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by eftpotrm 8y ago
Knew a place that turned off the developers' test environment because it was costing 10x that per month. Which was as popular and successful as you can imagine. I'm.... skeptical about the benefits of the cloud architecture they a
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
Commenting from a SQL Server perspective as it's what I know best - there's a native JSON data type, so you're absolutely able to store JSON in columns and interact with it as such. If you don't mind getting a bit more s
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
I will admit 100GB a week is an unusual case, I've certainly not replicated it myself. But there'll be a lot of people with half-decent cameras for which 200GB is nowhere near 'everything'.
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
"Space for everything! Your life, uncompressed! Top standard tier, 200GB!" OK, I'm a photographer. But I literally outgrew a 300GB drive about 10 years ago, and genuinely shot nearly 100GB in one week on a trip earlier in t
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
Political polling is a tiny percentage of their business; they mostly do market research for corporates. Every few years, polls get verified against reality at the ballot box. If you're running a polling company, would you want to sell
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
In fairness - much as I like desktop Firefox, Android Firefox has never felt as slick as Android Chrome. I'd love to switch, but it's got to be good enough.
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
My 6yo car doesn't have bluetooth, and I regularly do long drives listening to podcasts and running satnav apps. Thankfully I have a sensible phone, but what's the benefit to me in having a phone that can have sound output or char
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
I might've said the same 10+ years ago, but now? IRV (and any preferential voting system) is quite close to the voting system for any of the weekly elimination talent shows. You rank people in order, the last one gets knocked out, you
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
There's no problem with opposing candidates in IRV / STV - you just rank them at the back of the list. I can't claim to be an expert on all the finer points of STV versus range or approval voting, but it's significant to
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
Straight IRV is an improvement in that it removes the third-party candidate spoiler effect and the incentive for negative campaigning, yes, but it can actually make results less proportional than FPTP. What's needed isn't just IRV
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
RoboDJ, an old Winamp plugin. I have an absurdly large music collection, and tend to listen while I work. I tried doing the 'just queue up albums and hit play' model. Random songs I'd picked up from nowhere, or albums I'
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
That's only half the feature, though. The killer feature with circles is being able to post different things to different audiences IMHO, which Facebook can't do without different accounts.
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
Not at all. There are people who are controversial because their opinions are difficult or challenging, and there are people who are controversial because their opinions are provably wrong or their actions are demonstrably hostile. Neutrali
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
With respect, I would suggest a quick reading of George Galloway's biography would substantiate that suggestion. Mr. Galloway has a long history of loud oppositional politics and tribal attacks on his opponents. There are politicians I
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
The lens drives these concerns, yes, but the pixel size still has significant impact. If I build a lens that will cover a hypothetical 16MP sensor with good quality over the whole sensor, it will also cover a hypothetical 16MP sensor of hal
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
That's where you're talking about sensitivity-related quality - noise, colour rendition, dynamic range. There's other quality issues in an image though, edge definition and depth of field for example. All things being equal a
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
And MS SQL Server now supports graph databases; it doesn't have to be either-or.
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
That's been true over very large parts of the country for most of the last 15 years TBH. House prices in the UK are divorced from reality.
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
That sounds very like my Dell XPS 13 (on which, in fairness, I run Windows). But - I have to say I preferred the hardware on my old Sony Vaio Pro 13. The Dell keyboard is OK but the action isn't great, the battery life isn't great
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
Three kids, one ball, not very much space. One goes in goal (if needs be a jumper or coat on each side), the other two compete to put the ball past them x times, then rotate the goalkeeper. Continue ad nauseam. Or go to a park and practice
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
While I've not done corporate desktop development in nearly 10 years now, but have been doing enterprise apps for most of that period. Not in SV, not even in the tech hotspots of the UK, and it's all been web. I'm not saying
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by eftpotrm 11y ago
Location: UK Midlands (Birmingham / Derby) Remote: Happy either way Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: SQL Server, ASP.Net, JavaScript. Résumé/CV: https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/greg-webb/10/363&#x2
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by eftpotrm 11y ago
SEEKING WORK: UK Midlands (Birmingham / Derby) or remote SQL Server & ASP.Net developer, JavaScript, some WinForms if needed. 14+ years development experience, working in a range of areas. Agile or traditional teams, large or small
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by eftpotrm 12y ago
SEEKING WORK: UK Midlands (Birmingham / Derby) or remote SQL Server & ASP.Net developer, some WinForms if needed. 14+ years development experience, working in a range of areas. Agile or traditional teams, large or small, pure dev o
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by eftpotrm 12y ago
Driving home from visiting a friend recently I had a lightbulb moment on self-driving cars; much as I really enjoy driving (heck, I've got a sports car), the second a mainstream car with an autonomous mode becomes remotely affordable
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by eftpotrm 12y ago
Far fewer cars possibly, but a big increase in vehicle miles. At present cars largely follow us round. If they're not doing this but are instead moving on to the next occupant, the odds are that that person won't be in the exact s
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by eftpotrm 12y ago
I'm working on a site for enthusiasts of construction toys - initially Meccano / Erector but not system tied, they're just what I know best :-) Model galleries, plans, collection management and sales facilities for dealers.
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by eftpotrm 12y ago
Trust me; that's a good thing. Nasty, deeply misguided platform - whoever came up with the idea of PostBack and trying to make the web look like VB6 is definitely not on my Christmas card list. Ties you in knots trying to make the we
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by eftpotrm 12y ago
But what use is that if they don't have the content to drive traction? Netflix and Youtube aren't unique but each have strong leads in their respective niches. Being 'the only ISP who can't do online video' is hardl
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by eftpotrm 12y ago
The other thing Comcast don't seen to have realised is that they're making a long term bet they'll be bigger than Netflix with this strategy. If they're not, what's to stop Netflix saying a major reason the subscrib

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