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by gouranga 14y ago
Never tried that. I will have a go. Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately its very verbose for a simple case which works fine in cmd so I'm not sure that it warrants using that tool
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by gouranga 14y ago
No offense taken. Perhaps a bad example aesthetically I agree, but otherwise the experience is good. Please note that Argo is a heavyweight engineering tool with metadata, not a pretty picture generator. It's an order of magnitude more powe
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by gouranga 14y ago
CreateProcess is only being called once in this case i.e. to spawn svnadmin. The exact script does the following: svnadmin dump d:\repo > repo.dump The output from svnadmin has a lot of lines. Due to the fact that PS is written
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by gouranga 14y ago
There appears to be a lot of FUD in that article which is unjustified or loosely cited. For example the following paragraph: "Standardization is slow, so proprietary platforms are the first to solve problems. Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX
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by gouranga 14y ago
Fair point! However, I think that your average smash and grab robbery, at least in the UK, is usually handled by the insurance companies rather than the police. The police provide a crime ref so you can claim that it is a crime and that's i
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by gouranga 14y ago
Replying to my own post here (the shame!) but it's relevant and hopefully slightly interesting: You can purchase SIM cards from most supermarkets in the UK for around the £1-5 mark and a basic Nokia handset for £10-15. You can top these up
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by gouranga 14y ago
I predict that the criminals will develop similar statistical models to work out where they will not likely be caught. Most of the data they use is probably available to the public already under various open data schemes, so it's only a cas
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by gouranga 14y ago
Well you can only pipe to file as the output is on stdout. We just ran it through cmd.exe instead. 8 mins is fine - it's a 12Gb repo. I assume it's related to PS converting every line into a system.string.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'm not a fan of powershell but I have to use it in my line of work. The only thing that I find sucks is that the pipeline is slow as snails. For example, an svnadmin dump piped to a file which takes 8 mins in cmd.exe takes 14 hours in powe
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by gouranga 14y ago
Access is free at libraries in the UK. Just crack their wep key :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
That works. There are shit loads of open WiFi networks in London as well. You could wardrive 10-15 of them in a few hours.
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by gouranga 14y ago
You can. Currys allow you to buy in cash.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Not sure I agree. The are the most compelling provider of IT at the moment, simply because they've started to listen to people.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I've switched to powershell ISE on windows (shipped with it) rather than cmd hosted powershell. Does the job!
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by gouranga 14y ago
Don't forget Microsoft actually show a browser choice screen when you install windows now. OEMs usually disable that and force a browser on you which doesn't make them good people. Personally, I'm not sure the term 'socially valuable' appli
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by gouranga 14y ago
At the risk of shooting myself, all our jvms were fine on windows and Ubuntu.
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by gouranga 14y ago
If only people understood that fact. Unfortunately few do.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I used both. RH5.2 had fvwm which had a start button as well back then. It's just a logical thing to do.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Spot on. Also if you want to be pedantic, RISCOS had a dock and taskbar in 1987 that was pretty close to win95.
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by gouranga 14y ago
This. I'm surprised that few people take that into consideration.
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by gouranga 14y ago
You're still an asshat ;-)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Agree on generic UI front!
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by gouranga 14y ago
Thank you for some sensible discussion. I think you issue some good counterpoints to my original point which I can't argue with.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Two words: fuck you. The issue is not the technology, but how we choose to use it.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I did. Unfortunately in the financial services industry, believing it means taking responsibility for it.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I did work in the industry before I developed some sense. You distinctly miss the point there. Military hardware is controlled heavily. No commercial entities use their data. That chain if events doesn't waist and never will. There is a wal
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's a fair point. I'll give you that.
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by gouranga 14y ago
That sucks badly. Similar thing happened to me a while ago with a vendor. When your management team summons you to ask why the hell their site is down, you can't point fingers at the vendor if their marketing literature says it doesn't go d
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by gouranga 14y ago
Machines that create weapons are not usually designed specifically to make weapons. A scout drone is a weapon if it's used by the military. I made this point here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4177285 There is no grey area. I agree
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by gouranga 14y ago
I think it's pretty clear. The definitions have been made ambiguous by the permanent state of military action across the world. We're desensitised to it.

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