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by cjsuk 9y ago
It's all pretty simple when you know how. It's getting there that's the hard bit. It's arguably more challenging than software but once you've learned the abstractions and techniques then the knowledge is useful for
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by cjsuk 9y ago
This is a very common little device. The V-I characteristics are non-ohmic i.e. non-linear which make it very useful for feedback. Some notable uses I've seen it for floating around: 1. One of my DMM's, a Fluke 8600A, has a light
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Is there any material available with a negative expansion coefficient that can be used to offset this? I ask because that’s how you tend to work around thermal effects in electronics.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Don't we already carry them in our pockets?
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by cjsuk 9y ago
We’re not talking critical or embedded systems, just ones that handle PII. Crashes are not critical.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
You get downvoted to hell if you post something negative about MSFT after around 17:00 UTC. It’s open season between 09:00-17:00 UTC because they’re all in bed or commuting. Incidentally I agree with you although MSDN has been difficult to
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by cjsuk 9y ago
We use Jenkins and currently nuget restore first. Your assumption is invalid.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Yet.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I’d like to add that just because something is common it doesn’t make it healthy or good for the user. Telemetry is a recent obsession of the industry and as trust declines this is the equivalent of stuffing a cigarette in the mouth of your
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Exactly. It only takes one misconfiguration for your build server to call home. It should take one misconfiguration for your hold server to not call home. Slightly subtle inversion there.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Summary of the key problems: 1. Microsoft won’t engage with customers on removal of this even if it causes problems. 2. The feature fires off before it informs you. 3. We don’t trust Microsoft after they turned their platform into a data ga
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I’ve been at it for a while. I’ve learned that if you want something to change you don’t let it go.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
That sounds exactly like the state of affairs the moment you pick a JavaScript framework, which was my point.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Wix isn’t terrible. We use that for deploying two products. When I say not terrible it hides a lot of the design by committee ugliness of MSI packages. Have you looked at chocolatey as a total replacement for apt-get? If you havent, be prep
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I don’t know any business who would take that offer now. The TCO versus O365 is crazy as they hiked the license costs. Lotus Notes was always expensive, mainly because you had to pay the consultants.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Indeed. 15 years ago I kind of enjoyed it. Win32/winforms is still less horrible than the web these days.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Difference is I’m not paying them. We pay Microsoft a metric fuck load of money.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
As opposed to running their businesses on o364?
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by cjsuk 9y ago
It does a shitty job of it though. The UI is a broken mess of mines. iTunes is magical compared to it and that is saying something...
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by cjsuk 9y ago
That too!
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Good work - thank you :)
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by cjsuk 9y ago
They'd fuck that up too.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
That is sickeningly hilarious.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Until you hit a bug. The one that killed us was we had to deploy a registry fix to 2000 workstations at hundreds of companies because they broke ClickOnce in IE9 and later. It still isn't fixed today. We still have to eat the administr
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by cjsuk 9y ago
For now. Some of the younger people aren't having any of that shit these days.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I think it's more that they hire personalities and form personality cults. Personality cults can't be seen to fail by investors due to the CYA culture so they just burn off a cliff and explode when they hit the bottom of the ravin
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by cjsuk 9y ago
We just use distro provided python versions on debian and virtualenvs. Don't touch anything else! Probably right on the basis of the above however.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Exactly that. The feedback loop is shit as well. Out falls a broken pile of shit for a CTP. No one accepts any feedback. It hits RTM, no one accepts any feedback. Two years down the line, the same bugs are open. You should hear the partner
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Yes. They also rewrite stuff half way through and tell you it's the same project just to piss you off. Windows Workflow and Windows Communication Foundation for example. I'm really disinclined to invest in any of their technology
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by cjsuk 9y ago
We needed quality control as well, something which is very lacking at the moment. The sheer amount of bugs I hit trying to get my daughter's Lumia 650 up was ridiculous.

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