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by cawhitworth 14y ago
I'm not sure why this is Microsoft's fault as opposed to the developer's. Exactly the same kind of techniques have been used for years on desktop applications/games. (and, y'know, you could pay for stuff that you like using, feed a develope
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by cawhitworth 14y ago
I made the same decision when we moved to Cambridge (UK). It's a really, really big cycling town and there's a noticable drop off in property prices once you go beyond about a half-hour cycle commute to the science/business park part of the
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by cawhitworth 14y ago
Given I (and most HN readers) spend a not insubstantial fraction of my waking hours in front of a text editor, I don't think I'd call them trivial - which is why editor wars won't be going away any time soon. Keeping a sense of humour - and
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by cawhitworth 14y ago
"Lately"? Text editor holy-wars have been a fundamental part of geek discourse dating back to the very earliest days of the internet, and probably before. And it's probably not going to go away any time soon, either.
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by cawhitworth 14y ago
This story is a year old, why post it now?
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by cawhitworth 15y ago
Probably worth noting that this guy develops/sells a tool for finding Java memory leaks.
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by cawhitworth 15y ago
Black on white, because then there's less contrast between my main focus of attention (my monitor) and my environment (a fairly brightly lit office).
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by cawhitworth 15y ago
I honestly can't tell if this is satire.
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by cawhitworth 15y ago
On the other hand, everyone crucified DropBox when it turned out they had the ability to arbitrarily access user data. Turns out people don't want companies to have access to their private data, right up until they do.
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by cawhitworth 15y ago
That's not a real job ad, is it? Sheesh.
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by cawhitworth 15y ago
I thought the entire point of the Agile movement was that such a requirements spec was, in essence, impossible for precisely the reasons shown in that cartoon?
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
Worth noting that this is very gcc specific. Implementation details will vary across compilers, but it's not made clear.
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
Last I checked, though, Python wasn't a statistical programming language.
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
Eclipse with PyDev with a Vi emulator (can't remember which one offhand). Having been something of an Eclipse skeptic in the past (despite being a Visual Studio devotee) I have to say I'm really quite impressed with it. It certainly makes n
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
Family comes first, except it's halfway down his list. Snarky, yes, but I'm a bitter ex-games industry programmer and it's easy to talk, and a fuck of a lot harder to produce a work environment that is genuinely conducive to both producing
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
Reading the thread, it seems there's still an intention to roll the JIT into py3k at some point, but the project devs don't have the time and the community doesn't seem to have the inclination to take over the work. I think calling it dead
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
In all probability, the job didn't exist, and she was just mining for information.
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
Just a point - having tests in your code doesn't mean you're doing TDD. Doing TDD - that is, writing tests up-front - forces you to not only consider the correctness criteria for your code (and gives you the confidence that the code, once w
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
Android owners who know their phone is running Android are more tech-minded, maybe.
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
Hand-rolled SSE optimised version of a domain transform and coefficient re-order for a video encoder. 3x speedup over the C++ version, yay! (My development environment just looks like Visual Studio, and that's because it is.)
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
> With so many people so closely grouped together trying to read porn on trains, it's a necessity. At least, that was my experience of trains in Tokyo, anyway.
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
I found this article completely incomprehensible until I remembered that Monopoly is localised. Park Place? Boardwalk? You mean Park Lane and Mayfair, surely? :)
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
SQLite would like to disagree with this rant, I think.
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
From my last round of job-hunting around Cambridge (about two years ago) I'd say that was pretty typical for the posts they're looking to fill. As with all things, you have to look at the whole package, and Redgate's is pretty good. I guess
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
We went down to the pub this lunchtime and there were a bunch of them there (they were doing a £5-towards-your-lunch-if-you-chat-to-us thing, too). We had a bit of a chat, but none of our company are really .NET/SQL types and their demograp
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
Or: "I've found a niche! Don't let other people into my niche, they might do it better/cheaper/faster!"
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
I feel slightly bad about phrasing it in a snarky way now. Thanks for updating it, though :)
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by cawhitworth 16y ago
You know what would be embarassing? If a company selling web-based project planning solutions had broken links in their website. Especially a link that was at the bottom of every page on their company blog, and was the link that was suppose