csmithuk

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by csmithuk 13y ago
Yes and no. Some notes: * Experimentation doesn't make it into production twice unless you're doing something wrong. * There are proven solutions off the shelf both open source and commercial. * They should be value driven rather
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I'm not trolling. I've watched them build their own stack, throw it away, build it again, throw it away. That's waste.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Probably but that's moot. They're pissing away profit and investor's cash in private companies. In public organisations, taxpayers don't get to choose if that money is spent or not.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Don't forget aerobraking which can knock a big chunk off that delta-v.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I'll be more interested when he unleashes his "arse kicking" on the company and starts pushing roadmaps out. That's a make or break moment for a lot of us involved in Microsoft's ecosystem.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Depends. In the UK we just wait for the minister in charge to resign. That's cheaper than a bug bounty :)
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Who said the X-37 has to survive though? That can do a 180 and decelerate using the main AR2-3 at the cost of a decaying orbit then drop the payload at 4km/s.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Yes it is capable. There's a 2.1m x 1.2m payload bay[1]. Various nefarious things that go boom on a large scale will fit in that hole. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37#X-37B_2
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I am and I'm not impressed. Whilst the outcome is positive, the technology churn isn't. In fact, it's a right mess. They've ended up with a huge stack that doesn't need to be there. They're there to provide con
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by csmithuk 13y ago
No. They shouldn't. They are publicly funded so efficiency of cash flow is important. No reward should be required in this circumstance apart from perhaps an acknowledgement. They should operate an open submission policy though i.e. a
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by csmithuk 13y ago
No-one sane writes parsers any more. People use parser generators.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Surprisingly, we've been doing this on the Microsoft side of things for years with ADO and csv data sources! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974559.aspx (article dated 2004)
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by csmithuk 13y ago
If that happens, I'm in :)
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by csmithuk 13y ago
From my perspective, there is no source code to review so we have to trust you to have made sensible security decisions, which at least I don't. UX isn't a big win. KeyPassX is good enough i.e. works with keyboards entirely, is op
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by csmithuk 13y ago
It gets booted up every 3 months or so to apply windows updates so it's ready to roll if this one fails. If it does, I'll repair this one as they're pretty easy to fix even with massive failures. I've got another T61 run
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Yes. Not much. Dangerous ports are already turned off with group policy (USB, removable media etc), BIOSes are locked down, hardware is still available that will support XP, the networks aren't directly connected to the Internet so the
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by csmithuk 13y ago
A lot of assumptions and hype in the article. Usually a bad sign.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Well when it works properly for more than a week at a time (export is currently randomly broken) and has turn by turn navigation, yes. So no.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
xoring something with itself is a common idiom in ASM. Been doing it since the Z80 (XOR A). Not sure that meaning is enhanced at all.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
This. Microsoft MASM is the canonical example of one. Born in 1981, still being updated today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Macro_Assembler
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by csmithuk 13y ago
A lot but it's not perfect by any means and it's very time consuming as the test suites take 8h+ to run.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
This really doesn't bother me. What bothers me is how much of my RAM is likely to page out to disk somewhere because it's oversold and if the CPU is being hammered with context switches and cache waits. If that's zero, this a
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Perhaps I'm just rusty but age has only made me cautious. I'm responsible for a rather large and complicated UI framework that we use internally. The thing I've discovered over the last 5-6 years is that APIs are volatile as
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Can block, will block. I will advise people to block where possible as well. Why? The Internet experience is universally shit when there are adverts. The 2% exception to the rule isn't a valid discussion point. Neither is the people de
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by csmithuk 13y ago
If its the government, there is no *BSD experience anywhere. I doubt they'd recommend it. Everything is purchased based on the ability to fill the purchaser's pocket on the side. Yes I have witnessed this - I did contract work for
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I've lost a payment in a similar fashion before. The accounts team took the written paperwork and misinterpreted a 6 for a 0 (I didn't write the form) and it just happened to be a valid destination account number. It took me 2 wee
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I think the only irritation I get is gimp startup time on windows. Need a replacement for Adobe Lightroom and I'm sorted then :)
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by csmithuk 13y ago
The news here in the UK is just as selective. The BBC are the worst believe it or not.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Inkscape and gimp.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
This. I used Fireworks MX (released 2002) until 2 years ago

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