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by bnastic 11y ago
I'm in the opposite camp - having medium.com in the url substantially decreases the article's chances of ever being read by me.
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by bnastic 11y ago
Anecdotal evidence and total sample of one person using actively both platforms, but I don't find many (or any, so far) apps for Android that I would consider buying. I have downloaded roughly the same number of apps on both phones, bu
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by bnastic 11y ago
I always shy away from clever solutions that involve semantics that's not obvious to the reader. If something using this code lends on your lap you are going to spend hours tracking its source, figuring out what the author was trying t
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by bnastic 11y ago
It's sad that you need to justify using one of the most established and longest serving languages/platforms ever.
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by bnastic 11y ago
"Enterprise". E.g. you won't find a bank that doesn't run RedHat. RedHat is Linux for enterprise people.
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by bnastic 11y ago
My one-man-show consultancy pays far more than that in UK corporation tax. Of course that pisses me off, regardless of how you paint this whole tax avoidance scheme. Someone said that "paying tax is for poor", and this goes a long
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by bnastic 11y ago
This whole discussion would suggest that it wasn't a FUD, but a genuine concern. And still is.
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by bnastic 11y ago
There is no getting away from it with the new "retina" screens. You will use TTF fonts, antialiasing, and most certainly some compositing underneath it all. But I find that rxvt is quite speedy (in both Linux and OpenBSD) not to
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by bnastic 11y ago
Having a healthy 1-hour+ lunch is one of the things that French do very, very right. Esp. as they tend to eat in small places with home cooking. I wish we all did this.
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by bnastic 11y ago
I always wanted an e-ink phone, seems like a good idea, but £440 is quite far from an impulse buy as a second phone.
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by bnastic 11y ago
Jordan Hubbard mentions some of his reasoning behind going back to what he did at Apple (among other things) in this thread: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2015-Aug...
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by bnastic 11y ago
I always thought that Oracle was too expensive for pretty much everyone, but it says a lot when a Big Company dumps a Big Database vendor and moves to Oracle to save money.
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by bnastic 11y ago
Ah, debugging games... It screams desperation when you see code that is sprinkled with "int 3" 'cos no one knows where or why it's crashing.
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by bnastic 11y ago
So, if I, like many here I presume, built one of these time series databases long ago prior to this patent, and that "invention" is still active in real production systems, can I claim prior art?
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by bnastic 11y ago
Can confirm. Scala is picking up slowly in financial services (JVM heritage certainly helps)
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by bnastic 11y ago
I have a 4.5 as well. Not yet had a chance to look at the dev side of things, but for a typical phone user Ubuntu is very far from being ready for primetime. (Which I don't particularly mind, as I bought the phone for its hacking poten
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by bnastic 11y ago
Cute emoji in commit messages, along with this sort of achievement... OK, seriously, what is the Atom's raison d'être?
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by bnastic 11y ago
Wow, webmaster@... You don't see that email address often/ever anymore?
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by bnastic 12y ago
Well, that was an impulse purchase. "Delivered in 3-4 days", I've no idea what to expect.
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by bnastic 12y ago
O.T. but what the hell is a "Director Of Customer Success"?
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by bnastic 12y ago
Has anyone tried using this with an iPad + USB connection kit from Apple? How's the power draw? Most keyboards are hit & miss for me (Poker draws too much power, and so does HHKB 2 Pro. Older pre-shine Ducky on the other hand works
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by bnastic 12y ago
Quiz books, or more often - Brainbench
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by bnastic 12y ago
Whenever I see an article like this I remember that Fossil and Perforce exist. And then I forget about them the next day.
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by bnastic 12y ago
This depends on the industry, e.g. anyone doing anything remotely performance oriented is not touching Windows unless they have a legacy stack to maintain.
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by bnastic 12y ago
District line (and Hammersmith/Circle) already have these train. Aircon on full blast. It's everything I imagined it would be.
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by bnastic 12y ago
I am getting tired of this "modern" attribute (nothing against the parent comment) attached to everything in the new standard. There is nothing modern about the new features of C++11/14, yet the proponents of the "modern
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by bnastic 12y ago
I couldn't stand Basic even back then, and moved to assembler shortly after. I have various magazines to thank for that, as they started explaining (hex dump included!) how demos and intros by big European groups were made (scrolls, ra
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by bnastic 12y ago
Gamedev in the UK today is but a shadow of its former self.
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by bnastic 12y ago
Yeah, you would need to provide an explanation. Facebook's folly is the best, cleanest set of low-level c++ libs I've ever seen. The fact the something has been done in industry 'x' does not negate the value of this arti
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by bnastic 12y ago
Most of them are Amigas (2000), it seems

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