andrewf

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by andrewf 18y ago
That the users even know something is an AIR app is an indication as to how broken that install process is. Compare with VB6 / Delphi / Qt / MFC - users who aren't themselves developers never had a clue. Just this week, the Paint.NET folks
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by andrewf 18y ago
The key to really getting this for me was: You may also want to remember that it is the barycenter of the Earth-Moon system that moves in an ellipse around the Sun, and that the orbits of both the Earth and the Moon are perturbations of th
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by andrewf 18y ago
People will always react angrily to pricing increases. About the only way to alleviate it is to weight yourself down with support for users on grandfathered/legacy schemes, and announce changes with enough notice to people to buy up at the
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by andrewf 18y ago
Someone was going to make it irrelevant. And .NET doesn't run on Solaris.
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by andrewf 18y ago
Have you considered supporting third party "packaging" formats for Windows? Some companies, for instance, have already done the work to package up their product for U3.
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by andrewf 18y ago
I don't see how firing someone after they've left their previous job behind is better for either the employer or the employee.
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by andrewf 18y ago
How about going the other way around? Hacker News: available every night from 7pm to 9pm central. Like TV!
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by andrewf 18y ago
The DMCA has certain requirements about taking stuff down in response to a claim. There is also a provision for restoring content in the event of a counterclaim. All of this was designed in the context of copyright infringement by a third p
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by andrewf 18y ago
Most banks will have a standard policy, and you should be able to dig it out of their sales guys.
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by andrewf 18y ago
AFAIK, if you're not doing loads (well into six figures) of transactions, you don't need to get external auditors in. But there's a lot of work in figuring out what is required, and the penalties for screwing up are severe, so you may wan
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by andrewf 18y ago
I don't know where you're getting several hundred dollars/mo from. Customers obviously need to consent to the recurring billing upfront, but I'm not aware of requirements more onerous than those imposed by the credit card companies.
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by andrewf 18y ago
Paypal has a load of services for billing credit cards and sending money to a merchant account; they purchased Verisign's online payments business a while back. Presumably that's what's being discussed here.
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by andrewf 18y ago
I think even if you convinced the Government this filter was a bad idea, they'd string it out for as long as possible to keep Senators Xenophon and Fielding on side. For non-Aussies: The Government, who holds power Australia's House of Repr
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by andrewf 18y ago
That was the theory, but it's not the way things are anymore. A whole load of stuff is being released Intel-only now. The newest PowerPC machines are now two years old, so if you're releasing something that needs a this-generation machine t
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by andrewf 18y ago
That interview incident has always seemed at odds with a subsequent book by the reporter - http://www.amazon.com/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Generation-Micr... - which is quite a sympathetic view of the Windows NT deathmarch.
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by andrewf 18y ago
andrew-desktop:~/x> svnadmin create ~/repo/x andrew-desktop:~/x> svn import file:///home/andrew/repo/x/trunk Adding y Adding y/example.yy Adding example.txt Committed revision 1. Sure, it
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by andrewf 18y ago
I don't have numbers on hand, but I've seen them improve with something like http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/windows/download... (beware the download starts automatically) that informs users upfront about the installation pro
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by andrewf 18y ago
If past PHP trends are any indication.. PHP 6: "\" is an awesome new feature that makes web development more approachable. PHP 7: "\" is an awful idea, avoided by the clueful and widely denounced. You can disable it in php.ini, but that's n
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by andrewf 18y ago
Sounds like the powers that be in your situation could corrupt any system.
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by andrewf 18y ago
I just saw hardline REST create some problems and solve none.
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by andrewf 18y ago
The prospect of hiring someone who can't do the job well is terrifying. Job interviews are about allaying this fear.
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by andrewf 18y ago
I dabbled away, then followed the prompt :To save your drawings, log in or sign up". After signing up I was returned to /main, with a blank slate and no drawings down the left hand side. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-
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by andrewf 18y ago
I agree that the database will be the bottleneck, and would suggest: (1) Look at bunching your insertions into appropriately sized transactions. You don't want transactions to be too small (you spend most of your time waiting for tiny write
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by andrewf 18y ago
Novell's Michael Meeks is a rather overtly Christian hacker. (I won't name them, because I don't think they're "out") I'm an atheist, and that's incredibly depressing :/
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by andrewf 18y ago
Volunteer time/interest.. not enough people want to scratch the itch. The need for multiple binaries - (OS X 10.4/10.5) x (PowerPC/Intel) x (32/64 bit, maybe) - is also a pain. You can cross build, and you can munge multiple builds into a "
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by andrewf 18y ago
Is there a way to actually search for radio stations by name?
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by andrewf 18y ago
Play is probably per-station. Seems to work fine for me in .au.
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by andrewf 18y ago
Not to contradict your overall point, but because you might find it useful - you can supposedly run OS X Server inside VMWare Fusion (itself running on top of OS X).
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by andrewf 18y ago
Some background: there is a "rental crisis" in Australia, attributed to an economic boom which means: - young people with skills in high demand are cashed up and moving out of home earlier - there's a load of skilled and semi-skilled migran
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by andrewf 18y ago
Risks are borne by owners, not employees. AIG shares are in the crapper and now the government is taking 80%. The owners are being punished.

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