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by andrewf 16y ago
Even if people think they've done everything right in theory, the code will never have run (let alone gone through QA) on models with different timing, and publishers wouldn't be keen on having to go back and fix flaws. Going back some year
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by andrewf 16y ago
Gosling doesn't sound surprised at all. It isn't clear whether the integration meetings Gosling referred to occurred before, or after, the Sun-Oracle deal was made. Whatever the case, I expect Gosling was asked to attend those meetings as a
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by andrewf 16y ago
That Apple pulled off the interface reboot is, I think, the most astounding thing about the iOS devices. You can't beat the PC for breadth, depth, and availability of specialised apps. They've been evolving for 30 years now. But when the iP
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by andrewf 16y ago
I don't think Postgres' "default config" is really the "recommended config." In particular, the default size of Postgres' buffer cache is small, to reduce footprint on non-dedicated servers, and to fit within most systems' default SysV IPC
575.
by andrewf 16y ago
According to http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 the current policy is a two-year release schedule, with the next release expected in Q1/2 2012.
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by andrewf 16y ago
Yeah, but Ubuntu's PR has always promoted the desktop (and laptop, and netbook..) They now talk about the server more than they used to, but ubuntu.com still gives the desktop a lot of emphasis. Meanwhile: * redhat.com's frontpage is devoid
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by andrewf 16y ago
I think Microsoft actually did a reasonable job with the "original" COM (ie OLE 2.0 - the stuff that let you put an Excel 95 spreadsheet into a Word 95 document). It had a bit too much bolted on, probably due to its origins in OLE, and I th
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by andrewf 16y ago
Arrow keys work fine in VIM, whether you're in insert mode or not. The argument for not using them is that it's less productive to use them than HJKL, because you need to move your hand back and forth between the home row and the arrow keys
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by andrewf 16y ago
Windows, IIRC, has a filesystem caching system which is distinct from VM.
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by andrewf 16y ago
Or you could say that the uninterrupted-call rate for the 3GS is around 99 in 100. So a decrease by another 1 in 100 reduces the uninterrupted-call rate by a tad over 1%. Double of very little is, usually, still very little.
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by andrewf 16y ago
Did you try a USB display adaptor on the Macbook? I ask because I've got a Mac mini and am semi-seriously contemplating a third monitor.
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by andrewf 16y ago
If you can imagine a stupid, pointless, wrong way to deal with network traffic, there is an appliance somewhere doing it. I once saw a significant uptick in users being unable to use an AJAX application because a developer "fixed" the RPC s
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by andrewf 16y ago
Australians tend to use a funny mishmash. Cars have boots (not the American trunks), but they're smaller than trucks (not the British lorries).
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by andrewf 16y ago
Does anyone know what percentage of Apple Inc's shares are held by California residents? I'm guessing that if Apple returned its nest egg to shareholders as a dividend, rather than investing it, California wouldn't see much out of it.
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by andrewf 16y ago
I suspect pot-friendly merchant services is also a profitable niche.
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by andrewf 16y ago
If you want to know how to do what jQuery is doing, then read the jQuery source.
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by andrewf 16y ago
Well it makes competitive Starcraft more exciting. (I kid!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ1IUQRTtNw#t=5m40s Anyone know if you can enable the vuvus with a query string?
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by andrewf 16y ago
ComputerWorld reckons there are only 51 better places to work :p http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/349873/No._52_Best_Pl...
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by andrewf 16y ago
We were in my last job. Never again if I can help it. The codebase was close to a decade old, and a lot of customers were subscribed via a recurring payment feature where our payment processor held their CC#. So transitioning away from eve
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by andrewf 16y ago
I don't store process or transmit any cardholder data on my premises, but rely entirely on third party services to handle these functions. Lots of people on this forum seem to misread this one. If cardholder data is POSTed to your server,
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by andrewf 16y ago
"Not storing" is a better situation than "not handling" but it doesn't get you off the hook.
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by andrewf 16y ago
With a few clicks, the Adobe AIR “badge” embedded on the app download page takes care of installing or updating to the right version of AIR if needed. You mean I still can't just give users an installer, but instead need to walk them th
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by andrewf 16y ago
Presumably they'd like the money coming in to blast past supported into the realm of profitable .
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by andrewf 16y ago
Since these workers don't pay for food, clothing, accommodation, or anything else in US dollars, it's not reasonable to look at their wage in US dollars. They're paid in local currency, and the result of multiplying that by the conversion r
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by andrewf 16y ago
The SR-71 Blackbird's engines were hybrids; AFAICT they didn't quite use this approach, but instead had a layout where the same engine could function as a conventional jet and a ramjet depending on how fast air was hitting it. http://en.wi
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by andrewf 16y ago
It might be the same story as the H.264 codec. Most Windows 7 users have it in the base Windows install - no need to download a codec. But the MediaPlayer-less versions of Windows that the EU mandated MS produced don't ship with H.264. htt
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Microsoft compares IE6 to nine-year-old milk(microsoft.com)
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by andrewf 16y ago
Lots of vendors are also MS resellers and will turn a profit by selling their client all the Windows and SQL Server licenses they'll need to run the provided solution.
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by andrewf 16y ago
If credit card data is going to pass through the device, anti-virus software is mandated by PCI-DSS.
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by andrewf 16y ago
Hackers working for Google, Red Hat and Novell aren't setting their day to day priorities around increasing Linux adoption. They're interested in making money for Google, Red Hat and Novell.

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