gouranga

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by gouranga 14y ago
The patent system is like watching a scene from Alien vs Predator... "Whoever wins, we all lose" is surprisingly apt as well.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Indeed I'm trolling so bad because I've only clocked approximately 18000 hours of using it in real life since the first beta drop of VS.Net 2002 to 22:15 this evening... Yes that's really three zeroes rounded down heavily (8 hours a day, 23
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by gouranga 14y ago
I disagree. For a few hundred/thousand line projects it's ok. I deal with large (1Mloc+) 10 year+ old codebases in C#/ASP.Net and it is in no way capable of handling a large project without chopping it into miniscule assemblies and having s
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by gouranga 14y ago
Xcode is horrid. I used it for a year or so in 2008 on a project so I agree there. Eclipse is fine when you get used to it. It has a fairly hefty learning curve but when you get there, it's awesome.
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by gouranga 14y ago
DDD, Netbeans debugger and Eclipse's debugger are on equal standing. I've used all heavily. However, I tend to rarely use the debugger on my own code in any language since I started doing incremental TDD and using assertions galore all over
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by gouranga 14y ago
I've dealt with primarily C# and VB.Net users so that may be where the discrepancy is.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Same. That says something about the portability and consistency of Java, rather than the ability of c#. The reverse is not possible due to the platform lock in.
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by gouranga 14y ago
developers only like visual studio because either they haven't had much experience with anything else, they use languages that require massive amounts of IDE to be practical or they paid for it which results in 'money bias'. Its rarely beca
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by gouranga 14y ago
Well it depends if the students want general purpose knowledge or knowledge that will earn them cash quickly. Common lisp isn't all that functional TBH (it can be if you want it to be though)
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by gouranga 14y ago
The language is fine. The framework is not. It has the appearance of being free and open, but a lot of the framework is not and has aggressive licenses. It's easy to creep into those bits unintentionally via ignorance or dependency and then
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by gouranga 14y ago
Good. Microsoft can officially go to hell with respect to desktop development after the day I've had today dredging through a debugging job from hell. 75% of my time writing software is: * Watching VS crash miserably. It's just seriously un
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'd rather they picked Java than C#.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Nice - that'll spice up my rather boring svnadmin dump sessions - thanks for posting!
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by gouranga 14y ago
I think you and by proxy Alan Kay nailed it there. As a person who purchases items for need and function, not form, desire or promise [1], I get to see the distinction daily. [1] all my current worldly posessions together cost 50% less than
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by gouranga 14y ago
I think the point is the wrong way around. 1. The amateurs tools are a low quality, oversimplified version of the professional's. The same goes if you compare a Korg Trinity to a cheap Casio keyboard (I've owned the earlier of the two for
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by gouranga 14y ago
Try typing with your nails down on the keys i.e. with curled up hands and you will see.
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by gouranga 14y ago
You'd end up with the following if you had a tailored keyboard which is not good for anyone: http://mahast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/keyboard.j...
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by gouranga 14y ago
It doesn't as not all movements are as accurate with your fingers. Pushing down and aligning your fingers is incredibly accurate but rolling/moving your fingers is not.
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by gouranga 14y ago
We rarely write in English. If you've ever used TouchDevelop on a Windows phone, you will see why domain specific keyboards are a good idea: http://i1-handheld.softpedia-static.com/images/software/scre... I can actually code faster on my
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by gouranga 14y ago
Superior technologies succumb to marketing from lesser products. Going back to the guy who built a motorbike in the desert, the Citroen 2CV is a remarkable piece of engineering and design, but everyone would rather drive a disposable iPod (
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by gouranga 14y ago
Hey, I have a 2 core ThinkPad t61, with 4gb of ram and a 14" WXGA screen and I bet my equipment is as professional as yours... However, 99% of that equipment is a black box designed for the lowest grade user which is the very apt point of t
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by gouranga 14y ago
Having dealt with Oracle, it won't happen like that. Oracle will throw marketing and lawyers around to hide as much of their failure as possible by threatening other vendors and any dissident opinion. Oracle has a suitably large reality dis
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by gouranga 14y ago
Thanks for links :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Bow to the O-word overlords or we'll chunk you in jail. I live in London and the city has turned to shit since it was announced. Everything is literally broken and being fixed up and convered in turd polish. The last 5 times I've bothered
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by gouranga 14y ago
If you look at the supermarkets in the UK, they issue "e-vouchers" which can only be used against certain people. These people are identified by a non-photographic ID card (ClubCard/Nectar). They can easily be replaced with a benefits card
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by gouranga 14y ago
Wget brings me permanency :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
it's not school food making them fat. It's parent spending money on highly taxed cigarettes, sports clothes and lottery tickets then moaning that all they can feed their kids is processed shit. Ban cigarettes entirely, stop the lottery and
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'd really like a standalone version of this :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Very funny ;)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Personally, I think that slinging meat sacks into space without breaking them or letting them rot is harder than building a new operating environment. The meat bit isn't all that useful so we need to get rid of it. In fact it's a pain in th

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