chrisjsmith

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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
IMHO, abstractions become apparent if needed. Abstractions should never be thought of first. Read GEB - covers it indirectly ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%2C_Escher%2C_Bach )
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
No - it's simply too big. I enjoy having a voice.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Arrogant idiots! Nothing more can be said.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Likewise. It's an excellent piece of rethinking. Simplicity equals elegance in my mind. If I can fit the whole product/platform in my mind, I am again powerful and not just a victim of the tyranny of over-abstraction and overwhelming APIs
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
rephrase - un-necessary abstration.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Whilst I appreciate the effort that people put into these things, I really don't like this sudden obsession of adding another layer of abstraction over everything. Abstrations are hard to debug, require a learning curve of 2x the original
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
You can have plenty of entrepreneurial fun from any age with a bit of street smart without selling lemonade, which would get you a kicking here in the UK. I've managed to in the last 20 years, apart from my regular grind: clear out schools
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
So true. I am an avid TeX user btw. I'm actually addicted to the appearance of Knuth's Computer Modern fonts really though.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Isn't this a step closer to Greenspuns Tenth Rule? "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp" (bar the environment/scope issue it avoid
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I'm not a fan of any component in particular, well apart from one surprise, so I thought I'd have a rant: Word - separation of content and layout is an absolute bugger to manage. Hard to share and version documents. It's actually hard to
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Turned on everything it said would reduce consumption.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Unless you roll a thousand 6's.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
That's a fair point. The main problem with that is that most vendors want platform lock in so they implement their own verified loaders (if it's for a phone). If we had OpenBoot on ARM, things would rock.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Good work Microsoft for taking things seriously.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Thank you for articulating my point better than me.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
No the problem is that ACPI is a poor piece of design to abstract what is effectively a stinking great turd of an architecture. You just simply don't get these problems on non-x86 systems. (I speak from experience with MIPS, ARM and SPARC
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
It's all down to climate science being more akin to religion that science. Science is based on building a hypothesis, building a supporting model that produces a reliable theory, then wrinse and repeat. Climate science is based on building
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I think the carbon crisis is political rubbish that spawned a new industry I mean who the hell thought of carbon trading - sounds like something school children came up with. The earth's atmosphere and environment is more changeable than we
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Without wishing to trash their efforts, Linux power management is a mess. Nothing works out of the box and you have to play around with powertop to optimise your kernel configuration to get even reasonable battery life. Add to that, the A
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
That's because everyone justifiably hates BT, rather than it made sense.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Spot on! Either that or pi is a symbol and we use symbolic algebra. Just convert to the result in floating point at the last minute. Ironically my calculator quite happily manages rational form including PI as a constant: http://h41111.ww
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
And still a cunt.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Keeping everything in rational form would be nice, and easy to present.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
This is true at the moment but outfits such as Agilent and BK have been making inroads with cheaper, feature-packed kit and agressive marketing. I'd rather have a Fluke TBH. A Fluke won't kill you.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
This is a valid response if you ask me. There is a culture of half-arsedness with some businesses where they don't respect user's security and privacy requirements. This is partially down to plain old incompetance but in my experience it's
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
The lack of errors was annoying and counterintuitive. I like the usual UNIX mantra of blow up noisily if an assumption is made but it just doesn't happen there.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Slightly OT (or is it), but it's an ad for Fluke - probably the best test gear you can get IMHO yet under-advertised. It's good to see a good company getting with the times.
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Mozilla: forget businesses, we're here for "regular users"(pcpro.co.uk)
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Been there done that. It's very annoying indeed. I wish things were slightly less finicky in *NIX platforms as a rule. They need a serious de-crufting session (plan 9 looks very much less crufty).
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
choke SICP. And it works in bright sunlight and doesn't require batteries. On a more serious note, Khan Academy is great but the format allows too many distractions. I'd like to see a paper version of it.

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