gouranga

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   by gouranga 14y ago

   There is actually nothing preventing anyone from writing a browser for windows on arm. The issue is that the API makes it inconvenient for existing browsers to be ported. I've written a proof of concept HTML to WPF parser/renderer that work
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   by gouranga 14y ago

   Not in the UK it's not. Perhaps it's a cultural difference.
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   by gouranga 14y ago

   I'm getting rather fed up with this witch-hunt so I'm going to defend the witches... Yes IE6, 7 and 8 were absolute bastards, but they've done good with IE9 and IE10 is looking even better. They know what they've done wrong and are making a
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   by gouranga 14y ago

   To be honest, we use JIRA and Fisheye. Their non-cloud solutions aren't much better. JIRA got killed for 2 days thanks to a bug in their workflow engine and Fisheye has been indexing our repository for 5 days now...
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   by gouranga 14y ago

   Well yes I admit that but I did the same before I even started the degree and I knew virtually nothing back then... And I wouldn't charge you $700 to fix it. I tend to do favours like that for cider, swap a few books or mowing the lawn for
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   Atlassian loses a lot of people's JIRA data(theregister.co.uk)

   5 points by gouranga 14y ago|3 comments
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   by gouranga 14y ago

   Agree with hoovers. I nicked a Dyson DC07 out of a skip. It cost me 30GBP in bits and has done me for about 5 years now :) WRT computers, it depends on the computers and the availability of spares. You're screwed if you have a Mac as the pa
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   by gouranga 14y ago

   Well you're not sticking the phone inside yourself are you?
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   by gouranga 14y ago

   Good for them. I'm a firm believer that everything can be repaired cost effectively. You just have to know what you are doing, know when to give up, know how to spot a lemon and start from the right end of the problem. That is the art. Th
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    No but idiocy is directly proportional to ignorance.
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    I've got a T61. It's widescreen but I kind of like that. +1 for ebay. I can buy a new one for 100GBP if this packs in.
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    I don't believe the figures until after they've been sold. The demand for Ubuntu is pretty much non-existent outside the technology enthusiast arena. Ubuntu is just not as polished as Windows either. OEMs also know there's an easy way out i
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    Another company I won't be dealing with...
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    It was knocked down from 120 from someone who hadn't done their pricing research so it's fair game :) Taking from idiots is an evolutionary step. Look at VC funding!
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    Shitty compared to my reference point of "fit for purpose".
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    I'll chip in for him. They're made of cheese, unreliable, have shitty bios implementations, crap battery life and horrid screens and keyboards.
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    To be blatantly honest, that is exactly what I'd write. The implementation is trivial and obvious therefore the probability of them being the same is high.
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    We still do. The PC users are the silent majority now as they were 10 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_OS_share_pie_cha...
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    It works for that, but Roundup is poisonous to wildlife and plants are developing a resistance to it. How's your GMO now the rivers are poisoned and superweeds are everywhere?
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    Idiot. Roundup is a herbicide. There some problems with it: 1. Some plant life has developed natural resistance to it so it's not going to last forever. At that point, the non-roundup supported ecosystem will be dead so there will suddenly
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    I get the feeling that lots of people with android phones buy them because they need them to do serious work and don't buy a lot of games. 99% of people I know with iPhones don't do anything serious with them and purchased them purely for t
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    Call me lazy but I found it much easier to host on apache and mod_wsgi. Ubuntu/debian derivatives have a nice easy to manage virtual hosting system. Quite impressed with flask though - lovely simple framework that works the same way my brai
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    Not far off :)
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    Buying shit on Cragslist (or Gumtree in the UK) and selling on eBay and vice versa. My better half manages 500-800GBP a month with this quite happily. Persuaded some muppet to sell her a Korg Triton for 80GBP and got 580GBP on ebay for it :
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    Why does noone on HN have a sense of humor?
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    Nothing but vitriol. The company should not exist.
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    Genetically manipulating our food sources has precisely no effect on the outcome other than the patent encumber the food we eat. There is no evidence whatsoever on this planet to the contrary. I've dug through EVERY damn academic paper in t
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    So true. Wait for the next "think of the children" legislation...
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    Good stuff - I recommend their 'Cherokee Trail of Tears' beans, 'Frise Vert Fonce' Parsley and 'Reine des Glaces' lettuce (which is the most awesome thing I've grown in quantity - I spilled some seed in my lawn and loads popped up so I left
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    by gouranga 14y ago

    Try http://www.realseeds.co.uk/ - great people and very cheap and generous.