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by bwarp 15y ago
USB CD drive. TBH we lost the little restore stick in the sofa!
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by bwarp 15y ago
I don't get it. The problem is solved. Here in London, if you leave anything lying around it'll get nicked regardless of the security device. The common wisdom is to take the bike inside (if you have fancy LED/halogen setup) or just have a
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by bwarp 15y ago
I think the OP is saying "don't fuck with the government or you will end up gone"
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by bwarp 15y ago
It's only integrated if you use it in the way that Apple expect you to. Otherwise, the coupling and integration between the applications is horrible. And yes I know about Automator.
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by bwarp 15y ago
And us corporate solution architects tend to use ArgoUML if we have to delve into that crud. VS Express is actually pretty much fine for 90% of development work. If you are in a TDD environment, you don't even need the unit test stuff as NU
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by bwarp 15y ago
You are probably right. I prefer an additive process i.e. install what I want from a clean install. Every time I grab a Mac, I have to remove all the crap from it (Garageband, iPhoto etc). It's easier to drop the restore CD in and reinstall
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by bwarp 15y ago
Sorry that was a "sarcastic" intent of the post i.e. to do the comparison as per Mac users do usually on here. In actual fact I sit in front of a Linux machine neatly occupying the neutral zone :-)
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by bwarp 15y ago
Nothing exciting. Let me quantify this before I get shot by the Apple fanboys. I'm not a Microsoft fanboy either but I am not buying the hype and feature sheet. Example: 1. iCloud. Have Windows Live ID and Live Mesh integration in windows f
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by bwarp 15y ago
Buy it second hand from Amazon - they are much cheaper! ($17) +1 for the book recommendation - I also have a copy of that.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I've revised my original comment now. Thank you.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Good argument, one which I support completely.
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by bwarp 15y ago
A description of a language in another.
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by bwarp 15y ago
That's all fine and dandy but after time, people tend to stop inviting you if you are assertive and only invite people who will blindly support their ideas.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I have found that meetings are where people who "can't" congregate in great numbers to tell those who "can" how to do stuff wrongly.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I'm suspicious of ANOTHER language. There are too many already. Regulation XKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/
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by bwarp 15y ago
I wouldn't even go there. I worked on an ecommerce project in the early 00's which compiled a high level turing complete DSL (not that far from LISP TBH) to XML and then used a virtual machine written in Java to run the XML. I've never seen
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by bwarp 15y ago
I get the feeling this will go the way of Plan 9 i.e. its only flaw is that it was trying to replace something very entrenched that was "good enough". I really like Wayland and would like to see it succeed though.
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by bwarp 15y ago
That video is a fallacy. I see where Apple's marketing started now. As per everyone else back then, we wrote pretty much everything in Perl and occasionally C when Perl hit a bottleneck. GUIs were built in Tk, not in OpenLook. Still far eas
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by bwarp 15y ago
Google for "macbook fire" and look at Google images for some other unlucky ones. Yes you are lucky because you spilled from the top which it's obviously at least slightly better at handling. If the base gets even slightly wet, boom.
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by bwarp 15y ago
A "tagged union" which is what I assume you mean is usually abstracted as a native type (struct) in other langauges (Go included). C gives you architecture level access to it. Go leaves it to the VM to decide.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I agree there - the real issue is the spill. However, there is no excuse not to design something with safety in mind. If you look at the base, the edge rim of it is where it seeped in and sat in the curved section like a pool when oriented
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by bwarp 15y ago
Thanks for posting this. I'd completely forgotten about it. Good luck to all involved. It's nice to see a proper engineering project being tested, hopefully not to destruction!
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by bwarp 15y ago
Good for you. You must have been a lucky one.
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by bwarp 15y ago
The battery is ok for direct exposure to water as it's well sealed but as you say the power output from them in short circuit is immense which results in fires if you can't isolate the supply. Water + high current = interesting :)
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by bwarp 15y ago
No hyperbole. The design is simply dangerous. One glass of water on the desk (not in the machine!). Capillary action sucked water around the seal on the base. It was turned over to remove the battery and the sucked up water rained on the lo
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by bwarp 15y ago
I've used similar lines and had to play dodge the beer bottle. Good for you :)
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by bwarp 15y ago
I've had a few Apple machines over the years (mainly as test machines and toys). I've had two MacBooks, one MacBook Pro, an iMac and a couple of Mac Minis. I have nothing now other than a cheap second hand desktop PC (and some cash in pocke
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by bwarp 15y ago
I actually thought that to start with but when you get used to the frankly wierd type system, it actually works extremely well without generics (bear in mind I use C# which is heavily generic programming). When you approach the problems wit
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by bwarp 15y ago
Considering our org chucks way over $5k a month at salesfarce, I reckon dynamics CRM would be cheaper... Oh and don't get me started on Atlassian's products. They are hideously expensive when you hit 90 users. SaaS is fine for a couple of u
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by bwarp 15y ago
Fantastic. I was hoping Makefiles would go away. I hate writing them! More detailed info here: http://weekly.golang.org/doc/go1.html

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