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by gouranga 14y ago
My entire place is like an Ikea showroom. My only complaints are that the surfaces are not hard wearing,even on expensive items. I've taken to covering work surfaces with another layer of laminate or in the case of my desk, I had a custom c
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by gouranga 14y ago
Great article. Between TDD, dotting constraint checks all around my code and actually knowing what I want before I write it, I rarely have to use any debugger. With respect to people feeling like TDD is a waste of time, this thought is imme
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by gouranga 14y ago
My father's company is ISO 27001 certified. It's a joke I tell you, a joke.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Thanks for the objective review.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Agreed - excuse my ignorance on the matter. I have upvoted you accordingly.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I've never worked with appliances so please excuse my ignorance on the subject. I retract that part of the rant. You are correct and I've upvoted you accordingly. My comment regarding the flimsy nature of it will be proven. A rotating mecha
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by gouranga 14y ago
To quote: "Yes – the Mu® USB Adapter has been tested by recognised certification organisations and has the full pre-requisite approvals for CE certification." What approvals and organisations? Sounds like bullshit. That's the most evasive p
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by gouranga 14y ago
You nailed it. I've always been against "the cloud" for precisely these reasons. I've considered offering "de-clouding" services over the last year i.e. move your stuff to internal services and moving to a managed model i.e. I'll manage you
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by gouranga 14y ago
That is typical product development these days. Adding features is all you can really do if you want to look like you are competitive. I'd rather people just left it and say "it's done".
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by gouranga 14y ago
Indeed. I tried arch as well which uses a late 3.x kernel and it worked fine. I reckon it's a patch somewhere. Ubuntu kernels are a right mess.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Ultimately, it should be: Let's be as productive as long as it doesn't compromise ethics. The latter (ethics) is usually too flexible.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I think the Internet was treated with almost inevitability and insignificance by some science fiction writers as it is a means to an end, not the endgame itself.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Just to add... Any "advanced" backdoors take significant silicon and would be visible from the top of the device as a significant design change would be required to accomodate them. Subtle flaws in designs are another thing altogether.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Most of which is just paranoia and will never shoot you. Are my servers up? Don't really care - SMTP will be redelivered if I discover they are down. They were down for about 2 days once thanks to the idiots at BT digging through the cable.
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by gouranga 14y ago
The bit that surprises the fuck out of me is that they're buying stuff in from China. I've never seen that - ever! They would buy expensive stuff fabbed specially in the US rather than import usually. I did a lot of work for the UK Ministry
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'd wee myself with delight. The world would be a better place.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Did that for me as well. debian on the other hand works fine on the same hardware.
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by gouranga 14y ago
If you're going to go through that level of effort and you're going to have a computer on at 3am, just run your own SMTP/imap setup and back that up. You'll never have to worry about getting kicked off or them going under then. I've been ru
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by gouranga 14y ago
Email - check - I run my own IMAP/SMTP server (windows based - virtually zero config). Cloud storage - I use a usb stick in my bag, truecrypt and robocopy. Music streaming - I use an mp3 player on my phone (which has no cloud services). Web
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by gouranga 14y ago
None. No google account, no Facebook account, no windows live ID either. You should not have to sign up for anything to use your device to its full potential.
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by gouranga 14y ago
they should just turn the classrooms into faraday cages. Problem solved and no storage required. Back in my day we didn't have phones in class (they were too big and expensive). We still played up, did little work and achieved nothing :) If
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by gouranga 14y ago
Some of us did have 8 bit LISP machines, in my case AcornSoft LISP on a BBC master (a Cray compared to a c64). http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acornsoft_LISP The implementation was pretty bare but it was fast and very useful.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Don't forget that the amount of power lost due to cooling systems, mining, fuel transport and refining of fissionable materials should be considered as it's a considerable chunk of that output.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Vs2010 + testdriven.net. We got rid of visual svn and resharper as they made it less reliable.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I think a better approach is killing core routers. Governments won't listen to a few people whinging unless it costs them something. It will cost them a lot if people cannot access their online services.
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by gouranga 14y ago
And? I fail to see your point. Assertions check assumptions and tests test code. And yea you can use a dictfile from Unix to test spelling quite easily (we do it for document construction) Nothing is ever 100% certain. Are you suggesting th
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by gouranga 14y ago
Shareware is what made windows what it is (the good bits that is). That would be like going into McDonalds and shooting everyone but the cleaners.
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by gouranga 14y ago
It is referred to as VS.Net 2002 after VS.Net 2003 came out with .Net 1.1 if you want to be pendantic. If you really want to be pedantic, Visual Studio .Net 7.0. It's not just today - it's been 10 years of hell. Unfortunately it pays the bi
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by gouranga 14y ago
Lots. Incredible amounts actually. We don't have any problems at all. In fact it's really easy. We use nservicebus and share by communicating rather than communicate by sharing. We use concurrentqueue class in the framework and all is solve
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by gouranga 14y ago
I write portfolio management software and decision support systems (about 25% of my time) and I have the same opinion. It's a fool's game betting on what is effectively a publicity ranking. If you want to do something crazy with a real retu

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