csmuk

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by csmuk 13y ago
Well erlang and go do have a virtual machine concept because they are basically flip off great big coroutine schedulers at the end of the day (or are they OS's?). Go and erlang give nifty coroutine initialisation and communication stu
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by csmuk 13y ago
Well all of those solve concurrency and scale problems in the VM and build a language on the top. C++ is just a language in which you are free to build those abstractions into in any form you choose. Batteries aren't included but are e
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by csmuk 13y ago
That means there is Haskell in the keyword search but its not necessarily a Haskell job. A lot of companies, mine included, have problems with agents stuffing all sorts of shit in job ads just to get candidates to sign up.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Yes if any of the following are true: 1. You do any desktop programming. You will meet c++ along the line somewhere for certain, be it some win32 abstraction, Qt, Wx etc. I'm ignoring apple here for ref. 2. If you're writing high
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by csmuk 13y ago
How about stop sending me marketing crap when I sign up for something. Much better solution. My biggest bugbear is actually Atlassian JIRA where when you upgrade/install it, it tells Atlassian to SPAM you so every damn time. You have t
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by csmuk 13y ago
I hope that is sarcasm as I haven't ever seen a Haskell job in the EU.
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by csmuk 13y ago
I wish people would promote this fact more. Reality is well outside what the marketing would have you believe. Also the reason people pick c#/java etc is simply due to it being a pretty good stable standard for fungible staff with dece
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by csmuk 13y ago
Opposite anecdote for you... I skipped class, a lot. So much so that I nearly got kicked out of (a red brick) university in the UK. Up in front of the dean and everything. I was too busy reselling and refurbishing Unix kit and installing ne
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by csmuk 13y ago
I wish people would repost the above more. Knowledge of this is one reason I tend to grab second hand stuff on the way to the skip rather than fish out for new kit every year.
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by csmuk 13y ago
My personal one: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4M Then I go and find another distribution that doesn't treat its users like cattle. Ubuntu, after shuttleworth being an asshat to the community and the whol
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by csmuk 13y ago
Same with me on OpenBSD - it's awesome! Makes me want to play with arch Linux. There goes the weekend!
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by csmuk 13y ago
It's pretty normal or at least was. It wasn't uncommon for a pile of Debian/FreeaBSD CDRs to appear on my doorstep or even have to go to London to purchase them once. I still purchase OpenBSD CD sets: one for every machine we
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by csmuk 13y ago
That actually made me laugh. I was just having a discussion with a colleague on this matter. He suggested that we don't need to know about the OS these days with Heroku, Azure, GAE etc. My argument is that is fine until something goes
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by csmuk 13y ago
Definitely. That is actually outlook express's current incarnation and it's pretty good for the money ($0). Also it does newsgroups still.
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by csmuk 13y ago
I genuinely had no idea Slackware was still going! Slackware and Debian were my first Linux experiments in the 90's after spending a few years with commercial UNIX. Debian stuck in the end but was replaced with FreeBSD after a couple o
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by csmuk 13y ago
mutt user here, in an xterm actually but that's another story... I'd kill for a decent cross platform mail client. They're all shit. I've literally tried them all. Always end up back on mutt + procmail. Scarily enough, a
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by csmuk 13y ago
Which law? Out law or their law because they aren't the same apparently....
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by csmuk 13y ago
nice. The circuit simulator is wonderful - have used it for years. In fact I actually tried to port it to .Net but never finished it.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Not a new user. Been here for 3 years. I was hellbanned before for saying something positive about Microsoft :) Get your point though!
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by csmuk 13y ago
That's all uninformed hokum. Firstly newer versions of windows do boot quicker. But TBH I don't reboot them. Workstations get left on. Laptops get hibernated so neither is much of a problem. That's a stupid metric. Anyway, re
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by csmuk 13y ago
No not really. Sounds like your ego doesn't match the reality of a medium sized business.
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by csmuk 13y ago
The first question I'd like to ask: are we sure we actually did this? The modelling is so variable, incomplete and inconclusive from what I can see, it's almost down to whoever manages the most statistically significant mistake
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by csmuk 13y ago
Lenovo ThinkPad. Nothing good ever came from buying HP.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Hundreds of tabs? You need to fix your garbage collector and close some.
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by csmuk 13y ago
I think you're doing something wrong. Even my low memory ceiling IE9 test VM doesn't behave like that and I'm on 12mbit ADSL.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Yes we do this and we need to keep doing it. This is because despite masses of training, people still think it's fine to upload confidential documents and personal information to public dropbox folders and the like and stick our code o
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by csmuk 13y ago
Yes it does. This is hokum and misinformation.
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by csmuk 13y ago
They said on day one and in the EULA that it would be supported until 2012 (10 years). They extended that to 12 years to give people time to migrate. They've been more than reasonable. Since XP came out, I've got married, had thre
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by csmuk 13y ago
Sorry wrong site. Have updated link!
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by csmuk 13y ago
There is a pretty good effort to reverse engineer it all: http://www.freethepostcode.org/ Edit: actual dataset here: http://www.freepostcodes.org.uk/ - link above wrong.

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