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by bnastic 12y ago
Just as a counterweight to inevitable moaning about UK broadband - I am very happy with what I'm getting from Virgin Media. Rock solid, no traffic shaping, 120Mbit line for not much money is not bad at all. I was happy before as well,
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by bnastic 12y ago
Neither does it work under OSX 10.8 + Safari 6. I'm used to games asking for latest&gratest in everything, but a website?
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by bnastic 12y ago
Life of a programmer in investment banking can be much better in pretty much every respect compared to your typical internet startup (pay, working hours, availability of "toys" and exposure to new tech, etc.). If you're thi
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by bnastic 12y ago
Apparently, we're now calling it a "challenge". "Job" was getting a bit stale so we changed it.
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by bnastic 13y ago
Looking forward to seeing Mickey Mouse in the public domain in a few years?
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by bnastic 13y ago
Are they hoping to create Visual Basic for the new generation? Microsoft can only hope to make this as popular as VB was some 15-20 years ago.
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by bnastic 13y ago
Most debit/credit cards in the UK are now contactless, and the number of retailers deploying contactless card readers seems to be steadily increasing. It is easy and convenient, I see no need for NFC as it stands right now.
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by bnastic 13y ago
Apple really dropped the ball with multi monitor support since introducing the full screen mode. Seems like they have their sight squarely on laptops (with no external monitors) where it works really well (with swipe gestures etc.). NFS iss
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by bnastic 13y ago
Amiga 2000 (mostly) + NewTek Video Toaster[1] were the driving force behind the TV graphics back then. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster
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by bnastic 13y ago
You paid for the software that now resides on your phone. Have they deleted it from your phone and you have to buy the new version?
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by bnastic 13y ago
Fwiw, the same happens on my old Thinkpad x200. Remove the battery and the CPU drops to 800Mhz.
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by bnastic 13y ago
Unfortunatelly, so few people, even on this board, understand this. And the whole "artists should be poor and art should be free" idea expressed here many times is all that taken to extreme.
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by bnastic 13y ago
Three got a little bit better - no roaming charges whatsoever in a number of European countries (i.e. no data cap on my plan). It was really handy to not have to worry about loading google maps and local websites while out and about in Ital
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by bnastic 13y ago
Bluetooth keyboard does wonders for iPad. It's quite a comfortable environment for emails, text editing, etc. My old retina iPad did quite well as an occasional SSH terminal.
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by bnastic 13y ago
Price aside, I don't see this replacing my 11" MB Air any time soon.
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by bnastic 13y ago
"probably one of the most significant" is what the parent said - how do you disagree with that?
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by bnastic 13y ago
The whole size_type <-> size_t malarkey is thanks to STL's gremlins, but that's beyond the point. Every compiler nowadays will emit a warning about comparing/assigning signed and unsigned integers (that can be promoted
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by bnastic 13y ago
I don't get this... Is he teaching a language he himself doesn't quite understand? (I don't know the author). Or is he complaining that C++ is difficult and that it should be something it clearly isn't. Implicit conversi
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by bnastic 13y ago
Unfortunately, what you list as required recording equipment is barely enough for a demo, let alone finished track. A good recording mic for vocals is about £2K, good converters will set you back as much. >> Also the advice on recordi
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by bnastic 13y ago
High end PC cases are mostly rubbish. I've had many of them, I've built many workstations over the years. None of them compare favourably to the (original) Mac Pro case. There has been very little "innovation" in that ma
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by bnastic 13y ago
Ah, London... The City is all covered in Blackberries, as expected.
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by bnastic 13y ago
> Thunderbolt 2 is nice but its a poor substitute for internal drive bays and 16x PCIe. Why, exactly? I don't know how many lanes will be in the Thunderbolt2 (haven't checked the specs), but I have a Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID st
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by bnastic 13y ago
Sorry, but that's not 'typical' at all. At least not for investment banks. It's true that Python is used (when used) only for peripheral tasks, but there is a reason for that. Number of Linux vs. Windows shops in the City is about even. Ban
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by bnastic 14y ago
No, it's very clearly and visibly not, don't kid yourself. I have a 17" MBP and I compared them side by side.
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by bnastic 14y ago
Why is this even on HN? People here are smart enough to known what spreading is and what it does.
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by bnastic 14y ago
I have hurt my nose before with a hardcover book. Clearly, those things should never be printed. That's supposed to be the reason to go for one or the other - nap-friendliness? People are becoming ridiculously spoiled.
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by bnastic 14y ago
A lot of professional sound studio gear is still being made in the UK and the US (and has always been. Studio types are very picky about the origin of the gear they are using).
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by bnastic 14y ago
What a terrible article, terribly written. "We all hate our banks", said in a casual tone, makes for some great reporting.
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by bnastic 15y ago
Splitting objects into components and pursuing a more data-oriented design is absolutely the way to go. However, if you're not very careful this approach won't scale past mobile games with a few dozen objects - too many iterations to update
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by bnastic 15y ago
This written by the same person who did the infamous piece on "dull companies" recently? Why is she still allowed to write when, again, the ignorance (arrogance?) prevails?

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