end all.
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by JonoW 13y ago
I'm not sure why so many are predicting WPs death - it's actually doing pretty well outside the US. Here in the UK it's now just under 10%. Pundits are far too US orientated.
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by JonoW 13y ago
Odd title, they've always been freely available, just bundled with the larger .Net framework
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by JonoW 13y ago
They launched Windows RT and regular Windows 8 the wrong way around. In 2-3 years time, when the Windows app store is more mature, Windows RT will make more sense so that people don't need desktop mode as a crutch. At that point they s
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by JonoW 13y ago
One welcome change is the "PC settings" one - sounds like all settings are "metrofied", which will help the reduce the jarring flip to desktop mode when you're not expecting it.
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by JonoW 13y ago
I think this is the crux of the issue - should the web be a general purpose platform? Or do we draw a line somewhere and say some tasks, like watching protected video isn't something it should be doing. Personally I think all video consumpt
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by JonoW 13y ago
I hear lots of objection to DRM in HTML but no alternatives. If EME is rejected and not added to the HTML spec, lets consider some alternatives: 1. Leave things as they are, so Flash and Silverlight limp along to serve DRMed content, and na

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