JonoW

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by JonoW 15y ago
My solution is little more lo-fi - I just have a bunch of rules in my hosts file to resolve urls of sites I waste too much time on (HN/twitter/engadget etc) to the wrong IP so I can actually concentrate. Sure I can just edit the hosts file,
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by JonoW 15y ago
I'm not sure your comparison with food safety is completely apt; This cookie law is the equalivant of being asked "Do you consent to the use of sodium benzoate in your food" before entering any restaurant. Most people will have no idea what
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by JonoW 15y ago
So what do you use then? (Honest question) I don't disagree with you about bloated middleware products, but you don't have to use them to use soap,xsd,xsl,xpath etc.
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by JonoW 15y ago
Some examples: XSD (Schema) - lets you describe the format of your XML document. Useful if you need to tell other parties about your format. You can use XSDs to programmatically validate that a given XML document is "correct" as per your sc
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by JonoW 15y ago
I find the whole JSON vs XML debate pretty tedious. Just use what ever is best for the job. If you just need a light-weight API that is only ever going to be REST orientated, then use JSON. If you're building a very complex Enterprise SOA s
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by JonoW 15y ago
On the speed front, I'm talking specifically about MSE (that I don't notice it's affect) - I've had bad experiences with Norton grinding my PC down, horrible invasive product that one! Can't comment on Mac v PC speed impact. I agree with yo
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by JonoW 15y ago
I run MSE, I barely notice it speed wise, and haven't had any malware or viruses. On your comment: > the proper solution is to have better security on the machine. Strongly disagree; if you look at this MacDefender issue, there is no fl
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by JonoW 15y ago
I think people buy phones more on manufacturer than anything else. I really don't think your average man on the street really cares whether their phone runs Android or WP7, to them they have a Samsung, an HTC or a Motorola. My friend got a
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by JonoW 15y ago
> In .NET, you have to install the WCF REST stack Well you don't have to. If I was just writing services to only return JSON to a web-page, I would just use ASP.NET MVC which has good built in support for this, e.g. public class MyCon
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by JonoW 15y ago
Database isn't relevant, there are .Net drivers for pretty much every popular database. Loads of .Net devs use MySql and Postgres, and using document databases like MongoDB is also an option now
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by JonoW 15y ago
You're really not considering the potential employee here. When interviewing for a job, unless the company is very well known, a Google or a Microsoft, a candidate will probably know relatively little of your company, and probably have no u
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by JonoW 15y ago
anti-trust, how so?
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by JonoW 15y ago
Ah sorry I see your distinction, I misread model 2), thought you were referring to gmail/facebook in model 1). Yeah if a company is tracking me which results in me gaining nothing and them gaining income, that is quite annoying, I'm not dis
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by JonoW 15y ago
> You track me to sell my data and to profit from the ads. I gain nothing Sure you do; you get to use Gmail and Facebook for free because they generate enough money from ads not to have to charge. I can understand that there people like
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by JonoW 15y ago
One thing I don't get is how a site-owner is meant to know what cookies a 3rd party may send. If I add a Facebook "like" button to my site, does FB send a cookie? What if they don't now but decide to later. And if FB does decide to use cook
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by JonoW 15y ago
> It's reminiscent of secret police behaviour with their networks of informants That's a bit of a stretch. Also I don't believe the vast majority of people care about an organisation generating a profile of your interests, otherwise ser
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by JonoW 15y ago
This seems like such a hugely expensive policy to enforce for what problem exactly?
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by JonoW 15y ago
Tin-foil hats at the ready!
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by JonoW 15y ago
I'm with you on this one. Fading scroll bars make sense on mobile devices because there is very limited screen real estate; we don't have the same issue on a desktop/laptop. I also like using the size of the scrollbar to figure out how much
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by JonoW 15y ago
As a bit of a finger in the air estimate from looking at job ads here, I would probably estimate that a London finance company will pay about 50% more than a "normal" company. Not sure what a starting salary would be, but I would bet it wou
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by JonoW 15y ago
What I find really iritating with Twitter and Facebook logins is that the rights an app asks for (e.g. post tweets, read DMs) is an all-or-nothing proposition. It should be more configurable at the point of login so that you can refuse to g
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by JonoW 16y ago
Yup I actually agree with you. This whole native argument for me means speed when compared to multi-platform browsers, so if that doesn't turn out to be true, then there isn't much value in saying it (and a bit embarressing for MS). My main
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by JonoW 16y ago
I don't really understand why everyone is getting so worked up about this. I take it as meaning that MS is going to implement IE10 with as much low level integration to the OS as possible, i.e. it can make efficiencies by not having to supp
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by JonoW 16y ago
LINQ is innovative because it brings a generic query language as a first-class citizen in the language. I.e. LINQ is more than just a library as they added syntax constructs for it.
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by JonoW 16y ago
I reckon the article title isn't really accurate, there isn't anything wrong or broken with asp.net deployment, it's just that there isn't a single, complete sanctioned product from Microsoft. I don't see this as a problem, I think using a
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by JonoW 16y ago
Interesting that this article is from 2006. Whats happened since then?
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by JonoW 16y ago
Ah yeah forgot about that. Maybe they should buy Apple Records :) Clear up all sorts of confusion in the process
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by JonoW 16y ago
I think Amazon and Apple should just start their own record label, save a fortune by cutting out the sleazy middle-men and give artists a much bigger % cut from albums to attract hoards of artists. Why wouldn't it work?
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by JonoW 16y ago
Interestingly, in the poll at the bottom of the article, 40% of 3800 people said they don't think tablets are here to stay. A lot higher than you would expect. Personally I think they are here to stay, although I think their value is a bit
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by JonoW 16y ago
Sure, if you have authenticated users, I'm talking about anonymous users

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