gouranga

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by gouranga 14y ago
Yes we should, but we don't because we're immoral, greedy and self-serving as a race (myself included).
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by gouranga 14y ago
Sharepoint yes. The other products are ok :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
None of them. The killing machines should not exist. I used to design guidance systems for which I'm totally fucking ashamed of myself for but at the end of the day unless you observe the process you can't change it.
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's splitting hairs. A military drone is either intended to: 1. Blow people up or shoot them. 2. Find out who to blow up or shoot. People don't drive cars around like that other than the military (therefore point demonstrated) and mad
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's all fluff. It's pretty black and white if you engage the brain: If a device is intended to directly harm someone intentionally, then there should be a restrictive clause. Computers that design weapons aren't specifically used to desi
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by gouranga 14y ago
Weapons always kill civilians. My point is that if it can be used to kill a person, then I am not fussed. The fact that it is intended to kill people, then I am fussed. A car is not inherently designed to kill people. A drone is.
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by gouranga 14y ago
It doesn't make the point wrong though.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Having worked in the killing machines industry, this is not a win. This is a loss. GPL should also read: "The software must not be used for the purposes of warfare or to inflict suffering on any individual." EDIT: I can see America has woke
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by gouranga 14y ago
It's not full featured. It's a pretty small subset. The most powerful things in the .Net platform are the big chunks of code which take on large business cases and make them go away. For example the following either don't exist or are half-
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by gouranga 14y ago
The books describe portable concepts with examples in the languages of the time. Much as SICP is applicable to a lot of languages that aren't scheme.
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by gouranga 14y ago
That it has, but it has still been very buggy for us. We use a number of commercial and open source products and it's the worst supported, least reliable of the lot. The developers don't seem to take defect reports seriously, there is no co
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by gouranga 14y ago
The problem comes is that the older versions that we've fixed have the fixes integrated in later versions. We really don't want to have to maintain the versions that we've fixed as that kills the entire value proposition of using it in the
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by gouranga 14y ago
So what is a better solution? Genuine question.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Because historically jQuery has been a buggy pos that we've had to work around a lot.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Forced obsolescence doesn't mean people aren't still using it and it doesn't mean that because Microsoft stop patching that it's still vulnerable. Using it after April 2014 is not a problem. The NHS in the UK has over 1 million Windows XP d
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by gouranga 14y ago
This is a retarded decision which I do not support. IE6 fine, IE7 fine but not IE8. IE8 is required for most corporate environments where they haven't killed of Windows XP yet. That is a surprisingly large amount of people. If this happens,
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by gouranga 14y ago
I don't understand. What in particular was wrong? We had formalised design patterns and architectures back then. A large portion of any industry ignores established best practices and makes a mess every generation.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Perhaps the wrong choice of language is made then?
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by gouranga 14y ago
There's plenty of teaching going on but people have stopped listening to people who know what they are talking about and have started listening to all the trendy marketing out there. Two awesome places to learn shit: http://martinfowler.co
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by gouranga 14y ago
Cool - when did that happen? Thanks for pointing out :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'd rather they concentrated on supporting openid so you don't need a google or Facebook account...
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by gouranga 14y ago
You're actually wrong. This is a bastardisation of the command pattern. LogUserIn is a command. The verb/noun thing applies to a different class of object (your domain). The article sucks pretty badly to be honest but the foundations are so
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by gouranga 14y ago
Well personally I just swapped my smartphone (lumia 710) for a 10 year old Nokia 3310. In the last two weeks since I disposed of it, I'm less stressed, considerably more alert, have slept better, feel like I'm slightly less thick, more prod
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by gouranga 14y ago
Spot on. A great illustration of this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)#2._.22...
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's a filesystem isn't it (not NFS as locks don't work properly on NFS filesystems)? 1. One per user - in home directory. Check. 2. Real database with metadata - filesystem. Check. 3. Replication - filesystem (block replication). Check.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Are you making the point that it's a good or a bad thing? I'm quite happy that they don't change as it means less effort and maintenance cost.
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by gouranga 14y ago
The press are pretty good at doing that already!
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by gouranga 14y ago
The moment anything happens during protests, millions of camera phones come out and point at it. It's far more imposing than any glasses. Bluetooth is the PAN implementation of the hour usually and is used to shift stuff around.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Perhaps they've got a Tron fetish...
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by gouranga 14y ago
Not at all. People need stuff that works, not half baked stuff. Fine example here (there are loads more like this): http://bugs.python.org/issue4565

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