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by gouranga 14y ago
I agree entirely - they are great, but in all the Go I've written (which totals about 50kloc so far as a porting project), I haven't actually used them past anything I would have done with zmq in C.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Interesting comparisons. However (not slating Go, which I think is excellent), I genuinely think Go is going to go the same way as plan9 eventually. Unfortunately, its predecessor (C) is good enough, much as UNIX was good enough compared to
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by gouranga 14y ago
Actually, we're not that happy about it. Unfortunately those who probably would care are too busy consuming the noise of the numerous wars, inquiries, showbiz, celebrity dross, royal banality, Olympic bleugh and regurgitating it all over Fa
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by gouranga 14y ago
And as usual the criminals are going to find another way. I await more "the terrorists are coming" and "think of the children" legislation. However, we have one thing on our side: government IT incompetence. They have managed to screw every
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by gouranga 14y ago
There is an official 64-bit Firefox nightly built for Windows. I tried it and to be honest I can't tell the difference. Also bear in mind that it needs 64-bit Flash and Java plugins which are notoriously problematic.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Or in my case 90% meetings and 10% maintenance!
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by gouranga 14y ago
It is when you consider the deployment models, the development server setup etc. The language has as many flaws as it's always had but it still works.
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by gouranga 14y ago
All large apps are a pain regardless of the framework. It's called coupling. Building your application as a series of small applications that work with each other is a solution that has worked for me.
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by gouranga 14y ago
+1 for pragmatism. Despite the stigma attached to PHP, it's my go to language for web stuff because it gets shit done very very quickly. You can't beat drop file, edit, refresh and entire deployments which can be done with cp/scp and no pro
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by gouranga 14y ago
I disagree. It's medicre crap wrapped in a pretty wrapper. The thing with modern TV's is that they don't need RAM upgrades, don't have any user-fillable storage built in and have external power supplies.
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by gouranga 14y ago
No, unless you carry it around a lot, at which point durability is more important than thinness resulting in thinness not being important. So ultimately, no it's not regardless of the use case.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Well you could until they released this model...
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by gouranga 14y ago
Let me approach your points in a more concise and slightly less troll-like manor: I can afford one but I choose not to spend the money on it simply because the value proposition is pure insanity. I am not bitter at all. I find that the rapi
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by gouranga 14y ago
They only do that in the EU and US. Usually from what I understand in Europe at least, they pack them, mail them to an EU border country such as Turkey to comply with EU regs and certification and they're shipped on to the far east by the l
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'll clarify here for you. Whilst I agree people do useful work relating to MacBooks in general, I do not find that this MacBook is worthy of purchase and outlined my reasons why. I do not specifically slate all MacBooks as a whole, but t
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by gouranga 14y ago
The entire portion quoted there was from ifixit.com, not my mouth or brain. I just happen to agree with it. The thing that you forget is that the moment that the warranty expires, those points become EVERY user's personal criteria. You'll t
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by gouranga 14y ago
Oh I agree entirely. The intent was to mock the comment about suitability for a task. Sometimes it is appropriate to do so to convey a point. My sincerest apologies if such an approach is offensive.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I would say this face to face and regularly do. Honesty is the best policy.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I don't. I do know what is involved though. You dig a big hole and put them in it. Then over 25 years or so the lithium seeps out into the water table...
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by gouranga 14y ago
Yeah penis waving hipsters in Starbucks writing their next novel whilst contributing to the bad credit problem that seems to have screwed up the economy... Not any worthy portion of society then.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'm the wrong person to ask that question to. I repair everything from clothes, through computers, through cars to televisions. There need to be more wrong people to ask that question to.
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by gouranga 14y ago
No - that's how hard it is for YOU to initiate the recycling of the machine. The actual recycling bit is considerably harder.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Err, it's glued in which is considerably worse: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-with-Retina-Displ... Actually, looking through the entire teardown, I think the battery being glued in is worse than anything as levering it out is
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by gouranga 14y ago
Nope but you can grab another T60 with broken screen or chassis off ebay for a few dollars and do a frankenstein job (takes about 30 minutes): http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-T60-MOTHERBOARD-BASE-FRU-42T0116...
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by gouranga 14y ago
Sorry but you have got to be a fucking idiot to buy one to be honest if that is the case. Apple are making an attempt to turn generic computers into disposable appliances with moves like these. I would never accept a compromise like that wi
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by gouranga 14y ago
Having dealt with Microsoft support, you are right. They genuinely don't want to provide a code fix as that means hassle. You just don't get that with open source whether you fix it yourself or report a bug.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I agree entirely with that approach and it's how I operate.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Open a dictionary and take a look... Here I saved you the effort seeing as you're obviously incapable: http://m.dictionary.com/d/?q=ironic&o=0&l=dir
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by gouranga 14y ago
When that breaks, it's going to make a mess. 6 humans in, various bits of popped human coming out...
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by gouranga 14y ago
The fact that this even has to exist saddens me. However, I'm glad there is a distinction between not available and not there.

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