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by bananas 12y ago
Get them to mark it as a gift and a value of €1. I've had tonnes of stuff get through doing that without any import duty added :)
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by bananas 12y ago
Engineer and architect of large enterprise products here (2 million line Java/C# behemoths that do all sorts of weird and complicated financial shit). Reality is actually as follows. Not joking I've done this job for 15 years and
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by bananas 12y ago
It's our DC not broadband connection. We have several peers in the DC but not all are IPv6 and the level of competence is "variable". We had some techs not able to understand IPv6 even from a basic level and one peer screw up
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by bananas 12y ago
We've been IPv6 entirely for about 3 years internally. Externally our peering is shit and they don't do IPv6 competently at all. We run Windows and Linux machines. My ISP (Andrews and Arnold) in the UK give us IPv6.
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by bananas 12y ago
Possibly right but I don't see how a piece of hardware that is pretty much glued together (as of recent MBA and MBPs) is going to survive that long to be honest.
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by bananas 12y ago
I haven't found one I like yet. However after a few years of hand holding by visual studio I'm less inclined to deal with one as they are complicated and require a lot more maintenance than a basic text editor. So vim it is for me
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by bananas 12y ago
I was mocking the consumer perspective but obviously HN is too sensitive... Not sure I trust Apple with longevity. Windows XP from 2002 just hit the dust and I've got a decade out of RHEL. For something from 2007 to be a write off is n
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by bananas 12y ago
The only thing that puts me off Stash is that I'm a part time JIRA, Fisheye, Crucible admin (on site ~ 250 users) and my word both those things make me cry at least once a week with problems. If it's not dealing with the licensing
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by bananas 12y ago
That your computer is so old that you no longer look hip in Starbucks. Plastic MacBooks are so noughties!
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by bananas 12y ago
At least it does load. A lot of sites fall over on a good HN'ing.
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by bananas 12y ago
You'll be pleased to know that the work item side of Team Foundation appears to be based on SharePoint and they're heavily marketing that at the moment. Kill me now.
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by bananas 12y ago
I took me a while to realise it but yes you are 100% right. A few years ago I played with SharePoint for a bit and found some good use cases for it. Decided I'd throw some code together that I could wire into it and sell. There was a d
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by bananas 12y ago
Ha you haven't seen the piece of shit that is HP/CoCreate WorkManager then. Not joking but sharepoint is Jesus' sandals compared to that turd. SharePoint is also at very least 20 times cheaper because you don't need a fu
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by bananas 12y ago
Either way the flat compile time is not important to me even on projects of this size. Most of it is probably going to be linking the .o files on dev builds which is considerably quicker than a full compile cycle. For CI builds ~ 10 mins is
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by bananas 12y ago
Nope. They're entirely air gapped. If they found a hole that was a problem they could get it fixed.
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by bananas 12y ago
The MoD still has an agreement with Microsoft to support windows NT4 in a small list of places until 2025 I understand as well. With enough money anything can live forever (apart from humans - yet).
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by bananas 12y ago
Well I disagree. Whilst it's a natural choice for portability, when you port to a proprietary platform such as windows you lose a lot of the support and portability guarantees that POSIX gives you and the calling conventions and standa
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by bananas 12y ago
I'd hope that I speak for the majority here when I say that OpenSSL has had its chance. This is the beauty of open source, nothing more. We can take this and make it better.
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by bananas 12y ago
Probably none. Windows has its own CSP library which is a little more convenient in a win32 context than OpenSSL or anything POSIX TBH. I think they're doing the right thing here.
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by bananas 12y ago
I really want less software to manage my stuff so I'll pass on that.
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by bananas 12y ago
I've just spent a couple of weeks "unclouding" everything due to a number of problems like this. I was using OneDrive (the consumer one) with an Office 365 Home sub for doing basic personal finance spreadsheets and it decided
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by bananas 12y ago
Spot on. I agree. I really miss the old Trinitron that this Bravia replaced. I hung onto that unit for nearly a decade and it never skipped a beat.
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by bananas 12y ago
I actually ordered one from Amazon yesterday so yes that's a reasonable solution however I'd prefer the devices to work as intended!
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by bananas 12y ago
Spot on. I'm currently arguing with a retailer over a Toshiba television which can't play mp4 files reliably. It crashed and hangs regularly. They want to send it for repair because to be honest they are fucking morons and however
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by bananas 12y ago
It's a technology demonstrator for a proprietary internal research project. They don't have to publish anything if they're going to use it themselves.
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by bananas 12y ago
Past the Wired junk, there is some good dexterity progress here. They'll get there one day with the amount of dedication that has gone into the project. I'd kill to work on a project like that. However I wish they'd put some
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by bananas 12y ago
Avoiding tax is not illegal. Most business do this even by paying dividends versus salary for example. Evading tax is. He was avoiding tax.
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by bananas 12y ago
If you fancy going out, this works pretty well. I tried it on my router: http://www.nickkusters.com/Services/Thomson-SpeedTouch Yes - default WiFi passwords for a big chunk of the routers in Europe are pretty easy to c
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by bananas 12y ago
As someone who was under investigation a few years ago by the HMRC who thought I was doing something naughty, which I wasn't, absolutely no flipping way. Tax is one of the few areas in which you are morally and legally guilty until pro
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by bananas 12y ago
Here we go again. Probably some greedy fuck of a civil servant (probably one of Cameron's ex-Eton buddies or friendly conservative slime like Guake) working out how to sell out our infrastructure to industry and make a larger bonus thi

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