gouranga

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by gouranga 14y ago
My problem entirely!
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by gouranga 14y ago
I would rather like to use newer versions but the rate of change since 3.0 was introduced is slightly scary and hard to quantify. I'd rather not try to hit moving targets. Python appears to be a playground for features versus a stable, reli
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by gouranga 14y ago
Java APIs rarely change.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'm using stable Debian and RHEL in server environments though. Fedora, Arch and Ubuntu are orders of magnitude too unstable for me to go near and I'm sure the same is true for a lot of other people. More conservative distributions tread ve
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by gouranga 14y ago
Yes I did, but it's pretty irrelevant as 99%+ of the functionality is in the libraries, not the syntax and ABI.
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by gouranga 14y ago
That doesn't surprise me. Back when I was fresh out of uni and doing a junior EE position, I had a design engineer rate an electrolytic for the wrong voltage in a switch mode supply. When raised, the design engineer informed me that he didn
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by gouranga 14y ago
Editing row 500 in chrome melts it as well...
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by gouranga 14y ago
I mean default instance. It's not so much as stuck but the fact you end up with several versions that are supported eternally: python, python27, python3, python31, python32, python33. That and half of pypi only works on < python3. Even
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by gouranga 14y ago
I feel there is too much churn in Python. No-one is ready to say "we're stopping here and bug fixing". It just churns and churns and everyone gets confused. It's too much of a rollercoaster to trust at the moment and I assume this is why a
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by gouranga 14y ago
They didn't say you can't make no comment though!
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by gouranga 14y ago
From experience, that's pretty much no vendor these days. I will say positive things for Microsoft: you can always trial their software before you buy it.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'm specifically making no comment on that ;-)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Under license that is...
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by gouranga 14y ago
Great stuff and really interesting - I developed a lot of knowledge of shortcuts on the tube over 20 years of using it. They do like to send you the long way round with the signs! It's nice to visualise some of those shortcuts :) I'm slight
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by gouranga 14y ago
Or in the case of a lot of vendors we won't mention - blatant lies.
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Olympic kangaroo courts to be introduced in the UK(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by gouranga 14y ago|1 comments
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's pretty awesome. There goes my productivity for the next couple of hours :(
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by gouranga 14y ago
I said 'like' - I'm aware of the problems :(
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by gouranga 14y ago
Python! Sorry couldn't resist.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Still sounds crazy. We cruise in between 9 and 10, bail between 4 and 5 and take an hour lunch. Also we tend to work from home 2-3 days a week. Then again, they realise that we generate about 650k a year in real hard cash per head which is
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by gouranga 14y ago
I was hoping to see something like a peltier heat pump which has no mechanical parts.
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by gouranga 14y ago
When we start shipping revokable 64gb compressed one time pad data sticks, I'll have some faith in crypto. Until then, one eye always open.
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by gouranga 14y ago
The Tories have always kept the poor as poor as possible. Its where they like them. In fact they'd rather everyone was poor. I'm 300 quid a month down since the unelected fuckers took over and all I've seen is money pissed up the wall on th
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by gouranga 14y ago
fair point! I'll give you that :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Great stuff. Might dig out my CD later! Thanks for keeping it going :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
I think you nailed it there. It's the governments I find the most objectionable as they are pretty hard to bring to justice.
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by gouranga 14y ago
The magistrate said that the CPS and police had made a mockery of the legal system and that he was striking the case off. CPS solicitor was reprimanded verbally. I was awarded costs of 300 pounds. Lasted about 5 mins after that.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'm not suggesting that. The balance of power should remain in the hands of the citizens, not the government. Have people forgotten that government is centralized servitude, not centralised control.
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by gouranga 14y ago
You are unlikely to be trialled with jury. It'll be sealed or with a magistrate. There's nothing to back it up unfortunately other than a number of horror stories over the years of people getting shafted. The law is extremely biased towards
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's ACTA, which is a trivial distraction from extraditions at the moment. Its a pacifier rather than a major policy change.

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