SteveMoody73

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by SteveMoody73 5y ago
I know the main issue with Windows here on HN is usually around the telemetry that Microsoft collects but I don't have an issue with that. Windows 10 for me has been a rock solid OS for years. I think I've had 2 bluescreen issues
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by SteveMoody73 5y ago
Back around 1999 I worked for a company and one of the jobs we had was to replace a financial data entry system which was written in BASIC and run on an aging mini comupter. Access to it was done via a terminal and it was a text based inter
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by SteveMoody73 5y ago
I don't release much open source code, most of the code I work on can't be released publically. The code I do release is probably not that useful to many and in most cases is something i've written for personal use primaraly.
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by SteveMoody73 6y ago
I agree that age doesn't mean experience. I work in a company with a small development team and we're all around the same age group with no young programmers. In thios group we have a programmer in his early 40s, who has been prog
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by SteveMoody73 6y ago
I'm using OneDrive, mainly because I'm paying for office anyway. I was a dropbox user for a long time but once they kept pushing features I had no interest in I decided to switch.
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by SteveMoody73 6y ago
GMail has gone downhill massivly since it first started. I Can read the entire contents of a mail and go back to inbox and it still shows the email as unread. Closing the gmail tab usually comes up with a prompt saying it's busy and am
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by SteveMoody73 7y ago
For me I would say it's fault finding. Releasing software is easy but finding the sometimes very obscure issues that crop up once released is always a challenge, especially when bug reports are not always the most detailed. When dealin
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by SteveMoody73 7y ago
Tera term is what i tend to use. https://ttssh2.osdn.jp/
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by SteveMoody73 7y ago
I work in an open office with about 30 people in it and find it unbarable on times. I have some good noise cancelling headphones that help sometimes but I can't wear them for too long a period before they start getting uncomfortable.
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by SteveMoody73 7y ago
I've been on the Moto G range for a couple of yeras now. I don't know if it's running on 32 bit or not as i don't use the phone for much more than messaging, browsing and some light gaming. As a budget phone i can't
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by SteveMoody73 7y ago
Same here, have placed hundreds of orders on Amazon UK in the last few years and have never really had any problems. The rare few times i've had problems then a call to customer support has usually had the issue resolved right away and
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by SteveMoody73 7y ago
The ALT-f-s option still works in a lot of windows software now. Microsoft Office will even overlay the letter of the keypress on top of the menu item.
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by SteveMoody73 7y ago
Interesting idea but how maintainable is the code? I've used a few tools over the years that automatically generate code, mostly in C, but I've usually had to rewrite it as it never fits in with any decent coding standard
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by SteveMoody73 8y ago
I remember the painfully long compile times. Delphi compiled in seconds where a medium sized C++ app we developed would take about 20 minutes for a build.
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by SteveMoody73 9y ago
Have you seen reMarkable? Doesn't seem to have a browser from what I can see but more capable than a kindle. https://remarkable.com/
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by SteveMoody73 9y ago
Just looked and there's an add content option in the bottom left corner that if you click on that and select Publications and Blogs gives you an option to add a URL. I've not really seen any sponsored content other than the occasi
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by SteveMoody73 9y ago
And in the case of DVDs playing ads that can't be skipped and a warning about piracy that would actually make the pirated version so much more pleasant to watch to the viewer. One of the reasons I've not bought a DVD in years and
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by SteveMoody73 10y ago
If the list is for all development work then i must be doing something wrong. I only use 5 of the listed "tools". Github, Gitlab, Vim, Python and Sublime Text. These top lists lately always seem to focus on web development and see
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by SteveMoody73 10y ago
Or change the preferences so the function keys work as expected and you have to use the fn key to access the media options. I probably use the function keys 100x more often than the media ones.
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by SteveMoody73 11y ago
CVs that I've been sent recently by recruitment agencies have been heavily edited to remove any direct contact details then add their own company headers to it anyway. I assume that's why they want it in word format. Even if you m
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by SteveMoody73 11y ago
I work mainly on embedded systems and i would much rather work with a different CPU but stuck with the hardware we have. The compiler I use does have an embedded c++ option but it's limited and has some issues working with the RTOS tha
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by SteveMoody73 11y ago
Datatypes were a very cool feature, not just a simple API. For an application to be able to support new format be it an image, video, spreadsheet, document or anything the application has to be updated to use a library or to add native supp
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by SteveMoody73 11y ago
I've noticed that OS X seems to flag a USB drive as needing to be scanned until it is ejected. More than once I've copied files off a USB device and unplugged without ejecting and as soon as it's plugged into windows it comes
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by SteveMoody73 11y ago
The only one I've tried is the mbed development tools. Easy to import libraries and built in version control. I'm not sure how good it would be for a big project but it's been a pleasant experience with the few small programs
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by SteveMoody73 12y ago
Calling it an Ad blocker is misleading as well. More Ad replacement. "PrivDog - a tool designed to block ads and replace them with ones from "trusted sources" - joins a growing list of software affected by related security fl
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by SteveMoody73 12y ago
I remember that on the Amiga, it was fun to watch it rendering the landscape
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by SteveMoody73 12y ago
As far as i'm aware PSD was never supposed to be a portable format. I believe Adobe did release some limited information on the format in the past and that's why there's a lot of apps that can read and write the format. It&#x
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by SteveMoody73 12y ago
I've had a few electronics datasheets that have cause PDF.js to fail on or run slowly but in the main i've found that it works perfectly well. For the ones that do fail it's easy enough to download them and open them up in a
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by SteveMoody73 12y ago
I work in an open office and while I don't get too many interruptions with people coming up and distracting me, the office tends to be very noisy on times and it does interfere with concentration. I've seen suggestions for good no
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by SteveMoody73 12y ago
I would love to get anything near 40Mbps. My broadband speed recently dropped from 2.2Mbps down to 1.6Mbps and BT basically said that it was still an acceptable speed for my area and only way I could get a faster speed was switch to fibre.

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