csmithuk

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by csmithuk 13y ago
My IT budget for the year is about $500. Doesn't fit.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Well they got the office market share projected right! (yes this is sarcastic).
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by csmithuk 13y ago
As an ex resident of East London (Leyton) he's right about it being a shitty area and having a high muslim population. However these two facts are independent. I would lock my doors too. Only because I know two people who got carjacked
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Indeed. Dyndns tends to be the source of much Internet clap...
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by csmithuk 13y ago
strace taught me that glibc never does what you think it does behind the scenes!
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by csmithuk 13y ago
On the plus side, there are those of us who are brought in for their experience at untangling these messes and coming up with solid solutions that can scale up feature-wise. The same people will willingly dig out problems and fix them in pr
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Tell me about it. To get single instance behaviour on windows you have to piss around with global mutexes.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Singletons are fine. It's just some idiots plug everything into them then realise they've blow their toes off with a monolithic ball of mud architecture. I use a singleton on every project which is OO based but it only ever hold
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I did a similar thing. My P2-233 (at the time this was the top end) blew a PSU and I did my engineering writeup on a P66 (pulled from a campus skip) with 32Mb of RAM using heirloom nroff, eqn, pic and vi on FreeBSD because it was all I had
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by csmithuk 13y ago
You obviously have no idea what COM is. Everything in windows is COM. It's not some one off enterprise thing that is obsolete.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
This reminds me of Nathan Barley.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Fair points there. Unfortunately most products built in the early 1990s-mid 2000s suffer from poor architecture. The growth of companies and the technology shift were impossible to anticipate. This is the unfortunate reality of all of those
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by csmithuk 13y ago
5000 users and 500Gb isn't that large. Lines of code is a god-awful measure of work, especially in a verbose language like Java or C#. It's not particularly large but add complexity to that and the work is insane. The applicatio
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by csmithuk 13y ago
This is a big problem - you are right. Users don't like things changing either. It ranges from a few minutes to adapt to throwing toys out of the pram and having to be retrained on something minor. This is an unfortunately reality.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
The two points are separate. The former is a fact, the latter is a general attitude. Not our company fortunately, but I have stuff to integrate with their systems. They had supply and maintenance contracts and soure escrow. The supplier wen
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I imagine it added to the problem!
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I started with the following book: http://www.z80.info/zip/zaks_book.pdf Wonderful book from which a lot of knowledge is applicable to other architectures straight away. It teaches you about planning, control structure
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I disagree. It diverges into HLA (high level assembly) which is pretty much a macro monoculture that is tied to this book and nothing else. I was rather disappointed with the book.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Yes and no. So far cloud services have proven themselves too risky for a lot of people as they suffer from availability problems (Azure), data retention problems (Atlassian data loss), security problems (NSA anyone?), churn and inconsiste
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by csmithuk 13y ago
In the spirit of maintaining my argument... The company should light a fire under the ass of their vendor or development department if they're being forced to live with some very serious security risks. The vendor doesn't exist
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Actually no they don't unless they are a really small subset of HTML/CSS. The box model was broken for years, don't even get me started on tables, JavaScript is the most loosely defined language to have ever existed, there ha
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Yes by web I mean HTML5, JS and CSS3, REST and HTTP/SPDY. Yes I can snapshot everything if I want but the problem with the web is that it is a general purpose tool. It should be a single portal into everything both local and remote sit
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Actually no, you are completely wrong. It might be a popular opinion but it's wrong. Some facts: 1. Firstly, there are a couple of COM APIs that were broken with IE8 which mean that some horrible "intranet applications" that
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by csmithuk 13y ago
That's a great article - thanks for posting.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I still have an old ThinkPad with a 500MHz Pentium III and 128Mb of RAM in it. It has FreeBSD on it (4.4). It still feels really fast if you don't use X.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I too hated C once to the point I actually kicked a PC over on its side out of anger. I never understood pointers, structures and string manipulation. I genuinely hated it and wanted it to go away. I deleted all the code I'd written th
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Few of the top of my head: 1. Performance reasons. For example: zero copy data structures, mutable data structures, controlling data locality. 2. Direct memory mapped hardware access. For example: device drivers, kernel, embedded systems, m
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Do it; you will never regret it. I primarily write C# (for cash reasons) but my heart will always be with C.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
In some cases we don't want safety. C can be safe or unsafe depending on how you approach a problem.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Cool good news then :)

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