altitudinous

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by altitudinous 6y ago
Yes, it is OK. Any software is allowed to be shitty as long as it works. But then people always go out of their way to tell you how shitty it is. The type of immature dev people who hang about here on Hacker News TBH. I ignore the mails, th
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by altitudinous 6y ago
Melbourne has the same thing, except they gave each tree an email address so the public could send alerts about the trees condition. But instead they sent love letters and messages to each tree. Source : https://www.abc.net.au&#x
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by altitudinous 7y ago
Yes, they certainly can. Apple allows any apps notifications to be switched off at the OS level - it isn't optional. My users love the notifications though, and they commonly customise to get _more_ notifications. The reason it is 4 mo
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by altitudinous 7y ago
This really, really interests me as well, and I've written my iOS apps the same way too. They have no server side, no real dependencies, all client based and fully automated internally - so as well as being fully contained they schedul
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by altitudinous 7y ago
Don't enjoy that stuff, someone else can do this academic project.
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by altitudinous 7y ago
The language itself is trivial to learn, the environment COBOL is running in is usually the challenge. I really enjoy bug fixing existing software, and I enjoy learning about existing systems. As I said I am done with working for myself, an
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by altitudinous 7y ago
My first serious computer job (early 1990's) was COBOL. I last used it in 1997, then moved on to Oracle PL/SQL, Java, Oracle's Java software stacks and now iOS ObjC/Swift. Now I'm 52 years old. I have my own apps no
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by altitudinous 7y ago
The water effects in "Sea of Thieves" are extraordinary. I'm not a big game player, but am tempted to purchase just so I can watch the water.
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by altitudinous 7y ago
At some point those of us who worked on Y2K will be dead. This question will come up again, and there will be no-one left to prove it or defend it. At that point it will be come a giant conspiracy. I'll be happy to have been part of t
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by altitudinous 7y ago
A super long article to identify the really obvious? - People who grew up with Lego over time are now adults and still a market. - Lego can serve this new market as well as the original market which still exists.
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by altitudinous 7y ago
The quality was terrible at the initial release, but the issues I experienced then seem to have been resolved now. It should not have been released in the state it was in at the time.
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by altitudinous 7y ago
There are probably a dozen people looking into it right now - demand > supply = a good business, able to set price. The vinyl record supply will be back to normal in no time.
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by altitudinous 7y ago
You're describing every internal government system migration in the world :( Managers, subject matter experts and consultants are paid by the hour unfortunately, so the incentive is not to deliver the project, but to instead make it ta
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by altitudinous 7y ago
Well, at least if they paid a billion dollars they could have had an expectation that the app would work, and they could sue IBM if it didn't. Indeed at that $$$$$ they would have been ripped off though!! At $50k they certainly weren&#
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by altitudinous 7y ago
IP address inspection has been getting a large amount of attention recently. It is considered a privacy violation, yet it is required to determine location, so devs know which privacy laws apply. GDPR only applies in Europe, and CCPA only
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by altitudinous 7y ago
$50000 for a mission critical, scalable app? They got exactly what they paid for. I would have written an app that doesn't work for only $25000
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by altitudinous 7y ago
Do you have substantial experience with Oracle? or are you just blindly going on what everyone else says? There is no mention of outer joins in this thread, no mentions of the ability to minus results of one query from another which are b
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by altitudinous 7y ago
I miss my past Oracle career, I've diagnosed this "= NULL" rather than "IS NULL" in so many broken queries, slow queries because of the way Oracle indexing handles NULL. There is a lot of discussion in this thread a
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by altitudinous 7y ago
YES, UPVOTE SYSTEMS ARE POLARISING. Reddit, Facebook and this website are some of many with this issue. Leads to echo chambers, inability to see the opposing point of view as it is literally hidden. As a start point, higher karma should be
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by altitudinous 7y ago
An article written by a technologist. Only 1% use multitasking. Software is absolutely the strength. The extraordinary social impact of iPad on education, bringing technology and books to the masses, especially the non technical , educatio
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by altitudinous 7y ago
throw is being used as a replacement for goto.
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by altitudinous 7y ago
If Office 365 can use the Apple updater, so can Edge. Or they can do whatever Chrome does, it doesn't require admin rights. I don't think Microsoft can talk about secure and private and then require admin to install their software
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by altitudinous 7y ago
On MacOS it requires admin privilege to install. I am done with that after all the crap that previous software with admin rights installed. I cleaned it up and swore I would not install anything that required admin rights again - for my own
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by altitudinous 7y ago
I'm 52 many would consider my code a mess. Been a professional coder -> solution architect all my life, I work for me now with my own apps. With my own code I clean things up when I can, but sometimes it isn't worth it. I used
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by altitudinous 7y ago
The people who are voting don't care about debate on the internet, so theres no point in posting here. Also brigading is pretty regular on the internet, so if you are reading this you are lucky enough to have seen it on the way to it b
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by altitudinous 7y ago
Hmm, I've seen a depiction like this before, except around the base it was very green, very jungle like as the climate in the area was not desert like as it is now. Or perhaps the Nile was utilised differently. Very hard to tell. Our h
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by altitudinous 7y ago
Its all about execution and delivery. I'm pretty happy to have left the old days of corporate committee projects behind to do my own stuff. I'm also financially better off.
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by altitudinous 7y ago
Clickbait article, why is it here?
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by altitudinous 7y ago
Pro & screen is a great machine. I think that because people are talking about it it is already a success. They will sell a lot, because Ferrari sell a lot, Red cameras sell a lot. They won't sell one to me, because even though I a
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by altitudinous 7y ago
This is captain obvious stuff. You don't get a quality journalism experience unless someone is paying. So - a govt funded news website - e.g. the BBC - or a subscriber driven website. I subscribe to my local newspaper which has a grea

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