csmuk

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by csmuk 13y ago
I came up with numerous jokes today (not William Morgan ;-) but my relative is entirely devoid of a sense of humor.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Yeah I actually posted that from inside a masonic Lodge ironically (dinner party that was basically a throw back to 1970). I'm not a mason but one of my relatives is. Have escaped now, thank fuck. Masons still tend to be well connected
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by csmuk 13y ago
Well actually how it works is X knows that Lord Y hasn't got a position in the government at the moment so the funny hand shake club[1] gets together and comes up with a new position. In this case the Ministry of Nudges with chief nud
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by csmuk 13y ago
As much as I don't particularly like Microsoft, based on my experience of using a ChromeBook, they are absolutely right. I fear this will be taken as an affront to everything non-Microsoft rather than a serious point. I genuinely could
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by csmuk 13y ago
And that buys you absolutely fuck all.
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by csmuk 13y ago
It depends on the workload. Linux seems to scale to higher workloads slightly smoother without masses of tuning.
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by csmuk 13y ago
All is clear now. Thanks for pointing this out :)
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by csmuk 13y ago
And look where it got NT. POSIX gone. OS/2 gone. NTVDM gone (on 64-bit). Ultimately we are left with an abstraction layer which abstracts nothing because Win32 is the base level abstraction for all the other abstractions now. Metro, WP
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by csmuk 13y ago
I get where you're coming from but I get that with my workstation. Triton has assignable knobs and pages and pages of virtual knobs which are trivial to change. If you really want you can stick a MIDI knob box in the back of it and ass
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by csmuk 13y ago
Main negatives about BSDs: more fiddly, not necessarily as well performing as a stable well optimised Linux release (read RHEL/CentOS), some compatibility problems (usually due to crappy programming by Linux-heads), you might have to c
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by csmuk 13y ago
The syntax is weird and lots of non-intuitive stuff about PowerShell That's simply enough to kill it for me. That and patchy culture support crudely derived from the CLR where the script will parse/emit dates as 11/12/
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by csmuk 13y ago
Cache link seeing as the server appears to have been hammered by HN: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MGUqZp5...
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by csmuk 13y ago
So basically it would be awesome if it wasn't powershell? On that basis I agree, because the encounters I've had with PS have been nothing but horrid. It's slow, obtuse, complicated and unpredictable. cmd+rundll32 was far nic
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by csmuk 13y ago
I'm comparing the value derived over the interface.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Drum pads. MIDI in. Interface sorted. We're not in the 80's now and even in the late 80's a workstation was practical (think Korg M1). I mean Oldfield did pretty well with them and an ST.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Not professionally, but I owned one for about a year in the mid 1990's. It was sold simply because it didn't fit into the workflow easily. No MIDI, refused to sync to anything properly, weighs a flipton, the step keys were iffy an
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by csmuk 13y ago
Agree entirely. I know someone who milked an obvious patent for the best part of 40 years and made a killing on it. People were paid to get the patent reissued and to chase down manufacturers for pay offs. The patent (wait for it) was: &qu
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by csmuk 13y ago
Personally I can't stand software. I'd rather have real kit simply because there is a maintenance overhead for supporting software based solutions. Embedded systems i.e workstations are probably a good midpoint. You can just sit d
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by csmuk 13y ago
Wikipedia...
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by csmuk 13y ago
I wouldn't trust them either. I've seen the source via Shared Source and the CSP stuff is missing from it. If it wasn't missing they wouldn't have something to hide.
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by csmuk 13y ago
In that case, we need to keep our keys on the client side.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Only because I usually end up knocking up network servers. That is true but you only have one thread to synchronise so mutexes and locks are vastly simplified.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Exactly! It's a good thing.
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by csmuk 13y ago
My C code doesn't share heaps. Strict privsep design meaning one heap per process and no threads in favour of "select".
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by csmuk 13y ago
Even Microsoft ships WebGL with IE11... Perhaps they're getting the point?
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by csmuk 13y ago
Personally I prefer message passing (over pipes). Shared memory (be it shm/heap in same process) with associated mutexes, semaphores, locks and the like is a right pain to get right without introducing race conditions, deadlocks etc. G
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by csmuk 13y ago
Yes never. Look at Thailand. You sleep in the rain or turn the remains of your house into a shelter whilst raising the cash. Not only that, people donate some of their cash to the less fortunate. Only conspicuous consumption (greed) and hoa
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by csmuk 13y ago
As I found many times, Perl is awesome until you encounter someone else's Perl. I inherited a Perl CGI and MySQL monster back in 2002 from a Perl monk who unfortunately died. It was a horrific Cthulu-inspired sprawling demon from hell.
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by csmuk 13y ago
I think it's a little more complicated than that. Basically bitcoin removes the bank's ability to derive profit from debt and that's why they're pissed off. Debt is never a good thing. All it does is facilitate currency
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by csmuk 13y ago
Windows Phone is no better here either. They screwed WP7 users completely and rumor has it that 8.1 won't work on WP8 handsets either. I've moved to iOS for mobile devices as well. Better investment long term, especially consideri

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