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by csmuk 13y ago
So that's where our license fees are going...
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by csmuk 13y ago
This was an oooold SunOS compiler that didn't warn about much other than you owe Sun more cash. Also when you're drunk, the warnings result in "ahh who cares" :)
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by csmuk 13y ago
I think you're close. The only PC of the future I can see is what would be considered an embedded system of some description at the moment; not a re-purposed one but one that is designed to be used for something else. I don't see
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by csmuk 13y ago
I've written and committed my best bugs when drunk. Undoing them was a valuable learning exercie. The finest being, in C: if (nr = 0x56) ... That took and entire day to find and made me religiously avoid lvalue assigments in ex
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by csmuk 13y ago
The 50g already does that as it has a built in CAS so symbolic is default. This are represented in their rational form or with respect to pi. 50g is basically a 48GX emulator with 400MHz ARM core that emulates Saturn, MetaKernel and a CAS.
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by csmuk 13y ago
To be fair both HP and TI have tried their best to do something better than their older lines but it's resulted in the following: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/calculators/product-detail... I&#x
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by csmuk 13y ago
Well played :)
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by csmuk 13y ago
Kevin Flynn uses vi - 'nuff said: http://i.imgur.com/rMdKYde.jpg (this is in jest but no doubt I'll be downvoted...)
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by csmuk 13y ago
Ha I had a TI92 (not plus) a number of years ago. Weighed a ton - you could kill someone with it. Sold it and got an HP48GX after I discovered that you couldn't get the plus module for it in the UK for a reasonable price. Never looked
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by csmuk 13y ago
Spot on. This is one reason I still use my 50g - it uses decimal internal representation with known precision on every operation. Casios are a mess. They are actually made my Kinpo which do a shitty job of pretty much everything. The notabl
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by csmuk 13y ago
Nailed it. Nice to see someone who understands the situation properly.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Yuck. Horrid examples. Not that I've seen a flat design that is usable yet. Microsoft did a pretty good job with WP8 but it still stinks.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Bet that handles TCP fragmentation well :) Nice work though to whoever crammed that in a PIC.
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by csmuk 13y ago
We used dedicated terminal servers for this function years ago. No PC required. DEC and Allied Telesis made them. Now I feel old.
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by csmuk 13y ago
No RPN. Neckbeard status confirmed. Calculators are still an unsolved problem for me on glass devices to the point I still religiously carry around an HP50G even though its 6x the size of my phone. Also from some bad experiences, it appear
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by csmuk 13y ago
Exactly. The universe is a pretty big place. Time dilation is another one. It's locally insignificant enough to be considered noise/error.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Agreed with this. It's why I still run Windows as a host and Linux in VirtualBox instance. If you run it the other way round, the battery life is half. (that is with powertop optimisations and a fair chunk of other optimisations as wel
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by csmuk 13y ago
Well it is until you want reliable WiFi and hibernate/suspend that actually works...
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by csmuk 13y ago
Perhaps the second law is only locally true.
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by csmuk 13y ago
I use a DSLR, shoot raw and use Lightroom as well. In fact I just filled up 12Gb of Harry Potter studio tour today... However we're a pretty niche "prosumer" market. The really big sector is "cheapy digital compact"
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by csmuk 13y ago
Actually they did the same on Windows Vista and above.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Note: I own a windows phone. It syncs photos with SkyDrive, allows you to post to facebook etc. It allows choice. Suprisingly, Windows has always allowed choice. Web mail won for consumers for a bit. Now it's heading towards apps and s
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by csmuk 13y ago
>The vast majority of photo management these days happens on the web and in HTTP-using client applications, where sharing, not editing, is the killer feature. You'd be surprised. There are many of us who don't do social phot
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by csmuk 13y ago
No they just know how not to fuck up their queries to start with so we don't need a DBA to optimise 300 join statements...
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by csmuk 13y ago
Not for us. Our developers built an API and tool chain to self service.
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by csmuk 13y ago
This is all trivial knowledge under the "application performance" banner. All of our development staff are capable of diagnosing these issues and providing suggestions.
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by csmuk 13y ago
I disagree. dedicated DBAs are on their way out. Databases are becoming pretty good at managing themselves and the marginal performance gains from tuning usually are easily offset by throwing bigger kit at the problem or throwing more cas
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by csmuk 13y ago
It's broken now :)
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by csmuk 13y ago
Genuinely much more impressive than I was expecting! Well done!
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by csmuk 13y ago
Protection of Freedom Act doesn't work because it's additive. Repealing other acts would be a better solution.

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