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31.
by d0 13y ago
It doesn't do that. I clicked "not now" and never signed in. That was weeks ago.
32.
by d0 13y ago
No but it says something about the quality I can expect from the black boxes that Apple provide me with. And its not a good thing.
33.
by d0 13y ago
Indeed, but the experience is not one you'd want.
34.
by d0 13y ago
Unless you invert the relationship and install biztalk which we dub in the office "Unix done wrong". Both are useful. One is painful :)
35.
by d0 13y ago
Comedic derision appreciated :) However this is a pretty damn serious oversight. I've just shut down my MacBook and picked up my ThinkPad.
36.
by d0 13y ago
I was nearly the victim of a situation like this in the late 90s. There was a power failure site-wide and the generator failed to start in time (water in the fuel). There were three of us in the machine room at the time of the power inciden
37.
by d0 13y ago
Depends. If you have a ThinkPad with a TrackPoint-style mouse, it's actually really convenient having a mouse in the home row. Hold the middle button and scroll up/down easily.
38.
by d0 13y ago
Yes same here. However this is still utterly painful compared to Unix platforms.
39.
by d0 13y ago
Is it just latent paranoia, or can I just see evil uses for this?
40.
by d0 13y ago
Well it did have if you dragged in Workflow Foundation and Silverlight. To have that yanked from under us was a massive and really expensive pain. If we'd picked a Java BPEL solution and WebStart with Swing, we'd have been better
41.
by d0 13y ago
Not only that, Java talks to AD via LDAP and SQL Server via Microsoft JDBC driver. The same is not true the other way round for a lot of things though which means you are stuck in the Microsoft ecosystem the moment you put one foot in it.
42.
by d0 13y ago
Glad to see you here. I used some bits from Subsonic a few years back to ease some pain - would like this opportunity to thank you, so a big thank you :)
43.
by d0 13y ago
Java syntax is usually pretty irrelevant when it comes to actually solving problems. C# is a minefield for issues. Linq memory ballooning, null refs, O(WTF) LINQ expressions, tri-state logic caused by nullables, spinlocks from hell (ReaderW
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by d0 13y ago
No - go Java. ORMs, document generation, reporting, integration, architecture, deployment, tooling, devops stuff. Literally everything is ready to roll out of the box for $0. And it all works. C# - half of this is available for a fee and th
45.
by d0 13y ago
I had a background of Unix and Windows NT. I did both ASP.Net and PHP and switched back and forth between contracts for about 6 years depending on who offered the most cash. I now sit at a Microsoft consultancy, on a Mac, doing all the high
46.
by d0 13y ago
Remove the keep calm bit and you're there.
47.
by d0 13y ago
Actually they do that. Don't forget that GCHQ steal a lot of stuff as well and then retrospectively classify it as well.
48.
by d0 13y ago
For the moment... Agree with your middle point however there are other laws in which he could have been stopped under which relate directly to the crime. Terrorism laws were picked selectively because they can hold suspects longer. This is
49.
by d0 13y ago
See my comment "portable to mono". I agree with you but I wouldn't do it myself.
50.
by d0 13y ago
The BBC however have very selective reporting. It probably isn't. I was hoping WikiNews would end up being that to be honest.
51.
by d0 13y ago
Actually as a resident of the UK, it was a "meh" thing. The word terrorist was still an extreme word used in rare circumstances even back in the height of the bombings. And no one really actually cared about it that much. Now it&#
52.
by d0 13y ago
My father, an East German now living in the UK, was saying the other day that he sees parallels between the rise of the Stasi in the 1950's onwards and the UK government's behaviour over the last two decades. I'm inclined to
53.
by d0 13y ago
Everything is less evil than the Daily Mail so that's not much of a comparison. I've given up reading the news in the UK. It's either biased towards the agenda of the paper or terribly depressing. Both unfortunately sell very
54.
by d0 13y ago
They haven't abandoned any of them. We still have ATL, MFC, Win32, WPF, WinForms and now Metro. Not that I want to use any of them myself :)
55.
by d0 13y ago
I really don't want them to port it. I want to see Java 8!
56.
by d0 13y ago
Mix of both. The killer on the server-side is always stuff like missing WCF features, odd bugs with DI containers, missing API calls, slight behavioural differences etc. Client-side. No WPF and WinForms is dreadfully incomplete. It's a
57.
by d0 13y ago
The answer to your latter question is: no. Only pretty trivial stuff is portable to Mono. I've tried it on every project I've worked on over the last 6 years to no avail. Show stopper every time.
58.
by d0 13y ago
We pay people for robust solutions, not to write code . It's a whole lot more complicated than "just programming". In fact we'd rather they wrote less code and did more thinking. Experienced engineers will trade off a C
59.
by d0 13y ago
No we don't want competent people showboating and pissing cash up the wall reinventing wheels that have a high maintenance cost because it's fun. We hire engineers . An analogy: would you hire the electrical engineer who knocks u
60.
by d0 13y ago
Not really. We want people to solve the problem, not invent something that needs maintenance. In some cases, from scratch is important, but for most it's not.

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