eckyptang

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by eckyptang 14y ago
12mb :) It cost more but the time to market was much lower and it was multi user so I think the trade off on cost was quite good.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
apart fron the editoe problems, It was used to write a control program for a cnc mill which talked to an Isa card that controlled stepper motors. The program took a basic description of the part to be milled and converted it into tool movem
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I was thrown at turbo Pascal at university. Horrible language to be honest as it was utterly painful to produce any reasonable data structures in it. The verbosity usually broke the memory constraints of the machine just before you finished
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Definitely. I've been doing it for years. You can use a WebDAV share in Apache and mount it from Windows XP and above. That's pretty much DropBox with COTS software there. I switched to Skydrive in 2009 though as it's just easier and it (at
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by eckyptang 14y ago
European finance, insurance, banking, news agencies, e-commerce and market research companies. We're talking large companies on the same scale.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Exactly that. I'm genuinely surprised at some of the things people haven't quite grasped about Windows 8. To put it simply: Windows 8 is the same as Windows 7 but it has a new interface layer (Metro) which replaces the start menu and adds a
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by eckyptang 14y ago
The best Microcontroller is the one that works for you and does what you need. In my case I bought a few of these and they rock: http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/product/353 (I also don't have to piss around with C+RTOS for what I ne
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I didn't suggest they were broken. The semantics are different between UNIX and Windows which is the same point you are making. The issue here is when something decided that proceeding was dangerous and stops it. The issue here is that co
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Indeed. We basically wrote our own version of jQuery, backbone.js and a whole functional toolkit with 150 functions and 30 client side controls and a validation framework about 5 years ago and it even worked on IE 5.5...
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by eckyptang 14y ago
This is correct and very common knowledge. However traditional apps can be linked from the store and regularly are already so no one is missing out.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Hell yes. This is where all my ideas and inspiration come from. Its a place where lucidity is common. I actually keep a notepad and pen next to me in case so I don't forget it if its interesting when or wake up. Better than anything mind be
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Odd it loads in 2 seconds for me even on ie9.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Every browser suffers this occasionally. In fact every piece of software does. To suddenly throw it all out is childish. Look at the SQL injection vulnerability in rails recently. Has that killed it? Looks at the java vulnerability. Has tha
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I could reverse that and say how horrible git and svn are on Windows for the same reason (have you ever dealt with a repo that has a file Test.cs and test.cs ?) It's just an incompatibility you have to live with.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Fair point - I agree there.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
No not at all. Most of the LOB applications you see these days work very well in most browsers. Ours works in Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari perfectly and is entirely plugin free. I've not seen an ActiveX for about 5 years and that was a file
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I think it's more correct to say they tail end what still works and is supported, which is why our baseline is IE7.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
You'd be surprised. The amount of CSS/HTML that goes into your typical LOB application is quite large and the applications are typically orders of magnitude more complicated than "sites" as you mention. The piece of kit I work with has appr
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Without wishing to piggy back on this thread I feel its a good time to point out that this is exactly why enterprises stick with IE. People are risk averse in businesses.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I get the feeling you haven't used IE, hotmail and office for a while. They're definitely not rotting.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Because the majority of the userbase are on windows?
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I've been using SkyDrive for a couple of years. It's great. I use it to sync my desktop, laptop and phone (lumia). The main powerful thing for me is OneNote which just works transparently. There is literally nothing out there as good. I've
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by eckyptang 14y ago
To be honest, I too used the same toolset as you for a long time, but since Office 2007, it's just not been worth it for me. I have to share a lot of documents and information with people who don't understand the UNIX tools so it's not prac
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Yes I probably should have added postgres. I like the fact that they keep the documentation nicely versioned as well. The quality is fantastic too.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
This times a million. Microsoft, OpenBSD and Golang are the only things I've found that produce good quality extensive reference documentation these days that I can take offline. Python documentation, while extensive, is crappy. I still mis
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Not at all. I'm saying that it works for me versus buying another device to consume with. To me it doesn't matter what the medium is - it's still the same thing.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
And likewise nobody cares that you disagree with me, including me. It's an opinion. Chill.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
That's irrelevant. I used to work quite happily on a 25MHz ARM machine years ago (Acorn A5000). The issue is that the environment and model are entirely unsuitable for software development.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I don't have any feeds or Facebook. That was a far better solution if you ask me.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Clarified - thanks :)

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