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by dave2000 11y ago
I'm not sure I'd extrapolate what "java work" and related "spheres" are like based on one statement by someone who once worked at Oracle. I think if you were to pick, say c++, based on "respect" for
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by dave2000 11y ago
"there's a lot more not-modern-C++ than there is modern C++." I'm not sure where this statement belongs. In a decision about which language is best suited for a project?
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by dave2000 11y ago
I got a refund 2 weeks later. Just file a complaint with Google and say the app sucks. Try it now if you don't believe me.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Perhaps not upset, just intolerant of really lame, unintuitive crap software?
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by dave2000 11y ago
It was a shitty development system for a POS system. Yes, it was too large to want to download everything but no programmatic way to tell it what you wanted (you'd think that someone that aped how a proper os worked would understand th
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by dave2000 11y ago
Read in the way a Facebook messenger message or a hangout message is read; you've got the "channel" open and the message is visible or is above the visible one. Clearly it's impossible to know whether a message has actua
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by dave2000 11y ago
"Computer Science is looking like speaking french. A lot of rules. The first rule being to expect exceptions for every rules. If a natural language can work this way, why not software industry?" Huh? They do both work the same way
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by dave2000 11y ago
When I last tried installing cygwin it was horrific. The ui was awful, and involved manually clicking loads of boxes via a clunky ui. Next to impossible to reproduce. Has this improved? Can you just double click on InstallCygwin.exe now?
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by dave2000 11y ago
I just point VMs at samba shares. Less effort than configuring the VMs and better control.
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by dave2000 11y ago
You hate the sense of entitlement that people have when they write software to behave how they want it to behave? Yes, that's shocking.
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by dave2000 11y ago
There's not a single identify theft victim who has ever or will ever rather they'd been murdered.
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by dave2000 11y ago
My point is that a bunch of people favoured my comment over any civility rule.
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by dave2000 11y ago
MSN had big flashing ads. When I first saw that I assumed I was dealing with another windows install with malware on it. I've paid for the OS, why have I got this freemium crap? Slack has no way of letting me know who's read the m
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by dave2000 11y ago
Totally got 17 points, bro.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Uh, no. That would be murder.
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by dave2000 11y ago
> I know I'm old, but a 5Gig download just to run Edge on OS X? Yeah, old. To scale it back to olden days disk space and bandwidth, it's like downloading a 20 meg file which deflates into a 50 meg file on disk.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Don't be a twat. Someone posted a link to genuinely useful info that many people wouldn't have been aware of. So it's not linkbait. Look up the definition.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Sounds like something you could say about a black American who's complaining about racism in America.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I don't understand how breaking a private organisation's terms of service makes you a criminal. As a taxpayer I don't give a shit what any business's TOS are, and I don't think a penny of my money should be spent en
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by dave2000 11y ago
Yes it is.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Really? I can't imagine a single person ever saying "I've heard about people having profound, life altering experiences on drugs, but because they are illegal I won't take them". Such a person must have literally no
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by dave2000 11y ago
I don't see the connection between guns and drugs.
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by dave2000 11y ago
You really think there's less weed smoking where it's illegal? How does that work? Drug laws work so it's next to impossible to obtain them? Fear of getting caught?
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by dave2000 11y ago
No irony; get rid of drug laws and you rid yourselves of drug crime; restrict gun sales and you reduce gun crime.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Why don't you just use the normal web? The hidden web only has the attribute of being hidden. The battle there is not technological, it's of winning the argument with the general public that you should be allowed freedom and not h
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by dave2000 11y ago
But you can't change things without people, and it's people turning up on the internet which is apparently ruining the internet.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Is there any technical or legal reason why it's not as easy to handle playing video as it is to show an image, from a site developer point of view? Why can't the browser do it natively? Why does it have to be handled via JavaScrip
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by dave2000 11y ago
Right. So firefox is a class, and there are instances of that class running. Most instances are running on mobile devices, so it really makes sense to say that only a small minority of browsers are capable of running WebGL.
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by dave2000 11y ago
> (so basically 99% of browsers according to > http://webglstats.com/ ) Well, those stats are wrong, because a lot more than 1% of browsers are on mobile platforms with no WebGL support.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Writing to the console is good if you have a console, and don't need to stop the program and examine the state of memory, files, processes immediately before the problem occurs. Otherwise it's a big fail. Are we supposed to belie

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