WickyNilliams

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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
Oops! It's not really a twist or anything, but yeah that was a bit of a faux pas. Pardon my stupidity!
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
I watched this last night, really good viewing. Especially poignant was the ending where the protagonist traded in his morals for a comfortable life and fame. It evoked feelings of disappointment that he was so cheaply bought off, the same
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
I owe him more than that, MVC is epic, and has pretty much fuelled my love for .NET. If it were scientifically possible (Arnie didn't really father a child in Junior, right?) I would have his baby. I'm nice like that. But alas he sought
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
This title is bit misleading, though reading through the comments on wired it seems the article may have said this at one point. I'm very happy he's not retiring, but not at all happy that he didn't divulge where I could get myself one of t
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
Edit: Sorry I think I misinterpreted your comment first time round, thought you were just a random person weighing in with an assuming comment. Still though you seem to have changed your tone slightly since your last comment. I didn't say I
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
Glad someone did! It's a work in progress - there are other parts to it, just felt that excerpt was particularly apt :) I agree that infrequent use is not worrisome, perhaps even beneficial - I always found when I was a less frequent user i
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
I've gone through periods of very high cannabis use, but recently i've massively reduced my intake. But i think its the frequency with which i smoke - everyday - that can be damaging in the way i described. It doesn't ruin my life: i won't
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
Wow, that's a thoroughly comprehensive response. I've never investigated tools like Cygwin or Tiny Core, but they sound like a great starting point. Incrementally is definitely how i want to learn Unix as there are so many radical paradigm
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
That's an interesting perspective that had never occurred to me. I'll be sure to take note of the subtleties of installation, the file system etc to see how this OS-as-IDE thing is manifested. To be perfectly honest, I'm not even familiar w
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
I'm not keen on Java as it's just another language with a C-style syntax, i want to have my mind blown and eyes opened. Plus after using .NET for so long, I don't think i can ever go back to the awkward namespaces and classes of the Java f
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
haha, didn't expect someone to drop the M-bomb! I really want to try new things, rather than just taking my skillset to a new OS, so i'll politely decline your suggestion. Thanks anyway
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
If you have a cursory understanding of JavaScript and it's syntax i highly recommend you check out some of Douglas Crockford's content: http://javascript.crockford.com/ . He is the man who invented the JSON format (if you don't know what t
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
I'll have a quick gander at Mint but at the moment i'm favouring Ubuntu, purely because i've had some experience with it. Excuse the elementary questions that follow, but i really am this ignorant to the whole Linux ecosystem! What stacks
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
Almost sounds like you're daring me to dive in head first! I expect I'll go with Ubuntu initially if only because I'm kind of familiar with it. That and I won't go into future shock by ditching my shiny GUI's straight away - my fear is if i
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
Haha no i'm perfectly content, i just wish to broaden my horizons. Basically it feels like i've only ever seen one side of the coin having been a windows developer since graduating (I had some experience with Linux during university), so i'
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Ask HN: Can you recommend a path to developing on linux?
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
You're quite right, i was in a bit of a rush writing that original comment so perhaps didn't elucidate enough. The point i tried to make was that the major damage that cannabis can do is to your ability to achieve, the consequence of whic
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
One drug that definitely doesn't help is cannabis. As a habitual smoker for over ten years I know this all too well. As of late I've started wondering whether the real damage of cannabis is not in it's health consequences but in it's abilit
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
100% concur here. I have an i7 w/ 8GB RAM and the site is very jerky FF7. Everytime i switch to it's tab FF hangs for at least a few seconds. The design is also very bus, way too much going on. That said, if the content is good enough, i ca
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by WickyNilliams 15y ago
That is not a better approach, there are issues with client-side caching if all resources are served over HTTPS. See http://encosia.com/cripple-the-google-cdns-caching-with-a-si...