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by bartread 5y ago
> channel stuffing I'm slightly confused, and forgive my ignorance: how do you channel stuff software ? I mean, granted this is 2009 - 2011, but even back then were Autonomy really selling software as a physically packaged good, or
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by bartread 5y ago
I think this is a really unfair comment. Excel is a very powerful tool. It's great for financial modelling and prototyping, for example. It can be great for testing out different scenarios and investigating likely outcomes. It's a
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by bartread 5y ago
It's relevant to HP and their shareholders, and it's relevant because there is an ongoing civil case in the UK, which makes this situation on criminal charges in the US more interesting and unusual, and finally it's foundatio
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by bartread 5y ago
> But Dr Lynch has argued that HP used the allegations to cover up its own mismanagement of Autonomy after the 2011 deal. I have no comment to make on Mike Lynch's guilt or innocence in this matter, because I simply don't know
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by bartread 5y ago
In fairness though, most double doors aren't spring loaded like those idiotic saloon doors are so wouldn't hit people in the face in quite such violent fashion.
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by bartread 5y ago
This is an interesting perspective. I would still argue that you need the hands on experience, and I cannot emphasise the immediacy and satisfaction of using physical controls enough. In my other comment I suggested that you won't find
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by bartread 5y ago
^^^ Underrated comment. There really is no substitute here for hands on experience. I got back into making music during the pandemic, partly as a deliberate choice where I turned my formerly chaotic and cluttered office/music room into
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by bartread 5y ago
> if “looked through social media posts of my partner with their ex” is stalking then there are a lot of stalkers out there in the world in new relationships. Most of them don't wildly profit from what their partners might possibly
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by bartread 5y ago
> “died suddenly” which sounds like code for suicide to me. That's a pretty big assumption. You have no idea why or how Charles died. The only thing you know is it was sudden. There are plenty of non-suicide reasons that young(ish)
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by bartread 5y ago
You have to be kidding? Literally nobody here is claiming that their knowledge is above-intermediary level. How is it that you're misinterpreting what people are actually saying so badly? Are you doing so deliberately? Do you not p
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by bartread 5y ago
Not a fan of cooking != doesn't cook I'm not really a fan of cooking either but I still do it most days. It is possible to know something about a thing, have experience of a thing, have some useful insight into tools that are usef
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by bartread 5y ago
They're more talked about because a lot of us have worked places where we've invested months or years into developing products that... nobody bought or used. That gets pretty soul destroying too. If that's not been your exper
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by bartread 5y ago
Well, the post I was responding to actually said that they thought these OSS products were at least as good as comparable commercial offerings which, in the case of LibreOffice, is entirely untrue. That's not to say when LibreOffice is
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by bartread 5y ago
Lots of us did "boycott" Microsoft when we chose not to buy Windows phones in the first place. I thought they were nice devices but, after the iPhone came along, followed by the explosion in Android devices, and between them the
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by bartread 5y ago
Sorry, but LibreOffice remains a pale shadow of Microsoft Office. For personal use, I'd take it over Google Docs, but not Office. And Office is actually pretty inexpensive for a personal license. Also, you might moan about cloud lock-i
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by bartread 5y ago
Pfft. It doesn't matter how honest a signal of intelligence bullshit generation is because if you apply a substantial amount of your supposed intelligence toward creating bullshit on a regular basis then, at best, you are not useful. A
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by bartread 5y ago
Ha! Well, I think a lot of people copy code from StackOverflow verbatim once at least - including me. Of course it turned out the code I'd blindly inserted into my project contained a number of bugs. In one or two cases, quite serious
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by bartread 5y ago
Years ago, in a former life, I built a project boilerplate that included all the non-development tasks required to build and ship a new version of a product that I used to build out all my project plans. There's all this (important) &q
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by bartread 5y ago
I've never enjoyed standing at the bar waiting to order, not even as an underage teen when going to a pub or club was a shiny new experience. Never. And especially not when it's busy. (If I never again experience standing 10 deep
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by bartread 5y ago
It's all well and good but (a) they're expensive to buy and maintain, and (b) whilst UK charging infra might be good enough to get you there on a long journey, it's nowhere near good enough to do so in predictable time (which
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by bartread 5y ago
I like this but it would be even more fun if it displayed the IUPAC names of the chemicals it generated because they would be absolutely ludicrous.
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by bartread 5y ago
> The question is: by whom? I do feel similarly, even though I wouldn't classify myself as a great engineer. I've been writing concurrent software in managed languages, such as Java and C#[0], from the very beginning of my care
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by bartread 5y ago
> Sorry, that is a bit over the top. It really isn't. I've been spending a lot of time doing home improvements and have often been frustrated by how difficult it is to get past marketing and spun content to find the information
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by bartread 5y ago
For anyone who's curious but not enough to actually run the search themselves, the top results (using the string without quotes) all relate to how many raccoons can fit into a human anus. No, I am not joking, and this is the result of
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by bartread 5y ago
I'd still crack it open and blow out the dust: you might be surprised by the results.
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by bartread 5y ago
The 386 was a full 32-bit processor: the 386SX was a cheaper variant with a 16-bit data bus. In that sense the SX wasn't a million miles removed from the 68000 and 68010 processors, which similarly operated with 16-bit data buses. You
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by bartread 5y ago
I'm not massively into the whole black bar thing (though I don't in any way object to it) but, because he is part of the story of tech (certainly in the 80s and 90s), and out of a sense of consistency if nothing else, since HN has
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by bartread 5y ago
Serious question: how long have you had the machine? If it's more than a year or two you might want to consider opening it up and blowing out all the dust and fluff. I have a 2015 model that runs it just fine, but would really have str
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by bartread 5y ago
It's definitely an interesting demo and certainly not the first time a less obvious (i.e., imperative) language has been used in game dev: just today on a separate discussion people were talking about use of GOAL (a compiled dialect of
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by bartread 5y ago
Oh, sure, but I did point that out. I'm suspicious of React but open enough to realise the cause could be any number of other things.

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